The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-08-14
Daily Short Story
MAN FROM THE WEST.

BY Frank Hureert o'Hsra.
They called her Tom Il was
name she had earned early In life.
and N stuck By her all the way IN 10
Nomanhood. Tom WASN'T like other
girls Dolls never interested her and
such ihings as fancy work the thought
. iusipic. Her mother used 10 wor-y
over the youthful Toms escansd..
throughout the countryside She had
given surprises all through her young
ne. but the biggest surprise Wrs
when she went out west 20 teach N
wasn't a. all Ike Tom-eNcept that IL
ald surprise those who knew her
There vas nothing peculiar about
her selecting the west. however There
could not have been another SeyS
Hampshire girl better suited 10 west
ern environment Yet this VAS her
nrtt trip westward Her father had
taken her 20 other parts Of the coun-
Wy, but he bad had an eccentric mo-
ton that Tom. Wild Of nature
shouldn't 20 20 the "untaned west
as be called o.. until her character
was firmly nodded When she star.
ed on there 20 teach ne vas satisfied
Apparently he felt the moldine had
occurred All the Rockies them
selves couldn't block her from the
long. straight road. was the way he
put 60
SO Tom Campbell wen, ont n the
west tier first letters home gloWcd
With talk ~ massive mountains ani
canyons and vast. wide deserts. and
all the etiquette Of the open Tom
vas delighted. She wrote such things
a. this
The vest has taken hold OF me bod,
shd SOUL. lt gets me iu a sort o. trance
Z When think % returning east to live
well / don't think ahcut a. Prom NOS,
On. -frpplc. The great. throbblng west
shall be my home
shorter and they were given over II.
family small talk more ard more uatit
-, shc quite forgot ANYTHING about The
letters stranEer-thsn the first ones
letters that echoed d'solateness and Bit
Yer longing for home and all the Old
Mrs. Campbell could not keep bach Inc
warm tears when she rcad such pas-
saEes 81 these.
- The west why. You can.
Imagine, you back IN dear old Nc,y
Hampshire. what that word stEntft..-
What sherman said or war b. true over
and over again Of this barern waste
thar people call the west
And the people on. n you could nut
sec the real true westerner' %, i~
colder and decidedly less agreeable .n4p
any snob Ne have IN The east
Quiet followed Quiet punctusted By
matter-of-fsct lcttcra. Afterward came
= know you'n BE- awfuiiy shocked
"a hen Nou reed this. niumsy bet ,sut
help a. DON'T worn its really an
perfectly fine what I'm trying o. say
is-Oh. I wonder n FIri l. sIways this
way when she starts out 10 tell har
mother she's going 60 b. married You
Mr. pensnore has pressed me for an
answer and I'm EoinE 90 Fiye it 90 MIN
tonight send me on your blessing
and don't tell dad yet"
Afterward the girls letters we're very
cheerful hut what Mrs Campbell look
81 Tor most and found least % vas
had written once that he was forty
nearly bald short aut unprepoasessiug.
That vas beyond belief u hurt the
mother 90 feel that Tom should rrov
facetiols about &C. Hut Il never had
been her daughters way % counde iu
When she returned from the west In
the early summer Tom wac a. silent a.
Der letters had been All that was
learned about pgnsmore they extracted
piece hN piece The peculiar phase. too.
vas the foot that Tom vas ioauarious
enough whom o. came 90 telling ever
one that she had become engaged out
vest % didn't matter Who ~ was-ron
always told fhat-thaf alone
one dav in mifsumre- -he remarked
Casually o. her mother. Its ODD. fen't
o. That one years teaching should nave
been enough for me-
This was the hr.t time Mrs Campbsu
bad known that Tom uaa rp' rainr
.ark fo Ier post The mother had nrt e.
asked fut she vac sure Tom Haf
-rosen repeatedly about EoinE back
THer YOU intend % br married thts
w'r'~- Mrs.. Campbell yentIrsd Tim
ror iarrr.s "oh. ir.s funny sr.i-
well rsnors,ra.ss NJ ra-ph.u
~ fours really .enrarsd Tom. think
f.-r 'hs week - fre Wedding
Tom MADE 20 rsriy nlt p vesE LATER
rr"r.fr- re~ s~rore.e f-fe-ffor ~ corn
'rr ~7.' frs nett week