Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — How a Shop Clerk Was Bought by an Heiress. [ARTICLE]

How a Shop Clerk Was Bought by an Heiress.

An ingenious, if not truthful, correspondent, writing from Kingston, N. Y., says: A small social circle in Saugerties is now anxiously awaiting developments in a romantic affair that has come to light within the past few days, in which a young dry-goods clerk in Saugerties and a Columbia county girl play the leading parts. The names of the parties are suppressed, but the affair is of such an unusual character that it becomes a matter of public comment. The young clerk was busily engaged in cleaning the interior of a front show window, when a fashionably-dressed and comely young woman entered the store and asked the proprietor, in a vivacious manner, what ho would take for that article in the window, nodding significantly toward the young man. The proprietor laughingly replied that he would sell him for a dish of ice cream. The young woman said: “Very well 1 will take him,” and deSarted, returning a little lat r in the ay with a female friend, when site invited the proprietor out to a cream saloon to bind the bargain. The proprietor entered heartily into the spirit of the joke, as he looked upon it, and went with her. On his return to the shop the young woman accompanied him, and said, as she started to leave : “1 am going home on Monday noop : so have that article ready for me, as 1 shall certainly call for it.” The clerk thereupon demurred, and said the bargain would not be binding unless he had a dish of cream as well, at Which the young lady said: “Very well, you also shall have the cream,” and left, returning in a few minutes with a dish of cream in her hand. The young man devoured the cream and enjoyed a social chat with his purchaser, and becoming quite interested in her, made up his mind to stick. On Monday afternoon thg young woman, true to her promise, drove up in a hack to the shop on Main street, and out stalked her purchase, clad in a new linen duster and store clothe*, and with a hand bag and sun umbrella in hand. The hack drove off, amid the laughter and best wishes of the fellow-clerks of the young man, and the congratulations of the proprietor to the young woman who warranted the young man to wear well and hold his color, and that he would never fade. The party took the 2:30 train up the river, and on Monday evening the merchant received a dispatch from the young woman stating that she had arrived at home safely with her purchase. The girl is worth about $25,000 in her own name, and is about 20 years old. The young man is fine-looking, has a neat little bank account of his own, and all say that the young woman might “go further and tare worse.” The sequel to this story, for all stories of this sort should nave a sequel, is rather unromantic. The young man returned to his post within a few days, and while his face bears a sublime look of beatitude, he keeps close mouthed and will relate nothing of his adventures during his absence as a chattel. ■I , ■■ ll ■ - The greater part of Montana timber lands have never been surveyed, and the lumberman, the contractor, and woodchopper play unrestricted havoc with the trees.