The leader., 1902-02-19
CUPID'S CAPERS.
Recent Case of Harry and Mary
the Limit-An Apple Intro
duction-How Man was
Forced to Marry the
Girl He Loved.

and story, is accepted for all time
but as to the roads which love takes
and the means and methods at his
command, not even the seventh
daughter would be safe in listing, says
the Chicago Tribune. Within the last
fortnight the current news of the
United States has gone to show that
no disparity in age, temperament,
wealth, position and condition, and no
circumstance of surrounding or infiu-
ence can weigh for a moment when
two hearts get ready to beat duet in
any of the seven keys.
Starting with the case of Miss
Mary E. wilkins and Dr. Charles
Nj. Freeman, who have and haven't
been married more often than Miss
Stone has and hasn't been rescued
and murdered, one finds the caprices
of love within the past two weeks
ranging from that long deferred we'd
ding at Metuchen, n. j., down to that
at English, Ind. on December 80, when
Harry Reynolds married Mary Thorne
because she picked upa crush hat that
had blown out of train window five
days before and mailed it to the ad-
dress which she found inside the
swaziland.
Harry and Mary, in fact, are about
the limit. Harry was down in Louis
vile, KY, on the night of December "a
and made a sneak for the banks of the
Wabash, where his parents had been
living happily for about thirty
eight years. Harry rode in the
smoker, wearing a light crush hat
tilted down over his eyes and snored
all night louder than his shirt. Next
morning Harry awoke in Indiana
At English, Ind, he went out on
the platform, standing there till the
train got under way When he
started inside again a gust of wind
swept his crush hat back along the
crossties, far behind, and Harry went
inside using worse English than the
town of that name in which he had
left his hat. The name Harry Rey-
nolds, Evansville" was written on the
band, and when Harry got home he
went to the postotfice where he re-
ceived a package containing the hat,
Miss Thorne's card and a short note
from the young lady. This note, prob
ably, was in violation of the postal
laws, but when Harry read it he had a
few thoughts coming. He wrote them
out and the next day he got reply.
On Friday morning he went back to
English, and on Monday he and
Miss Thorne were married. But as
one of Harry's drummer friends
said, Its dead easy to be stuck on a
Thorne."
If Walter Dearinger, young far
mer near Kokomo, Ind, had possessed
a good orchard and had good crop of
apples on it, he never would have been
married the other day to pretty lola
Ransom, of Pana, Ill. In the fall of
1900 lola was packing apples in the
Illinois town, and one day, finding an
especially pretty Ben Davis in heap
she pinned tag to it, reading: This
apple was packed by lola Ransom,
Pana, Ill. The finder may write to
her" Young Dearinger bought a
barrel of apples of kokomo dealer
found the card, and after years cor.
respondence the two were married at
Pana on December %.
At Goshen, n. Y, on December 30
William Lafayette Sloat, aged II, and
Mary Elizabeth Vanderhoff, aged %
were married, and once more the old
Sloat manor which sheltered Washing
ton in the Revolution, has mistress
In spite of the fact that it was mar
riage of December and April, the old
man insists that it was not April l.
anyhow, and he and his young bride
are said to have danced the old year
out, after the ceremony. The groom
was rich merchant of Sloatsburg, but
is now retired. Three years ago he
had mental atfliction and Miss Van
derhoH was his nurse. While thus in
capacitated he made a will leaving
everything to his son, Frederick, and
on recovery found the son and his fam
lily in charge of his property. Miss
| VanderhoH was his comfort in that
trying time, and it was partly
through her testimony that Justice
Gaynor of the Supreme Court. ousted
his son, leaving the fortune to her
who has now become wife to the old
man. The old manor, with stone
walls three feet thick, was built in
1873 by Stephen Sloat, an uncle of
Admiral Sloat, of the United States
Navy. 1t had been the gloomy home
of William Sloat for thirteen years,
but the old man says it is full of
light and sunshine now.
Lester b. AlbertSon, of Cutchogue,
l.. l., was married to one of his school
teachers the other day-one who Nigh
have whipped him, kept him in after
school, or marked him down in deport-
ment but who didn't. Three years ago
Albertson, then 10 years old, proposed
to Miss Mary Benedict, "A years old,
and was refused, because he was boy
with no income and she could not
afford to wait until he could make a
fortune. Last summer however, AL
bertson returned to Cutchogue for his
vacation. Miss Benedict was there
still They went on "A drive aud Incl
dentally stopped at the home of Grand
father Albertson, who is wealthy. Be
fore they could get away from the old
man the grandfather said: "Lester,
Eve picked out a wife for you. and if
you don't marry her you'll never be
my heir" "Who is she?" faltered the
young man. Miss Benedict" de-
clared the grandfather. And the two
were married on Christmas day.
At st. Louis the other day a Jest at a
dinner table led DR.. E. c. Walden. son
of Bishop Walden of. Cincinnati, to
marry Miss Bessie Simms. Matri-
mony had been touched on lightly and
Mr.. Walden said he would get mar
ried if anybody would have him. "How
would | do?" bantered Miss Simms.
Il dare you to take me up" said the
| young man. "I-I-can't take a darer'
exclaimed the young woman, and sew.
eral bets were made that they were
taking clinched the match, the wed
ding taking place next day.
But marrying on a nice turnpike
road, with a fresh horse in the shafts,
is not more novel than was the cere-
mony which united John Edward
Hanover and Bertha Best at South
bend, Iud on Dec. 26 In 1885 IA
Supreme Court decision declared just
what might be the nature of a mar
riage contract that would be binding
still, and these young persons from
Gallen, Mich, went to the Indiana
town to. test it. They called in an at
torney and had him draw up "a con
| tract of marriage to which hnth sinned