The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-11-20
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OUT AT LAST.
Tho Reason Why President James Bu-
chanan Naye. Ifarried.

Tho Reason why President James Bu-
chanan Neyes EIarried.
A Minneapolis lady told mo the
other day the true reason why James
buchanan, the fifteenth president of the
United States, never married, writes a
cor. of the Minneapolis Tribune. She
used to live in Lancaster, Penn, and
it was ear this little city that Presi-
dent Buchanan lived (when lat
home") and died. | quote her own
words:
When l was q girl and a young
lady at home I used to know Mr..
Buchanan quite well. Father was one
of his intimate friends and used to
spend a good deal of time, nearly all
of his Sunday afternoons, at his coun-
try place, Wheatlands, about a mile
from Lancaster. They had a bond of
sympathy between them; both were
Democrats. WHY, he was at my sis
ter's, wedding, and | remember the ex-
preston on his face and the twinkle in
his eye as he quoted the old saying to
my Oldest sister: When a younger
sister is married first the older has to
sit On the fence and await her turn.
You must dance in your stocking feet
tonight
''He was a tall. fne-looking man,
with silvery white hair, generally
dressed in black broadcloth, black sa-
tin vest, and wore the old-fashioned
high linen collars. Ono great pecu-
liarity of his was carrying his head on
one side. There was a man in Lam
caster named for him, James Buchan-
an Frey, and in order to look like him
he carried his head or the side the
same way.
HE told my father about the love
affair. I've heard it dozens of times.
He was engaged to Miss Coleman, of
Lancaster, and there, too, lived Miss
Rose Hubley. also very much in love
with him and mortally jealous of Miss
Coleman.
The course OF true love was run
ming smoothly for the lovers until this
Miss Hubley came betW cen them. Mr..
Buchanan had been out of town on
business, returned late one afternoon
to the city and on his way home passed
by where Miss Hubley lived. She
called him into the house and he was
there some few minutes, then went di-
rectly home to get his supper. AS
frequently happens, some COSBY
neighbors either saw it, or Miss Hub
ley herself took pains to inform Miss
Coleman that Buchanan had called at
the other lady's house first, although
engaged to her. She resented it, and
when he went to call upon her that
evening declined TO see him. The
next day he went up to Philadelphia
on an early train and with her father.
She went up later in the day to go
with the two gentlemen to the theater
in the evening. She did not appear as
usual, not at all like herself, and final
ly declined to go to the theater Or even
see Mr.. Buchanan. When they re-
turned to the hotel from the theater
she was a corpse. Heart disease was
given as the cause.
The other lady lived to be an old
maid and suffered an awful fate. She
was standing before an open CRATE,
warming her hands behind her, when
her clothing caught and the was
burned to death. Mr.. Buchanan never
forgot Miss Coleman. When he died
he said that he wanted to be buried in
Woodward Hill Cemetery, because
when she was living they used to walk
out that way together. He was a very
modest man. The Presbyterians had
a silver plate put Oh his pew with his
name on it, and the president didn't
like it, for he didn't like so much os-
te~ntation.n