Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1879 — A PRETTY ROMANCE. [ARTICLE]

A PRETTY ROMANCE.

How u Massachusetts Girl Secured an lowa Husband. A Springfield (Mass.) correspondent of the Boston Herald vouches for the truth of the following charming little romance: Several months ago a man at Dubuque, lowa, advertised in an Eastern Massachusetts paper for a wife. Among a swarm of answers which he received were two from two girls in this city, who replied just for the fun of the thing. One of them represented herself as a young widow, and her lively account of herself and her circumstances was very largely fictitious, especially that which told (very incidentally, as if it was of no consequence) of the snug sum of money left her by her dear departed. She never expected to hear of the matter again, but that was the one letter out of all the advertiser received which struck his fancy. He wrote to the supposed “widow” (who, in fact, had never been married, and who was then earning her living with her needle); photographs were exchanged; the letters grew more and more affectionate, until the young woman, realizing that the affair was no longer a joke, wrote to her new-found admirer and told him frankly of her humble circumstances. Of course he admired her all the more, and at last he came from Dubuque to this city to claim her for his bride. Instead of the sleek and intelligent-look-ing and manly individual whom she had expected from his letter and his photograph, what was her vexation to see a person of decidedly seedy appearance, wearing an old slouch hat, and appearing altogether unattractive. Well, she refused him, and he, chiding her bitterly for so doing after all the pains he had taken to win her, returned alone to lowa. I suppose he hadn’t left the house before she was sorry —such is the flexible character of female affections — and it is certainly true that she was very sorry, indeed, before he had put a thousand miles between them. He wrote no more, but the distressed young woman wrote, or got friends to write, to the pastor of the church he attended, and to various persons in Dubuque, to find out what sort of a man this was—something she ought to have thought of in the first place. The replies were uniformly complimentary, and every one only increased her regret that she, a poor sewing-girl, had refused a “good match.” Never a word came from him, and at last she swallowed her pride, reopened the correspondence herself, and told him how she had misjudged him and how sorry sh© was that she had. Promptly came a manly reply, from which she discovered that, when he visited her here, he had intentionally made himself as unattractive as possible, from a romantic notion that she ought to take him for what he was and not for what he wore. Of course they were married, and the poor sewing-girl has for her husband one of the leading citizens of Dubuque, and for her home one of the finest mansions in Dubuque. This true story ought to have a moral of the negative sort—namely, that young girls are not to infer from it that it is safe for them to answer matrimonial advertisements, for where ©ne case of this sort has, like this, a happy issue, there are ten which lead to unhappiness or something a good deal worse. “ What kind of testimony do you call that? ” said the County Attorney to one of the witnesses before the Grand Jury, who was inclined to be a little evasive. “Jackson’s Best,” was the prompt reply. The lawyers who were in the habit of using tobacco saw the point and smiled all over their faces. Scotland has been considered the most wary, cautious and hard-headed of all lands, and yet the scheme of paying the debts of shareholders in the city of Glasgow Bank through a colossal lottery is to be tried. Six millions of $5 tickets are to be issued, and half of the proceeds is to be paid to the liquidators and the remainder is to be apportioned among the shareholders as prizes. The Cherokee Couneil seized and ordered the sale of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad’s property in the Indian Territory, but the company dismantled and removed its buildings, and took up its track as far as the Arkansas line, and all that remained to sell were a few rotten ties and seven two-inch boards. A Source of Much Bodily Evil. If the habit of body becomes irregular, much evil is inflicted on the system. The stomach becomes dyspeptic, bilious symptoms develop themselves, the circulation is contaminated, and the nerves sh ire in the general disorder. It is of the utmost importance that the bowels should be tbo otighly and speedily rpgulated when they grow derelict. The corrective agent best adapted to this purpose is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a wholesome, non-griping vegetable laxative, worth all the rasping cathartics invented since the time of Paracelsus. People who have been in the habit of using blue pill, calomel, and other drugs and cheap nostrums for constipation, should abandon such hurtful and useless medicines and substitute for them this pleasant and gentle aperient which not only produces the purgative effect naturally, but also strengthens while it regulates the bowels, stomach and liver. It moreover cures and prevents intermittent and remittent fevers, gout, rheumatism, debility and urinary troubles. Coughs. —A Medicinal Preparation in the form of a lozenge is the most convenient “ Brown's Bronchial Troches” allay irritation which induces coughing, giving relief in Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Influenza, Consumptive and Asthmatic complaints. 36 etc. • box.