Show e S KB i tei 1 m VA 13 el bia B rai LADYS WINSOME WAYS causes him to advance money before marriage his blasted hopes NEW YOKE dec 6 special mr thomas joraleman 87 years old a we a ably resident of irvington N Y claims that he has been badly cubed by a pretty little widow who on tho strength of her promise to become lis wife obtained money and clothing and then jilted him the old man came down to newark this afternoon to make purchases and while there was present ed with a bill of 53 51 for dry goods 1 I told the firm that the boods wee we e for my intended wife eaid mr joraleman and I 1 though we would have been married by this time the old man entered freely into the details concerning the affair she said shed rather be an old mans darling than a young man slave he said and I 1 believed her she promised to marry me and set the day 1 was infatuated she and her sister would take my arm so nicely and kielp me down the steps so easy and shed smooth my head so softly that I 1 thought they were the best folks in the world but I 1 see through it all now the old man met the widow while driving along the country road one daiy diy early in autumn she was walking and he invited her to ride with him sho accepted the invitation and as they rodo along she said that her name vas horns and that she was a widow he ask her to come and live with him and look after his house she hesitated and then the old man asked her to be his wife to this latter proposition she assented and was duly installed as the tive mistress of the joraleman mansion Mrs Homs alao brought her married sister and the husband to the house the day for the wedding was set and he claims he furnished the money to pay the dressmaker she yot all of these things besides a seal ekin and in money out of me said mr joraleman mr joraleman says the reason she paye for breaking off the match was that her Brooklyn relatives told her that if she married him they would not leave her any thins mrs horns was indignant yesterday when she heard what the old man had been saying about her she is very pretty 1 have told him repeatedly not to come to see me seq said and threatened to lave him arrested if be did not stop coming to the house and it is all because I 1 rodo with him lie asked me to marry him and 1 laughed at him hois childish he says he is going to marry all the the neighborhood even to the little 8 year old daughter of his german I 1 felt sorry for liim and fixed up his house a couple times but my younger sister went with me both times I 1 never baught any goods in hig name he pretends to buy clothine for a number of and says he is going to get married almost every day he ie crazy and hia own children will have nothing to do with him mrs horns admitted that she told mr that she could not marry him because her relatives would disinherit her and that she made him angry by adding they have more money than vou have |