The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-24
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doing their best to console her for the
disappointment Of tho delayed wedding.
At first she was only told that he had been,
seriously injured and was unable to meet
her there, At this she broke down. ana
It was only after the ship had reached
tho pier, that Mrs. NJ. ]. Heath, wo-3
man who occupied the same stateroom
with her in the steerage. told her Or
Goods death.
Miss Bennett Is pretty English girl, 70
years old, decided blonde. with large
blue cyes and q fresh, clear complexion.
With her father, mother. and two Sis
ters she lives at Wednesday,, STAFFORD
shire. Her father Is In fairly comforta-
BILE circumstances and Is employed y IN
one OF the mills of that place She and
Ambrose Good were brought UP togeth-
err as children. and from their schooldays
they were sweethearts. They had long
planned to marry on Christmas. Inc
wedding was to have taken place In Eng
land, but Good, who came over here some
four months ago to visit his brother
found employment in McReesport ana
sent for Lillian to come over here to ne
married. He had prepared q little MONS
for the bride in that city and started cast
on the Inflated Duquesne limited w ea-
nesday night, expecting to find the DIG
White Star ship at It's pier on his tnrrl-
yal-in New York.
WEEDS MAN SIZE THOUGHT DEAD.
About the same time in New York an
other young woman who had expected
to bury her sweetheart found him awe
and was married to him. Miss Mary
Justin was engaged to marry Herbert
DAILY. The wedding day was set and
every preparation made when the glrl
wa told that DAILY had been killed In his
room,
Escaping gas was the cause. lie was
found dead in the morning. she was told,
gas escaping from one OF the Jets.
She laid aside her wedding clothes and
put on black. AS soon as she had SO far
recovered from the shock as to be aole
to walk she was taken to his room.
There glad surprise was waiting her.
The report of the young mans death had
been erroneous. He had been overcome
by gas, but had been revived and was
sitting UP waiting for his bride when she
came In expecting to find him dead.
He insisted on having the wedding
ceremony performed, and she consented.
There was no time for change from
the funeral black to the wedding gar
ucnts, and she was married In the clothes
in which she had dressed herself to at
tend his funeral.
HONEYMOON AFTER QUARTER CEN
TuRY. 81
Another couple who waited twenty
years for their honeymoon We're MISS
Amelia Grace Northerman, II years old,
Of Nordhoft, N. j., and James Ackerson,
Of Fairview. N. J.
Twenty years before they had been en-
gagged to marry and the date for the wed-
ding had been set They were out driv-
ing a few days before the time set. inc
{ horses became unruly and the man whip.
ped them vigorously. despite tho protests
of the young woman. Shc became angry.
"a man who would beat q horse IKE
that would beat his wife, she said.
All arrangements were broken OH. no
girl refused to reconsider. Not long ago,
twenty years after this episode, Acker-
son was out driving when he saw wo'
man in, distress, She had sprained her
ankle and was unable to walk. Stopping,
he prepared to put her In tho carriage.
when no discovered that she was his ola
sweetheart,
Cant you forget about that morse
whipping?'' he asked
Yes" she said. "but please take me
homo first?"
And tho contrast Is In the story OF two
young people In Minneapolis who met
each other for the first time shedding ana
who were married the next day.
And probably 1t would DO rash 20 say
whether tho people who waited twenty
years or the people who waited one day
will have the least to regret.-Chlcago
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