The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-10
DAN CUPID TURNS
MANY STRANGE TRICKS
God OF Love Most Difficult
to Understand.
HAS ERRATIC ATTRIBUTES
No Way of Accounting for the Strange
and Unnatural Things Which Can Be
Charged Against the Conduct of Men
and Women Under Spell

There is TO way of accounting for the
many strange and unnatural things
which can be charged against the con
duct OF men and women who are in love
To attempt 10 anaIyze the varying emo
tons OF loves victims would be shoul-
dering q problem which could not be
graspeG by a mind Of even the keenest
and most penetrating percepttve facul-
ties II may be true, as the poet says.
that ali the world. likes a lover. but at
best the world knows little or nothing
about the heart pTomptings Of this ideal
lied personage-
Not Always Bliss.
Being in love IS not always the bliss
fully seductive and complacentIy ideal
condition which theorists would have
you believe, fer trials and fluctuations.
some OF them great and others insignifi-
cantly small, constantly beset those
whom Cupid lists for participation IL
some Of his mighty conuuests. II is
these preyins actualities that cause men
and women n love 10 do many strange
things. Often their conduct approaches
the heroic. and stories of touching sac
Fifices and marvellous devotion which one
would not expect TO find outside the COW
e-S Of sentimental novels come TO light
Again love with its erraJic attributes
shoots of in another angle and converts
2 man or woman into an unreasonable,
unthinking being who goes TO ilCalcuI-
able extremes to bring about realiza>
ton Of cherished situation. But
whether il is tender sacrifice. constant
devotion through many years, or a di-
reCtly opposite extreme, the action
springs from the SINE impartial source
the existence OF love
Tragedy IN Love Affair.
As an Illustration of the tragic com
pIications which may grow out OF a love
affair, the case OF MS Ralph Red
rnond. who with her husband, now lives
in q suburb Of Baltimore, presents it
self. There is more of tragedy in this
story than is common. get 1t has a re-
markedly realistic ring Mrs Red
mond was formerly Miss Louis Paris,
OF Tryon City. s c, and she recently
married Ralph Redmond after killing
man who had betrayed her present hus-
hand and circulated reports injurious tC
her character For this act she re-
ceived q peniteatiary sentence Of if
teen years. but through the efforts Of
friends was granted a pardon
Mr and Mrs Redmond knew each
other as children. They attended tins
same school in Tryon City, and as they
grew older the friendship Of childhood
ripened into love in its most ardent
form. With the problem of gaining q
livelihood before him Redmond deter
mined TO be a moonshiner. an occupa-
ton favored by the more adventurous
spirits IN his neighborhood- The young
couple continued 70 love until a rival
finally appeared on the scene His name
was William Johnson. He laid siege to
the hand of Miss Paris, and finally pro-
posed to her and vas rejected. Then he
determined TO destroy the happiness Of
Redmond. Johnson furnished informa-
ton through which Redmond was be
guiIed into the hands Of the revenue
agents The young man was saved from
trial through the Intervention of Tela-
tives. but was compelled TO remain
moro or less in hiding and to WOO his
lady love by stealth
Johnson. however, continued his ad-
dresses after Redmond became fugi-
tive, and when he thought sufficient
time had elapsed since the young mans
disappearance, proposed TO Miss Paris
a second time
Again rejected. he circulated scandals
against the young wOman's character
tin. maddened by MS prosecutions. she
called him one evening to her home
and. after accusing him, killed him.
Saved by Her Beauty.
At the trial Miss Paris beauty and
the eloquent defense she made Of hel
rash act produced such an effect upon
the prosecuting officers that she was