Show CUPID DRIVES TEEMS H IN QUEER WAYS S There is no way of accounting for the many ctrange and unnatural things which can be charged against the conduct con-duct of men and women who Are In love To attempt io analyze the varying vary-ing emotions of loves victims would be 1 Khoulderhifi1 a problem which could not be grasped by a mind of oven tho keenest keen-est and most penetrating1 perceptive faculties IL may be true as the poet pay t that all tho world liken a lover hut at beat the world knows little or nothing about the heart promptings oC this ideal personage Being in love Is not always the blissfully bliss-fully eilucllvc und complacently Ideal condition which theorists would have you believe for trials and tribulations some of them great and others insignificantly insig-nificantly small constantly beset those whom Cupid lists for participation In some or his mighty conquests It Is these preying actualities that cause men and women In love to do many strange things Often their conduct approaches ap-proaches the heroic and stories of touching sacrifices nnd marvelous devotion de-votion vhloh one would not expect to find outsldu the coven of sentimental novels como to light Again love with Its erratic attributes shoots off iJn another angle and converts con-verts a man or a woman Into an unreasonable un-reasonable unthinking being who goes to Incalculable extremes to bring about n realization of a herl bed situation I 33ut I whether it Is rHlerrmrl1c con Ktant devotion through many years or a directly opposite extreme the action springs from the same Impartial source tho existence of love As an illustration of the tragio complications com-plications which may grow out of a love affxtlr the case of Mrs Ralph Redmond who with her husband now lives inn in-n suburb of Baltimore presents itself There is more of tragedy in this story than is common yet it has a remarkably remarka-bly realistic ring Mrs Rodmond formerly for-merly was Miss Iou Parris of Tryon City S C and she recently married Jlalph Redmond after killing a man who betrayed her present husband and circulated reports injurious to her character char-acter For this act she received a penitentiary pen-itentiary sentence of fifteen years but through the efforts or friends was granted a pardon Mr and Mrs Redmond knew each other as children They attended the same school in Tryon City and as they grew older the friendship of childhood ripened Into love In IL I most ardent form With the problem of gaining a livelihood before him Redmond deter l rnincd to be a moonshiner an occupation occupa-tion favored by the 1 more adventurous t spirits of his neighborhood The young couple continued lo love until a rival ilnally appeared on the scene His name was William Johnson lie laid siege to the hand of Miss Parris and finally proposed to her and was rejected re-jected Then he determined l to destroy the nnppmess ot Keumonu Johnson furnished information through which Hcdmond was hugtiilcd Inlo the hands of revenue agents The young man watt saved from trial through the In tcrveniion of relatives huL was compelled com-pelled to remtiin more or less in hiding end to woo his lady love by stealth Johnson however continued his a3 rlrcsses after Redmond hecame a fugitive fugi-tive and when he thought sufficient time had elapsed since the young mans disappearance proposed to Miss Parrlfi a second time Again rejected he circulated scandals scan-dals against the young womans character char-acter till niuddered by his persecutions I persecu-tions she called him one evening to her home and after accusing him of circulating these stories shot him dead At the trial Miss Parriss beauty and the eloquent defense she made of hir rash art produced 1 such an effect upon the prosecuting officer thait she was allowed to pica guilty to murder In the second degree and was sentenced to fifteen years In the penitentiary of South Carolina The Rescue band of the icings Daughters became Interested In the young woman oon after her incarceration Incarcera-tion and through their good offices Ralph Redmond was taken to Raleigh and permitted to Interview his sweetheart sweet-heart under nn assumed name These visits were a source of much comfort to the Imprisoned girl and her newfound friends also gladdened herb her-b cheering promises of a possible pardon par-don The Kings Daughters did In fact present an urgent petition J lo the Governor Gov-ernor for n pardon whioth he finally granted upon the condition that Miss TarriM should upon her release enter the IIoue of the Good Shepherd In Baltimore rind undergo a sours of instruction In-struction and training As a result she was conditionally par d rcd on December S > ISfiil and Immediately Imme-diately took up her residence in the reformatory re-formatory Following her to BnlUmorc young Redmond secured employment with a street railway company Gradually working his ray up he reached a position po-sition where ht ivns trusted and advanced ad-vanced by his employers Through the Influence of relatives his difficulties resulting re-sulting from his early moonshlniiiR escapades es-capades were smoothed over with the result that immediately upon Miss Parrlss release from the reformatory the young1 couple were married This is one kind of a love picture Here Is I another less trade but sufficiently suf-ficiently weighted with melodramatic details to carry the point Katie Tralnor of Xenla III was stricken 1 with smallpox1 In Washington Ind land wns taken tojthe Isolation hospital 1 in that place Early one morning Charley Char-ley I Pad ell her sweetheart visited the quarantine dwelling and gained entrance en-trance by kicking the door from Its hinges lie did nil thin because he wanted lo he near the young woman lie loved and when two immune police came to arrest him nourished two revolvers re-volvers In a menacing way and l declared de-clared he would not leave But ho was overpowered and despite lilt pleas and protests wan dragged to the olllce of tho Health department where he was vaccinated and thoroughly fumigated Then he made a break for liberty and escaped Three ohargos ot violation of the law were lodged against him and all because his heart carried him to the Isolation hospital where the young woman of his choice lay III The saving of a young woman life won a bride for William Sayrcs of VHkcsbarre Pa He detected Tallin May In the act of climbing over the railing of a bridge to throw herself into the river below He caught her In his arms just as she was about to Jump I The young woman insisted that she wanted to die but Snyres pleaded with her and In leas than 01 week they worn I engaged A few days later the marriage mar-riage ceremony took place But there is another side to this love picture Occasionally a man or a womv an lu not capable of measuring1 depth of affection and after marriage soon discover that their affinity lies elsewhere else-where Such cases arc proved by divorce di-vorce and subsequent hasty inarrlnces The Rov IS L > Wells a Methodist mln mister residing near Jennings La had such an experience At noon he procured pro-cured a divorce from his wife nnd six hours later married Miss Bertha Croop er of Lake Charles La The lawyer who secured the divorce was also a minister und performed the ceremony In the case of James Fitzgerald of Sullivan county Tenn it was not a divorce but death that opened the way for a new niTadr of the hen rt The funeral of his wife was held on Saturday Satur-day and the same day he took out a marriage license to marry a young woman who had been serving as a domestic do-mestic in his family Another record breaking case of this kind is reported at Kokomo inch Elijah and rule Vernon Ver-non and William nnd Bertha Barnes were divorced at the same lout by Judge Mont of the Howard Circuit courl Ten minutes after the decree was entered Barnes and Mrs Vernon were man led Samuel Larsen and his wife residents resi-dents of Waukegan Ill had a somewhat some-what different experience He is 70 while she Is 71 When both were young they were married and lived together happily for a time but gradually the spark of love died I out and years ago they were divorced For twelve years they followed separate and 1 distinct paths lJu Lone day they chanced to meet and the old love returned The result re-sult was that they decided to start over again adn wens married again Chicago Chi-cago Tribune |