The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-07
EEarried Tsytce 10 One Wan.

Married Twice 80 One Man.
a young lady, beautiful in person and
attractive in manner, who resided in the
immediate vicinity Of Boston, was sought
in marriage some years age by two men
One of these was poor, and a mechanic
the other was rich, and not mechanic.
The woman loved the former; the family
of the woman liked the latter. As is the
case in such affairs, the woman married
to please her friends Having thus sold
herself" she ought to have been mis-
cradle, but she was not Her husbands
unaffected love s2bdYed her heart, and
his gold smoothed the rough places IN the
human path Fortune, feeling that this
couple were too happy, frowned, and the
mans riches took wings and used them in
flight. Thereupon the husband wound
up his business, put his wife and child
ren, Of whom there were two, at COM
Portable boarding house, and then de-
parted for California III search of money.
Some letters and some remittanceS ar
rived from him at first, then nothing
came, and there was a blank of several
years The wife thought herself deserted
The family, whose good opinion of the
husband had not lately been so often
published as formerly, told her that 1t
was clearly q case for divorce. When
she had become well accustomed to the
sound of this unpleasant word, the dis
consOlate wife was thrown into the So
cicty of the mechanic lover, now prosper
Gus, and stl!l unmarried. The memory
of her early, real love came upon her, and
she believed with secret JOY that he had
remained single for her sake. This
! thought nourished her affection, and at
last she obtained divorce from her hus-
band, who had deserted her, and remain
ed absent beyond the time allowed by the
statute. This accomplished, there was
no barrier between her and the mechanic
of her youth. She informed him that she
was his forever when he should choose
to claim her hand Her feeling cannot
have been pleasant to learn that, siuco
his rejection by her and her marriage to
another, the unromantic newer Of wood
had drowned his passion for her in the
waves of time, and that at the time Of her
handsome offer he 20 longer Palpitated
for her In fact, Barkis was not willin'.
As if all this were not embarrassing
enough, who should turn up bat the hus.
band, who made his appearance in the
form of a letter, announcing that he had
accumulated dazzling pile OF wealth.,
that he was on his way home, and that she
was to meet him 10 New \ ork. The let
ter also child her for neglect in not writ,
inc TO him for years, and it was clear that
he had sent assurances Of love and also
material aid at intervals during bis alb
sence where these had gone, no one
knows. Here, then, was trouble. NJ
husband, no lover. The Que she had di,
vorced the other had refused her Ia
king counsel with herself, she packed
her trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was
unexceptionab!e, and came to the me
tropols. She met the coming nan on
his arrival, and told him the whole story
as correctly as she, naturally prejudlced
in favor Of the defendant, could tell it
The husband scowied, growled, looked at
the charming face and the becoming toll
ettc, remembered California and its lone
illness, aud took her to his heart y
clergyman was summoned, marriage
was performed, and a new volume in their
life's history was opeued.-Tridme.