The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
THE CATERS OF CUPID
SOME OF HIS LATEST FRANKS
 IN THIS PRosAIC WORLD.
The vagaries of Love-A Case of Big amy to 0blige . Friend.-A
 Long Trip to Wed.

Two weeks after he had elopei with wo lowed her to commit bisamy with his friend Alfred Coley. says the Chicago fiibunn. Mar signed his name as one of the wi'ne ses tt votediy in love with his wife. and she witf him. f..
 The smg s,o wa, .sa kana s aoss 4ss. of Arnboy. was ordered by her parents to ma r' Peter CoIey or else. not to come home again didn't want to marry Edna. But Edna had t.
 So Mrs. Mar decided to marry coIey un ,e ing document to her friend, who c.uli tnar hand it to her irate parents and assuase tnei. Methodist Church of Trenton. He was the same man who had 9 on tns ss.s s pc ment night. two weeks before: but he did not recognize the young woman on her sec the names of Peter Coley and Edna Test The real Edna Test and Peter Test signe their names as witnesses: .,., - |, out that Peter Coley was married there wa. woe in the homes of several young women ol ac ction was demanded from him SO vehsmently and frequently that he finally told the s.ory
 The Marrs have moved to Long islani 1T, U Test has been sent 8 long visit to her grandmother at Trenton:
 eently ayAt n Kansas 's City for siopins With two Mrs Ellen Willis of Macomb, IL: aged 4o ls years. The women apparently are both entirely infatuated With the man. They were his neiEhboIs at Macomb, where he lef. oeh.n h, wife and seven children Mre and Miss Willis were arrested also.
 Fred Lee of Parkersburg. W. Va. had been married only fortnight put ., ne .rr.a s1ys nfs fs already. His wife weighs 432 pounds. MT; Lee Is a cook in "Johnson's Blessed Damozel His bride was Miss Myrtle Undine Long Of Gallipolis She was but Ie years old. or one for every, twenty-seysn pounds, ,, ., .,. soul of Mrs. Aivira Louise Bennett as to its mate when he found that she. ike himself; % II; se ani he was 20. but they did love and are ,osS n sGs p.nsary cdn ' Hsr a.ptsTs inc maids knee to writer's cramp. He practiced s'p,as his praeticiss. i @ came to use som. of Mrs Bennetts elixirs and found them excellent for all his patients. wbether horses or canary y kHur lSnr ailioiion,. @ % and tho pie sh. !sseonssd to9rsphs % % were ", exchanged cha | Last Tuesday they met in oberlin. O.. and were married.
 Mary E. Miller has just started on thir- Cherry Hill, Md: to YenanRvatte: Iniia When she gets there she expects to marry James Moore with whom she she has as,,dr besn tn in gether. ,
 Moore was tn eson of farmer in Cecil daughter of old Squire Miller the most in nuential landowner within radius Of thirty five miles The girl was but two years young CT than the boy, and they grew up their childhood's affections grew into the love of the youth and the maiden. Squire Miller sth birthday He sterniy ordered Moore from his house and bade him never darken nj; door again. The young man met the ei Concealed from the June moon by one of the great. carefully cultivated rose bushes. the young couple swore eternal ., love; ,,o ,n. ,r,, to make his fortune. He started as helper in the Pennsylvania fields of the Stan iari and finally went to India to look after soSe of the vast interests of the company Tn Ceyl9n
 throuhy n,s ndan M1S ene and finally deciiei that he could make more money if he branched out for himaef. He and his advice to them as to the prope places to bore for oil was so good thaF he made both themselves and himself rich men .,.
 Last Summer he made his first visit to his tn" that "'s Squire re Miller had died: leaving Ills to teach school. She had received several oGerr of marriage from prosperous young farmers in the neighborhood but hal rema ne as ! rns ush one June night fifteen years before
 Moore Immediately reminded her of the promise but she told him that neither she nor he could be held by their childish agree ment Uron this he set about wooing he in earnest and finally she consented to marry him Business called him back to In1!a be- fore the wedding could take place, h wever. and now she is travelling to India to marry him.
 Marriage is a lottery" This platitude re- ceives continuous confirmation by the people. who obey blindly in their choice of spouses the decroes of chance It would be an uncom- mon thing not to find in the newspapers every week at least three stories of people who have attached their cards to some package that was to be shipped across the continent :. with the admontion upon It: Please write 1T you're of the opposite sex" Somebody of the opposite sex always does write. pictures are exchanged and a marriage results. It Is too bad that these cases are not followed up a little farther. that the world might know whether such mandates of fate are given with malevolent or bengnsnt intent
 The latest case is of Miss Clara Plumb of Dewey Station. near McKeesport, Fa., who 2 year ago penned love message. sealed Il m a bottle. and threw 1t into the Monnnga- hela River. Last May she received letter from Thomas O. Morgan of Wellsville, O.. saying that he had fshed the bot lie cut of the Ohio River. They married last week Mrs Morgan says she had vowed neve to get married unless her wedding had touch of romance in 1t. Now she fee's perfectly satisfied.