The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-05

room was dark. He heard a whispered,
Here ] am
All. love. come TO my arms he wills
pered in reply Il am going to carry you
down the ladder. Put your arms around
me. Now cling tight. Easy, now. There,
you can't squeeze me too close, sweet
heart L love to be squeezed. l went
through a cider press once"
Edward Rowerly was slowly descending
the ladder with his precious burden.
Kathyrn was done up in a shawl and
veiled until she was like a bolt of tailors
cloth with arms But the Rowery heart
felt the antiphonal thrill of the Hagerty
heart inside of the bundle and he was
happy
Now, darling let US be quick. he said.
as he safely landed at the foot of the
ladder. Then he tore aside the vel and
implanted passionate kiss upon-the two
weeks growth of beard on the face of
little old man Hagerty. Kathyrns pa.
Edward Rowerlys elopement stopped
right there. 1t didn't go another inch.
Jim Hagerty took small work by Smith
& Wesson out of his blouse and lovingly
rubbed it over Eddies cheek and poked it
Ed, and asked him to take ladder and
90 out of the yard. and be careful not
TO tread down the turnips by the we'll
and please shut the gate after him.
Now that was a mans elopement. 4
man had worked it from the ground up
and down again and clear into the sod.
Let us see how a woman does it.
Along in October Miss Josephine Syl-
vester MOler, Of Kokomo. got up little
private elopement for herself and a young
man friend by the name of Billings.
Now. Billings" she said in her win
some way. IN run this elopement. All
l want of you is to be within call when
needed. You are a part of the elopement,
you understand. but in no sense the head
of it. ] want you to feel just as happy as
if you were running it. only / want you
TO distinctly understand that you amt
Now. l believe W care ready TO proceed
This is not all Josephine said. but
have given enough to show how matters
were shaping themselves on the threshold
of the married life of these two young,
trusting souls We shall see how the
affairs panned out.
Erastus Billings lay dreaming upon his
couch at the witching hour of a m.
on a drizzly morning. He had been warned
to be ready to elope at that hour. but it
had slipped his mind. Fair Josephine saw
that she was likely to De roned. and in
stantly she decided upon heroic measures
to win out in the way she had determined,
Erastus did not know the chute of one Of
his fathers coal wagons was being hoist
cd to his window. He was all unaware
that a vigorous energetic. masterful
young woman by the name of Moler was
even now lifting the inside fastening of
his window shutters with a putty knife
How could h know that little Josephine
had climbed up the grape arbor and was
now cutting small circle of glass from
the window3ane with a glaciers wheel?
He did not see resolute arm. sleeved in
some soft, warm goods. deftly reach
through the hole and turn the catch at
the top of the sash. All unwilling was he
when the window was raised and a tall.
muscular young female strobe lightly
across the room. Still he slept while
she gazed upon him in the half darkness
and said to herself: All. dear Billings
crawled in last night with his boots on,
so am spared any delay on that account,
thank heavens
Alas Billings did not awake until he
dreamed that he was sliding down the side
of the wheat elevator. But he awoke
then. To his surprise he found that he
was in the onion bed in the rear lot. Josie
had delivered him down the coal chute.
fastening down the grape arbor hand
over hand she picked him up lightly and
ran out OF the yard
we have eloped, Billings" exclaimed
Josephine joyously, as she sped down the
road toward the parsonage. Soon you
will be mine"
An hour later they were made one and
Josephine was it. When YOU wish 10
eIope let the girl attend to 1t. It's in her
line
Money is necessary to a happy nuptials.
but ii is absolutely necessary 10 a happy
eIopement
Beware Of the dog. \ healthy dog chas-
ing an elopement over the back fence by
the light of the moon is foe to the
marriage tie.
Marriage ties. by the way. without
money. are apt to be case Of eros sites
before the honeymoon tour is ended
Some Opponents are very happy and
enduring. but you'd be surprised how
quick some people e.ope and then lope
back again after they see how it is.
The clipping habit should be avoided in
times like these. Algeruon Baxter sits
in a cell i'm Job Hill at this moment bit
terly bewailing the day the clipping habit
first got into his system He has been
paying alimony TO two ladies OF his ac-
upon the scene and asked for alimOny
Baxter says they already have AN e
money he has
Poor AIgernon, He eloped three times
when once would have been ample-Per-