The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-15
A PRETTY PILGRIM.
4 YOUNG WOMAN,s WHIM.

A KENTUCKY BELLE DoNs PANTS AND
STARTS FOR THE BLACK HILLs-TRE
RULING PASSION STRONG IN YOUTH.
The Evansville correspondent of the Chi
csgo Times recites the following romsnce:
Kentucky is the poets land, the realm OF
romance. Mrs. Belknsp was Kentucky
woman of the most renowned blue grass
stock. Il is that sort that makes the
social atmosphere of the great common
wealth unique, tingiDg society with an
amount of dash, abandon and variety that
nowhere else appears, and altogether lifting
humdrum existence into the cloudland of
poesy and ideality. Such is the romance
of one of Christian county's fairest daugh-
tiers, the belle of the vicinage. and one of
the English types of developed feminin-
ity, fresh-fsced, the blood coursing in tor
reL is Just beneath the skin, brown haired
and brown eyed, she was the idol OF the
whole country about Hopkinsville. Al
though only IL years of age, she was the
flame of many a young mans hope and fu-
ture aspirations. On last Sunday evening,
inspired by the trash disseminated by the
New York Ledger, she planned journey
to the Black Hills and resolved to execute
it that very evs ming. She at once gave
over
HER MAGNIFICENT sILKEN TREssEs
to the shears and In a short while had q
regular summer pugilistic cut on her hair.
Then she encircled her plump little form
with young mans suit of clothes, and
appeared as a stout bodied, rosy-faced lad,
of physic as well as by that soft, warm
glow of her face. Thus disguised she sal
lied forth in that night of Plutonian dark
ness which the great tornado has made
historic. She bad $40 in her pants
pocket and dreams of the yellow
dust awaiting her in the land of
the Sitting Bull. Her parents had missed
her early in the evening, but gave the
matter no especial uneasiness, thinking
thst she bad gone to a neighbours for
short time, but as the terrible storm burst
forth their alarm and anxiety increased
and search was begun as soon as the ele-
ments subsidized far enough TO make 1t
practicable. The tidings flew from one
Tsrm to another and by next day the
whole country was secured and farmers
searched every nook and corner of that
locality. The feelings of the father and
mother had become desperate, when
IN WALKED THEIR MISSING DAUGHTER,
heartily sick of her folly and with 10 years
of experience boiled down into one week.
She stated that she had met a man going
toward Hopkinsyille, at which point it
was her intention to buy a ticket for this
city and had rode sstride the horse be-
hind him some six miles. She then pro-
ceeded on foot and was oy ertaken by the
terrible storm, in which she received Sc
we're drenchiDg, and only escaped
being blown away by lying
fiat on her face and hugging
mother earth. After three or four days of
tramping, she exchanged her male attire
for colored woman's calico gown and
traced her way back to her home. Her
frolic ended in no more serious results
than the lose of her hair, but the girl had
learned that there is tolerable difference
between the realities of life and the pic
lures of the story books. The icy of the
people of that whole section was, how
ever, indescribable. The family is one of
the wealthiest and most esteemed in w est
ern Kentucky.