Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
CHARACTERIZATION
SALE OF UNCLAIMED EXPRESS
UNITES LOVERS.
Norwegian Harvest Hand Comes
Into Possession of SWeethearts'
Letters and Heals a
Broken Heart.

Broken Heart.
St. Paul, Minn.-At a sale Of un-
claimed baggage held in the Union
depot Herbert Leonard of Plainfield,
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
eTt streets. He ordered a glass of
beer for an eXcuse-leaving it I'M
touched-and buried himself in read
ing the letters he had found in the
baggage scrap heap.
Berg had been a resident of Amer
lea nearly five years. He came from
Norway and engaged in the restaurant
business at Minot, N. d. He had bad
luck there and took a 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 a 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 a year ago he sent
for Hilda to come in the spring of this
year. Hilda prepared to do So but for
reasons not disclosed she did not
make the trip and set the time off un-
til July.
Meanwhile matters were going bad
with Adolph. The slump came during
the winter, hit labor like a 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
started, but believed she had received
his own letter before starting, telling
her not to come, and dismissed the
matter from his mind
So hard have matters gone since
that time that Adolph Berg has writ
ten no letters to Christiania to the
woman of his heart
Little did he know that Hilda, last
July, duly ticketed by the immigration
officials that make ones trip easy
came to America and North Dakota
looking for her long-lost love- He did
not know that she had been caught in
the whirl of the busy world about st.
Paul and the northwest, and, failing to
find him, had returned hastily to her
native land, depressed to the oblivion
of all else at the thought of the posi-
BILE detection and desertion of him
who was most dear to her.
In the debris at the Union station
Adolph Berg found letters written by
his own self, and they were in a
piece of baggage that Hilda had once
| owned. 1t did not take Adolph Berg
long to find out where the package
came from and learn or divine the
true course of his love-lorn lady Of
Christiania.
Berg, who has some money saved
up from his threshing experience sat
down that night in the dingy room of
his rooming house on Robert street
and wrote Hilda to come again to
America, inclosing an express order to
cover the expense.
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 Plainfeld, Wis,
where are also the other effects of
Hilda, to which she has no legal right,
but which would probably be returned
upon satisfactory arrangement.