The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-03

through his part of the ceremony-had
promised to love- cherish, comfort,
keep, honor and all that. when the fed
erals most inconsiderately swooped
down on the house. Of course that
broke up the wedding. Ned and his
best men-he had half a dozen-ran
for their horses and galloped away.
The oldest part is that he did not see
the girl again until after peace was
made-and then he found her married
hard and fast to another man. / fancy
she is about the only woman in the
United States with a marriage cere-
mony and half to her credit-with no
legal Intervention"
THE soldiers were great and most
fascinating lovers" the second COM
mented. I'm fact, love making was as
natural to them as breathing. General
Quarles' second wife used to tell with
great glee a story of her experience
when the general was counting her.
She was Miss Alice Vivian, one of the
richest and most beautiful women in
the south, a cousin of Miss Augusta
Evans, the novelist, who, it was said,
made her the heroine of her war novel,
''Maccaria-" But that is neither here
nor there. General Quarles was sta
toned at Mobile for some time, and
while there met Miss Vivian and be-
came engaged to her. He was of the
best Virginia blood, a, widower, courtly,
elegant and of the most inflammable
gallantry. When far from the lips he
loved it was q necessity with him to
make love to the lips he was near. AT
least you would think so from Mrs.
Quarles' story, which ran something
in this fashion,
Not so long after their engagement
he was ordered away to join Hoods
army in the invasion of Tennessee.
Word came back presently that he was
pretty badly wounded. Miss Vivian
thought it right and proper to go and
nurse him. She embarked upon little
wheezy steamboat for the first stage
of her journey, and found herself the
only woman passenger. 1t was to be a
night journey. but she was too anxious
to sleep, so sat in the cabin, wishing
the boat had wings. At the first stop
out another woman came aboard. She
also came into the cabin and sat down,
evidently in great distress of mind.
Other women came aboard and into the
cabin at various landings until there
were seven sitting in melancholy ST.
lence, now and then wiping away tears
By this time it was close on to 3
o'elock-and the lint of feminine 81
lence had been reached. A late conner
turned to her next neighbor signing,
almost sobbing out, I thought the boat
to reach my betrothed husband, who, I
have just heard, is badly wounded
Why what a coincidence! So IS
minei I am going to nurse him." said
the woman addressed. The other women
pricked up their ears. and looked sym
pathetic. At last the boldest of them
ventured to say: I am going to do the
same thing
And so am I, and so am T. came in
chorus from the rest-all except Miss
Vivian, who could not trust herself to
speak, she was so full of sympathy
with the weight of woe. At last one of
the other women said: We may as we'll
tell who our sweethearts are. Maybe
we can help each otheri Mine is-Gen-
eral Quarles.'
General QuarlesI You must be mis-
takeni 1 am engaged to him., came in
various keys from each. Miss Vivian
still kept silence-and thanked her
stars she had not been expansive like
the others. She left the boat at the
next landing, resolved to give her low
ing lover at least one chance for his
life. He must have taken it-for he
lived to marry her"
EMILY HAMPTON.