The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-13


and one of her village friends who had
paid her a visit. They were discussing
| this latest piece of gossip.
| 1t is, because he can't get any of us
to take him. said the buxom country girl,
with a toss of the head. But Farmer
Jones may have thought that none of them
| came up to his requirements, for, to the
s1eat amusement of ny mother, he
brought her the published adver tisement
| TO read the next morning, which called
| for a comedy woman, under forty, who
mao good disposition, thrifty habits, and
was a good housekeeper and nurse.
For explained Farmer Jones, this
one will probably outlive me, and I might
| as we'll provide for my last sickness
| In due time several answers arrived
and these, too, he carried to my mother
| TO get her opinion on their comparative
| merits Despite her disapproval of the
proceeding, she became greatly interested
| IN spite of herself, and after having dis
claimed all responsibility in the matter,
she examined the letters carefully and
hnally selected one that seemed promfs-
ing, whereupon the farmer PROCEEDED to ar
range all prelminaries by correspondence,
saying that one trip West was enough,
and that would be for the wedding.
| There was great excitement in the COM
| munity when after three days absence
| ne returned with his bride, who proved to
be most capable woman and made him
a capital wife, fulfilling his prediction
number of years afterward by nursing
him devotedly through long illness, to
which he finally succumbed.
| 1 know of a country dressmaker, too
| who obtained a husband through an adj
Fertisement. He was a master carpenter,
and to our great comfort came and settled
| IN our neighborhood. They were also hap
py, and more useful pair of people TO
| the community where they lived it would
be hard to find
This does not mean to say that would
| recommend marriage advertisements as
a means to matrimony," added the Long
Island woman laughingly, but I only
say that they are often written and ac-
cepted in good faith, and the results are
Deteer than one would imagine
The following rather unique declaration
OF love appeared in the Chicago Tribune:
The young man came nearer.
"Buenavista," he said, with Fremont
tory cough. may say what I came to
say this EVENING""
II think you may, Mr.. Yipperly,'
came softly from her lips.
Then" he proceeded, 81 may venture
to hope that it will not wholly surprise
you. Mayhap, dear girl, your own heart
has told you already what il is"
He placed his arm along the back of
her chair, and observing that she did not
appear to shrink from it, he went ahead.
| Not with the holiness of one who feels
that he may presume upon favorable
answer with absolute certainty do 1 ven
ture TO ask the momentous question now
trembling on my lips, but rather with the
dread of a reply that may forever blast
all my hopes and drive me forth a wan
| derer and vagabond upon the face of the
| eartht The iSSna q a "a is
GUS, the consequences so lasting and far
reaching, that one may we'll hesitate be-
fore stalking ones all. If it may be so ex-
pressed, upon the cast or die
Slightly leaning forward she listened
with parted lips and elapsed hands
Therefore, beloved of my soul, may
have seemed as one who
either fears his fate too much,
Or his desert is small,
inasmuch as have not been entirely free
from the suspicion of being one, further
more,
Who will not put 1t to the touch,
To win or lose it all,
but while endeavorlng on the one hand
90 avoid the imputation of unmanly cow
erdice and on the other the equally re-
prehensible and more offensive charge of
overweening confidence and self-conceit.
am impelled by a feeling stronger than
my own will to lay bare my heart before
you, once for all, and end the suspense
that rs weighing upon me-"
How beautifully you express yourselfr'
she murmured.
Listen, Buenavista McCorxlel Impress
ed with my own unworthiness as I am
deeply sensible, as must be, of the ines
| Unable value of the prize 10 which I as
pire, l yet dare In my folly to rush in
! where an angel might fear to tread Cen
tie girl, your image possesses my heart
| absolutely. Love like mine would melt
the heart of a marble statue. For weeks
| l have seemed TO move in a dream I
could see your face in the moon Your
eyes twnl1led in the stars. The winds.
| as they blew softly through the trees
| seemed 10 murrnur, 'Buenavistai Buena-
vIstar' The birds that sang beneath my
window twittered, 'Buenavista! Buena-
vistar and their music echoed in the
chambers of my soul. The clouds, as
they moved majestically across the heav-
| ems
"Oh, how beautiful
took your form and seemed to beck
on me and yet mock me as with a vision
| of the unatta'nsble. In my dreams when
sleep has ended by vigils. have seen you
| as a Greek goddess and worshipped you
afar off with despairing, deathless devo-
tionr'
Have the conductors on the elevated
roads as they mumbled out the names of
the streets. seemed to say 'Buenavistal
| Buenavistar too?'
what mean you, Miss McCorkle?'
Have the frogs In the marshes, Offer
ing their evening prisons. breathed into
the raptured ear of night the smoothly
flowing name Of 'McCorklel McCorklev?"
"Why, let me ask, Miss McCorkle, have
| you let me make such a blooming idiot
OF myself II you intended to give me the
clammy hand in this style? Did you think
was practising for a high school exhibit
| tion?"
ooh, no, Mr.. Yirperly have enjoyed
| Il greatly. l think. taking Il altogether
yours is one OF the most gorgeous and
spectacular declarations Of love ever
listened TO- why did let you run on 30
long2 Because, Mr.. Yipperly. I am maxi
ing collection OF proposals of marriage.
| and thought yours would DO q valu1 ole
addition. It is. II is absolutely unique
You don't know how grateful am for
| IT as a work of art"