The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
rprE TO HIS LOVE.
IAN WHO CHERISHED THE
4 Hu' 'oay OF HIS DEAD WIFE.

r.sn,on In which He Showed
81 F's', '.,tulpsss-Aiways Acted As Ii
~ 10. Was still with Him-The Pa
81 ss story Told by a Hotel Clerk
o,0 reporter was leaning in a
The 9 uuttitude against the counter OF
p'c'lual a'' hotel Office, conversing IN
Sup 'O.n at and nonchalant manner
% iusSucnl" "upbty and imperious clerk
With us s+ sr always do, when a nice
. rtpOl Va Gentleman, with just enough
b'iln assi Uli in his appearance to snow
FOVl ls ,ras not a New Yorker, though
bat DC :, sI have come from Philadelphia
bplSu.. hor rural district, came up to
Gany . Ssp as if he had been there be-
bsns cyl wrote his name and address.
fore a s0a, minutes the clerk had sent
p. If ~ to his room with beli0oy ana
d. 'lnwpd his conversation ,,,.
r's 'loDosr old chap" he said, nodding
Vu; Siroction CT the departing guest.
u T ISs re9orter whirled the register
..1 ru TO look at the name 90,
fS SSo., ~ bc replied q7ostioninsly. Il
'i's s,o has signed himself and wife.
e. s 'ra, q The wife? In tic ladies' parlor?"
Wa l%sat's tbe queer part Of it, " contin-
, iu clerk with an evident purpose
u : . III story, and tho reporter be-
O .I Interested. "Thcre isn't any wife.
e Gas widower, and has been for 10
n's hrt he has been signing 1T that
v .r iar the ten years l have known
way Ia is now GO, and was married at
l ~ .nd the romance is as pretty as it
pathetic. ,.,,,.oa +ho rono,+.
. 90 be is faithful to the memory OF
o ers woman, and that woman his wife
Vdwers are not all so. ="
%That is why this ones story is the
u,rs interesting. Let me tell you. At
Sbevas a poor young clerk in west
:. towp and was dramatically and
Sssolv in love with a pretty girl OF 20.
r nav be said that she was in love
with him. too, bat he had queer no.
sors and as they were both poor, and
,rb man was anxious to marry the
srl he never told his love, but let con-
ssalmpnt like worm in the bud, feed
an his damask cheek, as it were, and he
mined in thought and with q green and
yellow melancholy sat, like patience on
.mouument. while the other man mar
ned her.
AT "a she was a widow and poor,
fm her husband had dissipated his for
ture. and our friend here, still a bach
elr and as much in love as ever, was q
successful merchant. This time he was
haver for no was possessed of the sim
svs Of war, and within years time
be had married her. 1t was rather hasty
On her part, possibly, but he had wait
Cd long enough and was so importunate
t,t she compromised with him on one
year instead Of the regulation two OF
vidOwhood. They came to this hotel
on their wedding tour and were here
two weeks, and one Of the proprietors
d the hotel informs me that he never
Us seen a couple more suited to each
otfe- and better satisfied with each 9th
g After that he came to the city in the
spring and autumn to buy goods, and
she always accompanied him, and they
seemed to be no farther away from the
Honeymoon season with each recurring
year
AT last after the fifth spring trip,
heidi not come, but his manager did,
and he said that the wife had died an6
thehusband S mind was affected, though
hey hoped he would come around al
nght in time. In the following spring
Mcame again, but he was not the same
man any more His mind was clear OF
al business matters, but he was queer
ABOUT his wife, and sadder faced man
~aldnt be found anywhere. The ole
csfK, Who had been at the counter OF
ns previous visits, was there when h,
zane again, and after greeting hin
iHSanty turned the register AROUND
~ MN TO sign it. He responded as usu
a. and When the clerk looked at tn,
uane II was followed as before by 'anC
sne as he had been accustomed {,
'yn IL The clerk was about to call hi
sANn'lon to it, but q second though
saAp~d MIN not to notice it, and h
s ~. 'ne guest to the bridal chamber
sI room he and his wife always occu
p" ~ as they did on their first visit.
Turing his stay of week he ha,
ny n'lie to say, and if any referenc
We sS made to hiswife he responded as i
y ave WIRE Still alive and was with hin
, a Ie MOTEL AT the table, too, he ha,
s,. p.a'c ior her, and her meals wer
t NV" as II she had been there to ca
c,ma Mnen ne was ready to go an
rsr' S 'Or MS bill, it was made out q
r ta and he paid for two people with
es~ !, ~ :l Ten years ago, when
st,ro ma ,u'o The Office, l received my in
AMI lO O concerning our peculiar CUES
artsd lave law, since my first meeting hir
cmr. ~i.l him exactly as if he were &C
hat La Dy his wife. l have learne
A,, ne follows the same course in a
b. ~ uCeS In any way connected wit
heats,n ne buys two railroad tickets, tw
symco u.kets' two places in any COL
nirbt S,, TWO everything, where sh
sIsrs sSN gone with him, and ON trir
bin in Iso would not have accompanie
lum o. NE ~ such as short trips from hi
MAS nroh " affairs of any kind where