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Show -STOCKMAN GETS A 1 BRIDE BY FREIGHT MINNESOTAN WEDS GIRL WITH WHOM HE HAD FALLEN IN LOVE IN CHICAGO. SECOND MEETING DUE TO FATE Juhn Hanson Ordors Oattle Car Preparatory Pre-paratory to Second Trip to City and Finds Ideal Locked Inside. MlnnciipdllH, Minn. Only an In-KctnlotiH In-KctnlotiH (lusllny could havi- brotiKlit nbont tho bccoiid mootliif; botween -lolin HnnHon and OIru PiuiIhpii, who wore innrrled Inst week mid now nro IivIiik im llmiKon'H fiinn n few iiiIIoh from Now I'liu, Minn. llniiHtin enmo to Chlruso Mint Bprlng with a car load of cnttlo and after ho had completed Ills IiiihIuchh at tho jnrdn ho camo down to thn HhopphiR eeiiter on Stnlo struo. Ho was sazlnt; at thfiiKS, nH a country follow will, when ho suddenly humped Into a youiiK woman who was Just turnlns tho coi ner of Stnto and Adams. "O, 1 boR pardon," Btntmnorod J Inn-son. Inn-son. Ilo bnckod away and looked down Into a pair of beautiful blue-Kieen blue-Kieen oyes sot In a thin, piquant face. Thu girl blushed and tried to draw away, but somehow John's watch chain wns catmht In tho lacy network of tho little Jacket she wore, and it was n moment or two before they could becomo disentangled. Then she passed on, still blushliiK. It wns a mere nothing, one of those Incidents that happen a thousand times and that I oople forget at once. Hut John could not forget. Ilo had been heart and fancy freo for all his 215 years and now he wns In love. Ho had fallen In love with a strange girl whom he never ex-pfcted ex-pfcted to see again. lie hung around that corner fot hours every day as long as he stayed In Chicago, but ho, did not seo her again. Ho had no means of knowing how he could And her, and nt last he went back to his home, carrying a sweet but sorrowful memory. Hanson went to work on his farm again, but nftur a few wcokB he became be-came so restless and discontented that ho decided to buy a car load of fat cnttlo and como back to Chicngo and Hanson Took Her In His Arms. jtny until ho found tho girl whose face haunted him night and day. lie telephoned to tho station ngent nt Now I'lm to hayo n car switched on the siding of tho little station near his place, and on a certain day ho drove his cattle thero to load thorn. The ear was closed and sealed. Hanson went to tho door of tho enr and started to open It. Ho wns astonished as-tonished to hear n faint cry from the Inside. Ho thought It must ho a tramp and hastily broke tho lead seal and threw hnck tho door. "Thank heaven," cried n weak voice, and thero came tottering toward him a woman. Hanson took her in his arms and lifted her to tho ground. As ho held hor ti thrill pnssed through him. She opened her eyes and ho know ho. It was tho girl that ho hnd mot In Chicago, hundreds of miles nway, weeks before Her story was a simple one. Sho had been picnicking out near Mayfnlr, northwest of Chicago, with a party of friends, and whllo thoy wero waiting for a train they had engaged In a game of hide and sock. Sho had thoughtlessly hidden In an ompty freight car on n siding. Sho cropt back Into a corner of tho car and within a minute or two ono of tho train crow came along and closed tho door and sealed It. Then a switch engine picked up the car and It was made up Into n train and sent to the northwest. Nobody No-body had happened to hear tho cries and she had been carried to the arms of the man who loved her. It was fate. They both folt It. And nrter Hanson had taken her to his mother's luniao nnd had her cared for t"iidorly ho telographod to her paronts In Chicago, who had been searching ovorywhoro for a traco of her. Ilo told them that sho wns safo nnd well and In tho hands of friends, nnd that she was going to mako a visit to his sister. On the 10th of July they wore mnr. lied. |