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Show .WED AT EDOE OF A GRAVE Anxious Sweethearts Interrupt a funeral In Order That Theg Hay He Jolntd. Bozeman, Mont. Also Oatton and Miss May Ward were married at tho side of an open grave here, while half a hundred hun-dred pereonB who had assembled to pay their Inst respects to John Adams, who wns being burled, looked on In astonishment. aston-ishment. The young couple, after the knot was tied, bowed to the multitude, smiled at the preacher, and hurried, away to catch a train for their homo near Livingston. "Wo want to get married at once," said Datton, as he, accompanied by the girl, stepped up to the oftlco of the clerk of "court and secured a marriage license. "Sorry," replied the clerk, "but the preacher, the only one who can marry you, Is out at the cemetery, conducting a funeral." "We will go there," remarked the young man and tho young woman, as they asked tho way to the cemetery. "Mr Wells, we want to get married at once, so we can get back to town and catch the 3:10 train for home," said the young woman, as the couple entered the cemetery and walked up to the open grave, Into which the body of Adams was bPlng lowered. "We have only ten minutes to get to the depot, and we wish you would hurry and marry us." Ilov. Mr. Wells was too bewildered to object, and, stopping the prayer be was uttering for the repose of the dead, told tho young couplo to Join hands, while he said the words that made them hus-bnnd hus-bnnd nnd wife. Then the man handed tho minister a five-dollar bill, with His wlfo smiled at every one, waved his hand lightly, and started off on a brisk walk for tho depot, the woman ho.'dlng on to his coat as he went. |