The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-12
a LOCAL ROMANCE.
bow A Tramp won The Love OF
A Cincinnati Belle.
He liz Rewarded With Beautiful
Bride For Cleaning the Snow
From Her Mothers Pave
ment.

unless neF rove, mas us origin IN
sympathy. AS to the truth or
correctness of the proposition much
can be said. Whether or not case
which came to the ears of q reporter
is an exception to the rule or demon
strates the truth of the philosophical
expression quoted is question, yet
the fact remains that a woman 8
sympathy caused her to dare the
wrath of an indignant mother and act
contrary to the wishes of several
mcense1 big brothers. 1t is q
romantic story with a happy ending,
and, to make il all the more interest
ius, it is truthful and not creature
Of some ones imaginative brain.
One morning, year or more ago,
a young man applied at the back door
of more than comfortable if not pal
atial residence for permission TO clean
from the sidewalk the snow which had
fallen the Mi ht before. All he asked
for the proposed work was his break
fast. The servant who answered his
knock proceeded to the dining room
to lay the request before some one who
had authority to grant it. The gen.
tlemen members of the household had
bied themselves down town to their
places of business, and the head of
the family, a widowed mother. was
still reclining in the arms of Morpheus,
enjoying sleep at an hour which, for
the females of an aristocratic family.
is considered early. The only occu-
pant of the room was an only daugh-
ter-talented, amiable, and sensible.
She was due at neighboring female
seminary at a certain hour each day,
and she was just taking her morning
meal preparatory to leaving for school.
The servants errand was made known
to her and she quickly answered:
Certainly, but give him his breakfast
first. Little dreaming what kind of a
man she would find in the applicant.
she repaired to the kitchen, prompted
BY a curiosity to see the man who
would make such request. Seated
at the table eagerly devouring what
was set before him, she saw a hand
some young man who, though evident
ly almost famished, handled his knife
and fork in way that conveyed the
idea that he knew what table etiquette
was. His general demeanor, and
grateful Thank you, miss, when the
cook offered to refill his empty cup,
attracted the young lady's attention.
and she engaged him ia conversation.
In that unaccouniable way peculiar
to mankind in distress he gradually
unfold d the story of his life. Once
the con of well-to-do parents, his fu-
ture life was indeed most promising.
A father, most promising business
man. took great pride in his only son
and arranged for his education and
future profession. After receiving a
sommCn school education in Pennsyl-
vsnia the young man was sent TO
Princeton, where he was to be fitted
for the practice of the lsw. While at
Princeton college his father failed and
he was recalled. The blow proved
heavily upon an aged father and
mother. end in a few months thew
were carried to a premature grave. |
The young man was thrown upon his
Own resources and concluded to strike |
out among strangers and make for |
himself a name and fortune. Unac-
'quainted with the ways Of a cold |
world he found his path strewn with |
anything but roses, and after almost
starving fer two days in searching for
work In Cincinnati, was obliged to |
apply for work under the above |
stated circumstances.
The story was calculated to arouse
the sympathies of almost any one, and I,
related with such apparent truthful |
ness ard candor. naturally engendered |
a feeling of pity on the part of the
vcung lady. She advanced TO him
enough money for dinner in case he
failed to find work on that day, and
Instructed him to call again the fol-
lowing morning, when ''mama would
he in bed and brothers down town.
This state of affairs continued for some
days, and the party became very
friendly indeed perhaps loving. One
morning a brother discovered the part
of the Good Samaritan" of being
playe1.by the sister, and a storm was
the result. The young man was Or
dered to be gone, with the promise of
an introduction of the brothers boot,
containing his foot, with his anatomy
in case he ever returned. The young
lady did not 60 into Mysteries, and con
duct herself as many females would
have under the circumstances, but de-
clared to her astopished family that
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