The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-26
Jim Younasr.s swesthsart.

The Eagle has received the following
lowing communication:
The old saying that love laughs at
lock and bars" has no doubt proven
itself true In numerous cases. love-smit-
ten youths outwitting irate parents and
guardians. Opponents that prove sue
cessful so fas as the tying OF the knot
is concerned. marriages at sea, while the
frenzied fathers and mothers stand on
the very banks. watching the vessel
glide away while they can only tear their
hair and await the boats return. Some
times the naughty children" are for
given and met with open arms, thus it
seems loves way il not so hard after all.
But, when grim law locks the door. de-
liberately placing the key in his judi
cious pocket. unmindful Of pleadings and
entreaties. Cupid sheds silent tear. the
rounded arm falls with unbent bow and
love grows sad indeed. Jim Younger was
legally dead, yet he found that his heart
was very much alive and throbbed with
the same grand passion that tends to
make all life beautiful and sublime. Per
haps had this influence been brought TO
bear upon him in earlier years the heart
and mind that was to be hardened by
crime and ungodliness would have felt a
longing for the nobler ideal life and one
page of our country's fair history today
would be undarkened by the awful blood
stains that are now recorded to his mem
DRY.
He has passed into the great beyond
let US hope ere it was too late he sought
forgiveness and peace with his God
1t was while travelling between st. Paul
and Kansas City / met the affianced
bride OF jim Younger (hiss Alice L..
Miller and during the darkened hours
Of night last April. only by a narrow
margin did she with many others)
escape a death which would have left
her betrothed to mourn for her as she
now mourns for him.
Occupying a seat beside her, we were
chatting pleasantly. when near De
Mounds, Iowa, our train came TO a sud
den stop.
We could not account for the notion
less wheels and some one set about to
investigate. Imagine our borrow TO find
We had come within a few feet of run
ming off burning bridge. the discovery
having been made only a few moments
before our fas. train was due and the
warning signal given. We were told that
we would have TO get out and walk
across the river or gulch (there was only
a narrow stream OF water running. A
crude bridge was hastily constructed and
we wendell our way across. Indian file.
There was no light save the stars,
torches and lanterns. carried by the rail-
road men. to show us how near We had
come TO deaths door and yet saved by a
living fathey for which We all could not
help but express our thankfulness. We
were obliged TO transfer baggage, the
men carrying all trunks. grips and such.
across the gulch. There was scarcely
room on either side of the train for a
substantial footing and in the intense
darkness we could only make our way
with great difficulty. To add 10 the
ghastliness Of the scene. the smOuidering
ruins Of the bridge and rugged rocks
beneath on which we would nave fallen.
a casket containing The form of some
love done, was borne by as many as
could assist in the arduous task. for it
was almost impossible 10 find room for
the CONN and the bearers on both sides.
Once they feared it must fall, so steep