The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-27
MATRIMONIAL 1NFELrCITY
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~, Real Life.
from the Detroit Free Press. 22d.
For over a year il has bean l,Dou,, l.. .,0nv
not only in this city, but througbor, ~, W nnhnie
1Vfng.n Oh the lakes, that the welI-kuown captain
Sa PIopeiler, running from Buffalo TO Chicago
ndu deserted his wife and family, who were re-
wbile at ucr,. ne nad married when young, and
,irt,'o., as "orH as painter, poor, bat honest,
nutuous Rlr. She had shared his poverty
suu,u aueu MIN IN educating himself, and as the
uauhs, one alter another, were given them,
nan nan laoored with her own hands TO lay up a
plttance for rainy day. Success crowned
their united efforts. Fortune smiled upon them.
ana the once poor painter obtained command
and long and happy life lay open Tor the llttle
FAMILY. pleasant home was purchased where
the captain, when through with the seasons
iaoors. could dwell midst the comforts OF home
meath his own vine and fig tree.
But this was not to last. As he travelled over
his route, he suddenly found that his wife did
not possess that beauty which, though bat skin
deep had charms for the captain. He found
that she was not as well educated as she might
have been, and, forgetting all the assistance she
had rendered him in the days they had strug-
gled together against poverty and want-ior-
getting that to her was due at least portion
of his success-he became discontented. and
longed to cast her off, that he might revel in the
charms of some younger and fairer damsel.
In order to give plausIblhtv to his ends, he
accused her OF having violated her marriage
VOWS, of having granted those favors to others
which should always be reserved tor the hus-
band; in fact, he denied that he was the father
OF two of her children. He attempted upon this
plea TO obtain, under the lax law of Indiana, a
divorce; but for some reason he failed. For the
last year he has entirely neglected to provide
for his family, and the still loving, though sor-
rowing wife has been compelled to do washing
and other work to keep the wolf from the door.
Last winter he became acquainted with fair
and charming girl, not yet out of her teens. He
wooed and won her, and after brief courtship
married her, and has kept her with him upon
his boat all summer.
The captain, blind to all save his love for his
second wife, had no thought of the fckleness of
women had no idea that his new love might.
like himself, grow tired and weary of the first
chosen one, and so did rot notice the attentions
shown his bride by the porter of his own boat;
had he done so, undoubtedly the porter would
have been landed in the first port and his far
one taught, If possible, to forget him. But love
made him blind, and one night, about two weeks
ago, the propeller was without porter and the
captain minus a wife. They had eloped to-
gether. The fair but frail young girl had de-
parted leaving the guilty husband OF two wives
with no one to comfort him in his loneliness.
The captain has been paid in his own coin. the
tables have been turned upon him, and he
should now retire, humble and contrite, to the
love OF his first wife and children.