The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-23
4 Poor Young Man.

Romance of A Poor Young Man
Texas siftings
An Austin street car stopped on q
siding, There was "a long Hsit. Blu,
one solitary, listless passenger ihhabit
ed the car. He gazed out of the
window at the gorgeous autumn
scenery On the sidewarlk-dry goods
boxes and peanut stands
wasn't brought up to whack q
mule" said the, driver, suddenly
putting bis head in at the front door
of the car, and addressing the solitary
passenger.
No? said the solitary one, interro-
gatively.
Not much. Ny history is peculiar.
I'm q victim of circumstances.
Yes. said the passenger. affirmative
ly.
= Yes, you bet l struck just the
widest and most delicious kind of
luck. My father was one Of the solid
men Of jackson. You couid't pry
him off his financial feet with a jack
screw. He was a widcwer, and l
was his heir apparent. But it wasn't
apparent long. No, the rose colored
dream eyaporated. lust about the
time the goverrpr Gould count up his
$3.50, 000.I fell madly.-ins love with
q rafting good hooking girl. and tie
old man said if l didn't qui. paying
attention to her he would write up,
will which would make nv eyes bung
out when / came to hear it read.
So / told the governor I'd shift for
myself /; 90 west and head out with the
country, dig fortune for myself out
of silver mine, do anything. every
thing, rather than be dictated to in
regard to affairs of the heart. The
old man said that was all right. and
/ pawped my watch, and other un-
necessary 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 Lead.
vile. There | made another mash
She was the only, dried up, old maid
daughter ola mining store merchant.
He had money to throw at the birds
But the girl was homely. Gum
Don't talk. Her face looked like q
wilted pineapple hacked with corn
cutter. and her every day, hope to
die-if-it-ain't age. was 3S summers, in
ten years of steady dr ught
and one grasshopper season.
Well, We were married. and the old
man said Bless you. me children.
bless you, and gave us $500 for ex
penses and basket of sour sandwiches.
l resolved to 60 home like the prodi-
gal son, aad see how the old man was
fixed for calf. l found out directly
[ struck the old homestead. The old |
man had actually married the girl ]
left behind noe, and when she saw
me she Aopped right into my arms
and murmured Hennery! OIL
Hennery! do I again behold my once
true love? Where did you pick up
that female?
Then the governor snatched her
out of that recumbent position too
quick, but he wasn't any quicker'n
nv wife. who Immediately lit on me
with all the rage of jealous fisposi-
ton, and tore out samples of my hair
enough to make a watch chain mile
and half long. Then she Aounced
out of the house and took the next
train home. and soon after she got
divorce. The old man was hot in the
oox too, about the way his g;rl-wife
had acted, and he sent her home. and
got a divorce but the upshot of the
whole matter was, was whip,sawed
The entire outfit shook me, and l
Found myself once more out in the
odd, cold world, friendless and alone.
Git up there. Samuel The down
ar passed US ten minutes ago.