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Show HER LOVER DIED. inooTheii she Ha. Not Voluntarily Risen From Her Bed. KkwYokk, July 81. Many people 1 Mattituck have almost forgotten liss Sara A. Howell, yet such a woman ls lived in their .midst for half a cen-n7 cen-n7 ia a pretty cottage near the center ; 'lie village, but she has led a strange ,rt of existence, and during the past "rty-one years has never risen voluu-ir'ly voluu-ir'ly from her bed. She is now 51 ars old, but the vears of suffering ;e left little evfdence in her face, wch is air an,i free from time's "ikies. She has large, expressive ii eyes, a wealth of dark hair and "jii which are pearly white, sound ,a even. 1D her younger days . Howell was a handsome, fas-Wing fas-Wing woman, possessed a sweet dis. Mtinu and was a general favorite. bin budding into womanhood she "anie engaged to marry a voting man '"M Luther Keeve, who shortly be- ? me w edding day sickened and died. IIS is a sev,;,.e ,iow to tUe young wan, and weighed so heavily upon r mind that she became insane and 'taken to the asylum in Middletown. jer a time sho was returned to her m!i jP" cured,' but snr-, snr-, "Med by reminders of her dead lover. ?rew despondent, and for no other ;".n reasou took to her bed and has Mill there ever since. She is now , ; 'fejy rational, always bright and :mi and glad to see any ' her olft At tiraes 8he does a little sew' -,r tancy work, and makes bracelets vn Raided hair, which displays i-iv udeal of tast and remarkable 'Rht Her mother was blind for C"iy-D.ve years before her death, and filler lived to the good old age of years. , |