The Cairo bulletin., 1909-01-19
ROMANCEOFAUCT|ON
SALE OF UNCLAIMED EXPRESS
UNiTEs LOVERS.
Norwegian Harvest Hand Comes
Into Possession of Sweethearts'
Letters and Heals
Broken Heart.

st. Paul, Minn.-At a sale OF I'M
claimed baggage held In the Union
depot Herbert Leonard OF Plainfeld,
Wis, paid $3.50 for one lot Of five
bundles, In one of which he found
some old letters, and having no use
for them threw them away. Adolph
Berg, a transient, looked upon this
careless waste of effects with
budding curiosity, paved heedlessly
about among the debris, sorted out a
few letters idly, perused them and
stuck them excitedly into his bosom
and made his way rapidly from the
depot to a saloon at Sibley and Rob
ert streets. He ordered a glass of
beer for an excuse-leaving 1t I'M
touched-and buried himself in read
ing the letters he had found in the
baggage scrap heap.
Berg mad been a resident OF Amer
lea nearly five years. He came from
| Norway and engaged in the restaurant
| business at Minot, ~ d. He had bad
| luck there and took claim near Bis
marck. He proved up on this and
| took a job as a farm laborer in the
| Darlington neighborhood His job on
| the Darlington branch of the Great
| Northern proved good one for a
| time
Now when Adolph left Norway he
! left behind Hilda Aase, with whom he
was deeply In love, While he was in
| America he promised her he would
| send for her and they would get mar
| ried and make their home here. But
things did go so awry with all of
Adolph's brave plans that he continu-
ally declined in fortune until he got
the job near Darlington.
So then about year ago he sent
for Hilda to come in the spring of this
year. Hlda prepared to do so, but for
reasons not disclosed she did not
make the trip and set the time off I'M
til July.
Meanwhile matters were going bad
with Adolph. The slump came during
the winter, hit labor like blast,
cheapened it and threw those that had
any sense of their value out of a job.
So with Adolph
Meanwhile he looked for the com.
ing of Hilda with renewed fears. He
feared that the place he was able to
provide for her would not meet her
expectations in this rich country of
America, and wrote her in July not to
come until she should hear from him
again.
After writing Hilda this he secured
position on a threshing machine
crew and worked throughout the Da-
kotas. He received the letter from
Hilda announcing that she had
started. but believed she had received
his own letter before starting, telling
her not to come, and dismissed the
natter from his mind.
So hard have matters gone since
hat time that Adolph Berg has writ
ten no letters to Ch"istiania to the
woman of his heart.
Little did he know that Hilda, last
July, duly ticketed by the immigration
)ffcials that make ones trip easy
anne to America and North Dakota.
ooking for her long lost love He did
rot know that she had been caught In
he whirl of the busy world about st.
'aul and the northwest, and, falling to
ind him. had returned hastily to her
'ative land depressed to the oblivion
f all else at the thought of the posi-.
We detection and desertion of him
Who was most dear to her.
In the debris at the Union station
ldolph Berg found letters written by
lis own self and they were I'm a
jiece of baggage that Hilda had once
,wned. II did not take Adolph Berg
ong to find out where the package
anne from and learn or divine the
rue course of his love-lorn lady OF
'hristian!a.
Berg, who has some money saved
Up from his threshlng experience, sat
Town that night in the dingy room Of
lis rooming house on Robert street
and wrote Hilda 70 come again TO
America. inclosing an express order TO
cover the expense. tt1f %
Herbert Leonard. who bought the
unclaimed effects which were forgot
ten by Hilda at the St Paul baggage
station in her sad katabasis back to
Norway, is also a thresher. by coin
cidence, and has been employed at
Maxbass. n. d., and Valley City. His
home is located at Plainfield. Wis,
where are also the other effects OF
TIilda. to which she has no legal right.
but which would probably be returned
upon satisfactory arrangement.