Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — A Literary Courtship. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Literary Courtship.

“There is more in this literary business than I thought possible,” declared the young man who is in love. “When uiy

girl, owing to circumstances over which she bad no control, left for the West, 1 decided that I would follow as soon as 1 could earn enough to pny my fare there. “Some time ago I was In a book store and chanced to see a book entitled Tarry Thou Till I Come.’ The thought struck me that tt would be a good hint, no 1 purchased the book and sent It to her. By return mail I received from her The Right of Way.’ Say, that made me feel good all over. “But one month later I was startled and somewhat puzzled by getting ’Great

Expectations,’ and the best way I could figure it out was that she had met some one out there with a lot of money and was trying to break the news to me gent‘fr- ~. “Yesterday I was knocked all in a heap by receiving "The Crisis.’ I’na going West to-morrow if I have to ride on a brakebeam.’’—Detroit Free Press.

GENERAL TRAINING DAY OF OUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS.