The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-28
How Dalrymple Found His Lost Sweetheart
in Chicago.
From the Detroit Free-Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
Next - shouted barber in one
of the barber-shops in this city yester-
day afternoon, and in response the
chair was occupied by tall, fair-look-
ing, middle-aged man who remarked
as he sat down:
''This job over, and I will be ready
to complete the work of lifetime .
The traditional man who talks is the
barber, and naturally his customers
remark excited his curiosity to the ex-
tent that he asked numerous questions
with view to ascertaining what was
the aforesaid work of the aforesaid
lifetime, and during the next half
hour, while the customer was treated
to a shave, shampoo, and hair cut, the
following romance was related:
Twenty-Five years ago, or in the
spring of 1854, Enos Dalrymple was a
clerk in a general store near the corn.
er OF Jefferson avenve and Bates street.
Dalrymple had then been over from
England about one year, and during
his ocean voyage had made the ac-
quaintance of Miss Louisa Merkham.
With their parents they came to this
city, and were thus enabled to continue
an acquaintance which soon changed
to love, and the consequent engage.
ment resulted. Louisa's parents being
pretty we'll supplied with this worlds
goods were much opposed to Dalrymple
as a son-in-law, chiefly because he
worked for living; but their opposi-
ton was useless. The young couple
met in secret, and carried on a cores
pOndence unknown to anyone Int
themselves. Too poor to get married,
young Dalrymple as soon as he reach
ed his majority started West in search
of his fortune. He had not been alb
sent many months when Miss Merk-
hams parents discovered that their
daughter was still corresponding with
Dalrymple, and sent her to Quebec to
be educated, ostensibly, but really to
wean her from the object of her affec.
ton.
For eight years, said Dalrymple,
81 heard not word from Louisa, dur
ing which time I moved to Melbourne.
Australia, and established myself as an
attorney and counselor at law. At last,
on the 28th of August, 1866, 1 was sur
prised at the receipt of a letter bear
ing the Liverpool postmark, and the
signature of my lost sweetheart. In
the letter she stated that she had long
thought me dead, but seeing my name
in an Australian paper the old love
had prompted her to write me, some
thing telling her that the Australian
attorney was the Detroit clerk of "a.
II answered the letter promptly and
with the old feeling of affection, but I
waited for a reply in vain, until at last
I made up my mind that either l had
been imposed upon or death had claim
ed my sweetheart.
Still a bachelor, toiled at my pro-
fessiOn and accumulated wealth, and
last January, filed with a desire to re-
visit Detroit and my old home in Eng
land, also intending to visit the worlds
fair at Philadelphia, I took passage on
the steamer Calcutta for San Francis
co, where arrived on the 22d of Feb
ruary. Without delay l started East,
and since that time I have travelled
across the continent three times.
''Last Tuesday evening l was at
Chicago, and to pass away the time
visited one of the theatres. What the
play was do not recollect, save that
there was reunion of the two prin-
cipal characters after a long separa-
ton, and as usual, the audience was
dismissed in high spirits. Especially
was l happily impressed, for in the
person of lady who assumed the part
Of kind, matronly old woman I fan.
cied that I recognized the voice and
features of the love of my youth, and
try as I would I could not dismiss the
fancy So deeply was it impressed up
on my mind that after going to nv