Arizona republican., 1903-11-29

sudden bridegroom. In q quarter of an hour they stood before a justice of the peace After they had been married they moved into q tiny house which Vannote had built. Evidently he had been thinking of matrimony. Since they have been married the husband has not spoken ten words to his wife. but with the experience of knowing him ten years without hearing him speak at all. Mrs. Vonnete is quite reconciled to her silent husband. From Ohio there comes another story which illustrates the statement that age does not bring immunity. This story concerns Henry Goldman. a Col umbus, millionaire, and his adopted daughter, Mrs. Cora c. Flora. Goldman is II years old and the bride 3S. 1 Only recently Goldman retired from business with a fortune to his credit. Some years ago he became interested in Mrs. Flora, a ayoung widow who had been supporting herself by work as trained nurse. He decided to adopt her and did so. making provision for her in his will She made her home with him and the man soon fell in love with her. The marriage is the result
 Thirty years ago Charles Mckee of Kentucky was undecided whether he wanted to marry Miss Elizabeth Plum mer or Miss Matilda Wheat. who were chums and lived in the same neigh borhood of Fleming county. Finally he decided on M ss Hummer, who died three years after the wedding.
 His second wife was Elizabeth Humphries, who died several years i.,e Margaret Haggarty, who died at the age of 50. After a proper season of mourning the still undiscouraged man took a fourth wife, another widow Mrs Olive Davis, who died in the second year after her marriage to him.
 After his second marriage Mckee had moved to Indiana. He decided for the fifth wife he would go back to Kentucky. Back in Fleming county he called at the Wheat homestead and was introduced to a Mrs. Doyle. He was asked if he recognized her. and after some time succeeded in doing Eso. She was Wheat's daughter, one of the two women he had been un- decided about thirty years ago.
 She had married soon after he chose Miss Hummer and her husband had died about the time he chose his fourth wife. In about four weeks from the time he met her again he asked her to marry him and she consented. They went back to Indiana.
 | There isn't much romance in the common or garden variety of beans. Anybody will be willing to admit that, | but when baked in d Boston manner they seem to promote matrimony if ] in the meantime they do not swell the membership of the suicide club.
 Otto l.. Stoefher formerly lived in Jersey City. Not long ago he went to ! Boston-that is. most of him and ob- tained position.
 | His heart as the story book tells it. was left behind n the keeping of Miss Josephine Staubinger, of Griffith street, Jersey City. A letter from him to a | friend announcing that he is to be married soon throws light on the subject. It is as follows:
 Dear John: 1 cannot stand Boston | baked beans much longer. For nearly a year this dish has been set before me | for breakfast, dinner and supper. As you know, I have a strong will power but it has been broken down complete ly by the everlasting and ever present baked bean. After due deliberation 1 have decided to get married at once, so that I may have something else for meals beside beans. Josephine has consented, and, thank goodness, there is q prospect of my sitting down to a table and not finding beans on it. Tine Boston baked have no more terrors for me now. Rejoice with me for my lucky escape
 Whatever of novelty and romance there may be in the marriage of two sisters to two brothers, there is on as- surance in it that happiness is also involved. This has been demonstrated by the experience of Ida and Emma Weber, of Cincinnatti, who have just left their husbands in Reading, Ohio. They married two brothers, Clarence and Walter Penn. Things did not move smoothly. The wives have left their husbands and are seeking di- | vorceS.