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Show A LOGMAN'S ROMANCE, j He Marries the Girl who Saves ! his Life. & M RAGULGUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH. A Story of the Terrible Pennsylvania i Floods. John I'i'i wlc a young fisherman wliusi' good uatured habits kn'i- made hiin popular lor tiimiv miles along t,. Susquehanna river, walked into the Perry Per-ry county court house the other day and asked for a inarriiure license. His face was not so brown that it did not U-tr;iv his blushes when he announced the name of his prospective bride, hut il whs not because she had eer been guilty of a wrongdoing that he (lushed. The girl wits Mary Verger, and he was very proud of her They had lived within ten miles of each other for years, but it whs not until the recent great flood in Pennsylvania that they were brought to Ji acquaintance. John is a carjientcr's son, and he industriously in-dustriously aided his father to provide for a large family by lishingand piloting fishing parties from the big towns around the river. Most of his time was Bpenl along the Susquehanna, near which his parents lived. When the June Hood came people from all parts of the country coun-try hurried to the river to see its sights. Mary Verger and a boy, son of the farmer with whom she lived, loitered on the water's edge until dusk of the day when (he water had reached its highest mark. Few persons hud tarried so long, but Bhe and the boy forgot the time while looking look-ing out on the swift waters at a boom : log catcher. He was standing in a frail , skiff, hooking the big booms with a long pole and towing them to land oh the opposite op-posite side of the river. Boom after boom was thus secured, aud he operated with such vigorous regularity that it seemed his strength would soon be exhausted. ex-hausted. He had just landed one of un-! un-! usual size which took all lus strength, i ninl Mjii-v iIimiu'Iu b.. wnnl.l rt it whito I before going out Into the troublesome waters again. But he didn't, and wiping wip-ing the perspiration from his brow with a part of his torn shirt sleeve, he quickly quick-ly rowed out and was headed toward a large walnut log. Hefore he reached the coveted prize his Unit had leen caught between a mass of the booms, which ground it to pieces like a thing of glass He escaped most miraculously from instant in-stant death by climbing over the logs and reaching tlie water. I le tried to swim for the shore, but it was pluinly seen that he was too much overcome to get even half the distance. The current was swift, and he was beginning to go down with il 1 Mary Verger knew that he would drown unless she saved him, for nobody ! else was in sight. It was a perilous attempt, at-tempt, but she did not hesitate. She was not tho kind of a woman to see a hunmn life thus sacrificed without at least an effort to rescue, and with almost super i human strength she dragged into the j water a rowljut that had been pulled up I on elevated ground, safe from the rising water When she reached the man he was so nearly exhausted that he could not climb into the Imat without her assistance. as-sistance. That night from tlie same table ta-ble at which John Prowley ate his supper, sup-per, Mary Verger's meal was also taken 1 It was ul John's home, and the two sat n rou nd the table a long time, telling their experience of the early evening to John's parents and their other children Mary was always thereafter a welcome guest at the Prowley home, and Johu Fpont inucJi of his time in her company It was with a proud satisfaction that John related this circumstance while the clerk was rilling out bis marriage license. li-cense. John and Mar' are married now, j and l hey expect to get a pretty good I start toward hutn-ekecping when the j Lumbermen's Exchange of Williatns-1 Williatns-1 port pay for the logs which John caught. Harrisburg Cor. |