The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-26
ODD FREAKS IN LOVE
DISEASE AS vIRULENT TODAY
 AS IT EVER WAS.
Very Few are Immune-Recent Case of Harry and Mary the Limit. Man Forced to Marry the
 Girl He Loved.

Love will find a way"
 This old statement made in song and story is accepted for all time, but as the roads which love takes ana tne even the seventh daughter would be safe in listing, says The Chicago Tribune Within the last fortnight the curreht news of the United States has gone to show that no disparity in age. temper ament, wealth, position and condition, and no circumstance ot surroundings or Influence can weigh for a moment when two hearts get ready to beat a duet Tn any of the seven keys.
 Starting with the case of Miss Mary E. Wilkins and Dr. Charles M. Free, man. 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 last two weeks ranging from that Iong-de- ferred wedding at Metuchen, N. J.' ooTn sa to that at English. Ind, on December 2s. when Harry Reynolds married Mary Thorne because she picked up crush hat that had blown out of . train window five days before and mailed 1t to the ad- dress which she found inside the sweat band.
 limit. Harry was down in Louisville; Ky. on the night of December 24, and made sneak for the banks of the Wa bash where his parents had been hying happy ever afterwards for about thirty eight years. Harry rode in the .t,e.s sm1Ker %osn
 
 over his eyes and snored all night lonaer r than his shirt. Next morning Harry Awoke in Indiana. At English. Ind, he went out on the platform, standing tnere ill the train got under headway. When he started inside again gust or wind swept his crush hat back along the cross ties. far behind, and Harry went insios using worse English than the town or that name in which he had left bis hat, The name "Harry Reynolds, Evansville, was written on the band, and when liar ry got home he went to & the psta;n;ns pos.1;n;c : the hat, Miss Thornes card ana snort note from the young lady. This note; probably was in violation of the postal laws, but when Harry read It ne nao a few thoughts coming. He wrote them out and the next day he got reply on Friday morning he went back to Eng fish. and on Monday he and Miss Tnorne drummer friends said: "1ts dead easy to be stuck on a Thorne."
 Apple Introduces-Letters Court.
 If Walter nearinger. a young farmer rear Kokomo. Ind. had possessed good on 1t. he never. would have been mar ried the other day to pretty Zola Kan rom, of Pana, III. In the fall ot lSuo Zola was packing aSpes Sssn m an ,ne ssnecIaIly % pretty Ben Davis in a heap. she pinned S tag to it, reading, This apple was packed by Zola Ransom, Pana, Ill. The ;nSer bought a barrel of apples of q Kokomo dealer. found the card: and after a years correspondeace the two two were married at Pana on December 28.
 At Goshen, N. Y.,. on December 2s. william Lafayette Sloat, aged e, and Mary Elizabeth Vanderhon, aged 22. were married and once more tile old Sloat ma nor which sheltered Washington in the revolution, has mistress. In spite of the fact that it was a marriage of De- cennber and April, the old man insists that it was not April 1, anyhow, and he and his young bride are said to have danced the old year out, after the .cer-- emony. The groom was rich merchant at SIoatsburg, but is now retired. Three years ago he had a mental affliction and Miss vanderhoff was his nurse; While thus incapacitated he made will leav- ing everything to his son. Frederick. and on recovery he fouad his son and ,ri his ils Vanderhoff was his comfort in that try ing time, and it was partly through her testimony that Justice Gaynor of the