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Show ..-ili fjceDDoin. Two Kentucky mountaineer lovers ClinrleH DowIIdk nnd Alnry HrndlnB walked thirty miles Inst week, eloping elop-ing to i;ct mnirlcil. Lnily Busannn Montlow, daughter of n llclglau duchess, will ninrry a foot, man In Juno. He Is Krnust Hrucc, nn attractive looking footman in the employment em-ployment of the Duchess of Somerset, whom slio met while on a visit to Australia, Thomas Howard and Miss Maud Hrynnt of Woostcr, O., having lieen married, decided to try something now In tho way of n wedding trip. Consequently Conse-quently they havo purchased a gypsy wagon and havo set out overland. Tho bridegroom tnkes along a number of horses to trade with tho farmers to mnko tho rcsemblanco complete. IgnnthiH Needermnn has Just discovered dis-covered that It pays to fall In lovo with nn lioness, even if slio rejects you. Ho was an ollleer In tho Hungarian Hun-garian army. She was Margucrlto Tomorl, who promised to marry him hut chose another mnu llnally. Ho ramo to Amerlen nnd has been a poor man. When bIio died slio remembered her old'tlmo sweetheart and left him $25,000 to remember her by. Ho Is now comfortably settled In llfo. Tho French Bteamer Lit GaBcogno has Just brought ono party to a romanco to America. Ho stood towering tower-ing about a group of tonsured monks from n religious establishment, driven out of Franco by tho recent troubles. Now ho Is Froro Frnncols. Ho has been nn otllcor In a regiment of French culrnsslers and ho had fallen In lovo with tho daughter of ono of tho other otllcers. Thero were objections objec-tions which could not bo overcome He joined tho Franciscan order. Tho romanco beenmo complete when his botiothed entered another religious order. Miss Dorothy Smnrt, tho youngest daughter of Col. Charles Smnrt of tho United States army, hns left tho world nnd has become a novlco In tho Convent Con-vent of tho Sncrod Heart, Kenwood, Albany. It Is said that tho young woman retired to tho convent to escape es-cape tho attentions of young Senor C. do Ponto, a military cadet. How truo this may ho Is uncertain, but her friends claim slio has entered tho convent to ho rid of a lover sho could not mnrry and that sho will go through her novltlato and ho received In full standing In tho order. Sho Is beautiful, accomplished nnd a favorlto In tho Washington social set. Miss Marcella Arnold Salisbury of St. Ixiuls has run nway to bo married. When her friends heard of It they said: "No wonder!" And It was none. For threo generations In this family thero has not been ft woman married except after nn elopement. Her mother nnd her mother's two sisters eloped to bo married. Her two mints eloped. Then Mnrcella's sister Jenny ran away nnd was married. Her mother's mother also had clopod. Tho records of tho family fall to show ono marrlago In which there was not an clopmement. So when Miss Marcella decided to marry Harry Fostes Barbour, Bar-bour, and ran away to do It, tho friends of tho family simply shrugged their should ors and said that they had oxpectcd It. Some of tho elopements elope-ments havo been caused by parental objections, ,hut others t,ccm to havo been caused simply by a dcslro to ob-servo ob-servo tho traditions of tho house. Louis Thompson, tho adopted son of tho late Nathaniel Hunt, a rich Now Yorker, hns Just learned tlint If ho does not got married before ho Is 25 years of ago ho will lose $7,G00 a year. Tho terms of his foster father's will, Just mado known, provide that his adopted son shall havo $10,000 a year If ho marries before ho Is 25, and $2,500 a year If he does not. Tho young man was completely surprised by tho condition, nnd now Is not In a way to place himself In pqsltlon to secure the additional money. It Is prohoblo that ho will ho ablo to find a bride, hut ho declares ho does not know whero to look for ono. In fact, ho Is of tho opinion Uint ho will not ho ablo to sccuro tho wife, but will forfeit tho money which ho might obtain by marrying, "I havo no Intention In-tention of getting married, and I am completely surprised by this provision In tho will." It will only bo for ton years, anyway, ns at tho ago of 35 tho young man 13 to bo given cntlro chargo of tho cstato of his foster father. |