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Show l " ' '' ' I I' ! iHHl ii. hVJ Romance of a Farm ' 1 A romantic story, ono which a number of stirring Ihcldonts aro related, relat-ed, Is told of a llttlo farmhouse and forty-soven ncres of land that within thq last week havo beon turned ovor to a groat church organization for an orphanago. Tho property Is located on tho main lino of tho Northwestern road, about two hours out from Chicago, and ad Joins tho llttlo village of Nachusa. Tho land was handed down from generation genera-tion to generation by a family of tho name of Dysart. By a member of this family It was orlglnnlly takon up from tho governmont, and romalnod In tho family until It foil Into tho possession of Col. Aloxandor Dysnrt, who for years was ono of tho best known citizens citi-zens of this section. He was a man of somo eccentricities, but beloved by tho -whole community. Ho raised a family of sons, threo of whom becamo engineers on tho Northwostern road and nro now running trains. Tho colonel, colo-nel, during his llfetlmo, improved tho old homo, which In early years was but a cabin, until it assumed tho proportions pro-portions of n flno country homo. Ho '' nBJ surrounded It with a double row ot if H pine trees, and those for railed maybe " - , Q soon from points nlong tho road. v' ' . BB Whon tho colonel was woll along Irii '' t'H years ho fell In lovo with' a widow; ' ' ' H and against tho wishes of his family . IH married her, only to ho divorced ln-oc H fev years, H Within sight of tho Dysart homo . H was tho farm of Potor Burham, a " H sturdy Gorman, tho father of an In . , H dustrlous family. Aihdug' the children H was n daughter, Mary, who grow up to ' H bo as pretty a lass as could-bo found H in all Leo county. A farmer's daugh H tcr, alio tn duo tlmo becamo 'a. H farmer's wlfo, marrying Honry H Shippcrt. Both husband and " H wlfo had not ono but sovoral ' H farms ot rich Lee county land, but - H nftor tho body of old Col. Dysart was H laid to rest and tho property was of- H forcd for sale, Mrs. Shlppe'rt bought It. . Then Bho proposed to tho Evnngollcal H church, of which she is a mornber, to convert tho llttlo farm Into an orphan H ago. Tho church accoptcd tho chargo H and only tho other day tho homo of B tho kindly old colonol was dedicated to Its noblo purpose. 9 |