The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-11
LOVES NIICROBE
 ALLIED TO MUMPS
Le seur, Minn., Man Catches Disease
 and Wife from an Infected Pin.

 Chicago Tribune.
 It has been a busy week for Dan Cupid. The little fellow has been going | through motions and contortions that would give anybody but himself a case of nervous prostration. or. better, a case Of emotional insanity. But Dan mas got used to doing queer stunts. In fact, weird. woozy' feats of high, ground, and lofty tumbling in the hy- menal arena have come to be quite the thing with him. so now he thinks nothing of bringing young peo- pie to wed with motions and gyrations that would make c jiu jitsu expert dizzy 10 behold. And in the last few days he has cert ainly been showing what he could do in the way of funny. fancy. and freak ish romanoes. He has even enlisted a disease microbe in his aid. so now there | Is no hope that q man or woman may go through life without being some times stricken by that most prevalent of human ailments, Cupiditis.
 | Mferobe Wedding at Le seur. | Le Seur, Minn., Is the place where the disease microbe and the microbe of love joined forces for the annihilation of unmarried folk. Lots of queer things happen in Le Seur. From Le Seur each fall comes the story of the city sports | man who rides tho big buck, deer for miles through the Minnesota forest and finally stays him with his trusty hunt ling knife. Sometimes the deer is a moose, but that is a mere detail In Le Eeur the snakes are trained to sil On their tails in the soft. pale light of the harvest moon and sing hymns and it | is also at Le Seur that the great bats- man of the local nine became the fath- or of the club footed son. but that Is another story.
 Le seur Finally OutdOes Itself. ! Le Seur has quite outdone itself in its latest love affair. It has beaten the world for strange romances. Mir. Hurley Prosper of that town and Miss Alice Bergstrom have just been mar | ried, and in this marriage was ended q most unusual love affair. even for Le seur.
 Six months ago Mir. Prosper received e letter from firm in Chicago. and the enclosures were held together by pin. He took out the pin and placed 1t between his lips. His clerk said, Look out! Pins are poisonous" He soon developed a case of mamps and then remembered the pin.
 | When he got well he wrote to Chi- cago and inquired whether the pin had been handled by any one having the humps. It turned out that on the | day the letter nhu pten WflLteu ana mailed by the young woman of the Chicago firm, Miss Bergstrom, she had been taken ilf with humps. It seemed clear that by placing the pin in her own mouth she had transferred the infection to Mir. Prosper.
 She wrote to apologise; he responded that, if he were to have the humps at all, he preferred that kind, and in the correspondence that followed a mar riage engagement was brought about. Ossified Man Falls Victim. | Not content with this, Cupid pro- ceeded to show that, no matter how hard a man may be. he is still vulnera- b1e as to heart. Charles F. Gilpatrick, of Hiram, Me, Is a hard man. He is so hard that he gets $500 a week for posing in a Philadelphia museum, and the sign over his chair tells that he is an ossified man. But the shafts of Cupid, entered into his heart. At least this is what Miss Lillian Grillts of Boston ayers. She is suing Charles for breach of promise. She was em- ployed in a hotel at which Gilpatrick was a guest. She says he began to make love and finally proposed mar riage. She consented, and from that time continued to tote" him about in