Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-02-06
A First-C Glass Romance m Ohio.
Az About . MystsYfeus Farmer ana his
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i@fWeT' D. nus pIOfpeTlty curing the past
twelve years has often been the CON
ment Of bis neighbors. aud observing
ones have wondered from whence he ha.
obtained the means with which he had
added farm TO farm and aera to acre, nm.
til be holds upward OF two thousand
acres Of the best land in the whole State
Of Ohio. =
some ten years since, we have lately
been informed, there appeared at the
farmers door, young and stalwart
youth, who asked and readily obtained
employment. Although ignorant at FIRST
Of the duties on farm, he applied him.
self, and in short time became an adept
farmer. He took as much intereet in
the affairs Of the farmer who engaged
him as did the farmer himself. - .
When the month Of December came,
the first enc after his advent upon the
farm, he informed the family that he
wguld absent himself during the winter
but would return in the spring and work
another year. lie brought two trunks
when he came there the preceding
spring, the contents of which had never
been displayed. These he left with the
farmer, with the simple precautionary
remark, to "nevsr allow them to be dis
turbed, or at least, unless / should be alb
sent taco yers." If gone longer, they
were at liberty to open and appropri-
ate their contents. lie carried nothing
away with him except the suit he had
OIL nor did he accept his summers wages
when rendered by the farmer. He took
his Rete payable in .tfoe years and then
left. ..r
April of the following year came,
and the wonder Of the family over the
youths strange proceedings were stilI
fresh, when one pleasant morning they
were all gladly surprised to see their
help again. He brought large trunk,
similar to ono of tho :wo he had left
there during the winter. The ensuing
year the young man and the farmer be-
came greatly attached. In August the
farmer purchased all adjoining farm and
pail for it in cash.
When the years work was completed
again were the incidents OF the preced-
ing year repeated. The young man
took note, left his trunk went away.
He only cautioned the farmers family,
as before, regarding his three trunks.
When April came round again our he
ro returned. In May following the far
msr purchased another adjoining farm
and paid for it in cash. This going
away and returning continued for tho
last ten years up to the present Decem-
ber Every year, in December, the far
mer's help lett him, taking the farmers
note, and every following April he re-
turned. He never took trunk or bag
gage away, but always brought more
when he returned.
Last week the help, now grown to
manhood, strong and sturdy in mind and
frame, lett the farmer, took away all his
accumulated baggage, and returned the
the several notes the farmer had given
him-mads present Of them TO child
of the farmer. Before his departure he
informed his friends, who had all learn
ed TO love him, of the secret he had so
long kept to himself. He was wealthy
orphan. Doctors had told him, at the
age of Is, that he could not live to be-
come of age. He at once left an East
ern boarding school and came ont here
to the farmers home. He returned and
studied during the winter, became inter
ested in seeing the farmer increase his
dom aims, and donated the money with
which the additions wero made. The
trunks contained the fashionable cloth
ing he wore during tho winter months.
Secrecy regarding the money received
by him had been enjoined upon the farm
er during all the ten years; now he is
released 60 do, or tell, all or little,r as he
pleased. ing,3 80 &C. .''-'''7
The promised consumptive was saved;
the 'aggravatiohs of disease dispeiled /;
and having grown to be healthy and
robust, was sa,isfed with the ten YEARS.
effort to prevent his becoming an invalid
for life. 1t was almost useless for the
farmer to attempt to express his graft
tnde to, our hero. He thinks Of him
now as a bepefactor and son, and looks
upon his broad acres and can hardly
realize that they are his. Were We, to
give the name of the young man, many
Of eur readers would at once be con.
yinced of the .trnth of the above. This
we are forbidden to do, for the present.
THE ISSiELLuuiEscEa SEQUENCE or SLEEr.--Aft,enr
some years prejudices begin to be tired
of being Slept over. Jealeusies rankle
as long as they stay, but they get tired
of staying when we do not stay with
them, but go to sleep over them. We
can not hate IN enemy save intermit.
tently, but have to begin again every
mernlns, which we have less and less
appetite for, and finally come to like that