The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-23

every mining camp for fifty miles
about. and more thar one rich gallant
had laid hi. heart ami his fortune al
her feet
Mrs. Lanston, " no had been a wife
since. her sixteenth year. would rave
insisted on her daughters marriage nj
this time. had moi Frank Hobart IN
duced the parents to send her fSr two
years to the best young ladies' semi
nary al Dcnver.
Frank Hobart mout a-married mat
rsl, il he'd Jest had the check to tell
her that he loved her. As he most sar-
tinly does: but. like a blamed eeiet. he
Gets the Cap'n and Mrs Lansion ter
send Ella off ter school at the other
sid. of the world. When h comes
back in two year. she won't know
Fran,. or no one else in the tlen, ann
the chances is a thousand ter ont that
she'll be engaged to some dandy dude
or eastern ienLerfoot."
This j. what sam Britton. the min
ing boss, said to his friends after Ella
had zone with her father and Frank 10
Denver. and that Is what all the min
crs believed.
Time flies fast with the aged and the
busy. IL was Christmas eve. iss6, and
L,uston's Glen was III u state of great
excitement. The "sa-ebrn>h belle
was coming over on the stage thai
evening from salt Lake City. and one
and all agreed to have a bali at the
Grand Occidental hotel in honor OF her
arrival.
During Elias absence Frank Hobart
had visited Denver once. but the cafnr
rossips were quite sure that he ana W,
Young lady c~orrcsPonded. ~ \
bet sam Brltton would sax. thai
Franz amt never bad the spnnk to ~e'
down in black anil white the foni
/, words: Ella. love you. And can
was quite right.
CAV, L.ans.nn won't 10 Denver y
: bring his daughter home. and IL wa
: understood before he left that Iiowar'
I Ford. the son Of the president Of III
mine. who lived in Colorado CITY ans
al whose home Ella had been a visitor
y yould come back with them Franz
Uobar brought. a, his cwn expense
:, band from Salt Lake. to play at IN
hall. and the day before Christmas ev
: he drove into tile mountains with hi
:, Chimes, servant and cut cvergreens
decorate the dining and ball rooms
When the stage drove up with I'll;
!. her father and young Howard Ford
. was erected with a grand salute fro'
! every gun and pistol in n glen =
the miners were dressed in their rfs
I, though this did not prevent a prepo'
" derance of red shirts: and. foll"win
sam Eriiton's lead. they gave TIRE
- cheers and a tiger for the ''sagebrus
:. belle"
: Ella had grown taller and more com
- II that were possible. Two yea
- ~ careful culture and intellectual ass
:. citation had destroyed the ~omewh'
!. hoydcni>h expression Of her face al
=. 80 rather repealed her old admirer
~ ,x;,h - HON heartine-S and a aoi>tc
~ ous r~ec,rnition went hand in hand
Il wouldn't give shrcks for rrai
4. Hobart a. q lover" growlcd sam i'r
y. ton. after Frank had lifted Ella fru
~ the stage. .Nhy. he didn't even x
L. her. after these years and az ~
III done: and now she comes back y
NJ blessed Christmas eve with a duo
u, lest as | SAID she would. two year nv'
AZ compared with the rough mine
y. IN and about the hotel AZ the glen :
u. Howard Ford was a f~ashionapie exc
Site. Although under medium heig
=. and five years Frank Hobarts Jnns
he was no, bad looking. and beng
/" nine presidents son. he was at !
moment the most important man
81. lanston's Glen
There were tall, wholesome. brig
~ eyed girls by the score from me J"
"a and the surrounding mountain sct'
mentx a the Grand Occidental ~