Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1905)
A J3 & (giMigmii jpfeumtt noil 1 t f-..-i i-tV ISM' SB? 1 Wli 111 J i dl(gWIl!!p Jr 111 A jN Y-it V-xr-....,, -, ft- ' li - If Ml Helping to hitch UP A- i' , -'if V s V . ... SmwVMM" ON THE PIKE k ."TO 1 f - xy v x ' Jte.dijtjliii.iil Mill It .57 The LITTLE HOME IN KENTUCKY x s - rflf'J. i A- 3 mm A . HONEYMOON duriHB which the bride helped her huHbund to build fifty miles of railroad, coniitruct a cement plant, and develop a lead mine forms the experlenee of a young Illinois engineer and Ills Iowa wife. Krom a eom fortable and substantial home the bride went Into the nhelter of a tent, commenced house keepliiK under canvas, ami for more than a year presided in a home more than UN) milcx from the civiliz ing Influences under which she had been reared. She carried to her camp home the knowledge of Rood housekeeping that had been taught her "y her mother, and enlisted it in the aid of her husband. Wherever he went she followed. The honeymoon has lifted nearly five yearn, and It Isn't ended yet.N No one who knows them believes It ever will end. Both of these youtiK people possessed accomplishments that made society and Its functions attractive to them. Both were musicians. Both were fond of the pleasures of life. Yet they forsook society and went togetlfer into the wilderness." Cupid Conspires to Aid Engineer. The groom, Walter Joins, had taken a special course In engineering at the I'nlversity of Illinois. He Is a member of a family In which one of the predominating traits of character la determination. He found work almost at once, hater he entered the employ of the Kock Island railroad and was at tached to a surveying party running lines near Manson, la. While at this work he met, by strange chance, Ella Moody, the young woman who was to become his wife. It was a case of lovea first sight. They were married during the first year of their acquaintance. Shortly after that the railroad projected a new line In New Mexico, and the Illinois engineer was given a section of heavy work In one of tlw wildest and most remote sections of the west. His bride vTut with him. They were required to drive from Las Vegas to Pajarlto, a distance of loo miles, through wild country. Here, within the shout of " mule skinners " and the aroma of a " meat burner's " fire, they began housekeeping in a rail way construction camp. It was a tent that sheltered them from the elements for over a year. Here a clever housekeeper maintained an attractive home as long as the work of her husband lasted. When the section was completed thejwir returned to Chi cago, only to engage for another piece of work of the same kind In Illinois. It was the building of a new line near Hills lioio. Then they went to Michigan for the purpose of con struoting a plant for the manufacture of cement. Bride Aids Husband in Work. Some of the work of this engineer was dune In placet Where the advantages of hotels and boarding places were to is as ..i 5-.'fcj m s 4'-x."-i.--i $ " ''''' J v - -A V be had, but wherever they were located the wife was the aid of her husband. She kept his accounts, attended to much of his correspondence, and at times It was the wife who took the part of a rodinan in running lines. ' From boyhood the husband had learned how to rough It. His father had been a mining expert. The son had seen life in many of the western states and territories. He had staked, worked, and proved claims. The wife took an interest In any thing that meant physical culture. Intuitively. She could har ness a horse quicker than a man. It Is said her father was accustomed to hold the watch on her to see how fast she could do it and bring the turnout around to the door. She could shoot like an Indian, an accomplishment that stood her In good play for the life she was destined to lead. She In herited a fearlessness from both sides of the family. The work of her husband took him ten miles or more from their lent, but he never left it without feeling absolutely sure she could take care of herself. Surveying was a family calling among her people, that had been performed as far back as in the army of Qeorge Washington. Now Working in Kentucky. The young couple now are In Kentucky, engay '1 in the de velopment of a lead mine, and no part of their un iuc calling has been more interesting than this undertaking. Illinois peo ple acquired an ownership in a section of Kentucky showing WE SHOWS VISITORS SOME OP HER, TOIN jOTMEXI0 i; i V l . i..r - -i. . . T1 1 htti.jLiK . w v h 5-K ,rta (2ANVAS HOME IN NEW MEXICO 4i . Shaft house ct1 the mine traces of h ad and zinc, but no xp?ts could find It In paying quantities. The young husband brought his mining ex perience Into play, and in less than a half year more hail been accomplished than for a quarter of a century by other hands. Here the pair were again obliged to Isolate themselves. They settled In a deep ravine, strangers in the strangest land they had seen, and in which no house was to be had for love or money. With his own hands the husband built one, and It was ready when the wife appeared on the scene. That this couple were able to live In uninterrupted Happi ness away from home and friends Is owing In great measure to the fact that they carried their home habits with them and never abandoned them. When they were in New Mexico they freighted a barrel of chinaware as good as that arna n.entlng many tables In Chicago. The table and linen and ware were their wedding presents. The spread they made under canvas was not a whit less inviting and tempting than that of either of the homes whence they came. Bride Always Ready with Curt. One custom of the husband has been to provide every convenience that ingenuity could Invent during the times that they wire many miles from home advantages. In New Mexico be contrived a combination table and cupboard, at which the wife could static within reach of anything she wanted, including a revolver of a bore calculated for an effec tive defense. One day, while she was lit work at this piece of furniture, the tent was suddenly darkened by a forbidding character In the door. In nil instant the gun was In her grasp, but before she used It she made use of the vernacular of the region. " Hit the track," she told him. with steady aim and flash ing eye; " hit it or I'll hit you." He struck the gait. I'p to this time there Is no pi. ire where the wile has not been utile to follow the husband, even to pulling her foot in the loop of a cable, and holding on with her hands is lowered ninety feet to the bottom of the mine. This she has been accustomed to do with nil of the fearlessness of her husband. It has been the constant aim (,f this couple to agree In everything. On the day ol their wedding they formed an odd compact. They agreed that they would neyer close their eyea with u difference unsettled. That pledge during Ave years of their married life has Is'en preserved Inviolate. The husband Kays he has always tried to hold his wife in the rh irn ! r of a chum. There has never been anything too small to be di vided between them. The chat like schoolboys or schoolgirls and are as full of the Jollity. t