Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-17
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Miss Tittemors's Long Journey to
japan 70 llsst Her Soldier Lover
and fiancee
Considerable Truth and Some Poetry
IN the Romantic Story as Told
Chicago Paper.

Aaepace writer on the Chicago Inter
Ocean has produced for his journal a
long story concerning the romantic trip
of Miss Margaret Tittemore, of thiscity,
to Nasasaki, apJan, to qleet her fancee,8
Lieut.. Warren Dean. of the United
States cavalry. The story is considera-
bly, overdrawn and is made to- appear
even more romantic than it really is,
but essentially the facts are there. 1t is;
altogether likely that the story has been
held for some time prior to its puhUca-
ton, for Miss TitterEore landed in Maya :.
ssakt several weeks ago, as stated in
these columns when the cablegran wac
received announcing the lady's safe ar
rival. The Inter Ocean,, story is az fol-
lows:
Somewhere out on the Pacific ocean
Jig the transport Hancock, loaded with
troops that are being hastened to China
TO reinforce the American army now
fighting there. Among the few women
aboard are two who are speeding to. the
orient on a mission of love. War, dis
lance and danger Will not stop them.
They have paid no heed to the warn
".
will keep on until two young lovers
whom fate has so far kept apart are
united
The two women are Miss Margaret
Tittemore, of Marshalltown, Ia. and
faithful friend and chaperone Miss
Tittemore Ia the hancee of Lieut.. War
rem Dean, ofsthe Sixth cavalry. whichais
now fighting Boxers around Tien Tsin.
1t Is in the hope that Miss Tit!emore
may be united to the soldier whom the
fortunes Of war have ia ken to the other
side of the globe that the long journey
is made, and a quiet little wedding is
planned to take place when all the
miles of land and water have been tra-s
iversed. While missionaries are fleeing
to their homes. while foreigners are
leaving even the coast cities of China,
and while the wives of army officers
who have started to follow thei. hus-.
bands have halted at San Francisco or.
have turned back, these two women
have kept dauntlessly on. They will.
have to leave the government trans
port at Nagasaki, Japan. but they will
wait for Lieut.. Dean there or join him
at Tien Tsin when it is possible.
1T may be months before Miss Title.
more can reach her fiancee She will not
be allowed to go to Tien Tsin nov. and
the Sixth cavalry, which is at present.
guarding the communications Of the
allies between Pekin and Tien Tsin, will.
doubtless soon be ordered to Pekin to
reinforce the army there. The trouble
In China may be over in three months
or 1t may continue for three years, no
one can tell, and Lietrt: Dean may NOT
see Miss Tittemore in sall that time.
Then there are the chances of war. A
Boxer bullet or the still more dangerous
fevers of the Chinese lowlands may end
the life of the young officer. Miss Title
more knows all this. bur it does not.
shake her resolution She will defy the
fate which has heretofore kept her and
her fancee apart. She will follow him
TO the end OF the earth with all the will.
and pluck which make. the American
girl glorious.
The romance, which promises to
have a fitting termination under the
cloud of war, began last summer at
Fort Logan, near Denver. 1t was there
that Lieut.. Dean was Stationed He had.
then been but year in the army 1t
was only about three years ago that he