The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-28
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A Young Man who Walked 10 Nee III
sWeetheart.

A Young Man who Walked 10 Nee Hi
sweetheart.
From the Courier journal.
Eight hundred long miles interviewed
between the residence of Johnnie WEIGH
aud that of his sweetheart, and the young
man was penniless. This was the state
of affairs about three months ago. when
he lived with his father OF a farm four
miles from Parsons, Kansas. Eleven
years previous the WEIGH family were
residents Of New Washington, q small
village just west Of Jeffersonvillc. They
owned a nice farm, and Miss Nancy
Davis was a charming little maiden who
lived on an adjoining place. She was
Johnnie's sweetheart, and when the
WEIGH family moved TO Kansas the part
ing between tine lovers was an affecting
onc. Although they were children, each
promised to remain true to the other.
Ever since they had correspondent regu-
larry, but while his parents were wcll-to-
do in their new home the young man had
accumulated no property and was consc-
quently not In a position To provide for a
wife. During all this time, however, he
had lonRcd TO see her, and when he drove
into Parsons, Kansas, with u load Of corn
about three months ago, he made O sud-
den resolve TO visit his old home in far
away Indiana. He had no. q cent In his
pocket and IA clad I'm a rough suit OF
homespun, but his determination was not
shaken in spite of these obstacles. Hitch
ing his horses TO a q near the depot he
left them and started eastward on the
railroad track. He had never been away
from home before and was consequently
un%acquaintcd with the knack Of beating
his way on trains.
After walking continuously for over two
months he at length arrived AT New WASH
inRton. But his clothes hung in tatters
upon him. his shoes were ~soleless and lac
had the general appearance OF q much
abused tramp. Realizing his sorry plight
and tina "a I'M looking as he did was not
ut all likely to prove an attraction In the
society of ladies', he concluded TO come
on To Jacksonville, where he hoped to
secure work. Accordingly, without ac-
village, he resumed his weary tramp. Ar
irving IN Jeffersonville about a week ago,
he immediately secured n position in the
VOC machine shop at the car works I'M
der Foreman Ed McDermott.
Yesterday afternoon his uncle, James
Colvin, arrived in the city from New
Washington OF a visit to his old friend,
Colonel Wash Blocker. In showing him
over the city the colonel took
him TO the car works, and among
other places, they visited the Not
machine shop. There, to his surprise,
Mr.. Colvin saw employed the nephew
whom he thought vas working on a farm
800 miles away. Explanations followed,
and Mr.. Colvin last night brought his
nephew over TO this city, where he pro-
vided him with "a respectable suit of
clothes and obtained for him a good
position in a wagon works at Elizabeth
town, in Bartholomew county, Ind.
Gladly the young man accepted the
proposition, and, after writing q letter To
the young lady, acquainting her with the
facts. he made arrangements to leave to-
night for Elizabethtown. To q reporter
for the Courier-yOurTaI he stated that
when his circumstances would permit he
would return to New Washington and
marry the maiden whom he had loved
since childhood days.