The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-25
A YOUNG FARMERS ROMANCE.

A New York correspondent vouches TO,
enc ruth OF the following interesting epis.
ooo In o farmer boys life A farmer boy
from Michigan has at once created n real
ifo romance for "Our Boarding House. "
end made q hero of himself in a small way.
tbs experience reads very like fiction. and
. all the more interesting because it Is not
action- The boy, who is nineteen years old.
green as a M~ichigander can be, and stout
as any horse or his farm, took a notion "a
become o New York merchant. He owned
<handsome farm, but he caught the met
fopolitan and mercantile diseases. rented
his farm, and resolved to make . total
change OF business. He had an uncle in
business here, and the wife of that uncle
financed to be our la~ndlady, who manages
one OF those colossal boarding houses in
which this city Of boarders abounds. To
this uncle the young farmer wrote, stating
his plans, and asking as to the prospects Of
! place in the uncle's establishment. The
answer was to wait till the coming fall.
when trade would set in more briskly:
meanwhile leaving opportunity to gather
he summer crops and get so much more
ahead. III
Nothing further was heard from the
nephew, and it was thought he had ac-
septed the advice. IN the contrary, he
packed his run and came on, without in
forming his relatives of his intentions. He
arrived in town two months ago, with the
idea of looking about for himself. to see
THAT he could do in an independent way.
The first thing he did was to buy d morn.
ng paper. In that morning paper, SEEM
ely OF some agent Of destiny had or.
fnrned, his aunt had an advertisement call
Ing for q man of all work, whose chief &C.
.upation was to wash dishes. No sooner
did the Michigan boys eye strike that head
81 : Wanted than he decided to answer
at once and apply for the position.
1t is necessary to say here, that neither
incle nor aun had seen their nephew since
bis ~babyhood, SO that the way to deceive
them was open and easy. y
The nephew applied for the servants
place. He admitted that he knew nothing
about Homework, but said he was quick to
earn. There was something about his
frank honest, country manner that inn.
PEELED the landlady to try him, and he was
immediately installed as chief dish-washer.
He did his work well, was never tired when
:he seven or eight hundred dishes came
aiashing around him, and took a strange
iaterest in tightening his mistress burdens.
lie had desired to find out in this way what
'ort Of people his relatives were. If he did
aot IKE them he woul go baok to Michi-
Nfas INK WOulu m0ke MIN ali
right. Well, he liked them largely. and
himself became q favorite. His CHEEKY
and checkered, flannel shirt were
features that grew to be noted by every
boarder who took an occasional peep into
kitchen.
Two months of service expired the other
day. When he was paid his wages the lad
astonished his mistress by snying he wanted
20 tel her q story about himself. As she
rather resented this familiarity, he inquired
quietly as to who she thought he was and
N a minute the secret so well kept was out.
Then there was a scene Subsequently, the
andiady took the youth to her husbands
laiior, fitted him out with a stylish suit of
'iothes, and SO transformed him that when
re LOOK a seat at the dinner table nobody
ecognized him. To-day the M~iohieander
3 in his uncle's store, getting a start in the
iesired mercantile line. This fall he win
'e sent to q business college, and, if his
'ast does not belle him, he viii some dav
ank among the large merchants Of New
York. -"