The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-10-23
Big Fall Flock Of Newly Married Couples.
An Indication Of Prosperity.
NHERE'S big brood Of fall doves
this year, notice." said Capt.
Il toll guide to II newspaper man the
other day.
"Dovts ?''

other day.
'Dovts?"
eyes, doves; cooers, you know: hand
clappeIs, ear-whisperers, eye-seaIcheIs,
dark hunters, lollygag -"
Newly married young people, you
mean?"
''What else? | haven't seen so many Of
'em in the fifteen years I've prowled around
this building. It's a sure sign OF good
times, too. Pve observed that during he
periods when the country has had
the Iaj ma : tai, otherwise the how
vows, the we are the only two on
earth people have been mighty scarce
around here. But whe the factory chin
news are belching smoke, as the news
papers put it when things begin to pick up
bit around the States, the doves flock all
over this building from basement to dome
in such slews that you We got to pick your
steps like Siwash Indian doing birds
egg dance, and keep your eyes straight
ahead like buck soldier on parade so as
not to see lem and embarrass EN- when
they are murmuring things in shadowy
recesses. Queer thing, too, that murmur-
ing. They all do it. never was able to
quite figure out why they do it, but | sup
pose when they get up here they just hap
pen to remember things they forgot to say
before starting out.
''Tbey're an amiabe and an interesting
lot, the doves. They are like Chinese
thumb signatures-all look alike, but they
are not alike by whole houseful, except
in this little respect of surreptitious loving
ness, you know Now, it's an odd thing,
l think, that the newly splced middle
aged doves are far and away more publicly
affectionate and goo-goo ey than the young
pairs. The young 'uns, you understand,
take it all out in whispering when they
think they are alone. When they are
treading under the dome of the sky or Of
the Capitol and in the suspicious gaze of
other folks they try with all their might
to make it appear as if they had an intense,
not to say vindctive, hatred for each other,
and only happen to be parading together as
q result of circumstances over which they
have no control.
MIDDLE-AGED ROMEO AND JULIET.
"But the pairs that have doubled up
after having waited fifteen or twenty years
for good crop, and even the couples that
have been fashioned into one after both Of
Fem have plainly been in state OF oneness
or the ex-widower way off through the
Indian summer haze ?)--these sunset-of
life doves don't mind doing their Romeo
and Juliet stunts right out in the middle
of the rotunda, and they know the business
of their parts, too, without any prompt
book. | took a gorgeously- feathered pair
New York people, too, and you'd ha'
naturally thought that living in that
Greenland town would have put enough
frappe in them to enable them to be blayze
and sangfroidy lis that right?) when few
hundred people had their lamps on them.
But were they? Not no, they weren't.
And did they mind me being along little
bit? Well, you'd ha' thought was a star
pupil in a deaf, dumb, and blind school if
you had been around. 1t was the most
touching case Of loves middle-aged dream
that ever met up with.
d" 'AIargery, says he, If you persist in
standing in that cruel draft, your little hoy
will 20 stark, staring mad! OF what value
would your poor little Oodzy's life be to him
if his itty-bitty Mary were to get pneu-
monia and be carried way up to the stars
by the whitest angel that ever --.~,' &c.
&c, down to finish that was whole lot
too big mouthful for me to gather in.
Never 700 mind, Oodzy- Oodzy,' says
weeney bubsy boy and so on, until-say,
I'd ha' given six Thousand two hundred
dollars to have been out in the woods alone
for five minutes, ust to howl like wild
man of Borneo running anuck The funny
part of it was that his old lovelets weighed
ahnut two hundred and sixty, and didn't
have hair on his head, while the bride
would have gotten the worth OF her money
to the extent OF "a couple OF hundte ed pounds
Of a nickel-in-the-s weighing machine,
and plainly had too big headful of hair,
Tor a lot of it got slantwise and came near
blowing off on the trip up to the dome.
Did they go up to the dome? Well, I
think yes! The old boy practically carried
her up-wanted to show her he was still
in the game all right, guess. He painted
over the job like hair seal in fresh water
but he was dead game, and when he finally
got her to the top she threw enough
nosesays at him for being her Samson
amson ubsy, to pay him for his work
Now, | had it figured that the old Ben
edict was a softly, and mark under any
and all circumstances. But was he? After
had shown 'em everything in the shebang,
letting ON all the time that was born deaf
and blind, and they were ready To 20, the
old bo, calls me into a corner.
My boy, says he, you're on to your