The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

Peculiar stories of persons whose ca
reers have been entirely changed as
the result of osculatory salutations are
occasionally told and seldom without
inducing great interest. A kiss that
brought a fortune was reported from
the west last week. A young fellow
drifted into a mining town in Wyom-
ing without a penny In the world, and
SO hungry that, after finding no OPP
portunity to get work Immediately, he
asked some men who were drinking
in a saloon for the price Of a meal, Of
fering in return to do anything they
should require in payment. The men,
being somewhat under the Influence of
liquor, gave the man a half a dollar
and demanded that he should walk
over to the hotel and kiss the daughter
of a wealthy eastern mine owner who
had arrived in town that morning with
his family to look after some property.
The starving stranger walked up to
the girl, who was sitting on the hotel
veranda, and, without a word, i'm
planted q kiss upon her lips. The
young woman screamed and sprang
from her chair, and her father, dash
ing from the hotel, gave the stranger
a blow in the face that sent him reel
ing over the railing around the veran-
da. He fell a distance of twelve feet
or more, and, his head striking on a
pile of rocks, he was almost dead when
picked up. The men who had been the
cause of the affair were conscience
half dead among the rocks, and they
at once explained everything to the
mine owner. He and his daughter
hurried to the strangers relief, and
had him brought into the best room Of
the hotel and tenderly cared for until
he had recovered. Then he was given
work in one Of the capitalists mines,
and showed so much ability chat he
was soon made superintendent, and
later on vas given general charge Of
all the mine owners western property.
He is now on his way to a fortune, and
rumor also has 1t that he is soon to
wed the young m by kissing
whom he laid the foundation of all his
prosperity. From England is reported
the case of a butcher in Sydney. who
under a sudden impulse kissed a pretty
customer. He was arrested and the
case gained great publicity. A firm of
lawyers having charge of an estate
that had been left to the butcher and
who had been hunting him for five
years, read of the butchers arrest and
discovered that he was the missing
heir. AS soon as he was released from
jail they sent for him and delivered
to him his estate.
Somewhat more dramatic than
either of these two cases, and the one
that had a sad instead of a happy end
ing, is the story of an incident that
papers some six months ago. A citi-
zen of London while strolling down
the Strand n day suddenly rushed
across the street and imprinted a kiss
on the cheek of a lady who was pass
ing. When hailed before a magistrate
the man defended himself by declaring
that he thought the woman he had
kissed was an old sweetheart whom he
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law could not accept this ingenious ex-
PLANTATION and the prisoner was fined
forty s~hillings with COSTS.
A paper containing the full story of
the affair found its way out to New
Zealand and fell into the hands of the
wife of a wealthy cattle dealer, who
happened to be the woman who had at
n time been the sweetheart of the
man arrested in London. She at once
wrote to the London mar saying that
If he still loved her as he had declared
in court, to come at once to New Zea-
land, as her husband was dying, and
after his death she would wed her old
sweetheart. The London man sailed
for New Zealand, but as soon as he
landed was promptly arrested and
lodged in jail. There he discovered
that the woman who had sent for him
had been arrested, charged with poison
ing her husband. The letter which the
oma had written to the London
man, and which was found in his
trunk, was taken as additional proof
of the charges against the woman and
she was found guilty.
There was no evidence against the
London nan and he was released. but
when he found the woman he expected
TO marry was ~adjudged guilty of at
tempted murder and sentenced to a
long term Of imprisonment the London
man promptly put a pistol to his head
and blew his brains out.-Utica Globe.