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| accepted, and then he wrote that his large landed interests in Canton, and the fact that l his aged mother desired to spend her remain | ing days there, would render it necessary for her to leave California and return to Mis- souri if they were married. In reply to this she wrote her lover that much of her money l was invested in California, and in addition. | she greatly preferred that State to Missouri and that he would have to go to her if he desired to claim her as his own. This trouble
 was finally amicably adjusted, but in very | singular way.
 r During her widowhood the lady had made several trips across the continent from Cali fornia. She concluded to make another, and on her return from the East stopped at her former bone, where she was gladly welcomed by the lover of her girlhood days, and again ! her accepted admirer. After talking the inn portant matter over fully, they concluded to be married and then separate, the wife re- turning to her California home, and the hus-
 band remaining with his mother and proper ty in Missouri. This resolve was carried out; the two were married and after hap py Honeymoon" of just thirty days dura- t1on the new-made bride returned to Califor- mia, where she still resides.
 ''This is rather queer history you will
 doubtless think, " remarked the lady as the
 reporter closed his note book, ''but it is my experience and can assure you of its truth ''
 she continued. "My second marriage occur
 red two years ago, and anpnow on my way
 East for the sixth time since moving to Cali
 fornla, and upon my return I intend to visit
 my husband and mother-in-law in Missouri
 making the first time since our marriage. D
 The lady further stated that her-Shusband
 had paid her visit to California about year
 ago, and that, although separated from each
 other by hundreds of miles of country and
 railroads, they loved each other dearly and
 reposed the greatest confidence in each otkS.- CTS falthfulness and love. Theirs was no arrangement, but the result of peculiar cir cumstances. Her child, son, is attending school at Canton, living with his stepfather.
 The Courage of Men and Women.
 From the Spectator.l
 Courage, undoubtedly, implies alacrity and even pleasure, in facing peril from which many shrink. a spirit that rises to the en- counter with danger; but whether or not courage properly implies right and sufficient justification for such an encounter is another question. If it does. then we should say that women are often more courageous than men, since the existence of sufficient motive for encountering peril makes a vast deal more difference, on the whole, to their nerve than it makes to the nerve of men. There is hard ly mother who will not encounter pain and shame and peril with firmer heart to save her child than even a brave man would show for the same end. But then compare the two in moments of peril when there is no such noble motive to string the nerve of either, and the chances are that the man will be the braver of the two-not, perhaps, that his heart is the bolder, but that his mind passes much less easily into the collapse which fear brings, and is less dependent on an exalted emotion for the re- sistance it opposes to anything like moral paralysis. If Miss Cobbe is right, and courage implies the existence of some motive of absolute obligation on behalf of which peril is to be faced, then women, so far as they really, enter into such motives, are, we believe, braver than men, because they live more singly and heartily in the purer emo- tions to which they surrender themselves. If, on the contrary, courage is to, cover all the cases of self possession and coolness in perl-whether there is or is not high and motive for confronting the peril then men are the more courageous, for their temperament is more cumulative there IS more ln 1t which rises to an emergency only because there is an emergency to rise to- more of immediate reaction against anything that has an aggressive look, than there is in women. We should say that the minds of women do not rebel as instinctively against mere col lapse as do the minds of men, Where there is any profound affection which steels them against such collapse, they are more wholly mpervious to 1t than men, But where there is no such antidote to collapse, the collapse of horror sets in much more easily in their minds than it does in the sturdier and less
 A. less prone to be unnerved by their fears than women. Women are more prone to be nerved by their affections to great actions.S han men.
 But it is not only by their affections that - women are made notably courageous. Often heyare made so by yeryinferior interests, ,es- oecially by the intense conservatism of their instincts. We believe that women much oftener, ,-oftener, at least, in propor ion to the need, risk their lives in defence of their property than men. Women who would faint away in the face of shipwreck, or even at the approach of an angry bull, will constantly go alone about house at night when they believe burglars to be attempting hat house, without any panic at all. This s, no doubt, because they realize less clearly he brutality of the sort of men who rob louses than men do, and are, in fact rendered fearless by their comparative ignorance of he world. So, likewise, men often ,eedingly fearless at sea or in danger from 'ailroad catastrophes till their nerves have once received serious shock from either .ause, after which they become as liable to collapse of nerve as woman Charles Dick sns who behaved like hero in the terrible railway accident acknowledged hat his nerves received such shock in it hat he could not afterward drive in ordi- nary hansom-cab without spasms of extreme error. The comparative fearlessness either of unimaginative natures or of complete ig- 1orance has hardly the right to the name of courage. It is only insensibility to partic- liar class of paralyzing fears.
 AFamous VaIet's Death.
 Washington letter to Agusta Chronicle.[