The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-10-14
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

The remark is often made that ''truth
is stranger than felton," but It's applica-
tiOn was never more forcibly illustrated.
we think, says the New York EUeajng
Mad, of Thursday, than by the brief his
tory of two persons, which eliminated
yesterday at the AstoT House in this city
1t runs as follows: About twenty-five
years ago Mr. NJ, a Northern gentleman,
married Miss N, of this State. To all
appearances it was what the world de-
nominated ga happy marriage" About
one year after this union, Mrs. NJ. pre-
sented her husband with fine boy, whose
appearance seemed to be an additional
living and breathing bond of affection.
The "hapPy couple lived together for
about ten years, when, by reverse of
circumstances in Mr.. IS business, over
which he had no control, he became quite
poor Passing over details, suffice it to
say that a divorce eliminating neither
party was easily obtained in a court of
one of the States, whose loose laws now
offer inducements to the discoDtented to
violate the solemn ordinance of marriage
with impunity But this was not q trap
| sprung by one party without the knowi-
edge Of the other. 1t was a mutual di-
/ vorce.
Mrs. nj. was a healthy, fine looking
woman, and in few years became the
wife Of weIl-to-do gentleman. This was
a happy marriage throughout. The sec
/ ond husband died little more than one
/ year ago, leaving the widow a small for>
/ tune Of about twenty thousand dollars
During these eight or nine years of life
/ with a second husband, the lady did not
/ forget her first born nor did the son lose
/ sight of the mother. The affection in
! both were strong. The boy was the di-
I vine magnet which attracted the divorced
/ and widowed mother and the wondering
! father from his search for business and
/ happiness in distant Costa Rica. At the
( death of the second husband the son bad
reached the manly age of twenty. Imag-
/ inc his feelings as he came to realize the
real situation of his father and mother
! One single man the other a widow
One an unhappy wanderer, still without
sufficient worldly goods to make life worth
living for the other the occupant of
! husbandless house, with plentiful larder.
Ever present was the thought that ono
yet lived whom she had sworn before God
to ''love and cherish He ,cas the father
If her son. The son, who loved his moth
er loved his father not less. The mother
could not gaze into the face of her only
born without beholding The image Of his
father. Time passed. The son brought
his divorced father and widowed mother
| Il,
They agreed upon the future. The son
was the centre of attraction. He was
flesh Of their flesh, bone Of their bone.
The tiss Of nature were too strong for re-
sistance Like two drops of quicksilver
the two hearts united. Yesterday, in
this city, the son had the happiness to
celebrate the anniversary of his twenty~
first birthday by witnessing the extraor-
dinary scene of tho marriage of his own
father and mother This was JOY enough
far one day. History does not afford the
parallel of this true picture.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ, accompanied by
their son and several friends, dined at the
Astor House yesterday afternoon, and
afterwards left for Boston, on their bridal
tour, to enjoy his second and her third
"honeymoon.'' The son, who is prom>
ising, fine-looking young man, is tele-
graph operator of excellent abilities, and
employed in this city.
After their ''honeymoon," Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ, with their sen, will visit Costa
Rica. where the past business experience
OF Mr.. NJ. in that country, with the little
capital of Mrs. NJ, and the profession of
the talented and enterprising son, viii un-
donbtedIy prove the foundation for a
greater and more permanent fortune.
May happiness and prosperity go with
them. Reader, is not the truth some~
times stranger than fiction.