Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-07-07
Personal.

A young lady beautiful in person and
attractive in manners, who resided in the
immediate vicinity Of Boston, was sought
in marriage some years ago by two men.
One OF these was poor, and meChnn'c
the other was rich, and not mechanic.
The woman loved the former the family
of The woman liked the latter. As in the
case of such affairs, the woman married
to please her friends. Having thus sold
herself she ought to have been miserable
but she was not. Her husbands unsiiec
ted love subdued her heart and his gold
smoolhed the rough places in the human
path. Fortune, feeling that this couple
were too happy, fIowned, and the mans
riches took wings and used them in flight.
Thereupon the husband wound up his
business, put his wife and children, Of
whom there were two, al comfortable
boarding house, and then departed for Cal
ifornia in search Of money. Some letters
and some remiltances arrived from him at
first, then nothing come, and there was a
blank for several years. The wife thought
herself deserted. The family, whose
good opinion Of the husband had not late
Iy been so often published as formerly,
told her tina, it was clearly case for
divorce. When she had become well &C,
customed to the sound of the unpleasant
word, the disconsola,e wife was thrown
into the society Of the mechanic lover,
now prosperous, and still unmarried.
The memory Of her early, real love came
upon her, and she believed with a secret
Joy that he had remained single for her
sake. This thought nourished her affcc-
ton, and a, last she obtained a divorce
from her husband, who had deserted her,
and remained absen, beyond the time al
lowed by the statute. This accomplished
mechanic Of her youth. She Informed
him that she was his forever, when he
should choose 10 claim her hand. Her
feelings cannot have been pleasant to learn
that. since his rejection by her and her
marriage TO another the unromantic hew-
er of wood had drowned his passion for
her in the waves Of time, and that at the
time OF her handsome offer he no longer
pal plated for her. In fact, 'Barkis was
not willin.' Asif all this was not embar-
RAISING enough, who should turn up but
the husband, who made his appearance
in the form Of letter, announcing that he
had accumulated dazzling pile Of wealth,
that he was on his way home. and that
she was to meet him in New York. The
letter also child her for neglec, in not wri
ting to him for years. and it was clear
that he had sent assurances Of love and
also material aid at intervals during his
absence where these had gone no one
knows. Here, then, was trouble. No
husband, no lover. The one she had d.
vorced the other had refused her. Ia
king counsel with herself, she packed her
trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was un-
exceptionable, and came TO the Melropo-
lis. She met the coming man on his
arrival, and told him the whole story as
correa!ly as she. naturally prejudiced in
favor of the defendant could tell it. The
husband scowled, growled, looked at the
charming face and the becoming toilette,
remembered California and lis loneliness
and took her to his heart A clergyman
was summoned, marriage was perform
ed, and new volume in their life's his
tory was opened.