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Show A (IIIIIVIN I'OLilT. A Jilted Lover and a Fair Enchantress of Torty Hard Winters in the Leading Parts. GIDDY.GDSHING CORRESPONDENCE The KiBibles of the Spectators Unable to Brook Restraint Burst Forth in Perfect Gale. Tho man who ambled into .fudge Zr.ne's chamber this morning had no reason to suspect that in the ca-e of the I'eoplu vs. .Million was brewing 0110 of the raciest comedies ever enacted in a court room. The easle in the ease included I'. II. Morton ami Mary L. Smiley. Shu is a widow not fat but fair and forty. Ho is a widower, lean, lank and possibly pos-sibly lifty. The interest of the spectators began lo awaken richt with the prologue that teemed with rhymed romances and striking situations. As it became known in the hallways and lobbies that a love affair was being ventilated the benches id the spaeious auditorium began be-gan to (ill with old faces and new. 'The charce was simple'dioiisebreaking" but gradually lis n ce-ses wVro robbed and their .-a'aeious kernels dragged forth to the irreirciihle merriment of the spectator, and the manifest mani-fest ili.coinlil in e ol the principals. If ', there was any house-breaking the ma-j ma-j rauder ha. I done ii lo uuiii isk the per-i per-i tidy of the widow who had me-uuel'i.ed i him. That was all. In the blissii n.-Miranee n.-Miranee hat he was the Idol of her j heal I 1 he lieleiideut began lo lav plans , for tlie tiilure. )ni e a week, and vme- j i times oilener, lie landed love's light j raps on the loved mu-'s dwelling and was readily admitted. One evening,! I however, lucre w.is no answer to thrill j liii healim; heart a. id in he walked. It was :it thii chapter lit the prologue that the, eouiliineiil.-. as iii,cious as ever ' spieed the procecdi'i.:. of a court inainiicr. opinio ai r.i e on tiie scene. I The jilted nicer w n now iu the wit-i wit-i Hess chair, lie was ini a dude nor a I poei, bin ih.i i it. i , ,, r o:' a craft 'hat is j better pa, I. II adiiiiile I bavin j rolibed a di.rvei' uf ly i jotter,., l oth of i which were ioflre.se,! lo his enchant-) enchant-) less. J;s alteiiiinn had been di-j di-j reeled to I hem becaie-'e there was a j Iresh-law-d bilieidoiix that bore the I iiame ot a num. A real iniiu a rival, j Jealou-y tool; oil! ils brush and de- picted a" I .or:s o; hi le nis things. It j became evident I i him that h.s liaticce j was smuggling s.voef. nothings from a j gushiutf lift it ct r.i.'iL'bam across thy line, lie d.dii't te:ir letters into tatters r.or press t:ie prom; --oi v 1 1 o ' e thatboro her signature. He trl' -iT'-d no doubt to "press" her (., ,.n -n ;l vr ilh that was ecstatic. HesU-ode wilh a l'egassus-I l'egassus-I like s'.i i'e fr,. in -im tomb of all his , hopes, his joy, his love, and curled awav t lie 1 Iters. "1 lad on my know ledge of a rival up to tin. tempest:" was a- ked. "No, sir." "No iiiloriualioii that someone was trying to win your aU'eelion.':" Mr. Zane, i.i.iiiriousiy- Not his affections; affec-tions; hers. Tho direct e:-.;iiina!:on having closed to the evident ref-f of tnc witness, the deputy United S ales attorney removed his ;''ir.i' nnd the CI o-s ex iliiinatiou was opened. Mr. '..me Your e.iglo rye lighted on an e!ivex,)c that was directed to another many The witness to slow music and tremulous trem-ulous accent - 'Yo-. sir." "You siisjieiieil a rival and your heart was wrapped in a consuming llame of jcilou-y ;'' "Us." "And the two letters was all you tool, V -Aii. " "W by did von take thn promissory note?" continued t.ie prosecution introducing in-troducing tiie instrument. "1 thought tiie e.!ie,.igi!iiHmt was broken bro-ken oil" ".And that your young and tender alloc ions w ore i, ine; lasceraied trampled tram-pled under lie 1 :" The ijn viin r eo.'iespondence that had caused the m - nt tempest, that had turned t i.e fane: t on a woman's scorn and launched lie dupe, who had wandered wan-dered in the medics ot enchantment, in the peiiiieniiaiy pending trial for housebreaking, when he should have been around heartbreaking, were here introduced. No wouuer the fly buzoil w ith wrath when his eye fell on "My Dear Loving Futur." "Don't get jealous, jeal-ous, us you arc my only po-y which 1 love." '-Jiy In st im e and sw ert kisses to you." Hut his wrath rose lo its loftiest range, it went above limber line when in "exhibit !!" he found the following: "My love, why don't you address me the same as I do j nu and eail me your 'loving future?' Jt soun N Imtti l-.-" My 1 lin e kiss ti.is spot for me as 1 have done so before it left me." i In this soulful paragraph the suitor, J. A. S ' i mo. diseos"s ii;s skill as an nr'i.si. Over the gushing lines each of which poured like stream of molten honey from the heart of n liner the writer had planted Iin immense circle, suggestive, say of a yawning crati r with a ten-foot diameter. He does not. mention that the design was taken from the dimensions dimen-sions of his ow n mom ft or jicrs, but pent up risiiiles w ould brook restraint no longer and a volume of laughter lashed the walls and drowned the bailiff's voice in thunilrons roar. ! Eideiice was then introduced with reference to the defendant's reputation and arguments were begun, Mr. Cane waiving the opening. |