The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-09-19
Too Fast.

a young lauy, Oeantllul IN person ana al
tractive 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 roor and not mechanic;-
The other was rich and not mechanic
The woman loved :he 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 subdned her heart, and his gold smoot-
he'd the rough places in the human path
Fortune, seeing that this couple were too
happy, frowned, and the mans fortune took
wings and flew away. Thereupon the hus-
band wound up his business: put his wife
and children, of whom there were two, at a
comfortable boarding house, and then de-
parted for California in search of money
Some letters and some remittance arrived
there was blank of several years. The
wife thought herself deserted. The family,
whose good opinion OF the husband had be
gun to fail, told her that it was clearly a
case for divorce. When she had become
well accustomed to The sound of this un-
pleasant word, the disconsolate was thrown
into the society of her old mechanic lover,
now prosperous, and still unmarried. The
memory of her early real love became up
on her, and she believed with secret Joy
that he remained single for her sake. This
thought nourished her affection, and at last
she obtained divorce from her husband,
who had deserted her. and remained 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 feelings could not have been pleasant
10 learn that, since his rejection by her and
! her marriage TO another, the unromaniic
! hewer of wood had drowned his passion
/ for her in the waves of time, and that al
/ the time of her handsome offer he 10 longer
| palpitated for her In fact, 'Barkis was not
willin.' As If all this was not embarrassing
enough, who should turn up but the hus.
band, who made his appearance IN the form
| of letter, announcing that he had accumu-
lated dazzling pile of wealth, that he was
! on his way home and that she was 10 meet
| him in New York. The letter also child
! her for neglect in not writing TO him fol
years, and ii was clear that he had sent as.
surances OF love and also money at intervals
! during his absence where these had gone
no one knew. Here, then, was trouble
No husband, no lover. The one she had
divorced the other had refused her. TAX.
! ing cousel with herself, she packed he
! trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was unex
! ceptionabe, and came 10 the metropolis
/ She met the coming man on his arrival, anc
told him the whole story as correctly a:
| she, naturally prejudice in favor of the de-
| fendamt, could tell it. The husband scowl
! ed growled, looked at the charming face
and the becoming toilet, remembered Cali
fornia and its loneliness, and took her tc
his heart. A clergyman was summoned, {
marriage was performed, and new vol
ume in their lie's history was opened.