Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-10
Missouri COurtship.

''S "IS'hR hitbi Chlb a
politician the other day, 81 travelled in
the southwest considerably, selling sad.
dies, etc. On one of my trips | stopped
over night in a settlers cabin in south
east Missouri. The settler and his
family were mighty cordial. gave me
the best they had and made me welcome
to a bunk on the floor with them. The
Oldest daughter was sixteen or seventeen
years old and a perfect beauty for her
situation. She was the kind of n girl
a novelist would break his neck to get
hold of for a heroine. She'd be very
picturesque and pleasing in "a book, but
| shudder when | think of her in real
life. She took quite a shine to me and
before we laid down she had told me
nearly everything she ever heard.
and as the road had been heavy before,
they were not passable the next MORN
ing. So / had to stay Mt the cabin
The girl was very attentive for the
three days | was there, and on the even
ing OF the last day she said, Say, is YOU
uns married?' | told her no and
wanted to know why she asked. We'll,
ii you uns amt, she said, we uns might
get spliced.'"
The speaker paused to allow his hear
ers time to break all their buttons, and
then continued:
Her father approved heartily of the
plan. I've been wishing you uns would
hitch ever since | seen you uns,' he
said, and the whole family was SO con-
gratulatory that L was afraid to decline.
lpretended to accept, and offered to
ride to the Westinghouse about twenty
miles away and get the preacher. They
laughed at the idea. we uus can
marry ourselves by kissing over a IAN
de- the girl said. l insisted on the
preacher, and after a long argument got
my horse out to ride for him. Just as [
was about to mount, the girl came out of
the cabin arrayed to go with me. That
was too much. mounted in Il hurry.
aid a switch to the horses fanks and
rode Off at the top of the horses speed.
L have never seen the charmer since"
How He Won Her.
A young countryman who had long
loved u girl who lived a mile or two
from him was nearly in despair about
winning her hand, says the Americas
(Ga.) Telegraph, and was on the eve of
selling out and leaving the country, as
the girl had refused him three times,
and it was out that she was engaged to
another fellow. Our aero had noticed
that his rival and the girl would walk
in an old meadow field nearly every
afternoon, and he grew madly jealous.
In his cattle he had IA young bull that
was always mad with everything but
his master, because he was an especial
pet. Now Dave, as he called the bull
to be the object with which to sati-
ate his revenge. He would turn him
into the meadow, hide himself
and see his rival tossed like
a football. So one afternoon
calling to Dave, who would follow him
like a dog, he repaired to the meadow,
let the fence down. and turned the bull
in. He then strolled off, and walked
around rs miserable as a man could be
who was committing an evil deed. An
hour or so later he heard the deep NUT
terings of the bull, and Fastening to
the meadow fence he saw Dave about
twenty yards from the couple; paving
was trying to get the girl to run, but
she was so terrified she could not move.
The bull made a dash, and the fellow
ran ~shrieking for the fence. The bull
rushed on after the ~shrieking fellow,
while our disconsoiate young man, hav-
ing jumped the fence, rushed to the
girl, as the bull dashed on after the flu
gitive rival, and, catching her in his
arms, told her that such a coward was
unworthy of her. AS Dave saw his
young master he left off pursuing the
other man, returned and went to lick
ing his hand, while the indignant girl
she would eve more speak to
a man that was afraid of "a COW. She
soon afterward married Dawes boss.
Married a Dusky Queen.
The romantic career of Charles w.
Banks, of this city, has already been
detailed in these columns, says the AL
bany IN. " Journal. Banks was mar
ried IN this city in 1868, TO an estimable
lady, and then went to San Francisco,
where he secured n position in the ex-
press Office of Wells, Fargo & Co. He
p%rospered, and having made himself
popular with everybody and gained the
of his employers, he sud
denly disappeared about two years ago
with $50 900 belonging to the company.
Detectives were sent on the track of
the defaulter.
He was traced to Tahita, in the Sand
witch islands, but had left i'm a schooner
a few hours before the officers arrived.
His subsequent career has been adven-
turous and romantic. A favoring gale
directed his craft to the shores of Rare
lOnBa, LOOK S lslanu, III the south Ia
cifc, where the beautiful but dusky
Queen Ulakea (Ulakea in English, but
else in her own picturesque
l%anguagel reigned quietly and kindly
her loving tribe. She is a
widow, but ceased abruptly 10 grieve
for her departed lord when the hand
some and manly bearing and figure of
Mr.. Banks doomed up before her in her
luxurious home. He was a wan
derer, weary and f~orlorn, and she n
widow, sad and lonely, but with lots of
worlds goods and a large heart,
she mhesitatingly threw at his
feet.
Her kindness won him, coupled with
her own Yankee ingenuity. which told
him that he had struck il rich, and he
availed himself of the fortunate oppor-
equally as unhesitatingly as it
had been opened TO him. There at
safe from the laws strong
grasp, where the climate is glorious and
all the year round, Banks is now
duly domesticated, ana ac-
knowledged as king, and receiving the |
b0maqayO of the neOnle. who adore him.