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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1903)
A Filipino Bride. PltjAD In the uniform of a United I f I States marine, Horace Healer 1 I Mr-fall a nnllvo nllmnr. food In the parlor of hla brother In Phlladelnhln. one rlnv ttmf wetk and swore to "love, honor and cher ish" a Filipino girl who traveled half way around the world to wed him, and endured hardships that would have stifled every human emotion save love. Bhe swam out to sea and went aboard an army transport as a stowaway. She went days without food, and suffered torments for the want of water In the dark, dark hold of the transport. Juniata Castro, belle of the little laland Isabella de Basllan. had won a heart and dared death to have that heart her own. A few mariners from the League Island barracks, some everyday folks from round about Wisher street, Qermantown, and two or three relatives of the bridegroom were the witnesses of the wedding ceremony, ami when It was over the dainty little Ma lay denied them all a bride's kiss, and crossed herself with a sacred oath that no man save her husband had ever touched hla Hps to hers. The big marine tcl s a straightforward manly story of wooing In the Philip t. the peril of bring- Stilt). thft dlffltMlllfaa pines, of the elo tng the girl ul encountered and uercome on th wv San Francisco, the struggles there, and the supreme effort that Anally brought his loved one here half way around the glob for love. The little woman tells the story of her romance as follows: "With the ships came the lovers, and with the ships the lovers went again and never see no more. "I see girla cry and cry and cry. Sick some days. One time they die. Baby die, too. All very sorry. Lover far away with hip. All bad; all sad. My love, one hot day, say boss make ship go away. He must go on ship. I not cry. I say: Tou go. I go. We laugh. Next day I go on ship sell fruit. My love leave big hole for me In ship. When night come I swim out to sbjp. Hold tight on rope. Get fast In hole. Make no noise. Long time in hole. All dark; all hot No water. Rats In hair. "Some time I sleep; some time can't sleep. Choke. Make no noise. Not cry out Wake up some Ume, he there with bottle water. I love him. He say: "Be brave.' Long time without water. Long time not at Some day he come again. Long time away: Then say 'Frisco.' Next night all dark. Can't stand. Can't see. Awful bad. He come to tne say must swim more. He pitched roe far out In water. Then fellows he know pick me up In little boat. B'g place 'Frisco. Little boat tome time stop by big place. We wait. Then he come. Bo happy. 'Vlotne day I go for work. He must come away that day. I work. He send me money. iome day, long time, I come here. Now we marry, I not work. No cry like girls home. Long time In ship. Long time In cars. He give rifle up soon. No boss then. Some day, maybe, we go back. Then no hope In ship. No dirt Water and meat, and he. Maybe too far. Not go. Happy here, not happy there." Beams and Romance. There isn't much romance In the cammon or garden variety of beans. Anybody will he willing to admit that, but when baked l.t the Boston manner they a:emed to promote matrimony If In the meantime they do not swell the memterahlp of the suicide club. Otto L. Btoeffler formerly lived In Jarsey City. Not long ago he went to Boston that Is, most of him did and obtained a posi tion. His heart as the story books tell It was left behind In the keeping of Mies Joseph ine Staublnger of Griffith street, Jersey City. They were both young and were to have been married In two years. But they had reckoned without the Bos ton baked beans. Otto took up the burden of life in Boston and dally the burden be came increared by baked begins. This went on for some time and then he sent a call of distress, headed towards Jersey City. A letter from htm to a friend announcing that he is to be married soon throws light on the subject It Is as follows: "Dear John: I cannot stand Boston baked beans much longer. For a year this dish has teen set before me at breakfast, dinner and supper. As you know, I have strong will power, but it has been broken down completely by the everlasting and ever prerent baked bean. After due de liberation I have decided to get married at once, so that I may have something el3 for meals besides tean. Josephine has consented,- and thank eoodnens there It a prospect of my sitting down to a table and not finding beans on It. The Boston baked have no more terrors for me now. Rejoice with me for my lucky escape." Thirty Tears Before Deetdlaa;. Thirty years ago Charles McKee of Ken tucky was undectlcd whether he wanted to marry Miss Elisabeth Plummer or Miss Matilda Wheat, who were chums and lived In the same neighborhood of Fleming coun.ty. Finally he decided on Miss Plum mer, who died three years after the wed ding. His second wife was Miss Elizabeth Humphries, who died several years after wards. Then he married Mrs. Margaret Haggarty, who died at the age of 60. After a proper season of mourning the still un discouraged man took a fourth wife, an other 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 that 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 recog nized her and after some time succeeded in doing so. Bhe was Wheat's daughter, one of the two women he had bean undecided about thirty years before. Bhe had married coon after he had chose Miss Plummer and her husband had died about the time he married 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, Drexel Bell to Wed... The engagement of Mlsa Josephine Whar ton Drexel, the heiress, to Dr. Duncan Emmet of New York is announced In Phil adelphia. The date of the approaching marriage was not made public, and coupled with her announcement of the approaching marriage Mrs. Drexel foreshadowed what may he a new fad among the nance of the well-to-do. Miss Drexcl. she said, had destroyed all the photographs of herself In her posses sion when she pledged herself to Dr. Em met. All of them from the time she was In pinafores to those taken a few months ago her daughter had torn up. "Why?" said Mrs. Drexel. "Oh, Just a girlish whim, perhaps.' Miss Drexel Is the daughter of the late Joseph Drexel, whose father, Francis M., started the banking firm of Drexel & Co. In New York. Bhe Is worth some mil lions In her own right Mrs. Eric Dahl gren and -Mrs. Harry Lehr are her sisters. Dr. Emmet is a son of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet and a direct descendant of Robert Emmet Played DeadWon Husband. Mrs. M. Bhuttleworth rushed into the Lib erty avenue station. East New York, and excitedly announced that her husband bad run away with their year-old baby. Bhe gave the name of her husband's em ployer and the police sergeant, going to the telephone, called him up and was in formed that Bhuttleworth was working on a new building in South Brooklyn, sev eral miles away. "We know all about It," answered the person at the other end of the 'phone, "and have sent for him." "For what?" asked the sergeant "We've Just received two telephone mes sages to get him; that his wife has dropped dead. Guess he Is on his way home now." "Did you telephone that'you were dead?" asked the sergeant of the woman. "I did," the woman replied triumphantly. "It was to make my husband hurry home. Please don't notify htm that I am alive." Shortly afterwards Bhuttleworth, grief stricken and with tears gushing down his cheeks, reached his home. Upon opening the door his wife, well and beaming, was there to greet him. Then he hurried to the home of a friend and got the baby. Ho Safegruard ta Years, Sedate men -who figure out at the aire of 40 that Cupid can do no harm to them might well take care. There Is no age of Immunity and no disposition which Is entirely proof. To substantiate this It Is only necessary to tell the story of William Vannote of New Brunswick, N. J. For thirty-five years Vannote had not spoken to a women. The other day he was married. For nine years he had boarded with Mr3. Mary Hendrock, a widow, and Jacob Agan, her son-lnlaw, and her daughter. He did not speak to the two women. He had nothing to say, he has since explained. Suddenly, however, Vannote awoke to the fact that he ought to have a wife, and so at the breakfast table he remarked, breaking his long silence: "Mrs. Hejidrock, ma'am, will you marry me?" Adding thereto by way of an after thought: "And will you have corned beef and cabbage for dinner?" Evidently he thought that while he was peaking he might as well make two re quests as one and get a dinner to his lik ing as well as a wife. The buxom German widow was startled, as Bhe might well be, at hearing the words of a man ce'ebrated for miles around as a woman hater, but she recovered her composure quickly and stammered: "Yes. Fir." It was le to Vannote to decide whether this meat Tha she would be hla wife or whether she would provide him with the cabbage dinner. It might have meant both or either one. Vannote thought over It a moment and then asked what she meant "Both," she said. "Then put on your hat," said the sud den bridegroom. In a quarter of an hour they stood before a Justice of the peace. After they had been married they moved Into a tiny house which Vannote had built. Evidently he. had been thinking of matri mony. Since they have been married the hus band has not spoken ten words to the wife, but with the experience of knowing him ten years without hearing him speak at all Mrs. Vannote is quite reconciled to her silent husband. Elope and Wed Over 'Phone. Two young people In Virginia were put to much trouble to accomplish their matri monial intentional They were W. P. Randall and Miss Minnie Brown and were beset, as true lovers frequently are, with watch ful parents. They planned to elude the latter, but planned to no purpose for some time. Finally It occurred to them that an elope ment could be conducted without exciting any suspicion. Miss Brown made arrangements to visit friend about 100 miles from Louisa, Va., her home. Randall went to Buffalo, W. Va., also. to visit friends. There he pro cured a marriage license and then went to the long distance telephone. Miss Brown was ready with witnesses and the minister engaged by Randall married them. In the midst of these elopements it may be Interesting to know that white young men and women are not the only ones who can direct such an affair. A party of young Indians in Minnesota have Just completed a get away which for complications would have puzsled the most daring young people of paler color. The word "party" Is used advisedly, as in one case the young man who started the elopement did not finish It His girl was taken In tow by another Indian, who proved the more fascinating. He was deserted and the girl married 'No. 2. lee Water Aids Romance. A romtir.ee centering about a pitcher of Ice water li C its culmination In Chicago the other da v !-. n Miss Jean Montgomery, an actress, was married to Frank B. Peck, a bell boy at the Wellington hotel. Miss - Montgomery Is 24 years old and her hus band Is two years her Junlpr. They went to the marriage license clerk together and were married by Justice Mur phy within two minutes after obtaining a marriage license. Miss Montgomery told Justice Murphy she was the daughter of G. H. Montgomery, an officer of the Montgomery Coal com pany at Covington, Ky. Her parents are aid to be prominent in Covington society and are wealthy. Miss Montgomery arrived In Chicago from the west several weeks ago to begin an en gagement in a downtown theater. Bhe was a guest at the Wellington, when she met Peck, who Is a bell boy. Miss Montgomery explained the meeting this way. "I rang the office bell and asked for Ice water. Frank brought It to me. I liked hlra at first sight. I soon noticed that he waa a young man of good habits. His black hah was always combed evenly and neatly' and he wss always dressed neatly. I rang for Ice water frequently after I learned to like him and after our engagement two weeks ago I left the hotel to arrange for our marriage." 4L