The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-09

who was an orphan OF lmpecunlous estate, |
almost threw the young damsels dignifed
sire into apoplexy by written application,
in very large hand, for your daughter $
hand !" and when, furthermore, the small
maiden, upon being questioned on the del
icate subject, confessed that she had au-
thorized the application in question,
there was parental tempest, culmln-
ating in Il threat of sartorial indign-
~ to the lover, and a very summary
packing-off of the heroine to a remote
boarding school. Boy that he was, the.
contemned sutton felt mans despair at.
this treatment, and, after various futile
efforts TO gain the postal address OF his
banished sweetheart, went recklesSly to
sea rs a Juvenile sailor And that was the
beginning of a maritime career of twenty
wears for Christian Hanquest. First on
The Baltic and then on the Atlantic he eX
perienced the usual hardships and varieties
of foreeastle life, but by 1861 had saved
enough money to Justify temporary retire,
ment from the sea and visit to his old
home. Stockholm, however, was no ION
ger a home for him In his absence the
father of his early lady love had been
tempted by mercantile reverses to carry
his fortunes and family to some other conn-
try and in a fresh burst of despair the sin
gIe.hearted sailor went back to the ocean,
with little care for the savings by which he
had hoped to placate paternal opposition
Mt last IL is TO be feared that his course
for the next ten years was below the ideal
to which he had previously been true. At
any rate, the spring of 1872 found HIM
wandering about the docks Of Liverpool
without a shilling in his pockets, looking
out for a ship bound towards the New
. World. Reaching Castle Garden, in this
citv, he was told by somebody that ms
nautical gifts would secure him very hand
some remuneration upon the great lakes,
as a certain Canadian company was sorely
in want Of able seamen for its new line OF
/, ships on Lake Erie, and accordingly he
went to Canada The realities there did
not equal his expectations, and on the LIST
, Of last month he resumed shore.lite at
Cleveland, O., intending to proceed thence
on foot to Buffalo, where some distant re
, latives from Sweden are living. But he
was not destined to arrive in the latter city
without adventure After two days pedes-
trian travel, he paused for rest i'll the town
of Ashtabula, where divers OF his country
men who were working on a railroad tempt
ed him to accept their cOmpatrlOtlc hoSpl-
tality. To one of these he opened his
heart, relating the romance by which he
! had been driven 10 salt water and was
amazed to hear in return that Il Swedish
? lady of the same name with his lost heroine
was Oh a visit to friends at Ashtabula, from
/ her home in jamestown, \. Y. She had
d come from the Fatherland, he was told,
/. with her parents in the year 1855. Her
father prospered by the emigration, and
died in 1868 leaving goodly property
and her friends in Ohio believed that a
lellow-cuuntryman Of her :, a thrifty young
E merchant On the hue of the Cleveland road
i was likely to become her husband Thi,
l last conjecture dampeued somewhat the
e eagerness with which Hanquest had heard
r the preceding particulars but the sailor
e decided nevertheless 10 seek an iutrJduc
: ton to the lady, who was, he doubted not
u a near relative of the well-rememberel
II school Girl Of Stockholm The friends
< whom she was visiting were in grade %
, life much above the SwedeS the railroad
= and the desired interview was not easll,
u compassed Ii took place al last, however
: says the Ashtabua correspondent Of tn,
Cleveland Hrdid, who relates the story
and Hanquest was amazed, delighted, an,
: disc1mtited at recognizing and being Il
( promptly recognized by the idol Of his boy
ish affections Discounted because h,
thought Of that supposed engagement t
the young merchant on the Cleveland road
IA But that feeling did not last long the lady
d now in her thirty-dtth year. was TOO gia,
5 over her old lover u leave him long il
is doubt OF fidelity Of sentiment worthy o
.o his own, and he was soon assured that an,
lie other tender passage of her life had existeD
lie only in the fancy OF gossips. The sailo
D- lost no time in contessing at once his una
" bated devotion and needy condition, an,
!. uttered no affected protest when his res
1t tured sweetheart PRETTY reminded hin
.e that she was rich enough for both. So
Ie about a fortnight ago, the reunited lover
/ went on together to jamestown wher
5 marriage has at last crowned the romano
ct Of their early wocing and long separation
d with the pleasantest possible reality.