The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-30
Finds Her Former Lover After a
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4 quarter OF a century.
| The following pretty story was published
/ in Wednesdays issue Of the Kansas City
Drovers Telegram, and brings 20 mind
many suggestibla thought Of other Enocf
| Arden episodes Of this kind which have
| occurred in ard around this city the past
! few years. The simplicity and natural
! conditions OF the affair appeal 10 one i'm
measurably more than as though they
were highly colored and rose tinted ef-
! fects. Following is the story; "a nice
little romance has just come 70 light. Phil
| Bonner q widower at Six Mile, Kan, came
in early last week 20 buy cattle. He bought
two ne heifers When ne went to pay for
them he discovered that they belonged &c
Mrs. Louise Jourgens OF Wichita. Kan.
The two had been swsethearts twenty-five
years ago. but had quarreled and parted.
Each was married later and in due course
OF time Bonner became a widower and
Mrs. Jourgens a widow. When they nat
last week they had not seen each other in
all that time and knew not Of each others
Whereabouts. They're married now" Mrs.
Jourgens has been known 10 many Of
Wichita's citizens for several years as the
proprietor Of a large milk and dairy estab-
lishment located just outside OF town.
Daily she has delivered her bovine pro-
duce 70 a large line of regular customers.
and TO a few OF the more romantic in
clined she has sometimes appeared NOR
bid and exclusive Always affable and
accommodating. she has, nevertheless,
borne the tell-tale story Of a disappoint-
ed life. Hopes unsatsfed, fond dreams
unrealized, and early plans ruthlessly shat
tered somehow. no one knew how. Re
Gently she has appeared especially gloomy,
and then for few days her daily route
was taken by another, a young man who
turns out to be in her employ. Then her
customers wondered and many speeula-
tons were abroad as 10 the cause Of her
absence. She had simply gone TO Kansas
City with a consignment OF beef stock
and among the layout were two heifers
which played so prominent part in her
career. These two animals were placed
on sale in the usual course Of dealings on
the stock market and many bidders en-
tered the lists for them. One, Mr.. Phil
Bonner took them IN, and in settling with
the commission firm which handled them
he found out that he owed for the cattle a
comely and nice appearing woman, whose
scale card noted the address Of Wichita,
Kan. At once he was interested. His
mind wandered over the lapse Of a quar-
ter of a century, and he recalled that the
last vestige of clue he ever received as 10
the whereabouts Of his schOoldays' loved
one was this same point. Then he inves-
tigated and the results Of this inquiry de-
veloped the startling, yet very interesting
fact, that the woman from whom he had
purchased the heifers was the same toward
whom many years ago in a far-on east
ern amlet he had expressed those endur-
ing and ardent sentiments which mean for
life or death. But there was an unfortu-
nate complication Of affairs. They, lover
like. had a misunderstanding and they
gloweringly parted, each believing the
other in the wrong Each married, and in
both cases to one who was not the choice
OF the heart. Death severed the relations
of bot, leaving each of the early lovers
free again. Then, by the merest accident,
they met at the livestock market at the
mouth os the Kaw and mutual recognition
followed, and the two sweethearts Of the
long ago were reunited after the span of
a quarter century. The early quarrel was
right off explained and forgotten. and now
they are one again and will finish ife's
checkered course together, just as they
planned 10 do in the rosy dawn of their
youth.