Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
C0URTsHIPs.
Some of the Worlds Heroes
Relate the Romance of
Their Lives.
HOW THEY WON THEIR WIVES.
No Two Men Go at the Business of Getting
Wife in Exactly the Same Way
How Phil Sheridan was Mis-
taken for q Burglar.

Copyright, 1891, for the Gazette and al
rights reserved
Romance in real life always SURPRISES 70
nance in printed books, and there is no hu
man existence, no matter how humdrun
and monotonOus it may seem, that is wholly
devoid of romance. There is scarcely
heart that has not some time felt or al
least fancied that it felt, the sting ofCupid' IS
arrow, and love and romance are usually
synonymous terms. All the world loves a
lover, and for that reason love between
man and woman has always been, and al.
ways Will be, the favorite theme-the plot
-malnspring-of poets, playwrights and
novelists. There scarcely ever was court
ship and marriage that did not present some
romantic features, and those few which do
not, through being arranged on purely mat
ter-of-fact business principles, are but the
exceptions which prove the rule.
| knowing, therefore, that all the married
couples by whom we are surrounded could
each and every one furnish US with the ma
terlal for an unwritten poem, play or novel,
1t occurred to me that if some of these
worthy people-the more prominent in the
worlds eye the better, because the greater
and more general the interest attached to
them-could be induced to tell the love
stories OF their lives the result would be a
most interesting symposium. With this
asking every prominent man with whom
have come in contact the question: ''Where
did you first meet and how did you win your
| wlfee" Some of their answers I now pre-
| sent below.
| GEoFFREY WILLIsTON CHRISTINE.
| HOW SNOWMAN BARNUM MET HIS FATEs.
The late P. L. BarDum, who devoted his
life to enlightening the rural mind and the
| rising generation with regard to Fiji mer-
maids, woolly horses, Wasbington's old
nurse, sacred white elephants and other
wonders of nature, was twice married, and
l shall not soon forget pleasant ride had
| with him from Bridgeport to New York
about year ago, during the continuance of
| which he entertained me with an account
| of his first meeting with each of his better
| halves.
Il was a green country boy up in Con-
necticut, when I met Charity, nv first
| wife" he said. Sixty years ago it was
sections of each of the New England states
to assemble, or muster as it was called, an
nually-usually in the early autumn-at an
appointed place and go through their var
ious evolutions. The field where this drill
took place was called the muster field.
There 1t was that met my first wife. My
second was little girl of some eight or
nine years when I first saw her. Her
father was an English manufacturer whom
met on my first visit to England when I
took Tom Thumb over to introduce him to
our British cousins. little thought then,
when nursed this petite English child on
my lap, that she would one day be nv
wife,
GOVERNOR wINANs' ROMANTIC STORY
Few people would think to see Governor
Edwin B. Winans of Michigan that his life
had been strangely romantic one; yet
SO | found it when he told me his story,
which l shall try to put as nearly as pos
Slble in the governors own words.
SIN 1897 he said, 1--WE all caught the
California gold fever badly up in old Liv.
ingstOno county, and took it first. When
l got to the gold fields soon tired of pick
and shovel, and started clearinghouse,
and at the end of about three years had
a, nice little nest egg; Then | began to
think about the Galloway GALS four as
likely young women as ever stripped red
ear at cOrn-huskin', who lived near nv
old Livingston county home.
had always had a kind of a notion for
Sarah, and when / left old Michigan she
promised to marry me when came back if |
her feelings underwent no change mean
while. So when I'd made my little pile |
made tracks for the Galloway homestead |
and Sarah Galloway's bright eyes. Indians |
put a bullet in my ribs on the way, but |
failed to kill me.
''When l got to Sarah found she loved |
that chap SO often mentioned in novels by |
my sister. Determined to give her chance /
TO really be a sister to me, made up to
Llbbie Galloway and she became nv wife.
Then that true-hearted, noble little woman
who has been such devoted wife to me
and such fond mother to my children, went
we added considerable to what I already
possessed
This story would not be complete without
addlng what l subsequently learned, not |
from Governor Winans himself, but from
other sources, namely, that Sarah Gallo
ways husband: whom she married in pref
erence to WlnanS, died and left her an in
valid with two children. She has ever
since made her home in the hospitable man
sion OF Governor Winans, to whom she
in the long ago to be sister.
HOW BISMARCK CAPTURED HIS BRIDE BY |
STORM.
Prince Won Bismarck, the ex-chaucellor ,
Of Germany, has the name of being stern.
hard man, difficult to approach. but when |
VISITED MIN some years ago with letters of
Introduction from an American cabinet Of
1cer. the German minister at Washington
md other dignitaries, found him-one of
he most genial and jovial of men,.
Il was quite young man when I first | ,
net Fraulein Won Pullkammer,n he said. !,
when asked him to tell me something Of j
lis Lies romance. s9t was at the wedding :
Il friend of mine named Won Blacken. ,
'urg. I must confess that I was badly !
mltten at frst sight, yet I did not give the ,
'oung Lady any reason to suspect the in !
crest she had awakened in me.
Il subsequently met her again while | I
making tour of the Hartz mountains with :
he Blackenburg family. During that
quincy fully determined that she should |
e my wife On returning home I de-
handed, BY letter, her hand in marriage
rom her parents, whom / hnd never seen. +.
Il soon received q reply inviting me to :
1sit them They afterward told me that |
hey were not altogether pleased At first, as !
hey had heard that bore the reputation | J
hey learned from thar daughter that She !