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Show JjEHINI) a counter. MILLIONAIIlE'a SON FINDS HIS HBAHT'S CHOICE. The Are tl.rrled, and Haw MotUljr t "ll.p.rlne That Ihe (ln,o, . lather ! lticllm.nl and It III HUInli.rll lilt Noo. When Cupid atarta out to unite two hcarte he generally aceomplUhee hit purpoae, though ha may take atrange and unthought of waya lo bring tbla about The ilory of one of hit latett trleka lurka behind thla notice, wblcb occurred late In Ihe pan aummer, In a Iloaton paper Oil ug 3, at the church of Ihe Aacentlon, Itoabiiry, by the Iteverend IMward l Atklnaon, pal lor, Horatio lllgelow, 22, of llotton, and Mary Alice Il'cce 2), alao of llotton Horatio Illgclnw It the etdeat aon of Albert S lllgelow, the copper king of llotton and Cohaaeet, wboae wealth runt nway up Inio the mllllone be tween twenty-five and thirty ntllllnnt ao report gone The aon of a many timet mllllomlre It not auppoeed to go In queit of a wile anionn the ilim and aJt Ilia and rlbbont of a dry goode atore I'crbapa young Mr lllgelow had no thought of finding n wlfo among inch environment!, but he did, nevertheleaa It waa a ci.n of love at flrat tight on the part of both Mitt Ileece wat pret t. young nnd refined In bearing and manner, though her home wat not among thoae of the arlitocratlc onei of tho Hub Her father la a worthy mechanic and veteran pemloner of the civil war. In the aummer of 1191 Ho ratio lllgelow, then a Junior at Harvard, Har-vard, went to the ilorc ot Jordan llarth A Co to make aome purchatet In the back end of the atoro at one of tha countera there alood n aweet faced little woman with the tofteit of brown hair, drawn amoothly away from a low, broad forehead nn I with TllK COIM'KIl KINO 8 MANSION brown eyea veiled by long black lathee Tho pretty ea!caoman could not help notl Ing tho look ot moro than ordl nary Intcrett that Ihe handiomn young man beatawed upon her and nn nnt werlng light camo Into her own bright eyea Hut the well bred young man would not think nf throating hlmielf upon the notice of tho young woman without the formality of an Introduc tlon Hut the Introduction waa moro eailly managed than-he feared It could be Doing well Ku wn to an elderly omau manager nf one ot the depart-menta, depart-menta, the young man niked her to pre aent him to Ihe awect-faced girl clerk, and later In the aftornoon thla wai done At flrat tbe elder woman heal tated to do to, na ahe told him the younger woman had been most carefully care-fully reared and wai no ordinary "ahop girl The evident earneatneat ot the young man anon niiured her that he waa aerloua and that there waa aomo-thing aomo-thing more than Ihe dctlre to engage In a flirtation that led him to mako the rcqurtt. Uvery evening for aome time after thla the pretty girl found her devoted admirer waiting for her at the ahop-door ahop-door when her work for tbo day wai over and In tbe morning among the yarda and yardi ot trimming on her counter there were placed the frethett ot flowen For n long time the girl did not know that the young man waa tho eon at uno ot the rlcheit men In the United Bute Thla knowledge came tn her thruugh the twlttlnga of her companlone about the devotion of young lllgelow When he learned thla ihe begged Mr lllgelow lllge-low to dlicontlnuc lilt attention!, at ahe knew hla parenta would be much dlipleaied If he portlited lu lilt court-ihlp, court-ihlp, but with the eloquence that only love li capable of he begged her to throw audi feara atlde nnd content to become hli wire Then her awcetheart began to vltlt her In her home, and, when the mother and aliteri met him they po'n'Kl on I to the girl tbe number! num-ber! of unhappy wedded llvet that were the roeult ot inch marriage. Hut tha pretty aweetheart had made up her mind by thlt time that whether rich or poor there waa only one love In the world for her The tall and the winter and the eprlng patted away the courtthlp run-nlng run-nlng more amoothly than many othera bAVi done when all Interetted In the twA mott Important Ugrrea were quite grced Young lllgelow a parenta knaw nothing ot hit aweethoart and while he atudled away nt college Uy were plan, nine a trip around tho world for him after hli graduation The young ion aud balr waa quite agreed to thlt, but had In mind an additional plan ot which the parenta were not advlied lie told Miry Ileece about thla vltlt to Japan, the Orient, and Europe, and It would have liken more than a tu. man woman to bid him go alone wkin he had her heart fait In hli keipltg, and to when the vacation time cami at the itore Mary timidly placed her hind In her lover a, and the wedding notice In the Hoiton paper telle the rett. Tbe girl being a Catholic preferred lo be married by a clergyman of her fa lib but to thlt the young man would est agree, became he raawmed, hla parent being I'roteatanta tbelr forgl rente, would be more eailly won If the ceremony cere-mony waa performed by an Hplteopti mlnltter And ao at a little mltefe church, on Atiguit 3 the aon of a rail, llonalre and the daughter nf an Amtil. can mechanic were made one Alur a two weeka honeymoon the bride returned re-turned to her parenta' home, still, to them, plain Mary Iteece The first of September found the lr cherlthed plant of the lllgelow fimUjr matured Mr and Mra Albert Hlgearw told tbelr ion good-by at the tralndoer not knowing that In nnother pirlor ar tat their daiigbler-ln law The next morning found the young couple en from New tork for their long voyage The newt of the wedding eame to the father of the grooln nt n terrible ihoek, while tbe family of the bride being a ttrlct Catholic one regret tut Mary wai married by a I'roteitint minuter, min-uter, though Ihe mother nyi ahe cm not but be glad that her child's romance ro-mance hat ended so happily for her In club circlet It li rumorrd that Hon. tlo lllgelow will be cut off without a cent In tho meantime the young couple are spending a aecond homy, moon In the flowery kingdom nt Japan, with a llmltlMt letter of credit. 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