The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-19

ly private affair. A. Glenn Gessler
acted as best man, while Miss Abbie
Warner, sister Of the bride, was brides
maid.
The old adage, Love overcomes all
obstacles, seemed to have been a
motto of George Cochrane, for never
had a sutton more difficulty to sur
mount than did he in his wooing of
Miss Warner. An unwilling parent,
few malicious enemies who circulated
untrue and trying reports, and a girl
who virtually stood between love and
duty" were some of the barbados
which formed a formidable line of de-
Tense about the hand Of his fiancee.
But true love never did run smooth
and this thought consoled Cochrane as
he suffered the pangs of uncertainty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cochrane first met at
Green lake, Mimi, in 1891, where Miss
Warner was a member Of a camping
party. The party was composed of the
Misses Grace and Abbie Warner, Edna
Brown, May Van Worries and Ada
Richardson, chaperoned by Mrs. Will
liam Bickel. Each Sunday a number
of st. Paul young men would run out
and pay their respects to the fair
campers-out. Among the visitors were
George Cochrane, Charles Braden, Will
liam T. Kelly Jr. and George Thea
bald. Wednesday evenings marriage
is the third nuptial event which has
been participated in by the members
of that Green lake camping party. The
others were those of Miss Van Worries
and Charles Rraden, and Miss Ada
Richardson and Mr.. Kelly. Col. Cupid
was very Industrious with his arrows
during the summer Of 81, and has
been more than justly rewarded for his
activity.
Those Sabbath days the young peo-
pie spent at the lake established a
friendship between the two which rip
ened into love; the walks along the
beach, the moonlight rows on the pla-
cid lake and the serenades at home
helped to strengthen the tie Of affec-
ton. 1t soon became apparent to Miss
Warmers fellow campers that some
thing more than feeling of friend
ship existed between her and Coch-
rane, and, when the merry party broke
up the latter had extracted a promise
from her the meaning Of which the
reader can readily guess.
But the summer dreams were rudely
awakened by strenuous objections
from the parental side Of Miss War
ners family. The sutton was refused
admittance to the home Of his sweet
heart and for him the future had an
exceptionally blue aspect. A number
of objections were raised by the par
ents Of the young lady, among which
only one bearing the mark of truth
could even be supposed to carry pres
tige-Cochrane had been married once
before and had been legally separated
from his former wife. The young man
had not kept this skeleton locked from
the view of his fiancee's eyes, but had
let her look into the innermost recesses
Of his past before avowing his love
fay how No,
sensible young woman and did not al
low any past youthful tranSgresSions
Of her lover wreck his and her future
happiness.
So the engagement ran along for year
under circumstances trying enough to make
the most devoted pair on earth sigh at the
hard fate which they were combating FL
nally Mr.. Warner took his daughter to Paris
and placed her in a fashionable young ladies'
boarding school, where she remained over a
year. During all this time her parents were
using their influence to break off the match,
until one day, in fit Of desperation, the be-
wildered girl wrote to her lover at st. Paul
saying all was over and for him never to
young man can be imagined. He bore his
bitter blow. however, and did not let anyone
know by sign or word the wound which had
been inflicted upon him. After a year at
Paris Miss Warner, accompanied by her
father. toured through the different European
countries and returned in another year to St.
Paul.
Nothing was said by Miss Warner to her
friends anent her former sutton. To those
who knew her he had seemed to have en-
tirely been forgotten. But to Mr.. Cochrane
the thought of his former sweetheart being
in the same city with him. to traverse the
same streets as he did. with the chance of
the two coming face to face at any time, was
too much for him. and he made preparations
to leave the city indefinitely. Everything
was arranged for his departure to British
Columbia, where he had associated himself
q railroad cd
the day when he should step aboard the train
which would carry him from the SANITY City
forever. That is. he thought the separation
from ~ would be Of lifelong duration.