The age-herald., 1901-08-13
"Jack."

They arrived on a noon train yesterday, each with look of pleasing eagerness They were three women, mother and daughter, and evidently, a fair young friend of the family. They were comedy and were tidily dressed clearly they were prosperous villagers of refinement from down there, and had come to town for the day.
 The mother was the most motheriy soul you ever saw although she was perhaps under fifty. She was one of those dear fat stoop-shouldered, round-faced, smiling, spectacled women who seem to be put into the world to make sunshine for human hearts.
 The daughter was her mothers other, younger self, except as to the stoop; a round-faced thing, very pretty and sweet in her white dress, which didn't fit her fine figure; she didn't know she was a villege Hebe
 The friend of the family was strilx- ingly pretty, with great black eyes that seemed to have the spiritual quality of looking for the greater world of glory which she may never know Like the other two, she was black-headed, and clothed in ill-fitting white. Her figure was 1.-the and lissome, swaying as gracefully as any willow upon her fathers farm. sho was a Penelope of the fair fields down there.
 Leaving the union passenger station, the three good women, with the sweet breath of the village about them, walked slowly. almost wonderingly. up Twen- tieth street northward. At First avenue they hesitated, as if afraid to breast the turbulent current of traffic roaring there. But they did breast 1t, and continuing their slow walk they reached the white marble building the Trust Company is erecting at First alley and Twentieth street, and they paused to look at those noble Corinthian columns. The sidewalk being blocked, they walked into the road way in order to pass around the mass of building material piled there. In front of the classic building they paused again, and looked up, looked around, looked about. :,
 Jack! My God-Jackv'
 The cry came from the mother. and the onlooker-the newspaper worker who had observed the three women since they alighted from the train-saw the dear soul wildly grasping a sunny-haired stall wart youth, just coming to manhood, and clothed in the workingman's blue over alls. She completely enfoided him in her loving arms and almost stifed him with kisses.
 "Jackl My God-Jack"
 Three times she cried that speech fer vently. and then she released him to her daughters embrace and kissing.
 The onloker instinctively knew what was coming. It was dramatic to the most intense degree-it was positively thrilling
 There stood the fair friend of the fam fly, swaying like a willow, trembling as 'the shade by the light-quivering aspen made" and unmistakably his sweetheart.
 "Jack!"
 She held out both hands to him, there by the building material in the busiest street of the south, and-why, he Kissed her!
 Come" the mother called pathetically, and Jack" quitting hls job without a word to his employer, strode off with the hearts of these good women, as proud in his blue overalls as King Edward will be with his crown when Junetime comes again.
 It was clear that "Jack." in pique or passion. had left his home down there, with the hearts of three good women aoh- ing: had come to the city, found honor able employment and gone to work to forget his sweetheart of the village. and by chance they had found him at honest labor-a handsome and noble fellow he looked, too!
 An. the romances and the tragedies of this town!