The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-17
RACING FOR A BRIDE
Exciting Romance Connected With a
Kentucky haiden's Wedding.
The Oid Mans Mare aud Burkboar.l Left
tn TIA. Rear 10y thc Nouis!-.sc
bridegroom and ut.
Hfsyctr.


Jacob ftsist lives about four miles north of
this Town, has a good mountain farm. and
II very well to slo in "a rough and thinly peo-
pied REGION where man with SiO.'sbD IL
considered rich. Mr.. Rust has several
daughters. and Ellen. the oldest, was th,
hatiisouicst of them all. A young man
uainesi Henry Courts. from Ohio, whose
Iarrut- lad gon" tn r. from this con-. try.
had h'cn spending the Summer among
his relatives in Albany. Courts brought
with him bicycle. IL the first in
Clinton county, and, as i'm the ease of kat
isha's elbow. people canc miles tn see il.
Courts wst~ am expert rider, arid frequently
displayed his bicys.l,slip before the eyes
kind enough to allow a number nf young
men Ia try his "vcIosips,l,.." as il was
called in Albany. hut their bruised faces
aud sore joints soon made Them very shy
of ths. machine.
Curtis fell i'm love with young Ellen
Rust. He Dressed his co'irtrhip and WAS
accepted. Farmer Rust w;,s opposed. ~.
objected tn Curtis because. .,s far its the
farmers knowledge went. hc did not have
mans w % "r s"1..;.;.,.. s""w "r as -. " Mr. .I R.s,
tertiissi IL, "M. was "a Lazy gossi-for-isotisiu'
who had uothin' Ia sio hut go gallopin'
around the hills ON two whc"is.'' Curtis
assured him that lac had u good business
and fine prospects in Ohio. and IL ha,
since trs,nsspireti that his statement was
true. b,it the farmer did mot believe him.
Henry and Ellen waited. Ellen wa> of
legal age, and they could hav" easily
They wanted tile old mans consent ,n tlm
wedding. The bicycle Appeared to tn' MIR.
Ru~t's chief objection. lie did not hs'-
MY gall" said he. "-I,ant marry amy
fellow who fools away his tim" on such a
.lcrilssi thing as that. Why. he might
his witlsicr To- take care of. don't want
for a son n-iIi-law any man who rides on IA
veios.ipedc. IL he had ~ horse or "a buck
board il would isr all right.
Henry would not put away his beloved
machine. He loved that next To Ellen.
and hc meant To have them both. On
Monday Ellen was visiting i'm town "a, the
home of rs,latiorl. and Henry went to
sse her. They wers getting angr. AT the old
~ will ride right out now, see him and
ask him again for your hand. said Henry.
''and IL hc .iocsnt consent IN com: back
and We will get married anyhow. fou are
OF legal age. and we can ha,. th" c"r''-
nstny pcriorsnssl here in town."
cycle and started for MIR. Rust's place.
The old man had just come in from "A
short journey. and his horse and b'ck-
board were at tl,s. yard gate. The young
man made known his s.rrssid.
IL told you once ls.fors that you, could
not marry her." said Mr.. Rust.
We'll, ! am going tn marry her amy
how" replied Courts. "Sh. Is in town
now. am, going back there. and in less
"Timn you will have To- hca, me To
town." said MIR. Rust. ''aIsd ! dome think
am! velociptic can get ahead nf my Old
there. ahead of me guess you can have
the girl"
man jumped into his b'"kbs',rsi. and tlr.
start WAS made. On turnpike az level
road Courts could have easily disian"cd
the old mare. who was not as swift as ~in
once was. hut il Was a.. altogether differ
s.nt matter over th. hills. But his recent
experience with s,s.h difficulties -tossi
rough path. ls. sspb had the satisfaction
of passing ahead of the humping buck