St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-21
Il Dakota Romance.

Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press,
writing from jamestown, relates this pretty and
romantic tale, the conclusion of which affords
another remarkable illustration of the lauded
climate of Dakota in bringing salubrity even into
the marital and domestic relations: Some fifteen
years ago Katie Walsworth was a school teacher
in New York country town, with whom VIII
liam Emerson became enamored, She recipro-
Gated his sentiments and they become engaged.
In anticipation of the happy day when she should
assume joint partnership in the dairy farm,
she visited her brother, who was farmer in Hi
nois, determined to become well versed in the de-
tail of dairy word, knowledge of which is so
necessary to the presiding genius of the New
York farm house.
While visiting this brother she met young far
mer No. 2, by name Samuel Hull the reputed
possessor of many acres of rolling prairie. He
laid siege to her heart, but the school ma am
was coy and loath to leave the old love for the
new. But when the Illinois lover had pointed
out farm after farm, whole broad acres he
claimed to hold sin fee simple" his case pro-
crossed with wonderful rapidity, and in three
months she returned to New York wearing the
betrothel 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 future they were
to be as old friends; furthermore the New York
er stipulated that throughout her whole life, eth
er married or not, they were TO correspond, eX-
changing 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 him
self to risk purse and life to aid her.
She married the western lover to find that
barns and broad acres had melted away with as
tonishing rapidity, and e'er the honeymoon was
fairly over the bonanza farmer undisguised as
sumed the proportions of Chicago salesman.
Twelve years passed, during which the school
ma am supported herself and most of the time
her husband by teaching.
Every month she received letter from her ex-
lover, which she dutifully read to her husband,
who enjoyed the correspondence rather more
than did his wife. One of the letters told how
the dairyman had solaced himself by leading to
the altar one of Ewes fair daughters, who WASH t
a schoolmistress. Other letters told of continued
success, many bringing with them the best
wishes of the writer's wife, with often bank
note to keep the wolf away.
About two years ago the Illinois husband and
wife came to Dakota and located 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 determined to
visit the old flame. He arrived at their ''shack''
just in time to close the eyes of the ex-Chicago
drummer, and remained long enough to com
fort the widow and to assist in consigning the re-
mains 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 few days ago, when the old lovers ap-
peared before local preacher and were married,
boarding the eastern bound train en- route for the
dairy farm in New York.