The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-18
- From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
FArAL RESULT OF A GENUINE AFzEc-
TIoN-A TRUE HIsToRyre OF A BRO
KEN HEART.

ish- ~ .n-
Women very rarely die of broken hearts
loly men never 1t is the fashion, we are aware
of engendered by the cynical tendency of the dav
ant to declare that the gentler sex never sun.
and from their affections beyond the healing of ;
vas month, or the catal lism of new attachment
ere Often-geE orally indeed-they do not: and
there Is much reason to speak of a woman s
in hckleness, but of man IS how much. more She
his has her defects; he has his countless vices 10
ye- answer for On the score of constaDcy it
would be policy for the "lords of creation TO
so observe Lacedenonian silence. If she change
every day he alters every hour. All liberty is
lid granted to him. to her only grave like mar
Ful rowness is allowed. ,s*H-
Female hearts do then sometimes break
Dit the hearts of women, not of the mere bediz-
lie zened nothings that are labeled "ladies'' and
It's pass for what they are not on the shallow and
W uncertain stream of society. 1t i fortunate
a womans hearts are somewhat flexible since
le often the effect of their association with men
~ Is to harden If not to fracture them. 1t would
1t have been better if Mother Eve had given ul,
lie to all her daughters large proportion of ada
e mant and loss of the plant clay that every
o circumstance mould.
:, Those who read the little story-all too true |
e alas!-we have to record, will believe what we |
have written. 1t is. ordinary, common place,
r old and familiar, but more through romances
than from life. She loved him and he welded
her; he loved her not and she died it is all
| volumes he
passion and worship, the disappointment and
despair, the suffering and agony, of an immor-
tai soul. -. --
Some three months since, 4 Young ladv. re-
siolng near Aenla, lovely in person as in char
acter, refined, cultivated and accomplished the t
daughter OF family of influence and means. G
met youth her senior by a few wears who | u
seemed to have many Qualities of head and a
| heart to recommend him. He was talented | t
amlable and generous, but lacking in force of c
character and worldly experience-one of those n
sensltlVe to circumstances ana catching hue and tt
form from the passing hour The two natures d.
however, were drawn together by partial SYM W
pathy, and Laura loved Albert deyotedlv- d,
There was great disparity in their fortune but tI
Laura parents felt that her happiness depend fiji
ed on her love, and when he sought her hand ! s.,
they did not refuse it, nor their blessing - pr
They were married, and for a few weeks | m
there was no need of sunshine to shed radiance Oh
upon their hearts; their lives, like succeedino ha
INES OF heroic poem, with melodiouS on
measure into rhyme. Albert grew nearer and on
nearer and dearer and dearer to Laura in the mai
midst OF whose highest sympathies he was the ag,
yelled divinity, where all, all the worship of cor
ner soul was paid His step was music to the ma
march OF her ife and his voice the inspiration
If her hour, behind which in the blind ecstacyoI
hat happiness creates, she did not look, and 7
cit no prophesy within of the coming cloud T :;
hat ever floats, though invisible, upon SUM- -, -.
hines every wave. --.l i nav
ossoJ 81 l. " d.iiupiai oliss hau amo
eor a1o, oe 10 SCI aiI i'eo 10 40. began min:
od OF her idolatry. Though he loved her as ~
;sbcd . obon.,o g - " i0'inS5' ne NOR
om the caress of tenderness and the white -. -.
nprisonment of encrclng arms He conclud nsl, Tn1
sa;d 80 .;s;+ "nere ne "ished abou
r years. Laura heard this revelation with M Z
nazement and with pain, for tho idea of liyino -
zen week without him, appeared sacrifice ~.
e could not undergo. Still with the instinct eS
fTria. II - -. ~ "oiiiai " cohceai her comi
osa e. - causes sorrow 10 from
d seemed willing her young husband should - ~,
part She feared for the temptations of - wv
eat city upon one whose purity and affection
re SO entirely dear to her, and whom she
eW had been reared in the country apart Th
IN the thousand temptations and dangers of has b
tropolitan life. Yet she would not wbsner 81, 90
r fear, nor murmur her thought for doubt Town
er clouds the heaven of our affection accou
Albert came to the city, and was, in few can o.
IS, qnite ename red of the gayety and dssi- Treas
ions OF the town. Unfortunately for him he The
med evil associations, and, ere fortnight necess
passed, he had-so rapidly are we led into of the
e-becOme one of circle of fashionable Men
es. Handsome and genteel in person and with t
lners, and Iberllly supplied with money sas 81
ch Laura lavishy furnished, he made quite down.
cure In his set and was generally pronounc to be
capital fellow. public
he young and unfaithful husband had de- ence p
d his departure week after week. promis- in q
by letter, to return in few days, but when they
time arrived, finding a new excuse He
fascinated by his circle of false friends, and Hal
Ign ne 1elt he was doing wrong, he could burg a
tear himself away from the wild and un- last NJ
ra1 life he was leading. Laura wrote often Sterlin
letters to one OF his, inclosing him money bridge
urging MIN, In the gentlest way, to return asleep
oor creature sne was strangely altered in approa
weeks! Grief was consuming her, and did no
ise mad planted Its rose of death upon her him on
q cheek StliI, she did not murmur nor were "
PLAIN; bat the secret tears of each new damage
,pontment made her blossom nearer Heay- head st
AT last 1t was feared she was dying Her with uI
'er and an attendant physician wrote to injury!
He promised faithfully to he at home on Lust
ay ioiio"ihS' anu on that occasion even ca, by
d ca PeSteu Ii Iin enc was RADIANT with that apl
anu e,e oio iooA game oack 10 her violet ly form
anu lhe oeParteo TONE returned to the develop
uai music of her F.lce. one rose early. its NEAR
deed she had not slept the night preced as the q
y, ioI many hiShts, auu arrayed IN the was
ner husband most approved, waiting to The leg,
me him with golden smiles and angelic BODY of
and blissful tears. ;o;nt be,
e uay was pean'ii4l A. Noon came, and the as they
ioPeu GOWN 'he west, ana the evening formed I
ID her sandals of grey, and walked toward
,rk browed night; but no familiar foot Fpr
choed in the hail. though her anxious. * ONs,
spirit hung upon the expected sound. broke ~,
ol L .'.i was aark tnout-it was darker saw-mill
,nd 5an nafs seemeo silent IN Its pulls plank roi
:. u. s'iongty opposed put Veto ragged wi
- a1'' zen upon her Iace ana covered her Friday,
:. . snaoow: NO syllable - OF dlsaPpoint- about 80
mother, who had always loved her with Tbs VIM
lG.I uian motneI love- II she would dried the
WIN = .her snae nlgnt' SAYING, = fsar, idly. IL
= eA "'' se'y ~e'i' pu' 'neA I-W1h BET McPbers