Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-18

orator. making way for O'Meara. cit
was only rumor that some chuckle-
headed ass accepted as a fact. She
has been back at work for two weeks
or more. From the manner in which
she has inquired about you every day
I should imagine that she takes an
interest in you"
When he sat down before the in
strument his hand trembled so that
he could scarcely form the dots and
dashes to ask:
us that really you, Amy?" He
gave his own signal. 20. NJ"
Eyes, Charlie, and I'm so glad you
are well again." Her reply was as
futtering as his question had been
tremulous.
Some of the operators in the New
York office wondered at seeing a
young man sitting at an instrument
with tears of joy streaming down his
face, while in the Chicago Office there
was surprise because a girl was cry
ing and smiling at the same time.
When he recovered his equanimity
O'Meara said:
''They tod me you were dead. and
I believed it. The shock nearly killed
me-
1T was merely rumor, I'm happy
to say, but when came back to work
was greatly depressed at hearing you
were so i'll. Now we will both be we'll
and happy again."
II will never be thoroughly happy,
my darling," O'Meara replied, until
you are my wife. I am coming out
there soon to claim you. May II"
''Dear me! How can you wish to
marry a girl whom you have never
SEEM"
This was another instant of trem-
ulousness in transmission.
"That's all right" O'Meara said.
I'm willing to risk it if you are. I've
known and loved you long time, even
if haven't seen you. Can come for
you?"
Il may be so homely that when you
see me you may be terribly disappoint-
ed. I may have red hair and freckles,
cast in my eye and terrible hump
on my back. Can you stand all that?'
EYES," replied O'Meara, ''if you could
stand my bald head and red nose"
There was more OF this pleasantly,
and then Miss Davidson seriously
agreed to marry her distant lover. After
many more conversations on the wire
it was agreed that Miss Davidson and
O'Meara should meet at a halfway
point, Pittsburgh being finally select
ed, where they should be married. This
course was chosen in the hope that the
contamination of their peculiar court
ship could be accomplished secretly,
thus avoiding the good-natured, but
embarrassing chatting of their fellow
operators.
But that wire on which they made
their arrangements ran through the
Pittsburgh office, where there were au-
tomato repeating Instruments. An
operator standing beside the repeat
ers one day overheard the final ar
engagements, heard the description each
gave the other by which to insure iden-
LITIGATION at the depot, and told all
about it to the Pittsburgh operators,
who thereupon determined to make
the occasion of the wedding interest
ing. A committee was appointed to
watch the meeting of the couple and
to prepare for a reception.
O'Meara arrived at Pittsburgh day
ahead of Miss Davidson, as had been
agreed upon, and was at the station on
the following day when her train pulled
up from the west. His heart was beat
ing wildly as ne scanned the alighting
passengers, and he was too preoccu-
pied to notice that he was being
watched by half dozen young men.
Nor did he notice that he was OBJ
served closely by tall, bronze-haired
and decidedly handsome young woman
who had alighted from Pullman car
and was standing in the shadow of a
baggage truck loaded with trunks
There was smile on the young wom-
ans face as she finally stepped for
ward and touched O'Nleara on the
shoulder.
"How dye do, Charlie?'' she cried.
care you really Amy?" he cried:
grasping her outstretched hands in
both of his. "You told me to look out
for a short, curly-haired girl: with a
limp in her left foot, and 1 gave you
an accurate description of myself"
"Not so very accurate, though" she
laughingly replied. ''You didn't tell
me half how good looking you are"
1t was evident to the watchers, who
now came forward, that they were pref
ty we'll satisfied with each other. The
committee introduced themselves, and
that the couple were to be
conducted forthwith to a hotel, where,
at eight o'clock that evening, they were
married. This arrangement was car
ried out, and during the evening the
Pittsburgh operators and their wives
and daughters attended the wedding
reception and supper at the hotel
Chicago Herald.
Keen Sarcasm.
"Bruddren and sistahs," sternly said
good old Parson Woolimon, after the
collection had been taken up upon
recent Sabbath morning, 'before the
hat was done parsed I expoundeG ~