The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-26

The Strange Ground on Which
Preachers Wife Seeks Z Divorce.
Seven Times Did His Faithful
Spouse Accompany Him to the
Altar and Then She
Drew the Line.

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reaso such as probably never before was
beard of either within or outside of q
court room. The lady wishes to be le-
Rally separated from her husband simply
because he insists upon being bound TO
her not by the single cord OF one mar
rage, but by as many cords as there shall
be years Of welded life, say the New
York Times. The original wedding was
celebrated nine years ago with due cere-
mony and a solidity that would nave sat
isfhed ordinary man for a lifetime,
and yet, when the first anniversary of the
marriage came around, IL found the rev.
erend husband with his heart fondly set
upone a REPETITION of the sacred rites
through which he had been enabled le-
gally to clasp Mrs. Weston TO his
breast and nominate her his own for aye
or, as even b IL may have seemed
to him, for a quasi aye. Doubtless the
lady was surprised when, near the close
Of the first year of their married life, her
husband began to curl his whiskers at her.
pull part OF his back hair forward over
his bald spot, pick up her fan when she
dropped il, praise her baby. and refrain
from scolding about the coffee Mt break
fast; and ii must have seemed 10 her
quite as IL she was n widow undergoing
the agreeable process OF a second court
ship with n who was almost n total
stranger, when he gazed into her eyes,
toyed with her hand, n fooled with her
white apron strings. but still when Mr..
Weston pumped the question and asked
his wife IL she would be his bride, the
lady may be excused IL she was both sur
prised and shocked. Such "A question
Mould never be put by "a bachelor OF
married man TO a married woman, no
matter who she Is. Upon hearing il nd
dressed to her, Mrs. Weston promptly d.
rected Mr.. Weston to go along with him
self, of whom he ought to be thoroughly
ashamed.
But Mr.. Weston was n persistent lover,
m finally SO wove and twisted his coils
around his victim that she collapsed COM
pletely, and he Jagged her of to the altar,
where, oil that day twelvemonth, she had
married n younger man who was still liv-
ing. Naturally she had her scruples in
regard to the propriety of suce a course of
conduct, but they were all too easily over
come by the wiles u sopbistries which
students of theological polemics are ac-
customed to employ, and as has already
been said, Mrs. Weston succumbed to
them. Without blushing, signing, hang
ing down her head, or falling upon his
breast, she consented TO renew her rela-
lations To him as his own true wife, al
though those relations had never for a
moment been interrupted, and although
Nths oaI}t WIN TN wv llltAi Hshl
as law n clergy could make them. On the
first anniversary of their wedding day they
were married a second time, although
they did not have what Is technically
called a honeymoon or &C OIL a bridal trip.
The ceremony. Of course, was not fol-
lowed by a fee TO the officiating clergy
man, since il would be decidedly unpro-
fessional for IN gentleman of the cloth
to receive money from a brother minister
on such an OCCASION. IL must not for a
moment be thought that the Rev. Mr..
Weston's knowledge of this fact had any,
thing to do with his second venture into
matrimony. nor do we wish to institute
such a thing, although naturally II may
have occurred to him as to q member of u
profession which s not, as a rule, and, in
deed, cannot afford to be, lavish of its
h~ard-earned money. And, moreover, ID
does not appear on the record that Mr..
Weston's parishioners opened their purse
strings and sent to the parsonage numer-
Gus wedding gifts OF plated spoons, cas
tors. together with dressing gowns and
slippers, although the hope that they
might not do SO may nave been not with
out weight i'm the bridegroom's mind.
Matters now went on swimmingly for
several months, till the end OF the year
approached, when Mr.. Weston began
once more to poster his wife with lover-like
attentions which made her suspect that il
was his intention to WOO her again TO the
III thttats spbt tttta w ltAt tiittI VII
by declaring that she would willingly be
a sister to him, and intimating hat IL he
had any spare cash on hand, ice cream,
caramels and bouquets would not he al.
together thrown away on her. but the
lover was not TO he put oil i'm any such
way as this. Vigorously he pressed his
suit and finally his ardor prevailed, sc
that the second anniversary of the wed
ding found the couple once more at the
altar, plighted eternal love n faith to
each other. Then in due time came
the third. fourth. fifth. sixth and
couple, the bride becoming more
and ever more reluctant, and finally hav'
m almost to be dragged tn the church
like the beloved Of Altar n bale whom
Robin Hood rescued from the rich churl
under the very roof OF the sacred edifce
Then, at its stated season, came the eight
wooinR and the eighth popping of til,
question, nor was il till then that the lad.
took a decisive stand and declined 10 pui
up with ''such ridiculous nonsense" an,
longer. She not only refused point blant
to consider Mr.. Weston's proposal for AT
instant, but had become SO thorough,
wearied and Disguised witt marriage and
all thereto pertaining. that she at once Sc
about tn undo all her seven knots matri
monial and blow out all her seven torche,
hymeneal on the instant by suing for di
vorce, and her suit is now pending.
IL may he taken for granted that wheI
alienlsts come to consider Mr.. Weston,
case in "a scientific way they will make
new species. or at least a new variety, oi
lunacy OF IL, TO which they will give th,
name OF gammonia, and believe that the,
have accomplished a great feat in the wa!
OF classification. The mania, G. IL hal
BECOME publicly known, will be likely :.
spread, n census takers 10 years iron
now will astonish the bureau with IN,
wonderful rate at which Americans MARI.
and are given i'm marriage. Should Mrs
Weston's suit be successful, her sunderes
mate will naturally take earnestly 20 TIN
preaching of pro and con sermons on tn
text that speaks of the seven fold cord tina
cannot be broken.