The evening world., 1894-08-06
NJ CARTEN's HUNT FOR 4 WIFE
Must Have an Independent Char
oter" and $lOO in Cash.
Then He'll Take Her to His Nebr aska
Castle Of Sods.

John McCarten wants to get married.
Yesterday he invested $3.50 in the follow
ing advertisement which appeared in a
morning newspaper to-day:
JOHN McARTEN. aged So years. am going
home to live on my farm; have 100 acres Of
- miles from Hemlnsiord, Neb. want to
marry working Protestant girl II she suits me:
to Is years Of age; you must have good
character a. when you were nine years OF age:
have patent rish. to my land and A rse.ipt for
taxes to show. Call at "a Sd ave (ring beID /
can be interviewed for six days at baid address.
John McCarten was found by an
Evening World" reporter at about $40
o'clock this morning standing in front
OF "a Third avenue smoking a clay pipe
and reading a copy OF his $3.50 adver-
JOHN NCARTEN.
tisement for a wife. He stopped reading
every few moments to glance expec-
family at any young girl who happened
to pass by.
John is not a bad looking man by
any means. His blue eyes. overshad-
owed by bushy eyebrows. have a twinkle
OF good nature in them. and there are
which show that smiling is a habit with
him. He Is clean-shaven and his hair
only little sprlnkled with gray-is cut
hard V Work in "q his lfe Zee na' done lots OF
This morning he wore a neat suit of
blue flannel, a black derby hat. spot
less white shirt and a neat black silk
necktie. He received the reporter with
reserve, which almost amounted to
Sure" said he, IT had a trick played
on me by a reporter in January, and
III look out for myself now. It was
Il wrote an advertisement for the
paper. and ! went to a notary public
to see was II right. There was a man
there who told me to go to the Emigrant
Bureau and I'd find wife and save my
There was a reporter at the Bureau
and he talked to me and said he'd put
what ! wanted In the paper. ! offered
IL, And then what did he do?
Sure, he put in the paper that l was
a ,larker' and that I had a great gall,
penses back 70 my place in Nebraska:
Third ne @ o whe ns hsd 70 9o "a him To Il
was 2s2--I had rented the room just to
complaints because Of 't the girls 81 Is so 1a
there and not finding me-"
yo And you do n ysnt the girl to pay
DO look like It? or course. 1 want
her ne, b to do h,o her part but wouldn't take
nat Will IL COST 10 get to your
SIS sT hii way dH Te' VS. e I'm hgHrins that
West We and and then IL. III buy wagon and team
Mr. McCarten described his place near
Hemingsford: He said that he has a
house on 1t, built OF sods and plastered
WIN lime on the inside. III for ,presi-
dent to live in, barring there's only one
room He hasn't any fence. but there
chicken-house and "A well on the
place.
There's no Use for ice-water or beer
iand'% he hS' SAID aid "e"' the n"eS' /" the
Il have. seven acres broke, and one
watermeions and tobacco on 1t. And |
mad some hogs, too When ] get there
vi Nth a team IN break more land ana
,, %no you expect the girl to help you
Man alive. no! All she'll have to do
Is To cook Maybe there'll be a few hogs,
wnr whhLs a rev hogs TO healthy
Mr., McCarten said that he was born
IN County Tyrone, in the north OF Ire
When Cleveland first ran for President
! lie had run scraper" around his ls0
ceres OF land and had lived on IL hve
sef iew far nTn a nS S"rt snd ws girl ong
the railroad to make some money To-
get married 10 her.
| Anu When ! came PACK, sure she had
married another man." he said
Mr.. McCarten has been living on his
| mvings this Winter and has been Out
| 4 work He will be at "a Third avenue
lges Of sixteen and twenty-eight who
rave 800 and want 10 go TO Nebraska.
The last thing he said to the reporter
/ was,
| THE girl must have an independent
| 'haracter dive rn'ri and she must be
] good locker at that"