The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-24

Here Is a set OF contrasts
4 Ono man waits twenty years for his
wife; Another marries HIS at sight.
ono young woman reaches this country
TO find her lover killed on his way to
4 meet her: another goes to attend her
lovers funeral, and, finding him alive,
marries him..
Another man waits twenty years for
2 his wife; another succeeds In Il quick
elopement with school girl.
All phases OF the game OF natrlmony.
are represented In these contrasts. There
is the wisdom which ought to come with
years and the indiscretlon which Is sup
posed to be the attendant OF youth. There
are unexpected 10y and unlocked for sor-
row.
welded AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
John Smith,. wealthy Los Angeles
ranchman, and his wife, one Mnry Mac
Pherson Smith. Of Dundee, Scotland. are
+ leaving New York on their wedding trip
west. They had spent twenty years OF
their lives apart and tho last twelve OF
them with 5000 miles between them.
The two were born in Southampton
England and became orphans at an early
age. Later they drlfted up to Dundee.
Then, twenty years ago, tho present
bride became a nurse In the Perth hos
pital, while Smith was yainly trying to
make good living. Twelve years since
he settled !. near Los Angeles, where ne
now has large ranch.
Six months ago Miss Smith, by that
time head nurse OF the hospital, fell Sc
4 riolsly Ill of typhoid fever. When she
recovered. the ranchman wrote. asking
her to marry him. She arrived recently
on tho steamship Anchorin, and the much
enduring couple were married al the
Broadway Central Hotel at 6 o'clock by
nko1 he
Henry Marsh Warren. in the presence OF
Hotel Manager Daniel C. Webb and his
wife.
FIRST NET AT THEIR WEDDING.
To offset this there 70 q sort OF sight
unseen" marriage which took place IN
Z Council Bluffs when Miss Minnie Hunter,
a seamstress OF that city, was married
to r. W. Mathews. a young farmer from
near Wilmnr. MINI. They had not met
until the morning OF their wedding. their
previous acquaintance having been at
long range through the medium OF the
mails.
Mathews explained that he had heard
OF Miss Hunter through n friend, ana.
being encouraged by the friend, had
started writing to her, When Mathews
was telling the story OF their romance he
had not seen / IS bride. He had spoken
to her over the telephone and that was
all. ;,
II don't know much about her yet"
no said. "She sent me a photograph
which was a sumner. It took a frame
twenty-five inches wide to hold It,
From that know that she Is beauty.
1 never sent her one Of mine because !
am not good looking and ! didn't want
her to form bad impression OF me,
\ am a hard working man and know how
to farm with the best OF them. | guess
I can mako her ~ home all right.
Anyway he has undertaken It, with the
wishes Of a, number Of people that he may
- FOUND HER FTANcp DEAD. q
Tho sad story of Miss Lillian Bennett
offers ono side of another OF the con-
trasts. She arrived in New York the
other day In tho steerage OF the steam
shin Cedric. She expected to be met by
Ambrose Good, her intended husband,
and they were to have been married the
next day. 80 ,,oot,,or
and did not reach tho port as soon as
expected. Miss Bennett was srlevlns owe.
this delay when she was told thai GOOD
had been killed in the wreck OF me ~,
auesne express OF the Baltimore n''u
Ohio Railroad .,,o,,o,
The news was broken to her ~ seyera.
OF her fellow passengers. VINO hao poe''