Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — CUPID A VERY “QUEER KID" [ARTICLE]

CUPID A VERY “QUEER KID"

Beginning and Ending of Romance in . Which Not a Single Word Was Spoken. Huntington, W. Va. —For two year* persons living near the railroad tracks here have watched for the Overland freight, which is due through here at 4:30 in the afternoon. To those who were disinterested watchers the event simply meant a glimpse at the "mad fireman,” as they called him, for, as the train whirled by here that member of the crew would hang out of the cabin, wave a piece of waste or a handkerchief in the direction of the long hill and presently throw kisses until the train was out of sight. “Some nut” was the verdict of the spectator*. But away up on the hill Miss Sylvey Price, standing on the veranda ot her father’s house, waited for the daily performance, and when it had ended sighed “seme dreami**—She had never spoken to the fireman, but more than two years ago began to correspond with him. He waved each day, and finally one day when she stood on the platform at the little railroad station he dropped a card with his name and address near her. The courtship began by correspondence and continued until all arrangements had been made for their marriage. She had never heard his voice, and her only impressions of him were obtained from his letters and his performance at the door of’the engine. Recently Miss Price went to Ashland, Ky., to be married to the fireman, who corresponded with her under the name of F. L. Francis. She waited at the church for hours and then went to the railroad .offices. No one of that name was employed there, she was told. She returned to her home heartbroken. Next day the Overland pulled through town; an old man was stoking the engine, and he didn’t even look up. Cupid's a queer kid, isn't he?