Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-07-07
BIIOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA, SATURDAY
TOO FAST.

A young lady, beautiful in person and
attractive in manner, who resided in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Boston, was sought in
marriage, some years ago, by two men,
One of these was poor and a mechanic
the other was rich and no 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 her.
self, she ought to have been miserable, but
she was not. Her husbands unaffected
love subdued her heart, and his gold
smoothed the rough places in the human
path. Fortune, seeing that this couple
were too happy, frowncd, and the mans
fortune took wings and flew away. There
upon the husband wound up his business,
put his wife and children, of whom there
were two, at comfortable boarding house
and then departed for California in search
of money. Some letters and some remit
tance arrived from him at first, then moth
ing came and there was blank of several
years. The wife thought herself deserted.
The family, whose good opinion of the
husband had begun to fail, told her that
it was clearly case for divorce. When
she had become well accustomed to the
sound of this unpleasant word, the discon-
solatc was thrown into the society of her
old mechanic lover, now prosperous, and
still 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 nour-
ishod her affection, and at last she obtain
cd divorce from her husband, who had
deserted her, and remained absent beyond
the time allowed by the statute, This ac-
complished, there was no barrier between
her and the mechanic of her youth. She
informed him that she was his forever
when lie should choose to claim her hand
Her feelings could not have been pleasan
to learn that, since his rejection by hel
and her marriage to another, unromanti
hewer of wood had drowned his passion
for her in the waves Of time, and that u
the time of her handsome offer he no lon
ger palpitated for her. In fact, 'Barki
was not willin As if all this was no
embarrassing enough, who should turn VI
but the husb band, who made his appearance
in the form Of letter, announcing that h
had accumulated dazzling pile of wealtl
that he was Oh his way home and that sh
was to meet him in New York. The let
ter also chid her for neglect in not writin
to him for years, and it was clear that h
had sent assurances Of love and also mon
ey at intervals during his absence; wher
these had gone, no one knew. Here, the
. was trouble No husband, no lover
The one she had divorced the other ha
refused her. Taking counsel with hersel
she packed her trunk, seeing that he
wardrobe was unexceptionablo, and cam
to the metropolis. She met the comm
man on his arrival ,and told him the whol
story as correctly as she, naturally prejr
diced in favor of the defendant, could tie
it. The husband scowled, growled, ,looL
cd at the charming face and becoming toll
ct remembered California and its lonel
ness, and took her to his heart. A clci
gyman was summoned, marriage wa
performed and new volume of their life
history was opened.