| Show A STORY OF A SONG No One to Loc Written on the Eve of Battle I heard a curious story yesterday in regard re-gard to the wellknown song No one to love none to caress Traveling alone through lifes wilderness wilder-ness etc The author of this song lives here in Washington and he boards at a hotel within a square of the White House He is now a man of perhaps forty and he wrote the song many years ago He was in love with a beautiful girl and the day was fixed for their marriage In the interval in-terval between the engagement and this day the war broke out and the young man enlisted He was on the field when the time approached for his wedding It was on the eve of a great battle and that the first battle in which the young man was to take part He wrote to his sweetheart asking her to postpone the day of the marriage until after the fight This she refused to do and said if he did not return and keep his part of the engagement en-gagement she would consider the engagement engage-ment off The young man preferred to trust to luck in regard to the engagement to being considered a coward in running away from his first battle and remained on the field His lady love however was so piqued at the refusal that she persisted per-sisted in her objection of his suit and married another man Inspired with the feeling of the desertion the rejected wrote the song which had such a wide run He not only wrote the song but he remained re-mained true to his first love and for sometime some-time the story goes he has been living here with his mother Not long ago however how-ever his loves husband died and since that time he has renewed the acquaint anco of the widow who though older than when he went to the war is still charming The old flame has it is said revived in the fair widow breast and there is a fair prospect of mash Washington I Wash-ington Letter in Boston Traveler |
