The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-05-27
} A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

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Robert Myron was the son of an
English tenant-farmer, who in theyear
1913 found his family expenses increas-
ing so much faster than his income that
it was absolutely necessary to decrease
the former, since the latter could not be
made larger Bfl II
In the hope of being able to assist his
father in some way, Robert, came to
this country, and falling to find en-
ployment near the metropolis, walked
from town to town until when near
Rochester, n. Y, he was hired as a
farm laborer by, Ju,lge-James E. Berry.
During six years young Myron worked
industriously, sending nearly all of his
earnings to- bis parents. and then came
the sad news that both father and moth
er had died on the same day. After
recovering from this shock, it was but
natural the young man should begin to
think of establishing a home for HIM
self, and quite as natural that his love
should go out to the daughter of his
employer, who plainly showed her pref
erence for the young man who had so
devoted himself to his parents. But
Judge Berry, while he recognized in
Myron an invaluable farm laborer, had
not the same views regarding him as
son-in-law that Miss Bessie had, and the
consequence was that the lovers finding
it impossible to change the fathers
opinion, resolved to elope, and build up
for themselves home in the far West
In 1858, with few hundred dollars
and the Judges curse, the young couple
were married and settled at Green
Lake, Michigan, where, at the begin
ming of the year 1862, they were in
reasonably prosperous circumstances,
with two children to make glad their
humble log cabin. Their farm was sit
uated several miles from any settle
ment, and although the Indians were
rising against the whites in many por-
tons of the State, neither Mr.. nor Mrs.
Myron felt any uneasmess, because they
believed they had succeeded in estab-
fishing the most friendly relations with
such of the " forest children as they
came in contact with. Therefore they
were by no means alarmed when one
day five Indians stalked gravely into the
cabin just rs the MONDAY meal was be
ing served. 1t had ever been Mr.. NV
rOn's custom to invite such visitors TO
partake of food and on this, as on other
occasions, they readily accepted the in
vitation; but greatly to the surprise and
uneasiness of their host, instead of
placing their rifles in one corner of the
room, as usual, they held them between
their knees, the muzzles of the weapons
showing just above the edge of the
table.
Mr.. Myron was too wellversed in In
dian customs not to know that such ac-
ton. on the part of his guests meant
pisehief,s@ With a view OF sshowing
them that he understood the meaning
of this breach of hospitality, and in the
slight hope of intimidating them, he
arose from the table, took from the rack
onFhe wall his rife and fowlhg-piece,
and CAREFUL " exahined them ito show
they were loaded. Why the savages
did not attack him then is one of the in
explicable things in Indian warfare.
Instead of making any hostile demon
STATIONS, they stalked gravely out of
the house, disappearing behind clump
of bushes.
For the moment Myron believed he
had wronged his guests, and that they
had taken umbrage at his movements
when their intentions were peaceful.
Still holding his rifle in his hand, Myron
stepped to the open door for the
purpose of ascertaining whether his
guests had really departed. When the
farmer appeared on the threshold the
report OF II rifle was heard, and Myron
fell, with dangerous but not necessa-
rily fatal wound in his side. a..,
Women who live on the border, where
they are constantly menaced by danger,
learn early in life that they must deny
themselves womans privilege of faint
ing. When MIR. Myron fell, his wife
sprang to his defense rather than as
sistance. To close and barricade win
dows and doors was but the work of a
moment where everything was prepared
for such occasions, and then the heroic
woman turnod her attention to hsx hus-