The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-16
A TRUE LOVE STORY.
Which Goes Far To Prove
That Truth Is Stranger
Than Fiction"
A WOMAN TRADED FOR so ACRES.
Investigation Into a Singular Docu-
meBt Brings Out a Romance OF
Two Countries.

The details of one of the most singular
trades ever consummated in this part of
the country have come TO light through
the filing for record of aided of a tract
of land IN the western part of the country.
The deed is from Chris Christensen to
Nils Jensen, and conveys eighty acres of
farm land to the latter, but the remark
nble part of the deed 10 tho consideration
given for the land.
II reads as follows:-
t-"For and in consideration of one wo-
man, to wit, the wife of Nils Jensen"
The queer document caused an investi-
cation to be made, aid the following ro-
mantle story was learned by the curious
newspaper man who went to the farm of
Christeusen:-
Nine years ago Christensen left Sweden
for this country to make his fortune, aud
when he started he left in the old coun-
try a yong woman, who was to become
his wife as soon as he became able TO
send after her.
The girl, Nina Petersen, was the
daughter Of a Door shoemaker, who led
his family a dogs life and was continu-
ally on the verge OF starvation.
AtUeT OnTlSteuSHu leIU, MluH expected
to hear from him constantly, but no let
ter ever reached her, and us she had no
idea 10 what part of the United States he
went she could not write 10 him. Among
the young men of the town was Jensen,
who also looked with loving eyes upon
Nina, but she would have nothing to do
with him, for her heart WAS true to Chris.
AS year after year went by, with no word
from her absent lover. the maid came to
the conclusion that he was recreant,
and the idea was fostered as much rs pos
sibie by Jensen, who was at last SUCCESS
full in getting Mina's consent to marry
him.
The father also insisted that the we'd
ding should come off. and, more to get
away from such an unhappy hoine than
through love for Jensen, Nina consented
and they were married. This was five
years ago. After IVA years OF hard times
in the old country Jensen determined to
try his fortune in America, aud with his
wife and one child he started for the New
World.
After wandering about for some time
they landed in Nebraska with no money.
Jensen obtained WORK on farms in differ
cut parts of the State, but was unable TO
get ahead financially.
The man and wife drifted over the
State. doing work at SUCH places as they
could get employment, tuntil at
last they reached this city. where
they heard that a man and woman
were wanted to work on q farm in
the western part of the county Jensen
applied for the place. and as chance would
have it the man and woman were wanted
on the farm of Christensen, but the peo-
pie were SO changed that no recognition
was had.
Something familiar in the woman's ap-
pearance led Christensen to make inQuir-
leg, and he discovered thai 1t was his
long lost love. He said nothing TO either
Jensen or his Wife,, but a few shrewd
questions Showed him that Jensen knew
more about the reason for his. letters not
reaching Nina than the husband was
willing to acknowledge.
One evening he began telling a story to
his hired man and wife, and u
the story Of mis- life from beginning to the
present. He told how Jensen had taken
the letters from the postofice and de-
stroyed them, and when he got through
the latter was so overcome with what he
thought was Christensen's knowledge
that he confessed his infamy. The three
talked long Into the night about the mat
ter. and before the morning came it was
decided that Jensen would give up the
woman. who openly said that she did not
love him, and ne agreed to get a divorce
and give up his wife and child ii Chris
Jensen would give him q start in the
world.
Nina was willing and anxious, and the
result was that the deed to the eighty
acres of land was passed, and the woman
is now living as the wife of Christensen.
A divorce was procured and the marriage
followed on the same evening. Jensen
lives at the farm until ne can build a
house, and the whole lot seem happy over
the new turn OF affairs.-FOTt Worth
Gazette.
Bellies Use Dumb-Belis.
The use of dumb-bells is now general
with thessociety woman. In lieu of exer-
else, asserts the st. Louis Republic, she
has hitherto given herself up bodily to
the massage operation. This brought all
her muscles into play without a particle
of self effort, but it did not cultivate for
her the erect position produced by the
use of d~umb-bells.
And now that slenderness of waist,
sloping hip and well developed bust
counG as small matters compared to a
pretty dimpled back, the duinb-oells
come into vogue-the one thing whose
use will straighten up the figure and hol-
low the pretty dimples in the shoulder.
A Brave Woman.
I'm my recent trip to New Mexico in
the interests of the Omaha Stock Ex-
change l witnessed an act of heroism that
I shall never forget" said w. f. Skinner
" Ill Ouldud DCG ICpuIUCE. lHc GcubIul
figure was a beautiful aud refined young
lady, the daughter of a banker, who owns
extensive cattle ranches in northern New
Mexico, During the vacations she had
passed on the ranch she had acquired a
wonderful proficiency with the rifle, and
could shoot with the accuracy of an old
ranchmau. One day we were startled by
seeing Il cinnamon bear, n a large one
at that, near the edge of a gully, but a
short distance from the house. Both
father and daughter rushed tor their
rifles and made for the ravine. The wild
beast was on the opposite side ana unable
to get at us.
'Tne banker in his excitement got too
close to the edge of the ravine aud tun-
pled in, falling a distance OF twelve or
fifteen feet. He lay stunned by the force
OF the fall, and we feared he had been
seriously hurt. In another second down
tumbled bruin into the gully, whether
Intentionally or 'accidentally Idon't know.
But the awful danger OF my host im-
mediately flashed upon me. He WAS too
stunned to help himself, and the savage
beast, infuriated by the pain of his fall.
rushed toward the PROSTATE man. was
frozen with horror. In "a ~twinkling I
heard the report of u rifle at my side. saw
a puff of smoke, and the bear dropped
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