Show the columbus orange girl iri irl reat REAL LI FE ROMANCE robian CE the citizens of columbus columbua and visitors at the capital will recollect a beautiful young youn girl firl apparently sweet sixteen who tally daily dally carried about the legislative halls and state offices a handsomely wrought Z basket containing fhe be plumpest plum pest and sweetest oranges oh ob besl yes everybody remembers ettie the beautiful orange girl and have wondered in what nook she had hidden for the past two months for no more her sweet face and girlish form is seen in the capitol and interesting clerks with a great admiration for the rotunda are obliged to forego glimpses of the neatest gait ered foot tripping up the marble stairs everybody about the state house admired ettie ettle E atie but it was with a respectful admiration and if a gruff legislator was tempted to jest with the girl irl iri or make light remarks be he was restrained iby liy by the modest demeanor and pure soul look appealing from her heaven blue eyes ettie always brought a full basket and went tripping home with an empty one and her scarlet silk purse filled with silver coin S she J e was the sole dependence of a widowed palsied mother and her noble efforts to keep away want were known and made the fruit in her basket ten times sweeter when the great union meeting of the tennessee kentucky and ohio legislators was wag held in ili chios capitol the beautiful orange girl was tripping about disposing of her fruit t to the sons of the south and receiving the homage of admiring glances from all at the end of one of the halls vi ewina the noble row of princely residences on third street stood alone a youthful member of the tennessee legislature when he was startled by a silvery voice asking buy cibul an orange bir sir how do you sell themly hem ham said the stranger I 1 looking oking 0 into her eyes five cents each said the maiden holding a large one towards him cheap indeed they are this introduction for a longed and serious conversation in which the girl gi rf artlessly rt lessly revealed to the stranger the poverty of her home and the necessity of her supporting her sick mother ile he was so struck with the girls manner and singular beauty that he secretly resolved to visit her home and ara become more intimately acquainted ile he did so and after successive visits won the confidence and love of the maiden and the mothers consent to their marriage and when he went back to his southern home it was with a promise to return in a fortnight for his bis bride ile he came and now the manly southerner and the beautiful orange girl are man and wife he has taken her the fairest of the fair to his southern home to dwell with him and her aged mother I 1 in opulence Cincin cincinnati gazette may 3 |