The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-23
LOVERS TRIUMPH
OVER OBSTACLES
IN MANY ODD WAYS
they Find Truly That the Path
Is Not One of Roses but De-
feat Objections and Win the
Way to Neutrality-suspicious.
ment From Poor House.

world loves a lover there will generally
be found number of individuals who
will put obstacles in his way. Isn't
one of the other sayings something
about loves path not being a smooth
one? Well, if all the world really did
love a lover, then there wouldn't be
any obstacles but bridal roses in the
pathway But there are rocks, and
large ones.
Some of these rocks were found in
the pathway of Lieut.. Nicholas Varela,
of the Mexican navy, who wanted to
marry Miss Eva Kampf, sixteen
year-old New York girl. He did marry
her secretly in New York and then
went home to get the parental bless
ing, which was not given. They are
separated.
Lieut.. Varela went to New York a
year and half ago as a member OF
the Mexican commission appointed to
superintend the building of the gun
boats Tampico and Vera Cruz, at the
Crescent shipyardS. The only obJec-
ton to the marriage was the youth
fulness of the bride.
There was a stormy scene on the re-
turn of the young people from the
Little Church Around the Corner"
where they had been married secretly.
The father requested the bridegroom
to leave the house, and the lieutenant
departed. He says he intends taking
q vacation in two weeks and taking
his bride to Mexico with him. She
declares she will go.
Grandmother Aids Couple.
Obstacles are not always placed in
the way as is indicated by the follow
ing story of grandmother's efforts
to help two young people. A secret
marriage of two young folks in Rich
mond Ind, has just been announced.
Objections on the part of the parents
of Miss Agnes Gaar and Richard Study
had prevented the wedding some
months before.
After refusing to give their consent
to the marriage a secret wedding was
planned last January, and license was
procured, but for some reason the we'd
ding did not take place.
Miss Gaar spent the latter part of
the winter at Palm Beach, Fla, and
on her return their marriage was again
arranged.
Miss Gaar conf1ded her plans to her
grandmother, who resides north of the
city, and it was arranged that they be
married there. After the wedding the
bride returned to her home and her
parents knew nothing of it. The bride
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
Gaar, and the bridegroom is a son Of
Attorney and Mrs. T. ]. Study.
Bridegroom Had No Title.
Father was the obstacle in the fol-
lowing story, and all because the bride
groom had no title. He was an English
man and without a title, as we'll as
money. Because of the lack, of the
former father refused to supply the
latter, and for a time the wedding was
blocked. Now, however, the bride, Miss
Anna Head, has started to join the
bridegroom, Lieut. A. Mountenay-
Jephson, one of Stanley's assistants in
the Enlin Pasha relief expedition.
This is the climax to love romance
which began ten years ago, but which
was checked for all these years by
Miss Heads father, who refused to
make any settlement unless the. girl
married a title. Mr.. Head died re-
Gently, and now his daughter, who has
waited all these years, will wed the
man whom she loves. Her fortune in
her own right amounts to over 100000.
Lieut.. Jephson was enabled to join
the Stanley expedition through the lib
crafty of his aunt, Lady Jephson, who
paid $4,000 Stanley eXacted from all
his lieutenants written promise that
they would not publish any book until
one year after his own book was pub
lished. Jephson wrote good book, and
he was the only one of Stanley's officers
who came out of. the expedition with
any credit. Maj Bartellot, the ablest
officer of the expedition proved to be
a monster of cruelty and was killed
by a native.
Lieut.. Jephson's. health was broken
by African fever, however, and he
came to California to recuperate. Here
he met Miss Head, and they fell in
love. AS the girls father refused to
make any marriage settlements be-
cause Jephson had no title, the en-
gagement was broken, because Jeph-
son couldn't marry without money.
Authors of Their Own Woes.
Sometimes they put obstacles in their
own paths, as follows
A few days ago a man named Lacoe,
of Asherville, Kan, and a woman
named Pathegena Jones, of the same
place, were for a time the unhappiest
people on earth. They were affianced
and were to meet each other, but ow-
ing to the vagarieS of circumstances,
they did not meet. But now they are
together and happy once more and
by this time the former Miss Jones
Is undoubtedly Mrs. Lacoe
Their trouble occurred in this wise
Mr.. Lacoe was at Devils Lake, and he
notified Miss Jones to leave her Kansas
home, join him in Jackson, Mich, and
go to Devils Lake, where they would
reside. He eagerly watched every
train. but could not find her. But she
had arrived and was at the hotel When
she alighted from her train she could
not find him, and so asked to be di-
rected to hotel. She disregarded his
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