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Show I I CUPID'S PRANKS. 1 Trying His Bost to Make tho "World Go Round Swiftly, f From the grim cell of a New York police station Cupid fired a dart alm- lossly into the air. Across the continent, j over mountains, lakes, and plains, 'It $ flew. Far over the crest of the Rockies j and across the frontier Into Canada, In j far off Asslnlbola It found Its mark-Ill mark-Ill the heart of a young Canadian farmer. L pretty Florence Pilgrim, an clghtecn-i clghtecn-i year-old New York girl, was a paid singer In the Brick church In Hfth ' avenue, but l03t her position through SI illness. She was the sole support of a. widowed mother, and when they could 1 J no longer keep the gaunt wolf of hun-4 hun-4 ger from their door Florence, grown ft desperate through her mother's sufter-1 sufter-1 ' ings, went to a dry goods store and J : obtained goods on a forged order from J a credit customer. She was arrested h and, having no friends, went to jail. Every day the aged woman walked t from the cheerless room at 301 West f 1 Forty-third street to the Tombs and every day the fair girl prlsonor saved j half of her scanty jail faro for her ?i mother. U When It became known that mother ! and daughter were kept from starva-i starva-i tlon by the daughter's sacrifice the 1,. tables were turned In the girl's favor. ' I The charge against her. was withdrawn ) , i and the girl was released. 1 The newspapers printed her story 'I and It found Its way to Asslnlbola, I where John Caress of Elmore, owner of I a half section of land, read It and fell in love with Florence. He wrote to the Judge in New York and through him ) offered marriage to the girl and a homo ', for her mother. The Judge so far has refused to play , the part of John Alden to the Canadian ! j! Miles Standlsh, but It Is not certain 1 that love will not find a way. I ' 1 If John J. Mundy of Brooklyn, N. Y., didn't buy his cigars by the bos he 1 1 might not have married Emma Ed-; Ed-; Jnger, a petite brunette employed In a cigar factory at Lancaster, Pa, Sho wrote her name and address on a little lit-tle note, asked the finder to write to ;i her, and tucked it under the bottom ' '. lavcr of clfrars, in a box. That was I last summer. i And so Cupid, hidden In the box of J clgaro, was stored in musty warehouses, I piled high on rattling trucks, jolted '. about in freight cars to New York, carted across the Brooklyn bridge, and ; finally landed In a little shop in East ' avenue. . j John Munday happened ,to buy this ; I particular box. It was not until he had ', smoked his way down to the bottom j I layer that he found the note. Of course, he wrote to her. What I young man wouldn't "take a dare" like that. He sent his photograph and asked i for hers. Her photograph came in re turn, and letters passed back and forth. Finally, John went to Lancaster to see Emma. He found her the only daugh ter of a widow. Sho was young, pretty, agreeable, sensible, and she Hkod him. Their first meeting ended in an engagement, engage-ment, and now they are married. And she doesn't object to his smoking in the house. There was a tender 'romance in the life of Margaret Van Ohlsen, who died " a few days ago at Columbus, O. She died an old maid because her father didn't like her sweetheart, Thomas Tonjes. They were betrothed, but I twenty years ago on his deathbedt her . father, as a dying request, begged his daughter to give up her lover. She promised, and kept her pledge. Neither she nor her sweetheart ever married, i: They remained sweethearts, but re spected the wishes of a dying man. ! , Somewhero on the Atlantic the steamer "Kenmore Is carrying Capt. T. E. Bruce and his bride on a honeymoon ' ' voyage that will last all the worldj 1 around. Capt Brufce Is 35 years old and' recently crossed the ocean on the - White Star liner Teutonic. Ho dodged ' Cupid all the way across, but as the liner tied up at the dock he caught a smile from Mrs. Agnes Sheriff, a pretty widow of 31, and the steerage steward-I" steward-I" bs. The smile was not Intended for him, but he Bought and obtained an Introduction. In-troduction. The same evening she accompanied ac-companied him to a theater. Later in fl I morning she accepted him, and they I j were married the same day. Capt. I j (Bruce commands a steamer in the mcr- J chant service, a'nd the company per- H milted him to take his bride on the j voyage to Hongkong. H j Love has a language of Its own in HI j very clime, and St has taught a pretty, J young widow at Geneva, Switzerland,' H I four other languages besides. She Is HI j' only 27 years old, and two weeks ago HI I married her sixth husband. She was HI horn in Milan, Her. first husband was Hj f . Frenchman. He dle1 In Pdrls. and Hj a year later she married an Engllsh- H 1 man. He was killed In a railway accl- Hl j dent, and she married an American, H with whom sho lived in the United H States for three years. When he died H) she returned to Europe, but fell In love H 1 with a handsome Russian on the steam- H I er. They were married" at Lille and H 1 went to Odessa to live. The Russian H I died of typhoid, and the four-times, H j' widow returned to her former home at H J Milan, where she married her childhood H I playmate. Six months later he, too, was H j killed in the mountains. That was H I three years ago. The young woman H il vrho'had grieved for five husbands dc- HLi clarcd that Cupid should tempt her Hf no more, bu she finally succumbed to Hij the pleadings of a German, and la now HI The marriage of Count Alexander Bc-Hil Bc-Hil roldlngen of Austria and Miss Margaret Hj) Stone of New York is a sure enough love HI I match, even if he is a count and penni-Hl penni-Hl 1 ess and she an American heiress. The H'j! Count's family dates back to the thlr-Hjt thlr-Hjt teen th century, and he himself was an H j officer in an Austrian regiment, but had HI j to' leave that country because of a Hi 1 quarrel. He came to the United States Hj j ; and started out to earn his own living. Hi j' He began as a clerk In the American H i', express office In New York, and after H i hard work and close application made a HI 1, place for himself In the business world. Hj r Through his quiet, unassuming man-Hi man-Hi L. ners he became popular In society, and H t4 there met Mls3 Stone. Count and HJ Y Countess Beroldlngen will live In New Hj If' York, where he Is determined to make a HJ.U. fortune for himself. HJ V- A case of appendicitis started a ro Jig jmance In the lives of Miss Elizabeth j 1 SBrandersteln of New YoVk and Dr. HJ! jl George H. Reichcrs of Brooklyn. Miss HJ jj Branderstein, whq Is young and pretty, Bl .Il was a nurse at the German hospital and HI J? was herself attacked by appendicitis. Hll: r. Relcbers performed Uyt operation which saved her life, and. having savod it, she gave it to him lo guard forever. Olto Ruckler, a brave-cuirass lor in the Kaiser's army, has recently nerved thirteen thir-teen days In Jail because he loved hlo Major's cook. Otto's courting was done In the Major's kitchen, where between kisses he fed himself generously with the rich viands Intended for the MaJor"s own dinner table. The Major discovered discov-ered him and a court-martial followed Chicago Tribune. |