Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-10
A WESTERN ROMANCE.
How Chicago Cheek Won a Bride from
Rural Devotion.

Rural Devotion.
The tragedies of these new lands come
to the knowledge of the public, the ro-
mances hardly ever do. A cowboys jam
boree is telegraphed all over the land, but
many a chapter in real life which would
grace the pages of a novel remains I'M
told. A young fellow disappears from his
ranch. is absent a few weeks, reappears
with a bride whom he has captured la
Lochniyar, settles down to work, and Mrs.
Grundy is none the wiser.
Some fifteen years ago Katie aiswortn,
saws a jamestown, Oak, letter to the
Philadelphia Press, was school teacher
in a New York country town, OF whom
William Emerson, a well-to-do young FAR
mer in the same vicinity, became enam-
Ored. She reciprocated his sentiments
and they became engaged. In anticipa-
tan of the happy day when she would as
sumo Joint partnership in the dairy farm,
she visited her brother, who was farmer
in Illinois. determined to become well
yersed in the detail of dairy
work, a knowledge of which is so
necessary to the presiding genius OF
the New York farm house. While visiting
this brother she met young farmer NO. 2,
bv name Samuel Hull the reputed possess
sor of many acres Of rolling prairie. de
laid siege to her heart, but the schooi-
ma'am was coy and 10th to leave the old
love for the new. But when the Illinois
lover had pointed out farm after farm,
whose broad acres he claimed to hold in
s'fee simple" his case progressed with
wonderful rapidity. and in three months
she returned to New York wearing the
betrothal ring of the Western farmer and
ready to return to the dairy farmer his
plighted trOth.
The scene which ensued has been kept
sacred, but the result was that in the fu-
ture they were to be as old friends; fur
thermore, the New Yorker stipulated that
throughout her whole life, either married
or not, they were to correspond, eXchang
ing at least one letter per month, and if
ever trouble lowered over her pathway
the old lover was to be informed of the
fact, binding himself to risk purse and
life to aid her.
She married the Western lover to
| find that barns and broad acres had
melted away with astonishing rapidity,
| and e'er the honeymoon was fairly over
| the bonanza farmer undisguised assumed
| the proportions of a Chicago salesman.
/ Twelve years passed, during which the
| schoolma'm supported herself and most
| of the time her husband by teaching.
| Every month she received a letter from
| her eX-loYer, which she dutifuliy read to
| her husband, who enjoyed the correspond
| ence rather more than did bis wife. One
| of the letters told how the dairyman had
sOlaced himself by leading to the altar one
| of Ewes fair daughters, who wasn't
! school-mistress, Other letters told Of con-
'tinued success, many bringing with them
| the best wishes of the writer's wife,
! with often bank note to keep the volt
away.
About two years ago the Illinois hus-
| band and wife came to Dakota and located
a claim some twelve miles south of the
| city of jamestown. Early last fall the
old lover appeared upon the scene. He
! was rich, travelling through the West,
/ and stopped in jamestown and determin-
/ ed to visit his old flame. He arrived at
| their s'shack' just in time to close the
/ eyes of the eX-Chicago drummer, and re-
manned long enough to comfort the widow
| and to assist in consigning the remains of
his successful rival to the dust. Return
| ing East, he arrived just in the"nick of
| time" to see his own wife buried.
The last chapter closed a few days ago,
| when the old lovers appeared before a
| local preacher and were married, board
| ing the Eastern bound train en- route for
| the dairy farm in New York.