Anna had always been a girl In some
body's kitchen, until within a few
months, when her old lover came back,
and they were married. She had done
well, everyone said: and a more faith
ful man than Andrew Johnson could
not have been found. She and Andrew
had Ixjen engaged for fifteen years and
she was now thirty-live. They were
I well suited to each other at the begin
ning of the engagement, when Andrew
went west. His business was farming,
and he had carried it on In several
states. He was very unfortunate. His
crops were mined three times by (be
grasshoppers In Kansas; he then “pull
ed up stakes" and went to Dakota,
hut two dry seasons there, and being
obliged to pay a number of back taxes
on bis farm, took all Ids money, and
drove him from Dakota.
He (hen drifted out to Washington,
ami after years of hard work and
strict economy, he purchased a small
fruit farm. He had almost given up
making that pay, when tho coming of
a railroad and the founding of a town
right on Ids farm made ids fortune.
