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1119 Burkhart Maidens Have Left Their
Father's Home,
BE BIDE THEM MARRY OR LEAVE
They Are Still Single, But Have Left the
Parental Roof and Are Saiistled
With Their lot.
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“For. rent —three rooms. ” This is the
sign that hangs on a house in St. Louis
which is occupied by Jacob Burkhart.
’The vacant apartments are due to the
permanent absence from home of Mr.
Burkhart’s four daughters, Ella, Laura,
Lotta and Mrs. Emma Godfrey.
Two months ago the father told the
.-girls that they would have to get mar
ried by Dec. 1, 1897, or quit the house.
The young women did not find husbands.
Now they are living apart from the stern
’father in a pretty little fiat at 2102
• Obear avenue.
Burkhart is a widower and lived
with his four grown daughters in the
North Twentieth street house, a com
fortable seven room dwelling. He is a
retired business man. The girls staid at
home, were popular and entertained
frequently. A number of eligible young
men' called at the house, but somehow
the wedding bells did not ring.
The father got impatient. “I believe
in raising a family on business princi
ples, ”he said. “I don’t believe in forc
ing girls to marry, but at the same time
I do not care to see them charges en
their parents all their lives. The young
men nowadays do too much courting.
These skits, with their hair parted in
’the middle, fine clothes and sweet man
ners, do not seem to mean business.”
Since the old man’s ultimatum to his
-daughters they have received several
proposals of marriage, but the suitors
were not acceptable. Miss Lotta is 25
.years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, has brown
hair and eyes and is well versed in house
keeping.
Mrs. Emma Godfrey, nee Burkhart,
is a charming widow, 23 years old,
-about the same height as Lotta, and
has brown hair and fair complexion.
‘ Ella is 20 years old, weighs 118 pounds,
is a pure blond and is of a lively dis
position.
Laura is the queen of the lot, as well
as the youngest. She is 18, has large,
hazel eyes, wavy brown hair, rosy
‘ cheeks and is a brilliant conversation
alist. She is the most sought after of
the four, but chooses to remain single
for awhile.
Ella, it is said, has “steady” compa
ny. She left the parental roof before
her sisters and temporarily resided at
4163A Fairfax avenue. She was very
popular with young men in the neigh
borhood and always had a beau.
The old man entered the parlor about
midnight two months ago. One of his
daughters was entertaining a young
man. The father concluded to have a
business talk with the fellow. “Young
man, ” he said, “it seems to me that if
you care as much for my daughter as
you pretend you ought to get married
to her. It’s pretty late in the evening
for you to be paying a purely social
call. ”
The daughter, it is said, did not like
the remark, neither did the young man.
There was a disagreement, and then
followed the famous Burkhart order,
that the “Big Four” of the family must
, take unto themselves companions for
life, for better or for worse, by Deo. 1,
or find another abode.
“I am all alone now,” said Mr.
Burkhart to a reporter recently. “My
daughters have left me. I don’t know
where they have gone. Oh, the girls
■are all right, only Ella has a little
too much mouth. I thought it was best
for them that they get married. Per
haps they think otherwise. At any rate,
they preferred quitting me to making
matrimonial contracts.
“I understand that they have had
lots of proposals since all this fuss about
my, ultimatum was made by the news
papers. Ella, I think, had a proposal or
two before she left, but I didn’t see her
name in the Thanksgiving list of li
censes. Yes, I noticed the big number
of divorces applied for recently, but
that doesn’t change my opinion about
marriage. It’s easy enough to get mar
ried. The trouble is to be mated. My
.girls had plenty of time to make selec
tions. They knew my views all along.
I shall remain in this house for the win
ter. I don’t know what I will do in the
apring. I guess I can manage to get
along without the children.”
Burkhart is in comfortable circum
stances. He has homestead rights to the
house he lives in, but at his death the
property will go to the daughters.
Burkhart deeded the house and lot to
I bis wife, and at her death she willed it
' to the children. There are also three
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growil sons in the family, but they do
not live at home. One of them is mar
ried.
The young women apparently are
happily located in the Obear avenue
house. The flat is neatly furnished, and
the new order of things seems to satisfy
the four girls who rejected matrimonial
offers and gave up a comfortable home.
“We’re not worrying over the situa
tion, ” said one of them. “We have a
nice little house, can go and come as we
please, have company and not be sub
ject to parental interference. When the
time comes, we will consider the best of
our numerous proposals. We’re all
young yet. ”
Ella can get mairied any time, but
since her father set the limit at Dec. 1
she, more for spite than anything else,
refused to be led to the altar by that
date. She wants to be free to choose her
wedding day, and she would not tell the
old man, when he asked for the infor
mation, when she was going to renounce
single blessedness. She is obstinate and
will have her own way.
The girls do not entertain the kindli
est feeling toward their father and say
that he wants to get rid of them in or
der to get possession of their property.
They have a guardian, Mr. Babcock,
who looks after the estate. —St. Louis
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HIS REALISTIC SERMON.
Minister Drew a Knife Across His Throat
to Illustrate His Point.
Rev. T. C. Neal of the Methodist
church at Marion, Ind., who occupied
the pulpit of the First Methodist church
in Wabash, Ind., a few nights ago, cre
ated a sensation in the congregation in
the midst of his sermon by suddenly
whipping out a huge cheese knife from
under the desk and drawing it across
his throat.
The horrified worshipers shuddered,
and many expected to see him fall life
less, but the clergyman had no intention
of committing suicide. He went on with
his discourse, using the knife as stated
at several points in his address.
Rev. Mr. Neal preached from the text
from Proverbs, “Put a knife to thy
throat if thou be a man given to appe
tite, ’ ’ and used the cheese knife byway
of illustration.—Chicago Times-Herald.
Hid His Pistol In the Stove.
J. Iler hid hie revolver in the parlor
stove last summer so that the children
would not get hold of it The revolver
was loaded, and when the cold weather
came a fire was built in the. stove, but
the revolver was forgotten. A fusillade
soon startled the family. The stove door
was blown open and the revolver’s re
coil sent it into the middle of the room,
where it continued to discharge the rest
of its contents. Several of the shots nar
rowly missed the occupants of the room.
—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY DECEMBER 12. 1897.
MUST PAY THE POET.
Peter Lawson Commanded to Settle Por
■ His Wedding Symphony.
Poets must be paid for their work.
This was the decision of Justice Under
wood recently when he gave Poet Isaac
A. Pool of Chicago judgment against
Captain Peter Lawson of the fire depart
ment for $15.25. The money was for
poetry which the poet says he furnished
for the fireman’s wedding a little over
a month ago and which the fireman re
fused to pay for.
He says that $lO was for his work
and $5.25 for the cost of having the
poetry printed. Captain Lawson does
not deny that he accepted the poetry,
but says he did not know that he was
expected to pay for it. On the other
hand, Pool declared that there was a
distinct understanding that the poetry
should be paid for.
The poetry consisted of “A Wedding
Symphony to Captain Peter Lawson and
Carrie M. Specht” and “Emily’s Greet
ing to Her Sister. ” Following is the
symphony:
A WEDDING SYMPHONY.
[By Isaac A. Pool. ]
Captain Peter Lawson. Carrie M. Specht.
Oct. 27.
Clang, clang, clang I There’s a fearful, wild
alarm,
And all the heroes hustle to save from death
or harm.
Alas, they cannot quell it with all their skill
and art,
For the flame that is consuming is in the cap
tain's heartl
The ladders cannot reach it. The hose will not
avail;
The engine under pressure in idleness must
quail.
There’s only one can reach him and save the
faithful chief.
For the loving heart of woman is the measure
of relief.
Down across the open prairie comes a rolling
sea of 'flames.
Never man can stand before it, though the
mightiest in name.
Before the whirling tempest the fleet foot
must fly,
And only flames and ashes salute a brazen sky.
The birds on wings exhausted in helplessness
expire,
While man but saves his darlings by fighting
fire with fire,
So adown the rosy avenues the savior of his
life
Brings a flame to cool his fury and bears the
name of wife!
At this board congratulations in our happy
bosoms swell
That the wisdom of his doctor has made her
patient well.
May the spark burn on forever in holiness and
truth
And the years that turn to ages be renewed in
tender youth!
May the lassies fair as mother be a heritage of
light,
And the lads as brave as father keep the shield
of honor bright!
So shall all the days speed gayly to their hap
piness above,
And no turbid stream of sorrow drown the
flaming torch of love.
Poet Pool was elated yesterday when
the decision was rendered in his favor.
“If that poetry is not worth $15,”
he said, “then I am through writing
poetry.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
UNUSUAL HONEYMOON.
Mr. and Mrs. Koller Hemmed In by Snow
at the Monte-Christo Mine.
Miss Laura Eliska Leet of Denver,
who on Oct. 16 last was married to Ar
thur A. Roller, is having a very unusu
al honeymoon. She and her young hus
band are imprisoned at the Monte-Chris
to silver mine, in the Cascade moun
tains of northern Washington, hemmed
in on all sides by snow. Provisions are
beginning to grow scarce. It is probable
that the young woman will be forced to
brave the hardships of a snowshoe trip
of 30 miles to civilization.
No communication between those at
the Monte-Christo mine and the outside
world can be had except by means of
messengers who are sent over the frozen
crust on snowshoes. Those who have
made the trip report narrow escapes
from avalanches which the slightest
provocation sends rushing down the
mountain sides, carrying with them
huge trees and bowlders. Mrs. Rollei
is a former leader of Denver society.
Immediately after her marriage to
young Roller the couple went to the
Monte-Christo mine, where he was as
sayer.—New York Sun.
Browning and the Athenceum Club.
Calling upon Robert Browning at
the Athenaeum club, then as now, says
Colonel’ Higgenson in The Atlantic,
the headquarters of intellectual pursuits
in London and of which it used to be
said that no man could have any ques
tion to ask that he could not find some
body to answer, that very afternoon, be
tween 5 and 6 o’clock at that club, it
seemed strange to ask a page to find Mr
Browning for me, and it reminded me
of the time when the little daughter of
a certain poetess quietly asked at the
dinner table, between two bites of an
apple, “Mamma, did I ever see Mr.
Shakespeare?” The page spoke to a ra
ther short and strongly built man who
sat in a window and who jumped up
and grasped my hand so cordially that
it might have suggested the remark of
Mme. Navarro (Mary Anderson) about
him—made, however, at a later day—
that he did not seem like a poet, but
rather “like one of our agreeable south
ern gentlemen.” He seemed a man of
every day, or like the typical poet of his
own “How it strikes a contemporary.”
In all this he was the very antipodes of
Tennyson. He had a large head of Ger
man shape, broadening behind, with
light and thick gray hair and whitish
beard and had blue eyes and the most
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