Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — A Romantio Meeting. [ARTICLE]

A Romantio Meeting.

Here is a story, of the course of true love, which, after meeting all sort* of obstacles for forty years, Is now in a fair way to run smooth. Tlie story opens in Hussla on November, 2, iiio-i. On that date a young Itussliia of education and refinement called 1 upon ids despotic ami strong-willed old uncle to demand the hand of lili daughter in marriage. Tlie old man refused, and swore a mighty oath that ills little girl should never marry this suiior, although she acknowledged iter love for him. The young man went away vowing eternal fidelity to Ills losl love. He came to tills country. The young girl, however, wus compelled by her uncle to marry ai rich old aristocrat one year after beg lover's departure. ller husband lived hut a few yearn, and she caute to this country and married again. Her second husband was even shorter-lived thuu the first. Wlille in tills city on Novemlter 1 attending to some business relative tot the estate of her first husbund, sho had occasion to take tlie Seventeenth street ear. While waiting for the eat she dropped her cloak. A gentleman who was passing at the time picked up her clonk aud handed it to her. Tlie elderly gallant, struck by the familiar look of the woman's features, engaged her in conversation, ami found her to be Ids "little sweetheart.” He had lieeii true to her all tlie years that followed Ids hasty departure from Hussla In 1H.14. He Is sixty-two now, and she is fifty-four.