Arizona republican., 1904-01-29

 ed only as compliment to some charming damsel. or his conduct meant solely as an act of gallantry, is sui ficient in the eyes of the law to sup port proof of a promise to marry.
 A gentleman once concluded that it would be a very elegant and a very funny thing to send to his dulcinea a newspaper article entitled, Love, the Conqueror." marking it: Read this l'The lady did read it, and when the funny gentleman declined to marry her she brought suit against him and read the article to the jury who gave her four thousand dollars damages. The supreme court of Illinois, sustaining the verdict said: The article may be regareded as the defendants own letter, it doubtless contained sentiment which he sanctioned, couched in language more choice than he could compose. It was his appeal for marriage-it fore told in clear and emphatic language his object and his intent in his courtship with her. She doubtless placed his con Struction upon it, as she well might do and laid it aside as a rare treasure"
 In a New York case it was shown on the trial that widower a pious elder of 53 years of age, soon after the death of his wife, visited the plaintiff, a maiden lady of 30, and taking out a memorandum book from which he read, or pretended to read stated in a con fidential way that he had noted down some requests made by his wife four days before her death; that it was something he could not tell her now" but that she (the maiden lady) would know someday,' darkly limiting, so the lady took it, that the deceased wife had requested the forlorn widow to tighten his grief by marrying the plain- tiff. It was proved that after this con- fidential talk. there were rides and
 drives together, frequent visits, eX tending till late in the evening, and, to cap the climax the widower told the plaintiff that after the lapse of a year from the death of his wife, (the wid-
 ower's quarantine it seems). he in . tended to marry and he then entered
 into a minute description of the lady he wanted to marry, which description
 was an exact photograph of the plain } tiff While we cannot but admire the , shrewd diplomacy of the widower, courting by dark insinuations and ? covert suggestions, and not committing 3 himself by an open avowal, yet, as the ? sequel shows he ran amuck of the doc ! Urine of estoppel.
 2 The sanctimonius Proteus forgot his } Julia and found him another sweet . heart, and knowing that he had become l somewhat involved in his affair with 7 the plaintiff he automatically under ? took to checkmate the lady. He told r her he did not want her people to think 1 he was paying her the attentions of a z lover so soon after the death of his , wife. and, in order to allay the sus- l picion he drew up a note in which the NE... ~g-I,r. , garded his visits as simply evidences of friendship and nothing more,' and
 got her to sign it. The jury found in
 her favor and the court or appeals in
 New York upheld the verdict.
 | Tn a Connecticut case the defendant I 'had been heard to remark on his hap f oiness when in plaintiffs company and 1 his utter misery unless in her society. 9 The parties had exchange daguerreo- Q types, the defendant had taught the
 plaintiffs nephew to call him uncle, - and had told the plaintiffs brother-in-
 law that "all the cOurting was done, little suspecting that the plaintiff r. would take a hand at "courting' in the , presence of judge and jury.
 The defendant afterward went on a T voyage. and while on the sea he indict- ed effusive love letters to the plaintiff,
 
 of her while awake and how he dream
 ed of her while asleep, .touchingly ad-
 ding: While I am tossed to and fro on this wide ocean, I love thee still
 Yet notwithstanding all this, the
 mad lover broke off the engagement. Il The plaintiffs 'courting' was fully
 as successful as had been that of the :, defendant, as she recovered a-judgmenr of St,5OO.
 In a Vermont case the plaintiff and | defendant were neighbore and the de- fendant paid neighborly visits to the , lplaintiffs family. It was shown that u these visits were at first to the entire , lfamily and that they were gradually o narrowed until they were confined to
 the plaintiff alone. This fact together a with the proof that during the period - of the defendants visits lights were frequently seen burning in the parlor on Saturday and Sunday evenings, and some other circumstances led the jury to find for the plaintiff. fl A very cruel case occurred in Mich II igan. A man, who. strange to relate ). bore the name of Constant, while en- - gagged in courting had his financial eye d open and borrowed money from the
 lady On his last visit to the lady nc renewed his notes for one and two
 years, and then went off and married the other girl. The court held that it a was proper to allow proof of this mon-
 ey transaction, holding that, 'an en- T ] gagement broken off suddenly and with out warning would very naturally if create more paiIf and modification if than if ended under any other circum- d stances. and if a jury were to regard f this conduct concerning money mat = lters as calculated, under the circum- q stances to have caused additional pair d or grievance to the defendant in CT ,f TOT we think they whould not be violat- q ing ordinary probabilities
 Where the defendant asked the hanc ' of the lady in the presence of the lat e ters mother who consented, and the h lady said nothing, and the defendant 70 thereupon gently took the hand of the IF mother and touchingly said: Hence l., forth, consider me as your son. it was q held sufficient proof of the lady's con- 2, sent: and in a New York case the lady ii was permitted to show that she hac