Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
Romance Of a Poor Young Man.

An Austin street car stopped at siding.
There was a long wait. But n soli-
tary. listless passenger inhabited tho
car. He gazed out Of the window at the
gorgeous autumn scenery on the side
walk-dry-goods boxes and peanut
stands.
II wasn't brought up to whack .
mule" said the driver, suddenly put
ting his head in at the front door of the
car, and addressing the solitary passen-
ger.
"NoP" said the solitary one, interrog-
atively.
mot much. Ny history is peculiar.
I'm q victim of circumstances"
"Yes," said the passenger, affirm
lively.
eyes, you bet. I struck Just the Wild
est and most delirious kind of luck. My
father vas one of the solid men of Jack
son. You couldn't pry him off his
financial feet with a jack-screw. He
was a widower, and l was his heir APP
parent. But it wasn't apparent
long. No, the ~rose-colored dream
evaporated. just about the time
the governor could count up his $780,
900 | fell madly in love with a rafting
good-looking girl, and the old man said
if I didn't quit paying attention to her
he would write up a will which would
make my eyes bung out when I came
to hear it read.
$50 l told the governor I'd shift for
myself; 90 West and head out with the
country, dig a fortune for myself out of
a silver mine, do anything, everything,
rather than be dictated to in regard to
affairs of the heart. The old man said
that was all right, and 1 pawned my
watch, and other unnecessary jewelry,
and lit by the light of the silver moon.
l toiled and moiled daytimes, and at
night / would put on an opera dress
shirt and sit on the hotel piazza out in
Leadville. There | made another mash.
She was the only, dried up, old maid
daughter of a mining store merchant.
He had money to throw at the birds.
But the girl was homely. Gum! Don't
talk. Herface looked like a wilted pine
apple hacked with a c%orn-cutter, and
her every day, hope-to-die-if-it-ain' age,
was 49, summers, including ten years
of steady drought and n grasshopper
season.
swell, we were married, and the old
man said: 'Bless you, me children, bless
you,' and gave us 5000 for expenses and
a basket OF o II sandwiches. / resolved
to 60 home like the prodjgal son, and
see how the old man was fixed for calf.
l found out directly 1 struck the old
homestead. The old man had actually
married the girl l left behind me, and
when she saw me she Topped right into
my arms and murmured: 'Hennery! o,
Hennery! do I again behold my once
true loveP Where did you pick up that
female?'
"Ihen the governor snatched her out
OF that recumbent position too quick,
but he wasn't any quicker'n my wife
who Immediately lit on me with all the
rage of a jealous disposition, and tore
out samples of my hair enough to make
a watch-chain a mile and a half long.
Then she tlounced out of the house and
took the next train home, and soon af-
ter she got a divorce. The Oldham was
hot in the box, too, about the way his
girl-wife had acted, and he sent her
home, and got a divorce; but the upshot
OF the whole matter was, I was whip
sawed. The entire outfit shook me,
and I found myself once more out in the
cold, cold world, friendless and alone.
"Git up there, Samuel! The down
car passed us ten minutes ago."-Ieras
Ssftangs.