Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-23
PICTURE D IN DREAMS.
Uondrous Ways of Cnpid In Bringing
Fond Hearts Together.

Fond Hc1rtS TOgetners
Five years ago Maggie Ballentine Of
Montana, Kan. wrote her na,ne and ad-
dress on an egg which she was packing
with others in a case in her fathers store.
1t led to her marriage the other day to
Ernest Brown of Kansas City after series
Of most romantic circumstances
The particular case of eggs which Mag
gle had deity packed was shipped to
Brown & Son. grocers, at Kansas City.
Ernest Brown, a son of the proprietor,
unpacked it. In SO doing he came across
the egg on which the fair Maggie's name
was inscribed. The romance of the situa-
ton struck him at once, and he removed
the contents of the shell and kept it. For
three long years he had no other thought
of a romantic kind excepting of this I'M
known maiden, whom he had never seen
and Of whom he knew nothing but the
name
What wonder that Ernest Brown should
dream Of Maggie Ballcntine! And so it
came to pass that in visions of the night
he saw her as she was and rs she was aft
erward revealed to him in all the beauty
and charm of living reality.
OF course he did not know at the time
that his vision was true and that he had
actually pictured this unknown damsel as
she was, but after awhile the fact was
made plain and Ernest Brown the dream
er became Ernest Brown the lover, filled
with devotion and wonder.
In the meantime Maggic's fancy was
not idle. Mr.. Brown had been SO deeply
impressed by his dream that he had writ
ten to her requesting if possible the pleas
ure of a meeting. She had replied to his
letter, but, like the wise girl she is, had
made him no promise Brown became
impOrtunatc. He sent her pleading mes
sages and once mailed her a copy of ''Oh,
Promise Me-" but Maggie steadfastly re-
fused to promise anything.
She desired to know more about her
correspondent and wrote to friend in
Kansas City skiing her to investigate and
send her a description of him. Through a
confusion of names the friend wrote to
her concerning q rcd haired, cross eyed
cripple who drove delivery wagon. This
was great disappointment to the charm.
ing Maggie. but she did not despair.
One night she had droam-a romantic
and delectahlo vision-in the course OF
which she saw hcr unknown lover just as
he afterTard appeared VIXEN they first
met. At that tire she had not even seer
| n photograph CT him. 1t was purely q
| picture of fancy--a result, some say, of the
intuitive power of love, which can behold
| the object of affection in dreams even be
fore it has been encountered in reality.
Here was situation indeed. Two young
| people unknown to each other except il
| spirit were pining for u sight of each 9th
| er, each feeling certain that to meet would
mean love, and each determined that thai
| meeting should take place. What tim,
| Ernest Brown was not wrapping package.
of groceries and inspecting country prod
| uce he was reading Poetry.
| And what of Maggie? Something seem
| ed TO tell her that her friends description
| of her supposed lover was wrong. Sh,
determined to investigate, and for thai
| purpose she went to Kansas City durin,
the carnival last fall.
| After reaching Kansas City Miss Bal
lantine located Mr.. Brown at the store 0
his father, Il prosperous merchant, at 90
Independence avenue. She entered TIL
| place with q party OF friends nnd glance
| around to see il she could see her mysteri
Gus sweetheart. She readily recognized
him, and the recognition was mutual, s,
accurate was the impression made by tn
memorable vision in each case She in
| vited him to her hcme at Montana, an,
he visited her for the first time last Easter
in honor of the egg which had brough
them together in IL manner so romantic.