Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-19
TAXES FOR BRIDE THE
CHILD OF OLD FLAME
Marrles the Daughter of
Dead Love.

st. Louis, Oct. 1S.--Like ''the Hon.
Peter Stirling" hero of the novel,
Dennis P. Moroney of Nevada, Ia, led
to the altar in his middle age the
lost in his youth. His bride was Miss
Ethel NJ. Richey, 16 years old, of Jer-
SEVILLE. They were marriad at st.
Francis Xavier's church in Jerseyville.
Years ago there lived near Nevada,
| Ia, a pretty. round checked girl with
dark hair, and on neighboring ranch
lived Dennis Moroney, her school
fellow and playmate. When they
ceased to be children and entering
their youth, Dennis had a more Sc
rious, deeper feeling for his fair girl
neighbor than he had known in their
| school days.
He was very devoted to her and she
liked him, but ]. V. Richey was the
favored sutton. He wooed and won
her, and Dennis Moroney, almost
heartbroken, took vow never to wed
Richey and his bride settled in the
neighborhood of Moroney's home and
after time, when little Ethel was
born, Moroney felt the loss of the
woman he loved less because he was
accorded the privilege of visiting her
home and showering his affection On
the baby girl
The bachelors heart was ruled by
| the child when the Richey's moved
away, about eleven years ago, and
went to live in the east, at Jersey
| vile. Moroney wrote to this little
|, ! friend and she sent him the first let
ters she ever wrote after she learned
how to make her letters"
Through all the years this exchange
of letters kept up, but Moroney did
not see his little friend again. Last
spring she sent him a new photo
: graph of herself. 1t was the first pic
ture even that Moroney had seen 81
her in the eleven years since she left
with her parents to live in Jerseyville
| Moroney was startled by the picture
Mrs Richey was dead-had been dead
several years But Moroney seemed
to see in little Ethels" photograph 6
picture of the girl he had loved in his
, youth There were the same rounded
cheeks, the same dark eyes and the
same masses of golden hair II
8 could hardly realize that it was nC
the sweetheart he had lost, but h
daughter-his baby friends
He determined to go to Jerseyvillt
and see for himself if, in little Ethel
his old love lived again. But it was
not until a few weeks ago that hi
could make the trip.
: When he arrived in Jerseyyille HI
was even more astonished at the re
semblance than he had been when hi
saw the picture. In Miss Ethel he fell
he saw again the girl he had lost, an(
he felt all the old love in his hear
again.
He lost no time in telling Miss
/, Ethel of his love and asking her t.
marry him, for the vow of eelibacy ht
, had made long ago was not to be con
sidered any longer, he said. Miss
Ethel gave a different answer from
that her mother had given, She sale
eyes"
The consent of the girls father wa!
asked and given readily, for he admir-.
ed Maroney and knew him to be Z
wealthy ranch owner. 1t would BIZ
a fine match for his daughter, he said
So arrangements for the wedding
were begun at once 1t was said a
the family home after the marriage
that Mr.. and Mrs. Moroney woult
leave at once for Nevada, Ia. which j.
to be their home.