The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-17
= HEN Meyer came to Pine.

Wilhelm Windmeyer, and II
was promptly changed by the citizens
TO Bill Meyer.
/ He came direct from the fatherland
to make Plneville his home. He thought
it was his duty, too, to tell everybody he
had left a sweetheart behind, and that
ii was for her sake that he was work
ing to make home. Her name was
Lenken. She was very beautiful, he
said, and so good that II seemed almost
a miracle she had lived to the age of 20.
Ii was this loyalty TO the girl he had
promised TO marry, and who was SO far
away, that made Meyer a favorite with
everybody in Pineville.
But Meyer was slow, easy going fell
low, and the one thought about Lenken
seemed to occupy every Granny of his
thinking apparatus, to the exclusion of
every other thought. He was a very
small man, and that, and the wooden
leg he wore, he said, had saved him
from doing duty as a soldier.
Meyer found employment with Judge
Peterkin. The wages We're low, but
it was steady job. and that was what
Meyer most desired.
During his first year In Pinevile
Meyer gained little sum of money
and lost four fingers and part of his
nose. lie was trying to whistle die
Wacht am Rhine" down the barrel of
an old musket, when the gun went off
accidentally and carried away part of
his nasal organ. The fingers were cut
off with small circular saw used for
cutting firewood.
Two fingers on one hand were cut off
first. When the wounded hand had
been tied up, Judge peterkin, his daugh-
ter Molly, and Aunt Phyllis, the cook,
followed Meyer out to the woodshed to
be shown how the accident had occur
red
1t must have been a piece of pure
carelessness on your part" said the
judge, looking very severe. Now
. , show me how 1t wa done"
Il vas singing Over die garten VAIL >"
saI1 Meyer. Den pick up shtick of
! wood like dis" picking one up with his
unwounded hand. "Und den | hold 1t
/ like dis. und den de shtick ship like
dis und den my fingers vas cut off like
dis And that was how Meyer came
to lose the second two fingers.
q The second year Meyer laid up an
other small sum of money, and was d.
vested of part of an ear, two toes and
a good deal of his hair. The ear and
toes were lost accidentally, and the
hair incidentally, from natural causes.
d why, Meyer, Lenken won't know
: you when she sees you again, you are
a such a wreck" said Molly to him one
}, day
e well, maybe So" he sighed. But in
. a moment the confidence in his sweet
i hearts steadfastness returned. "Oh,
|, she vas so goot, Miss Molly, und 80
beautiful" he said, dat it makes no
difference to her how look She vas
true all de time"
O Then Molly thought she would see II
: Meyer would not pay her compliment
p "How does Lenken look, Meyer? Does
i she look something like me?' she asked
n Like your he exclaimed. 'Lenker
l. don't look like nobody. Miss Wiggir
g look like you, maybe, but Lenken vas
a different"
% Miss Wiggln was Molly's rival beauty
d In Pineville, and the reference to hel
h made the latter flush very red In the
:. face Meyer laughed merrily.
p you don't look poorly ven you lool
10 like dat, Miss Molly" he said.
> Then there came changes, and Meye
81 did not profit any by them. Judg,
Peterkln died. Miss Molly married, an,
Meyer had TO look out for himself a
: best he could. True, Molly still inter
ested herself in him as much as posi-
Bile, but she had new cares and new
duties now that claimed her attention
most of the time.
But Meyer was always hopeful, an,
In good humor. His every thought, ac
and deed was to accomplish somethin
to bring the day nearer when he coul
write to Lenken and tell her that he ha
made home for her. 1t was all 70
Lenken.
How long since you heard from Ler
kemp Molly asked him one day
Meyer thought awhile.
"A little over two years ago." he re
piled.
"And when did you write to herr"
"Oh, dat vas tree years ago.
Meyer, you ought to be ashamed c
yourself" cried Molly. You must s
down here, right now, and write Lei
ken a long letter, and tell her that 70
are still alive. Why, don't you kno'
that she is grieying all the time, an
imagining that all sorts of accident
have befallen your"
I'd Maybe so. ! never t'ink of dat"
~ "For all you know, too, she may hay
u got tired waiting, and married sou
one else"
Az That brought Meyer to his feet al
TIE made him prance around on his woodt
e. leg pretty lively for minute.
IL. NO, no." he cried. "Lenken wou
not do dat. Lenken is true. Wy, 81
50. tink | vas married, too, maybe" II
. Of thought seemed to tickle him great
&c q "You t'ink would marry anybody b
Lenken?" he asked.
Ii mo, Meyer. don't suppose "
y would, Or could, but with 4 woman it
| different"
II mo. 1t vas all de same" Meyer pt
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