Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-01-13

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ing pale .na, 7. >Iifrsb sdi coug a4oe
Yes, &. ,ll.si ,e.ur7sgog Uyl5 % ,,.ii
! ID Well, the, wife said, after some hesi
tation / am sorry; aud yet | should no,
have wished TO associate With her. alig
L., Why not2 the husband calmly asked.
Because she is not " bat she ought Il
oe.on I'D I .h1M 1'Jd p 90 D t'rl'l'l
Ia And you baye said this to others, bas'
yop notI 90 olqd s,s bgaR s8psrtm
Why-yes--I snppose 1 have alsua.I
"a But you have expressed youra opinion
pretty plvnly against her. ga, li a. l.yH
Yes I have. And had good reasor
TOO. ..., doite. .,,r, .a,o edi yJ L,gqds
l., What reason? Why it is generally
known. that. she has been guilty OF some
very dark doipgs. Mr., Adams don't Ger
lainly know her, or be, never would have
married her. /. ..,...l.,.,f ,s.f .,,i 7sh nit
In. lie did know h,r, Ellen---apd much pet
ter than you do But. answer me this
Have you not done, copside rable toward
Circulating The story of her sius2 ,sdi s.u
90 Why, / have told several. .fab ,.nrI sai
Aye, and thes have told several more UT
Now, what onlhoriety had you for telling
what you did? ra.97ou 10 .y,ei.r..g sdi
What anthorietv? Why, know il was
so; Mrs ,Tellum told me. so, had il from
Que who saw it. Lucy Peewell saw paFt
Of it with her own eyes. :. r.u.sb I.,a -s!.. -
,o And sou stand ready 10, condemn any
person npon the mere. word of another,
How did you know that Harriet Adder
sou might not bsve explained is oil hon
es,ly and properly 1 theught ypu had
INDUCED ia The evil Of taking up one
side Of a question Of this kind, where
the yerycbaraclersof al individual is, con;
cerned,. before you have heard. lbe othef
side. Had you taken, the trouble to see
some of those who kuew, Harriet Andera
son well, you, might hase4 been .euiight-
eped aupon, the suljsct.qh ne,.ltn.9l yil7t
How so? %, ot- 4.l ja9unlsgoy ai rsI
Why. yon would have found that IL was
not Harriet Anderson at ali WHIP did iheRe
thipgs! 1t was "a ac wild wv woman named
Henrietta Anderson, aud not even q rela'
live of Harrieps. A female sheFea who
was an enemy TO Harriet, got bold Of the
matter, and either designedly or oihrgjNe
CIRCULATED the story that the latter had
been doing these evil deeds. ndj Il 7rw sa
So while, Harriet Anderson was away
With her brother in the city, she swss sad
TO be, in Weston, ,doingithsse terrible iLhpgS.
She knew na,hiug Of it until ber return ;
and when she d hear of it and tried "
trace it to its soprce, she found several
who said their information came from you
from Ellen Everett. She simply pointed
ont to few OF her best friends-6rst, that
when these things happened, she. was seventy
miles distant; and second, that it was
Mrs. Henrietta Anderson who bore the
guilt. .-,,o,., -,e i-,.,4 .J ia ,-n1. aas7
Poor Eller! She was in nn unpleasant
situation She gpz, into her. husbands
face a few moments. and then she sought
refuge behind that impreguable barrier Of
woman--tears,. She wept p,oflsely, top
she lelt il most keenly, OF course, Ge' rgt
could not chide her under such circumstan
ces; only he simply remarked. thai he. wonlt
bear his loss resignedIy if the cilfumstapc
required ber 10 give an opinon. Harrie
gladly fo7gave her; and from q, hat tim
their friendship that has been. sorely tried
is fen the most faithful in afl ertimes y
AT tie end of o year Waller Adams CAV,
up the business he had tuken, and enlereC
into par.neIship With George Everett
They proSpered; aud between them anG
their families there existed hond of union
| which could not be severed. Yet Ellen
! forgot not ber VOW. She never again
allowed herself TO join any side ip social
strife. nor would she ever express an opinion
until she kuew that she had aeard and
understood both sides y .,,.. as.aJ .