The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-10-24
Marriage Of Mss Benson, Of Gambler,
and Mr.. Donehee, Of Atlanta, Ca
Is OF Interest to Many Carroll
r0untians
#COuntians.

No proverbs are more true than
these, AL the world loves a lover"
and Truth Is stranger than fiction"
While, perhaps none in Carroll county
knows the bridegroom in a recent
marriage in Atlanta, Ca, Paul Done
hee, ESQ.,, there are many who know,
esteem and love the bride, who was
Miss A1verta Benson,of Gambler. Paul
Donehee Is a wonderful man. one
writing of him, says He Is clean
through and through, and his capabili-
ties are beyond question. The
tragedy of Paul Donehees life, II 1t be
a tragedy, Is the fact that twenty
three years ago, when child Of five
years of age, he lost his sight from an
attack of menengitis., Ward S. Greene
in a recent issue of the Atlanta jour
nal says Of HIM
when Dick Heldar, Kipling's great
hero felt the light go out he said Let's
curse God and die" Though the child
of five did not speak thus, his thoughts
must have been much like those or
Dick Heldar. yet once the first horror
of the blackness passed, once he had
steeled himself to face the slghtless
future in the pitchy night that cover
ed him he found the bright star OF
hope. Today that very star of hope
has frightened until the man who was
the child of five sees 1t luminous be-
fore him, blazing path through the
future trimmed only by seat In the
United States Senate"
The story of the life of this heroic
son of the Southland, who has over
come in such unequal battle. upon
whose head has been placed 50 many
crowns of honor and achievement, In
the world of music, in the political
forum and at the bar, and more beau
tiful than all the rest, the glorious
love of the woman, whom he has won,
by the purity of his life, the sweetness
of his character. the strength Of his
manhood, II fully told would read ike
a romance almost past believing. IL
was a day In May. 1890, when Paul
Donehee felt the light go out. A few
weeks later he entered the Academy
for the blind at Macon, Ga. For
eight years he attended this school,
training the memory, which has be-
come his most marvellous asset. Here
too his wonderful musical senaibility
began to develop. Later, graduated
from the Academy, he took three
years special course at the Mercer
University. Here he found as he sup
posed In music not only his JOY but
also his life work. From the nniVer-
sity he returned TO Atlanta. his birth
place, and soon became a prominent
figure In musical circles. and soon
had more pupils than he could teach.
At the very time that the demands OF
his profession were greatest. he de-
veloped interest such as his father be
fore him had felt in Atlanta municipal
affairs. To conceive the thought OF
entering politics and running for
coroner was 10 act. II mattered not
that no such thing had ever been
known as blind coroner. He an
nounced his candidacy, and @on
against the field. Thrice he has been
elected To this Office, which he now
holds The coroner OF Fulton county
is not allowed by law To draw fees
for more than so inquests year
During his first year In Office he neld
Just one hundred and fifty inqueBts,
and in every succeeding year their
number has exceeded that mark
Nine months after he became c0Ioncr,
he began the hardest task Of all. and
entered the Atlanta law school Ills
indomitable will carried him through,
and after Il Two years course II re-
ceiyed his degree and began tie prac-
tice of his profession. In which h has
been very successful Student. teach
er, coroner. attorney at Inv. step by
step he has accomplished every pur-
pose formed, and his friends gaY that
since to him To will is to achieve he
will some day accomplish that to
which he aapires, a seat In Congress.
While, a. 4 boy In Georgia. he was
laying the foundations upon which he
has built 50 marYelOusly. up IN old
Maryland n little girl dreamed OF go
ing out into the world In helpful ser
vice TO the sick and distressed. She
was the granddaughter Of the late
John Wonders. and the daughter OF
the late elias and Katie Wonders
Benson, and cousin of Mr.. Geofse l..
Benson, Of Gambler Upon the death
OF her parents. Mr.. and Mr. George
Il. Benson took the little girl into their
hearts and home. and watched over
her youthful years. There she might
have remained as a daughter In the
home, but she could not close her ears
TO the call Of humanity, and resolved
to enter the profession of trained
nurse. Having been graduated from
st. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore. ABOUT
two years ago. she went TO Atlanta
and entered the Office OF DR.. Clarence
Johnson, one of the best known
specialists of the south as his Office
nurse 1t Is not TO be wondered at
that when these two met they were
attracted to each other.
A few weeks ago they went quietly
to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. NJ.
Arbuckle. At Decatur, Ga. where by
the Rev. A. Il. Belk, pastor of the
Park Street Methodist Church. Atlanta,
they were married in the presence of
a few friends, who proved able to
keep the secret. Mr.. and Mrs. Done
hee, themselves intended to walt for
a month before announcing their mar
riage, but they lust could not keep IL, !"
and as soon AZ they announced 1t to
other friends IN Atlanta, the papers of
that city were very earnest in their
sincere congratulations, and Mrs.
Donehee and her husand both wrote
of their happiness to Mr.. and Mrs.
Benson Miss Benson's" friends IN old
Carroll extend sincerest eongratu-
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