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Show A CONGRESSMAN'S ROMANCE. marrying the Woman Who Saved Him on the Battlefield. Congressman Stone, of Kentucky, who walks about the House and up and down the avenue on crutches, having lost a leg in the Confederate service, is expecting his wife to arrive here shortly from her Kentucky home. The story of Stone's marriage is a strange and interesting one and proves again that there as interesting interest-ing incidents in real life as are told in story books. Stone was a Confederate soldier and at the battle at Cynthiana Ky,, was badly wounded. As he fell his hat went one way and his musket another, and he found himself unable to move to regain either. It was a scorching summer sum-mer day, and he was obliged to lie on that hot hillside exposed to the intense heat of the blazing sun, unable even to protect his face except by throwing his arm across his eyes. His life blood was rapidly running away and he became weaker, and soon was unable to speak or move. The blazing sun which fell on his head and face "was adding untold suffering in his enfeebled condition. After the fight he was- left with the dead and dying, for it was supposed he could not live more than a few minutes or hours. After the troops were withdrawn with-drawn some of the people living in the battlefield passed over it relieving the necessities ne-cessities of 'the? wounded as far as possible. pos-sible. As they passed near where Stone lay suffering in the hot sun, unable to speak, a young lady in the party noticed him and the sufferings thi sun must produce if he were still conscious. Telling her companions she believed he was still alive she procured the ramrods from four muskets lying near by, and by sticking them in the ground about his head, fastened over the top a scarf from ner shoulders, to break the rays of the sun. When the wounded were gathered from the field it was found that Stone was still living, and he was sent to the hospital. There was a long struggle between be-tween life and death, but he finally rallied, ral-lied, and slowly regained strength after the amputation of his right leg. The residents of the town and vicinity did all they could for the sufferers in the hospital, seeding them food and delicacies, and often visiting them, i One day, after he had gained sufficient strength to speak and notice those who visited the hospital, he saw among the visitors the young ladv who had probably saved his life by her kindness, when he lay, helpless and speechless, on'the battlefield. bat-tlefield. When opportunity offered, he spoke to her of the occurrence, and thanked her for her kindness. The acquaintance ac-quaintance thus began ripened into love, and she is now his wife. |