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Show ERE ENACTED Romance -of the Civil 1 War and Re-uniting of an Old Couple Kenton. O., Sept. 1. Ah quaiat a romance as was ever written down In . fiction has found its ending here In i ical life. Phillip Cair, remarried to ihe wlfo he lost in the turmoil or the Civil war, nearly half a century ago, is enjoying en-joying with her his second honeymoon honey-moon They were reunited Id wedlock wed-lock $ few day.sJnce but it was only ., yesterday that the facts became known as to iheir life history. Separated by raiding guerillas, who captured the federal malls; divorced becaune or a believod desertion, each n-marrlpd and each again widowed, they found th love of their youth still aflame upon an accidental meeting ni, long since and their new bethroihal followed at once. Carris now 74 years of age and his ; wife 6S. It was in 1SC2 that Cr.rr responded re-sponded to Lincoln's second call for troops, marched to the front, leaving bis bride of a voir and his infant daughter behind. When some months Icier . his letter and remittances stopped, she was Induced to apply for a divorce on the- grounds that he had Inserted hr. I Some time later she remarried and j went to live in the east. When Carr I returned from the war his bride was j missing and he b-ariW ot the dl- oree. Stung to the quick, he, too, I married acaln. Many years later her second hu--1 band and his second wife fUed. Re-I Re-I eeVtly he returned to the scenes of i hil boyhood and here h" met -the i girl he left behinJ him." in the dark-days dark-days of 'f2. He explained how the ; malls bad been raided and the letters ! written with the stubs of a pencil in tho trenches of Tennessee, stolen with. . his slender savings from his soldlor ! pay fir $13 a month. And be told how when her letters stopped, he. too, be. J lleved thnt he had been deserted. Both the old people say. however, that the tragedy of years has been made up to them by their happlnea I or now. i |