Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-05

To the memory of the loved one gone
I'll try so hard to be true.
Addison f. Andrews, in Christian Inquirer.
A FEW LETTERS.
They Tell an Interesting Story of
Love and Duplicity.
From Herman Dorman. of Detroit, to
Miss Sadie Mention, of Cleveland
My DEAR Miss MENToN-I thought of
saying to you what now intend to write. ]
meant to say it the night before you left for
your visit to Cleveland, but somehow my
courage failed me. A friend of yours told
me that you had rejected many suitors be-
cause you believed their motives to be mer-
cenary. could not bear to have the deep
love feel for you tinged with such a suspi-
cion and had resolved to be silent forever
But since you have been away this city
seems to me so utterly dreary and desolate
that l have made up my mind to at least
learn the worst l may say-and my only
excuse for saying it is the remark have
alluded to-that believe my own fortune
is nearly if not quite equal to yours. do
not say this boastfully, but merely to show
you that in Offering you my hand and heart
/ am not actuated by any other desire than
to hope for yours in return. In case you
should look favorably upon my suit shall
be only too glad if your wealth is so ar
ranged as to be entirely beyond the control
OF any one but yourself.
My dear Miss Mention, love you truly,
devotedly and unselfshly, and love you
for yourself alone. What is your answerI
With deepest affection, yours,
HERMAN DoRMAN.
from Miss Sadie Mention at Cleveland
to Mr.. Herman Dorman at Detroit
My DEAR Mr. DORMANT can assure you
that no such thought ever entered my mind
regarding you. l think L am somewhat of a
Judge of character and can tell the false
from the true. l shall be here some weeks
longer, and if you happen to be in Cleve-
land before return, L shall be very glad to
welcome you. Yours,
SADIE MENTION.
From Mr.. John Mention, Detroit, to his
sister Sadie, in Cleveland.l
Ny DEAR SAD-Might respectfully ask
If you've gone crazy! Herman Dorman of
all men in the world Now, l did think
once that you had some sense, but l see you
are just like the rest of them. Trust girl
for picking out the very worst man in her
set every time. Dorman wants your cash,
that's the brutal long and short of it. Now,
Harry Raymond is worth ten thousand of
such as that shyster Dorman. If you were
poor you would have married Harry, you
know you would. You liked him, and he
has been in love with you ever since you
were in the high school Now you have
driven him out toa Texas ranch and have
actually engaged yourself to that rascal
My dear Sadie, have no patience with you
Why is it that an honest man generally has
no chance with a plausible scoundrel in the
favor of a good and high minded womana
Anyhow, don't let the engagement be an
nounced for awhile yet. You will do that
much at least for me.
Your brother, JOHN,
from Miss Sadie Mention, Cleveland, to
John Mention, Detroit.
MY DEAR BRoTHER-You must not write
to me again in the strain of your last letter.
You know that mean what l say. 1 will
overlook it this time, because doubtless
what wrote you took you by surprise. You
are entirely mistaken in your estimate Of
Mr.. Dorman's character. He has admitted to
me with sorrow that men rarely understand
and sympathize with him. His has been
life of earnest work and unseltsh devotion
to duty. There is nothing of the boon COM
panion about him as. there was about Mr..
Raymond. If Herman had received the
answer l gave to Mr.. Raymond, he would
merely have buried the sorrow in his heart
and devoted himself to his duty instead of
going dramatically off to Texas and making
an absurd cowboy of himself You must
not say drove him there. Herman is en-
tirely dsinterested, and to prove it to you
have only to say that his fortune is quite
equal to my own. l shall do as you request
about keeping the engagement secret for q
time. Your affectionate sister,
SADIE.
From John Mention, Detroit, to Miss
Sadie Mention, Cleveland.
SADIE-Do you know that there is an esti-
mable and valuable, if somewhat uninterest-
ing volume named "Bradstreet's?" Look up
the standing of Mr. Herman Dorman.
Fortune equal to your own" Boshl Dis
trust a man whom women like and with
whom his fellow men don't sympathize.
JOHN
from Harry Raymond, Slaughter Ranch,
Tex, to John Mention, Detroit.
Ny DEAR JoHN-Im a wild and woolly
cowboy, and don't you forget 1t. There is
more buckskin than culture about me now.
! My chief recreation is shooting holes in the
| air around tenderfoot when he comes to
| visit the ranch. He generally thinks was
| born this way, and that have an unquench-
able thirst for innocent blood. John, I'm
afraid haven't gone far enough west, or
am too far south, or something. don't for
get as easily as thought would. I've ev-
identity struck the wrong latitude. IL you
notice the slightest trace of lingering regret
| at my absence don't stop to write, but tele-
graph. There is a telegraph line to the fort
near here, and some of the boys are in
every night to fla up with forty rod, and
they'll bring a message out. The Toment
get dispatch I'll take vestibuled mule
train to the nearest railway station so quicl
that the mules won't know what strucl
them.
I'd about as sooa ride Woodward avenue
car as bronco, anyhow. Yours, HAIRY,
From Herman Dorman, Palace Hotel
Cleveland, 20 Isaac Van Bruntstein, pawn
broker, Detroit.
MY DEAR VAN B.-Send me $500 as sool
as possible to the Palace Hotel here. III
pay you within three months at any rate o
interest you like to put on.
HERMAN DoRMAN.
Cleveland.l
DEAR SRI would rather see the 800
have already lent than lend any more OF
such poor security as your word for pay
ment VAN BRUNTsTEN.
From H. Dorman, Cleveiand, to ]. VA
B., Detroit.l
Look here, key, if you ever want to Sc
your 800 you'll lend me what / want P. D
Q. Here's the situation, I'm here at a.
! expensive hotel and must keep up style
Every thing depends on it. I'm engaged {
Miss Mention, of Detroit, and that's wort
half million, as you know. You can easil
find out the truth of what say by askin
. - Or to both of whom she has write
, | about our approaching marriage. NOV
don't fail TO send the cash, end the momer