The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-04-08
TENNESSEE AND KANSAS.
The Course of True Love Meier
Yet Ran Smooth.

The midnight train Tor St. LOUIS,
from the west, had as passengers a
family party, TO which the BAzoo mao
was attracted. chiefly because it SEEM
ed so utterly happy. 1t was compos-
ed of a man with light hair, blue eyes
and scant fringe of yellowish wnj--
kers around his jaw, ami drcze in a
new, but cheap suit of "fand-me-
downs ;" a shorI, pleasaDt-fac, 4
woman. with back hair and brown
eyes, who looked TO be about thirty
years of age, but who claimed to be
only twenty-five and two little chill
dren, boy and girl, of four and
two years, respectively.
When the reporter saw TIE group,
the children were asleep, and the man
aud the woman were engaged in
pleasant conversation, which the
BAzoo representative interrupt
ed accidentally as he passed
down the aisle of the coach. A ques.
ton from the man as to the name of
the town the train was stopping at,
introduced an opportunity FOR talk.
and In a few moments, the reporter
had cleaned some inter. sting but brief
particulars.
The man, who was about thirty
FIVE yeirs of age, was named Ri rh
Thornton, his residence, Humboldt,
Tenn AID his occupation a farmer.
The lady was Mrs. Lizzie LambkIn,
OF Troy, Kansas, and the children
were little Lambkius. as Thornton
jokingly remarked. The parties were
going 10 have a great wedding when
they got back tn Humboldt, and then
their Iroub es, they hoped, over for
ever and ever.
This story may be bri, fly told
Mrs. Lambsia was one of The pretti-
est girls, seven years ago, in The whole
county and as Lizzie Marshall had ad.
mirers and suitors by the dozen. Her
parents were poor, though and
when she showed a preference
for Ralph Thornton, a thrifty
and honest farmer, they expressed
their desire that she should encourage
John Lambkin, rich old bachelor,
who held deed of trust on the prop
erty of tue Marshalls. The usual
thing happened, of course, Lizzie fell
more deeply in love than ever with
Ralph, and would have carried out a
scheme to elope, had not her mother
suddenly taken i'll, and died in few
short months.
Her father begged and entreated
anu commanded her TO let the farmer
boy go, aud as last resort, appealed
to his daughter to marry old Lamb
kin and save the roof from over their
heads being taking away.
She married Lambkin, and after a
brief hone, moon in Tennessee. re-
moved to Kansas to live. Two
children were burn. About a month
ago, Ia grippe invaded the
ne'ghborhood of Troy, and John
Lambkin was one of lis first victims.
Ae soon after the funeral as common
decency would permit, the widow
wrote TO her old lover in Humboldt.
and Re fastened to Kansas. The
property there vas sold out at a small
sacrifice, and the reunited lovers this
morning were on their way back to
Tennessee to be married the Thursday
after Easter and make Humboldt
their future home. Mrs. Lambkin
remarked that some people might
think that she was using indecent
haste, but that was her own business. |
She was now going to marry the man
Of her choice, the only man she loved,
md as be and she had plenty of this
worlds goods, through the de .th of
Mr. Lambkin, they could afford to
De independent of Mrs. Grundy.
The Robbers Found.