The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-16
FIVE MINUTES,

They Were Very Nervous Ones for the
 Young Man.
 A group of travelling men were dis
 cussing the assassination of President
 Mckinley the other day when one of | them said:
 "Gentlemen-not to digress from the subject-but have any of you ever con- sidered the value of five minutes?' All answered in the negative Well, I never considered it myself
 until the other day, when a friend of
 mine met with an experience which showed how precious five minutes can be under some circumstances. It was on the day the dead president was bur fed, when, as you remember, the street cars and the telegraph ceased to ope- rate for five minutes as mark of re- spect for the martyred chief
 My friend, whose home Is in Wash ington, was engaged to be married to a young lady in Cincinnati. five never seen the lady, but it goes without say ing that she is the sweetest girl in the world and all that sort of thing-they all areD Her father is a very partcu- lar old gentleman and had not looked with favor on my friends suit. The couple had been engaged in secret for three years and 1t was only a month ago that the parental consent was se- cured.
 ''The young lady and her father were visiting friends near Annapolis and 1t was while there that he was prevailed upon to give in.
 "Of course, they wanted to have the ceremony performed at once before father could change his mind, and it was arranged to take place on the 18th of September-the day Mckinley was buried
 My friend travels through the south for New York house, whose busiest month is September, and he could only get two days leave. He fired his dates SD that he would be in Baltimore, where the wedding was to take place on the 18th, and all arrangements for the affair were perfected by lettr
 "Well, the day of the wedding the groom-to- be came up from Richmond, | where he was working. and stopped | over in Washington to attend to some |
  bride to-be and father n-law- to- be were to leave Annapolis for Baltimore on the 2:35 train meet him at a hotel | near the station where the ceremony would be performed by minister who would be in waiting; the three would hen take the :50 train for Cincinnati.
 "The business took more time than 1e had anticipated and it was fifteen minutes after two before he could break away and start for the train. He would have to catch the 2:34 train in ,rder to be in Baltimore on time to meet his bride-elect and her father and le did some tall hustling, tell you.
 "As I said before, the old gentleman s very particular; he is also punctil ous-one of those gentlemen of the old chool whose eleventh commandment is be punctual He and his daughter would leave Annapolis at the same ime my friend left Washington and all hree would arrive in Baltimore sim My friend knew that if le wasn't in Baltimore to meet them when they arrived batter would be furi- us and, of course, break off the match f he missed that 1855 train he wouldn't ave any more chance of getting the ,irl than Czolgosz had of being par oned At twenty-five minutes past two he yas on trolley car going down Penn ylvania avenue, and, allowing for tops, would reach the Baltimore and tes to spare before the train pulled