St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30
THE COWBOYS WEDDING,
The Revivalist to Be Welded to mig
neapolis Girl.
THE LORD PICKED HER OUT.
he Needed a Singer and an 0rganist
and His Prayers Were
Answered.

OF all the weddings that have oc-
Cured in the Flour City from the days
when H. o. Morrison and Judge At
water were not old citizens down to the
present day, there will be one next
Tuesday that will surpass them all in
point of novelty. 1t will be a wedding
in which is intermingled marked de-
gree of Divine providence and re-
formed wild West individuality, along
with the orange blossoms and brides.
maids and customary ceremonies.
Capt. G. W. HiltZ-"The Cowboy
preacher" of Storm Lake, To-, will rep
resent that portion of the bridal party
designated in ordinary marriage cere-
monies as the groom, while Miss Alice
NJ. Barrett, of Minneapolis, will be the
"better half" after the knot is tied. dis
pite the fact that her affianced is an Evan
gellst of extraordinary qualities. Miss
Barrett is Minneapolis young lady,
and the marriage ceremony will be per-
formed at the home of her mother. 1926
Sixth street southeast.
The story of Capt. Hiltz is quite out
of the ordinary run of pastors biogra-
phies-a life. In fact, which on the
whole it would not be we'll for Young
man studying for the ministry to set up
as an example.
1t seems that some twenty-five years
ago, when Capt. Hiltz was mere boy,
he ran away from good home in Balti-
more enthuzed with the idea OF going
Jack" "Broncho Charley and other
mythical and semi-mythical characters
were alleged to have done, and
lay aside a fortune. and a
cattle ranch on the side. His
anticipations didn't pan out very well,
however, and for all his wanderings
over the plains he acquired only tough
ness and experience. For awhile he
was content to roam the plains aStride
his pony, herding the bovine for weeks
together, and occasionally breaking the
monotony of the life by wild spree, a
genuine cowboy in every detail and
as he grew toward the prime Of his life,
however, he did what few cowboys are
supposed to do. He hought-thought
of the home he had left. the peaceful
pleasure of civilized life back East-of
life that had something of kindness
and warmth in it, little of women and
children and churches, little of that
element that goes to make old age
worth living by taking the rough
that he had been living and
so he started East. On arriving in
Iowa he was without money or cOndi-
ton to 20 farther, and he hauled up at
Storm Lake one day, weary and rest
less man, bedraggled with travel. in
cowboy costome, wearing a dilapidated
broad-brimmed hat, which bore on its
upturned brim the pensive inscription:
''Nobody's darling"
He got work on farm and, being a
novelty in the neighborhood, he dis
played his cowboy propensities, quickly
gaining the reputation of being the
worst of the toughs."
A series of Methodist revival meet
ings were the next new thing that
struck that part of the state after the
advent of the cowboy. Attend
ing these meetings from curiosity
for second time, he thought,
and was converted Oh the Fourth
day of July, 1886. Turning square
around in his tracks and digging in his
spurs, made wild break for the light,
and gained it too, he thinks. Carrying
his redoubtable cowboy bravado into
the pulpit he was a success from the
start in rounding up'' souls for the
heavenly corral" and was rousing
success wherever he stopped as the
''cow boy revlvalist." He made a
tour of the principal towns
of Dakota. and from there
came to the Twin Cities. where
he has stayed for eight months. While
here he decided he was not fully
equipped for the revival business, and,
as he put it. asked the Lord. as was in
need of an organist and singer, to pick
me out wife. He did so. and she is a
Minneapolis lady, too" Doubtless the
captain, in this picking out business
which he says the Lord did for him,
acted on the principle that the Almighty
helps those that help themselves. At
least, he is extremely we'll satisfied
with the choice. and thinks he couldn't
have done better himself.
They will he married Tuesday at Q
O'Clock, and the cowboy preacher" and
his pretty and accomplished wife will
depart to instill some of Minneapolis
enlightenment into the denizens of the
Hawkeye state.