Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1899 — Page 10

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* * 3 Love at Lons Range 5 « » Charles O’Meara was an operator in New York oil one side of a quadruplexed wire running to Chicago. The operator on the corresponding side in Chicago was Miss Amy Davidson. Both ■were export, and the manner in which they kept their message hooks clear excited the admiration of the chief in their respective offices. O’Meara was a handsome and intelligent young Irishman, with jet black hair and mustache and great, soulful blue eyes—one of the kind of men who seem almost unconsciously to possess the power of fascination over women. After having worked the wire together a few months O’Meara and Miss Davidson became well acquainted, although, of course, neither had ever seen the other. They had abundant opportunities for conversation in the early morning before the rush of business for the day began and in the late afternoon when the rush was over. There is a sort of telepathy in telegraphy, as all telegraphers admit, and there certainly was in this case. Long before any word of love had passed over the wire between them each had become conscious of a tender regard for the other. O’Meara could recognize in an instant the touch of a strange hand on the key in Chicago, and Miss Davidson was as quickly conscious of the change when any other than O’Meara’s hand manipulated the transmitter in New York. There is as much that is distinctly characteristic in the manner in which telegraphers form the dots and dashes as there is in the manifold forms of chirography. One morning Amy complained of feeling ill. “I am afraid,” she said, “that I will have to give up and go home. I would do so surely if I could afford to lose the time. My head aches dreadfully. Dear me! What would my mother and sister do if I should become really sick ? They have nobody to take care of them but me. ” There was a tremulousness in the dots and dashes which plainly indicated to O’Meara that the girl, a thousand miles away, was weeping softly, as indeed she was, with her head resting wearily against the resonator containing the sounder. He replied: “Try to stick it out today, dear. We will take it easy, and perhaps yon will feel better by tomorrow. At any rate, don’t worry.”

It was the first time he had used any term of endearment in their intercourse, and she was much affected. But she brightened up a little and managed to struggle through the day’s work. Next morning O’Meara found a strange operator at the Chicago end of the wire, and when he inquired for Miss Davidson he was told that she was

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veiy m. me poor fellow realized now, if he never had before, that he was deeply in love with a woman he had never seen. He became so fretful and irritable as to excite comment among the cithers in the office. "What on earth is the matter with O’Meara V” asked one of the operators on the opposite side of the “quad” of the man who sat at the next instrument “I guess he’s in love with that Chicago girl who is sick, ’ ’ was the reply. One morning the answer made by the Chicago operator to O'Meara’s inquiry as to Miss Davidson's condition contained but one word —“Dead!” O’Meara uttered a kind of moan, and his head fell upon his desk. When one of the chiefs aroused him, he found the young man’s face flushed and his eyes bloodshot. O’Meara was sent home, where he remained for weeks suffering from a severe attack of brain fever. When at last he had recovered and returned to the office to report for duty, the chief told him to take his usual seat at the Chicago quadruples. “If you’d just as lief give rue another wire, I’d rather have it,” O’Meara said. “I don’t think I care to work with Chicago any more. ” There was a twinkle in the eye of the chief as he said: “You used to do some fine work on that Chicago wire.” “Perhapsso, ” O’Meara replied sadly, “but I had a fine operator to work with. ’* “Well,” said the chief, “that’s a fine operator there yet—the same one, I believe. that was there before.” “That cannot be —for she is dead!” This with a great sob. “I think you had better return to the old wire, for the present at least, ’ ’ the chief said. “Then, if you are not satisfied, I will transfer yon to some other circuit. ” O’Meara walked slowly over to his old place to relieve the man who was at the moment receiving some messages from Chicago. As he neared the instrument and heard the characters coming with a dearly loved and familiar sound his heart almost stopped heating so overwhelming was the surge of emotion. He listened a moment until at the beginning of another message came the signal of the sending operator, “A. D. ” “Who. in heaven’s name, is there in Chicago.” he almost shouted, “that dares to sign ‘A. D. V ” “Amy Davidson, of course.” was his friend’s reply. “Don t trifle with me,” O’Meara cried. “Amy Davidson is dead!” “Not by a long shot.” said the operator. making way for O’Meara. “It was only a rumor that some chuckle headed ass accepted as a fact. She has been back at work for two weeks or more. From the manner in which she has inquired about you every day I should imagine that she takes an interest in yon. When he sat down before the instrument, his hand trembled so that he could scarcely form the dots and dashes to ask ■ * “Is that really yon, Amy?” He gave his own signal, “O. M. ” “Yes, Charlie, and I’m so glad yon are well again. ” Her reply was as fluttering as his question had been tremulous. Seme of the operators in the New York office wondered at seeing a young man sitting at an instrument with tears of joy streaming down his face, while in the Chicago office there was surprise because a girl was crying and smiling at the same time. When he recovered his equanimity, O’Meara said: “They told me yonr were dead, and I believed it. The shock nearly killed me. ” “It was merely a rumor. I’m happy to say, but when I came back to work I was greatly depressed at hearing you were so ill. Now we will both be well and happy again. ’ ’ “I will never be thoroughly happy, my darling,” O’Meara replied, “until yon are my wife. I’m coming ont there soon to claim yon. May I?” “Dear me! How can you wish to marry a girl whom you have never seen ?” This was another instance of tremu-

lonsness in transmission. “That’s all right,” O’Meara said. “I’m willing to risk it if yon are. I’ve

! known and loved yon a long time, even if I haven't seen yon. Can I come for you?” “I may be so homely that when you see me you may be terribly disappointed. I may have red hair and freckles, a cast in my eye and a terrible hump on my back. Conld you stand all that ?” “Yes,” replied O’Meara, “if you could stand my bald head and red nose. ” There was more of this pleasantry, and then Miss Davidson seriously agreed to marry her distant lover. After many more conversations on the wire it was agreed that Miss Davidson and O’Meara should meet at a half way point, Pittsburg being finally selected, where they should be married. This course was chosen in the hope that the consummation of their peculiar courtship could be accomplished secretly, thus avoiding the good natnred but embarrassing chaffing of their fellow operators. But that wire on which they made their arrangements ran through the Pittsburg office, where there were automatic repeating instruments. An operator standing beside the repeaters one day overheard the final arrangements, heard the description each gave the other by which to insure identification at the depot, and told all about it to the Pittsburg operators, who thereupon determined to make the occasion of the wedding interesting. A committee was appointed to watch the meeting of the couple and to prepare for a reception. O’Meara arrived at Pittsburg a day ahead of Miss Davidson, as had been agreed upon, and was at the station on the following day when her train pulled in from the west. His heart was beating wildly as he scanned the alighting passengers, and he was too preoccupied to notice that he was being watched by half a dozen young men. Nor did he notice that he was observed closely by a tall, bronze haired and decidedly handsome young woman who had alighted from a Pullman car and was standing in the shadow of a baggage truck loaded with trunks. There was a smile on the young woman’s face as she finally stepped forward and touched O’Meara on the shoulder. “How d’ye do, Charlie?” she said. “Are yon really Amy?” he cried, grasping her outstretched hands in both of his. “Yon told me to look out for a short, curly haired girl, with a limp in her left foot, and I gave you an accurate description of myself. ’ ’ “Not so very accurate, though,” she laughingly replied. “Yon didn’t tell me half how good looking you are. ” It was evident to the watchers, who now came forward, that they were pretty well satisfied with each other. The committee introduced themselves and announced that the couple were to be conducted forthwith to a hotel, where, at 8 o’clock that evening, they were to be married. This arrangement was carried out, and during the evening the Pittsburg operators and their wives and daughters attended the wedding reception and supper at the hotel. O'Meara is now an officer in the signal corps and has distinguished himself in the war with Spain. A Genius. “Whew!” remarked the bead of the firm after he had listened to the report of the chief collector. “Who can the rascal be? And all these people say that they have paid and hold a receipt?” “Precisely. Some fellow has been going the rounds, and wherever my men are sent they find that at least 75 per cent of the bills have been paid. He has even collected a lot of bills that we considered bad. He certainly must be a villain of the deepest dye, sir, and I have taken the liberty of notifying the best private detective in the city.” “Perfectly right. Send the detective to me as soon as he puts in an appearance. We must find this villain. ” Half an hour later the head of the firm and the detective were closeted together. “Can you find him?” asked the former. “Sure! I'm satisfied now that I know who he is, and I’ll have him inside the bars before morning.” “Who’s hiring you and who’s going to pay for your services?” “You, of course.” “Then I’ll do my own planning. If that fellow won’t take $l5O a month to work for me, offer him S2OO. He has the kind of talent I’m looking for. ” — Detroit Free Press. The Final Touch. “Brushley was a good hearted fellow; no one ever appealed to him for a loan in vain.” “No, and wasn’t his death characteristic? He was struck by lightning, you know.”—Philadelphia North American. Too Much Heal ism. Mine, de Navarro has recorded in “A Few Memories” the greatest lesson she ever received against too much realism. In a certain drama the heroine, under great excitement, suddenly stops to gain composure as she hears the approaching carriages of the guests. “Hark!” she says. “I hear the wheels of their carriages.’ We obtained the effects of approaching wheels, but, try as we would, the stamping of the horses' feet upon the gravel before Clarisse’s door we could not manage. At last a brilliant idea struck me. which the stage manager promptly indorsed. It was that we should have in a donkey from Covent Garden to trot up and down behind the scenes on the gravel especially laid for him. We were decidedly nervous on the first appearance of our four footed friend, whose role was to counterfeit the high stepping horses of the brilliant French court. When his cue was given, there was only an ominous silence. 1 repeated the word in a louder voice, wheu such a braying and scuffling were heard as sent the audience into roars of laughter. Although it was one of the most serious situations of the play, I could not help joining in their mirth until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

GUATEMALA’S DEBTS To Be Paid by an American, English and German Syndicate— $15,000,• 000 to Be Advanced. San Francisco, Nov. 11. —The Evening Post states that a syndicate of American, English aud German bankers has about perfected arrangements with the government of Guatemala to advance to that country $15,000,000, relieving it of its debts aud placing the country on a firm financial basis. Under the terms of the agreement the money will be loaned for a term of 25 or 50 years and will draw interest at 1 per cent. In addition the syndicate will be allowed to control a certain per centage of the customs receipts of the different ports. It is believed by those interested that this loan will have the effect of ending the numerous internal revolutions which have threatened to disrupt the country. There will be so much American, English aud German capital involved in the country that the three powers will necessarily be called upon to protect their interests, and it is believed the presence ot a fleet of foreign warships will eo overawe the revolutionists that the evils resulting therefrom will be obviated. GENERAL PARDES Surrenders to General Castro’s Forces After a Terrible Battle—Over six Hundred Killed. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Nov. 13.— General Paredes, a former commander in the army of ex-President Andrade, who had refused the demand made upon him by General Cipriano Castro and the de facto authorities to surrender the towu, even wheu this was reinforced by the request of the British, American, French, German and Dutch commanders, surrendered yesterday, after a terrible battle. The aspect of the city is one of ruin and devastation aud it is estimated that upwards of 650 persons were killed or wounded during the fighting. Dr. Braisted of the United States cruiser Detroit and the other surgeons of the various warships in the harbor, ore ministeriug to the wants of the wounded. General Ramon Guerra began a land attack upon the town and the position of General Paredes, who made a stubborn defence, but General Guerra forced an entrance into the town. FLyiml the Five Anyhow. “The worst kind of a fool in the world is a well meaning fool,” said a detective sagely. "I was walking along one night in a neighborhood not necessary to specify, when up rushed a man in his shirt sleeves and grabbed me by the arm. ‘Say. officer'.’ he exclaimed, calling me by name, ‘I just saw a fellow do something that lie ought to get ten years for at least. He was a big loafer in a checked suit, and l would know him again in China’— “ ‘But what did he do?’ I interrupted. “ ‘Why, I was sitting on my porch,’ replied the man in shirt sleeves, ‘and saw him go up deliberately to that letter box on the corner and drop in a lighted cigar stump. Just think of the valuable mail the scoundrel might have destroyed!’ “ ‘Are you sure the cigar was lit?’ I asked. “ ‘Weil, I’m pretty sure,’ he said, ‘but you needn't to worry. He hasn't burned up anything.’ “ 'How the dickens do you know he hasn’t?’ said 1, surprised. “ ‘Why, 1 got a pitcher of water and poured it right in,’ said he. I walked off. I never did find out xvhat those letters looked like when the carrier got around.”—New Orleans TimesT lemocrat.

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