Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07
C~OI7RTSHIPS.

Marriage has always been one of the
worlds greatest themes. The great
thing wise philosopher said, is to get
way OF getting her. Just as men have
ound different ways of proposing, so
there have been endless ways in which
men have met their fates.
Horace Greeley and Mary Young Che
nay were married the first day they met.
They had c~orresporhed for. some time.
a common friend, who was something of
a match maker, having brought this
about. She was all his fancy painted
her, but she was much disappointed in
his appearances. so much so that when he
appeared before her. having proposed
and been accepted by letter, she frankly
told him that, although she married him,
she was not in love with him. Their
married life was long and happy. and the
loss of his wife was a blow which Gree
ley did not long survive.
The second time hat Bismarck met
Fraulein Johanna Puttkammer he kissed
her in the presence of a number OF
guests. The immediate effect OF this be-
havior was the prompt announcement OF
the betrothal, which was soon followed
by the marriage. Fraulein Puttkammer
was a bridesmaid for a friend the first
time Bismarck saw her. These two
young people, as Rosalind says, mo
sooner met than they looked, no sooner
looked than they loved"
The first marriage of Jefferson Davis
was of a romantic character. Failing
desperately in low with Sallie Taylor,
daughter OF Colonel Zachary Taylor,
who did not approve of the attachment,
the young people took the matter in their
own hands and eloped. Sixteen years
passed before Old Zach" would speak
to his son-in-law, and then it was be-
cause.-The and his regiment had covered
themselves with glory at the battle Of
Buena Vista.
The first time Mary Todd met Lincoln
president one Of these days. He will
make a husband to be proud Of" About
that time Lincoln's chances of becoming
president seemed as remote rs possible.
and Mary's sister laughed the idea to
scorn. A few months afterward Mary
Todd was married to ugly Abe and in
fourteen years the prediction was full
filed AS a child the future of Mrs. Lin
coin had been prophesied that she would
become the wife of a president of the
/ United States.
With Henry NJ. Stanley. the explorer,
It was 'love my daughter, love me-" Mrs.
TennGBnt persistently refused to consent
that I have left and I cannot, shall not,
part with her." But to entreaties she
finally yielded, she said. II want your
daughter for my wife," Stanley said:
.give her to me n do you at the same
time become my mother, father. brother
and sister, ''She IL yours replied
mamma. land so am l." That. i'm brief,
is The story OF Stanley's wooing. and
| Mrs. Tenant is his as ~irreparably and
indissolubly as her daughter is, and
| Mr.. Stanley is said to be a model nus
band and a tractable son..
It was through his novel. 1.-THE Scalp
| Hunters that Captain Mayne Reid won
a bride. He vas 30 years old when he
met q damsel of 13. with whom he al
once fell in love. The child took no no.
| tice of him, but he gave her the story
to read, as effective a manner Of court
! ing In this nineteenth century as ever
was Othello's in an earlier one. Two
years later the young lady was at a pub