Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-02-12
A Matter s Compatibility

A man stepped into restaurant in South Dakota and. looking about for table, saw another man eating his sup per whom he approached.
 Hello, Smithr' he said, What are you doing here?"
 "Hello, Runletr' said the other. "Sit down."
 Runlet sat down, and the two com pared notes as to what had happened since they had last met several years before. Then Runlet said:
 But you haven't answered my ques- tion."
 "Well, since you are an old chum and I am pining for confidant I'll tell you. Five years ago I married a girl who promised to make me the best kind of wife. She had apparently everything to render her lovable. We married and on the honeymoon quar- reled. That wasn't the worst of 1t. We kept on quarreling. In my treat ment of her there was nothing I had not used toward other women without antagonizing them-and l was | obliged to conclude that she had bad disposition. think she came to the | same conclusion about me, and after many efforts on the part of both of us to reform our dispositions we finally agreed to separate. 1t was arranged between us that should come out here and get a divorce" l D,,,,IaS IStana1 tn thiS with marked attention, and 1t appeared to have con siderable influence over him.
 "They say" he replied after some thought. that matrimony is something half the world is trying to get into and the other half Is trying to get out of, For a year I've been hunting woman I wish to marry. l met her last sum mer on a train between Chicago and San Francisco, and We fell fin love with each other on the journey. When ad- mitted my part of it she turned pale and told me that those were the only words of love that must ever be spoken between us She wouldn't tell me why or give me any information concern ing herself. Had known when we parted that could get no rest without her would never have lost sight of her"
 'I hope" said Smith, that you will find your love and be happy with her For me. am only anxious to be free. and when free shall remain so."
 Neither converted the other to his way of thinking. Runlet left the next day, and Smith a week later secured his divorce. He did not see his wife again and in year lost track of her. They had no children to continue be- tween them either pleasant or un- pleasant interest. They had come to- gether as two ships passing at sea and after brief tarry together had passed on with as little interest in each other as when they had first met.
 Five years after the meeting Of Smith and Runlet in South Dakota restaurant they met again. This time 1t was in a corridor of hotel. Runlet espied his friend and, advancing cheer Fly, put out his hand.
 "Did you ever find your lost lover asked the other after the first greet ings.
 Indeed I did, or, rather, she found me Not long after l parted with you l received message from her. l won dered how she knew my name and ad- dress and discovered later that she had seen 1t on my trunk while we were travelling together. l went to see her. She withdrew her objections to our union, and we were married"
 And happiness followed the honey moonT
 Hike a never setting tide. We are happier every day"
 ''To what do you attribute such hap pinessT
 Carlyle says that genius is uncon- scious. 1t Is so with love. We don't consider why we are happy together. sometimes think we don't realize that we are happy But when we are part ed we are miserable"
 'The woman must be jewel"
 "She Is. Come and see for yourself. I shall expect you to dine with us this evening"
 Runlet gave his address, and his friend promised to be on hand.
 When Smith called, Runlet was at the telephone and asked Mrs. Runlet to go down and receive the guest ex- cusing him till he should have finished at the phone. When he want down Smith and Mrs. Runlet were sitting talking in a constrained manner nat ural under the circumstances. Runlet, to make them more easy, Introduced them, speaking words of praise for both. They soon went In to dinner, where Runlet recounted at the table the story of his and Smiths meeting some five years before. Then he went on to say:
 "Mr. Smith, my dear, was not 30 fortunate as I in his matrimonial af' fairs. Pardon me, old man. l know my wife will sympathlze with you. know, my dear, MT. Smith to be one of the best men In the world. Any woman who couldn't make him happy Ia not good enough for him or for any good man."
 After dinner Smith pleaded an en' gagement and hurried away. Runlei joined his wife in her boudoir and found her on a sofa with a bottle of salts to her nose, which she was snif' Ing between gasps