The Helena independent., 1891-12-19
STORIES Of STATESMEN.
Quay Anxious for the Future Of the
Name and His Sons In
different
Romance Of Oates Fifty-six Years
Single Arm and Young
Wife.
Other Romahces OF . Pleasant Sort Ono
Not Unmixed with Sadness Cos
sips May Forget.

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Looking at Senator Quay, says the Wash
ington Post, mono would imagine for an in
stant that the ex-chairman OF the repub-
lican ma tional committee had any disap.
pointment except that attending his politi-
cal career. Yet he has, and it is such a rea
and vivid regret to him that he. sometimes
speaks Of II to intimate friends. Quay is q
queer name, but the Pennsylvania senator il
as anxious for its perpetuation as il he were
an English lord with an entailed estate ant
the name was ~ easily pronounced a,
Smith. Quay has two sons, and it is, 80 b.
has said, the most bitter disappointment Of
his life that neither OF them shows any in
clination to hand the name down to future
generations. It's no laughing matter with
Quay. Both are eligible young men, but
the right girls do not appear. The older
who ID in the navy, says he has no time fol
lnatrimony. while Dick, the senator's polit-
j ical lieutenant has no fondness for II.
Quay has offered every inducement, from
blessings to big substantial checks, to the
The young men cling to bachelordom. while
NEuby uuEsob ulh ulbuppOlutLuSAU.
The war furnished crop Of romances
that never seems to be all harvested.
Congressman Oates, Of Alabama, with his
hfty-six years and only one arm, has ro-
mantic story that surrounds the loss Of the
other arm. During the war he served in
the confederate army, and IT was before
Richmond that he received the wounds
that necessitated the amputation Of the
right arm. At this time it was that Oates
was obliged to lay of on sick leave while
he recovered from his injuries. He was re-
csived into the house of a southern family
and nursed by the eldest daughter. During
the fever she attended him, and when he
pulled through Oates felt that his life had
not only been saved by her, but his future
happiness was in her hands. The young
officer told his story, but the young nurse
did not favor his suit, whether because she
thought it was pressed simply from graft
tude or whether she did not return his af-
fection ia not told. Oates was still too
weak to return to his command, and. be-
tween fretting over his rejected suit. and at
the delay in his return to the front, was in
most unhappy mood. One day when
looked up and said:
Never mind, captain, you Just wait for
so-and-so,' pointing to the baby in the
cradle she was, rocking. "You can have
her by and by
The captain laughed. The baby began to
grow to girlhood, and Oates was interested
in all she did. When she became of mar
riaqeable age he reminded her mother of
her old promise made over the baby's ora
die. There was no opposition to the
match, and the couple are unusually happy.
This accounts for the difference in age, at
vh;nh ~, nv manila hAvA wnndared Mrn
Oates is pretty woman with southern
grace and hospitality and devoted to her
husband. al
Congressman Stone. of Kentucky, owes
his life to his wife. He was in the army,
and after dusk one night found himself.
dangerously shot, lying in thicket.
There had been a hard fight. His COM
pany, in retiring, had taken their wounded
with them, and he had been left for dead.
He was unable to move, and when he heard
a footstep coming through the brush it
young woman. On stones call she
searched unit! he was reached. Assistance
was procured at her home, not far away,
and there Stone was carried. For days the
family cared for him, and in the process
of recovery he managed to fall deeply in
love with his rescuer. Fortunately for his
peace of mind she was ready to smile on
him, and marriage later on was the re-
suit.
Judge John M. Thurston, of Omaha,
looks like altogether too practical a man to
ever have embraced anything like q ro-
nance, but Mrs; Thurston n n ton @ knows differ
Both the judge and his wife were born in
Vermont on adjoining FARMS They played
together as babies, and when they were
about five years old the Thurstons shook
themselves from the Vermont farm and
went west. In a month or two, without
ant Mru TbI1r okoV So
people went in the same direction, but To-
GATED in Madison, Wis., where SIZE grew up
and graduated from college. Then the |
family went further on, and located in |
Nebraska. The night after reaching there
Mrs. Thurston went out to party, and the
Thurston. The name was uncommon at
that time in that locality, and the girl at
once said
: Il used to know family of that name in
Vermont"
II came from there" said Thurston.
''And they had little boy whom played
with named Johnnie"
''That's I. May see you home Tonight?
Can come to see you tomorrow night?"
Mrs. Thurston explained she was with
friends, and said no, he couldn't come to
zee her, Thurston was not to be daunted,
and insisted then on visiting her father
Of course she could not object. The next
night Thurston was on hand, and started a
that occupied every evening un-
ill they were married. 1t was more than a
couple OF years before that occurred.
Ihurston had just been admitted to the
BAR in Omaha and had 4 hard struggle to
get foothold.
do you wonder" said Mrs. Thurston,
that am proud, Of my husband? In
those days in Omaha he used to buy box
# crackers a piece Of cheese, and live on
hese while they lasted. And now see
where he is. I'm not ashamed of those
,arly struggles. They make me more
proud Of him. But it was long time be-
ore lie could scrape enough together to
the purchase OF a marriage license.'
Judging from the Thurstons the romance
lever dies out with them.
There are more romances to the square
nile in Washington than any other city Of
to size in the country. So are there trage-
lies and broken hearts and other unhappy
hings. So that it's pleasant sometimes to
ttike the story with a real old-fashioned
ived- happy forever ending.
At one of the legations Of southern Eu-
'ope has been for several years n young
,ount, whose intimacy with a fellow coun-
rv xUouny =, hau he au tha auhteNt of MANY