Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-11
Tried and True.

The inexhaustible romance of emiQra-
ton, of which in modern days our coun-
try is almost always the objective point,
has its latest recorded illustration in q
quiet little story recently made public
through the circumstances of its graft
flying conclusion. .sl
Several years ago, in one of the mid
land counties of England, the son of a
poor clergyman became enamored of a
young lady named Moss, who lived in
London, but was at that time passing
the summer with her aunt, one of the
minister's parishioners. Miss Moss was
most graciously disposed toward her
rural adorer, and as he was q gentleman
by birth and a welcome guest in the
most respectable country houses the 80
ciety of the village recognized, there
was no incompatibility in the affair.
Upon her return to London, however,
the young lady, whose father was a
wealthy merchant, received so little
sympathy from her family in the affair
of the heart which she had to disclose to
them, that she felt impelled to write
rather disconsolately to her lover on the
subject; and when he, upon Fastening
to the metropolis to present himself, was
received with repellant coldness by the
parents, the prospect for the lovers
seemed unpromising enough.
Not to be thus dismissed, though, the
clergyman's son obtained private in
terview with the reluctant merchant, and
stoutly asked why he was not eligible
for the alliance he desired. The blunt
answer was that his worldly circum~
stances were not suitable. He was poor
and likely to remain so, and should seek
a wife adapted to his means. Deeming
the concluding piece of advice gratu-
itous, the lover took leave of the father
with no great cordiality; but upon bid
ding adieu to his lady-love, asked her
very earnestly if she would promise to
wait for him until he should have gained
for himself the means and position nee
essary to change the parental decision.
The answer was as affirmative as earn
est, and, without further explanation,
the rejected suitor said hurried good
by. Miss Moss heard no more of him
until nearly three months thereafter,
when letter bearing an American post
mark amazed her with the information
that he had crossed the Atlantic to seek
the appointed fortune, and had high
hopes of soliciting the fulfllment of her
promise in about two years.
A half-brother OF his, father was q
merchant in Leavenworth, Kansas, and
had given him countenance and general
assistance by which he was sanguine
that he could not fail to speculate sue
cessfully in city psoperty. Only let her
remain faithful to him and in two years
her father should see him in London
again with plenty of money in his pock-
cts. She answered appropriately, with
q faith in the future as unworldly as his
own, and from thenceforth their letters
passed each other on the ocean by every
steamer.
The story of American fortune-making
by immigrants has not much variety.
Occasionally the dream is at least part
ly realized, but as q general thing de-
ferred hope is the burden of the song.
The young Englishman in Kansas was
always just about to do better, but the
time of actual golden consummation
never chanced to come. Two years and
three years and four rolled on, and still
he remained on this side of the sea and
wrote hopeful letters. During this time
his father, the clergyman, died, leaving
an estate so meagre to the widow and
daughter that the exile could not think
of going back to his old home as poor
as when he left. But the father of Miss
Moss departed this life also, and about
three months ago the true-hearted heir
ess wrote to her finally desponding low
er that, as he could not go to her, she
had decided to come to him.
Accordingly, the spirited young lady,
disregarding the still urgent objections
of her kindred, and leaving q London
home of luxury and refinement, crossed
the Atlantic alone, and on Sunday last
arrived at hotel in Leavenworth, where
her yet impecunious lover was to, and
of course did, meet her. They were
married on the same day, and it may be
added, that their journey will be back
to the old country. A serious temper
ary sacrifice was involved, of course, in
the fair voyagers bold trip to this coun-
try on such an errand; but, as already
noted, she is now an heiress; her array
of travelling trunks is spoken of as some
thing wonderful, and the reunited lov-
ers will return to their native land, as
husband and wife, in the glow of ro-
nance to which riches will give all nee
essary gentility.