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Show MARRYING HIS OWN WIFEi Bh . DMn't Know IhiT Hha Vta Itoired llnz llcr Own llmlaml. 'Did you over henr of a man marry-In. marry-In. his own wife?" ashed a St. Louis mnn of n tilobe-Dcmocrnt reporter. "I doa't moan n dlvorcoil conplo getting romarrieil, but a couple really golug th.ough tho marriage ceremony n second sec-ond time with ono of tho two entirely Iff: orantof the fact. I met n easo of thst hind last year aud am thinking of seeing tlio idea to roiihi novelist to bu'lda plot on. It wan in a traall Oh o town, and tho brldo had been daiertod by her husband twenty years bo. ore. She hail long ago corao to tho cor-olusion that ho was deail, nnd hud been looked upon ns an i llglblo widow who was fair and forty, if not fat, when a stranger enme to town, got himself him-self intnxluccd to her, and finally persuaded per-suaded her to try tho matrimonial ox-perlmcnt ox-perlmcnt u second time. They wero married after a short courtship, and a few weeks after tho honeymoon tho husband gave away hl story, and told his wife that sho had married him twlco without knowing It. Ills explanation ex-planation wns thnt on leaving hor twenty yean, before ho had gono on a protruded spree and had dually got himself sent to the penitentiary of n distant state for u loug term. After bolng liberated ho was nshnmod to look up his old friends, and took R for granted that his wifo had forgotten nil about 1dm by that lime. Ho accord-lngly accord-lngly wont abroad, and It was only on his return after n long period thnt he hoard accidentally that his wifo was stjll living nt the old home. Rather tlvon run tm rlult of being spurned for his hoartlcsincsa, and reljing on hi ontlro change lupronal ppcur.j;nv , ho conceived tho (lining uiot 0j ,viw' ' rilag and remarryl g his own wifo. 1 , don't know what tlm lady said wnon I Jie iti midcciovMt, hut tht to one of I tlw duUU tiw novelist I MR tae tol.T j to can supply for himself." ' |