AGED LOVERS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1173, 12 October 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

AGED LOVERS.

When the poet observed that " rhe course of true love never did run smooth,” his mind’s eye must have been prophetically perceptive of the disappointments and delays undergone by Mr and Mrs Saunders, of Kentucky, U.S., ere connubial bliss at length rewarded their magnificent constancy. Forty-eight years ago John Saunders, then a penniless youth of twenty, became enamoured of a local heiress,

who returned his passion. Iler papa, however would not hear of her engagement to a wooer less wealthy than herself. “ She is my only child,” he remarked, after rejecting Saunders s addresses, “ and all I have will come to her some day.” “ Pray how much might you be worth ?’’ rejoined the lover. " “ A million dol'ars,” was the haughty reply. “ Very well, I shall go West to-morrow, and I swear to you that I will not seek your daughter's hand until I return hither with a

fortune equal to your own." Tender farewells having been interchanged by the youthful victims of paternal sternness, Samu’. r/. started upon his qnr-i after a million. It is, seemingly, no o.asv mnri-.'r. even in America to make that mi ouiof nothing; for although Saunders prospered in his undertakings. it took him half a centurv, less two years, io put by the amount lie had pledged himself to earn before claiming his bride. Balancing his books a few weeks ago in Montana at the close of a highly profitable transaction in live stock, he found, however, that he was an indisputable millionaire. Without an instant’s delay he wound up his business, travelled back to his native place, and married his old love offhand. She had been faithful to het plighted troth, despite countless offers fr on eligible wooers. Thus the two millions came together at last, and the longest engagement on record culminated in a iovful wedding between a bride of sixty-four and a bridegroom of six tv-eight.