The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-29

ger Kinney wore immaculate white
ties and patent leather shoes. Time
was up and the carriages were in
waiting, but May and AL were not on
hand Something, evidently, was
wrong.
Before more than 1000 conjectures
crowded themselves under your uncles
hat May rushed into the presence OF
the wondering dozen and explained
that a difference had arisen and that
for the present the marriage was on
I'VE can't agree on preacher. You
see, Al belongs to one church and I was
raised in another. / do not go to
church every day, 1 admit, but my pa
rents taught me to believe in the faith
of their church and l won't jump the
traces now. AL says he won't give in,
and there you are. If he loves me he
will come over to my way of thinking;
see if he don't"
May left and was not seen again until
late in the evening, when she APP
peared in the hall and sang you'll
Have to Choose Another Soubrette
Now" and this to the music of the or
chestra led by the young would-be
benedict. To add pain to a cruel thrust
the songstress responded to an encore
with Il Don't Want Man with Curly
Hair.
This is simply continuation or
rather perpetuation of my hard
friends II have been in a halo of ad-
versity ever since l promised to marry
a lieutenant in the army at Fort Rob-
inson two years ago. My parents OBJ
| jected to the marriage on the ground
| that | was too young. Still my heart
! was afiame with love for the gallant
soldier, and he seemed to think a whole
| lot of me, too. But he regarded the
/ objection of my parents with much
| seriousness. evidently, for he never af-
/ forwards pressed his suit. That was
/ the date of my entrance into the theat-
rical world. / visited San Francisco,
| Portland, Victoria and other coast cit
les with theatrical troops and last jan
| uary | played an engagement in a
| Rossland theater. A young merchant
/ offered me his hand and fortune and l,
| thinking l had a perfect right to my
own views and inclinations in matters
/ matrimonial, accepted the generous Of
| fer. We We're to have been married on
| Monday at high noon. High noon
seems to be a fad with the Dominion
lists Just before the hour of the Ger
| emony a committee Of six men, the
chief of police included, waited upon
me and politely informed me that
while they personally had nothing
against me they would not allow me to
win any of their young men. They said
they would not order me to leave town,
but intimated strongly that it would be
|
cate the town. They gave me to under
stand that if that young man insisted
upon marrying he must eschew SOU
brettes and take a Dominion product.
AS the young man failed to establish
his rights in the premises and absent
ed himself, Intentionally or otherwise, |
do not assume to say, / assented to the
proposition of the regulars and came to
the United States.
II was unfortunate enough to meet a
bankers son in Spokane. The young
mans home was in New York and he
was out there on pleasure trip. He
asked me to marry him and !. girl like
agreed. The outcome of it was the
man returned to New York to arrange
for the wedding, fell i'll and died. 1t
does seem as though the world had it
in for me, and I promise you I never
am not married is it,"