Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-02-13
WEE THINGS sALk CUPID.
Stories Showing That Love Does Not
ALWAYS Find a Way.

Always Find Way.
A tragedy in a Pennsylvania VII
lage early last year was due entirely to
tobacco. Miss Mabel Duncan had de-
veloped a taste for cigarettes, which
her fiance, Herbert Keldar, strongly
disapproved of. She gave her word to
abandon the habit. and after one or
two relapses kept the promise faith
fully for many months.
On the morning of the wedding,
which was to take place in her fathers
house. one of her bridesmaids offered
the young lady cigarette, and dared
her to smoke it. She took few
whiffs and then quickly threw it away
AS the clergyman commenced the
ceremony the bridegroom shifted sus-
piciously. Then he leaned over.
"You have been smoking again. he
whispered.
Miss Duncan did not reply. With
out another word the young man
turned and walked out of the house.
George Ricketts, spent his early
years in the service of the Hudson
Bay Company. He married Toronto
young lady, and took her with him to
Fort Golden, in the far Northwest.
One winter day in 1883 Indians raid
ed the place during his absence, and
he returned to find the girl he had left
so full of life afew hours before witt
an Indian tomahawk in her brain.
Knowing the red men would come
back ne buried the body and rode for
his life. In the spring he returned to
visit the grave. To his amazement
he found the body turned to stone. 1t
is most perfect and beautiful speci-
men of petrifaction. Ricketts, took it
with him and returned to his home in
Sunderland
There, a couple of years ago, he fell
in love a second time All went well
until one fatal day, when he asked the
young lady and her mother to tea.
and showed her the relic he had been
faithful to for fifteen years, and told
her it's story. The girl turned white
and left shortly afterward. Next day
she wrote and declared that she could
not marry man who had such terri
BILE memories in his life.
An angry father and a dye vat be-
tween them put sudden stop to the
courtship of Wilfred Gait. 1t was the
daughter of a manufacturer that this
gentleman honored with his attentions,
but the father had higher matrimonial
views for his daughter, and warned
young Calf off his premises.
One evening he caught the ardent
sutton pleading his cause through an
open window. He made a rush for
him. Gait ran, and would have got
safely away but for the unseen dye
vat that yawned in his path. Into this
he plunged headlong. His pursuer
fished him out and led him back to
the house in a half-drowned condi-
ton. AS he entered, the young lady
met him, and after a moments strug-
gle gave way to a wild fit of laughter.
The luckless swain was a lovely blue
from head to foot-face, clothes,
boots, and all. He had to spend the
next three weeks in seclusion, endeav-
oring, with the aid of soap of various
brands, to restore his natural COM
plexion. But his dignity was beyond
soap. He never called again.
1t is great mistake to be too dig
nified. The stiffness and solemnity of
a young clerk in bank were stand
ing temptation to 'iis gay and larky
sweetheart to ''taks a rise out of him. ="
One day the two made an expedition
to a wishing well which lies not far
from their home. He stopped stify
to fill the cup. AS he did so the girl
yielded to an almost irresistible temp
tation and give him tiny push. He
lost his balance and toppled in. 1t
was only three feet deep, and the only
things hurt were the young mans
hat and his pride. He slowly picked
himself up, damned his dripping straw
upon his head and, without word or
a moment to listen to the girls apollo
gies, stalked away. Perhaps she was
well rid of him.-Chicago Tribune.