Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-31
Love cOULDN'T LAUGH
hsfoIbIdding Parent MASON The
Wrong Side Of the Lock-
AN ELOPEMENT STOPPED
A New Kent Couple 0Yertaten In Rich
mOnd Last Night.
WILL co BACK HOME TO-DAY.
The Generniship Of the Father Con>
pfetely Defeated the Young People,
Who Were Unable to Take the
Train for Washington.
WILL co BACK HOME TO-DAY
The cenerni.hip of the Father ON.
Train for Washington.

Loves laughing at locksmi,hs has FOUND
expression in a proverb. but Dan Cupid
cannot afford to laugh when the fair
ones parent stands on the same aa0
of the lock with her and forbids the
bans.
This fact was amply demonstrated AZ
New Fords Hotel last night. Tho only
persons who felt incllned to laugh were
| the spectators Even they felt little that
way. for there 10 another truth also 50
old and we'll recognized that Il has be.
| come crystallized in Il Droverb. IAN the
world loves lover"
Mr.. It. @. Harris. of New Kent county,
has for considerable period been pay.
ing very marked attention 70 the i7-year.
old daughter OF Mr. c. S. Holland. He
is the Chesapeake and Ohio railway tele.
graph operator at Walkers. In New
Kent. She Is the daughter of one OF thu
, solid farmers Of the neighborhood. Mr..
Harris is % years OF age His swesthsars
lr only IT. She IL well developed. Pretty
IL word not strong enough 70 characters
lie her whether reference be had to face
or figure. Mr.. Harris is handsome bright.
intelligent, Of good address, and wells
dressed.
HE WAS NOT ENCOURAGED.
The young fellow never saw anythinh
In this manner Of Mr. Holland towards
him TO indicate that the prospect OF hav-
| Ing him for n son-in-law was extremely
pleasant. But Mr.. Harris says that q
short time ago, when he asked his pro-
posed fathsr-in-law 10 give him HIS
daughters hand In marriage. tho parena
consented. Later he promised TO go with
| Mr.. Harris TO obtain the marriag license.
! Yesterday was the day set for the trip
to the courthouse for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning the necessary legal authority for
the marriage. Mr.. Harris was ready, bue
his fatne r-in-law-to-be did not arrive 10
accompany him as promised. MIR. Harris
says he then got mad.
His mind was quickly made up. Ia
communicated with his fancee lie pro-
posed that they come to Richmond, take
last nights Chesapeake and Ohio train fop
| Washington. and be married In the Fedes
raj capital whore parental sanction -
not necessary to obtaining license 10 units
in holy wedlock. She agreed
Yesterday afternoon late she managed
to get away from her home unobserved
and joined her lover at Walkers. The
two boarded tho train together. The hap
piness OF the couple may be easiiN
imagined They thought they would Be
/ I'm Washington and man and wife before
her father could possibly reach them. 81
IN any way interfere. !,
THE FATHER NOT SLOW. "
But when the runaway lovers Ieft the
train at Richmond Mr.. Holland got on
| also. They had not seen him get on
Arriving here the three went 60 Now
Ford's together. The father and his
daughter took adjoining rooms while thu
would-be bridegroom was assigned 20 y
chamber far away. Then the father posi-,
lively forbade the marriage. He declared
his daughter should not 70 TO Washington
| 10 be married, and that she should not b2
married in Richmond. She should "a
back TO New Kent with him.
Protests and arguments were unavaiIs
ing. Mr. Holland was obdurate. Mn
Harris did not give up. He was deters
mined TO take the 1890 train for wash-
ington, and that his brlde-to-be should ga
| with him
BRILLIANT GENERALSHIP.
But be was outgeneralled. Between 4
and g o'clock Mr.. Holland went up In
his daughters room. Mr.. Harris remained
| In the lobby. He was nervous. no wOul0
not sit down. but walked up and down
the floor no the steps to the ladies' r.
ception-room along the corridors. AS tha
hands OF the big clock on the wall In thu
lobby began 10 creep around towards 10
the nervousness OF Mr. Harris very per-
| centibly Increased. The train was tn
leave 81 1890.
When Mr.. Holland came down into thu
lobby the hands OF the clock pointed ~
twenty minutes past 10 o'clock. II was
too lave 20 make the 1890 train.
Mr.. Holland was not IN n bad humot
by airy means. He could AFFORD 70 be
generous. He was such n complete vic~
! tor. lie and Mr.. Harris walked out al
J the lobby together and spent some tins
on the street. Then they came back and
went 10 bed.
Mr.. Holland will take the young people
home with him to-day. He says ne VIII
let them marry in New Kent.