Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — How They Managed the Clothes Question. [ARTICLE]

How They Managed the Clothes Question.

The picturesque little Town of Westfield, on the New Jersey Central Railroad, about twenty miles from this city, was all agog lately over a recent marriage, which made a ripple in the quiet Inc of the town. Dr. E. V. Smith, aged forty, wooed and won Miss Annie Clarke, a maiden of sixteen, the daughter of L. V. Clarke, a wealthy retired merchant, who formerly did business in New York. The lovers wished to get married at once, but the parents of Miss Clarke objected, and told them to consider the step for six or eight months longer. Finding entreaties vain, they determined to take the matter in their own hands, and in order to secure the property of the would-be bride without arousing her father’s suspicions, the Doctor hit upon the novel method of carrying them off under his coat. So his devotion waxed stronger, his visits increased in number, and overy time lie bado her adieu he Btutl'ed his coat with dresses and all sorts of garments, and tilled his pockets with hits of ribbon. Even his hat was brought into service to carry off a pair of curling-tongs. Sometimes the girl threw garments from the window, which were caught by the Doctor in the moonlight below. After two weeks of persistent industry, the Doctor had accumulated several large Saratoga trunks full of clothes, and then one bright day Miss Clarke, tolling her mother she was ing to the villagerepaired to the railroad station, joined the Doctor, and the two came to this city, where they were married at the residence of the Doctor’s sister. After the ceremony the couple went to Long Branch - and opened negotiations with the parents in Westfield. At first Mr. Clarke refused to communicate with them, but after a week of indifference on their part ho^presented them with alarm, on which is a Hue residence; to the bride he gave a costly silk dress as a peaceoffering. Such tangible tokens of forgiveness caused the Tloctor and his wife to return to the paternal homestead.— N. Y. Tribune. — 1 —Dr. Foote, in his Health Monthly for August, says: I6e water is better for January than for August. If you think you must drink it, partly fill your goblet with the water from the icepitcher and add an equal quantity of water from the water-pail or the faucet A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says that the growth of horns in cattle may be prevented by searing the germ, before it passes through the skin, with a hot iron. By this means the growth of horn is suspended, and the animal remains hornless.— Jowa State Register. Babies cry because they suffer, and the most reliable remedy for the relief of their discomfort Is Dr. Bull’* Baby Syrup. Only 25 cents per bottle. ,