The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-10-20

DanEerOfEnveIOPesN Marked $40
be Returned


We copy the following from the
Cincinnati Times.
If not called tor within ten days
return To-
Such is the legend on business
envelopes at present, but they arc
not adapted to all kinds of business.
For instance, If a marie man is
writing In clandestino manner to
another woman than his wife, as he
has no business to do, then it Is lit
tie dangerous to use such an enVel-
ope, as il may, like curses and chick
ems, come home to rOost.' Such was
the case with a certain individual in
this city not long ago. He had q
wife who was not altogether free from
jealousy, and who on several acca'
siuRs, had seen and heard enough
to fan the Jealousy spark in her dis
position into quite lively flame.
she reCO we'd anonymous warning
not long ago to The effect that her
husband was sustaining relations OF
undde Intimacy with gay and
deshIng widow in . neighboFing
town. She did not delay charging
! her lord with Inconsistency and =
| reckless disregard of the vows made
in her marriage. He resented the
impl tAtion with virtaoI Oindignation
aud scOrn thai went far toward con.
Vincing her that she kGd been mali
ciously deceived by the anonymous
iaformS-. Weeks passed away, and
the wife WhUse heart had been lulled
into feeling Of domestic security,
had almost forgotten the incident
that had furnished her so much un-
| eaSine 9. tr.s.-sE -gl :
But an incident interposed to veri-
fy all her former suspicious, and
| transformed cOrroding doubts into
/ established and despairing facts
During her husbands absence from
homa, among other letters brought
to- the house was one that was mark
ed return 1t was directed in hel
husbands own hand to q woman.
and that WOman-Oh I jealousy and
rage-the gay and dashing widow
1t is almost needless to say that she
hesitated not moment to tear of
the envelope and read the letter
The contents established her hus.
bands falsehood and infidelity be.
yond doubt. She read it in his OWE
hand writing, which was unmistak.
able, the most passionate declarations
uf love for the woman addressed, fol.
lowed by appeals to elope with him,
leaving that old hen, my wife,
CHATS the the way he wrote, the
brute !! to scratch for myself The
wife might have forgiven his writ.
ing love letter to another woman
on his exhibiting Ime repentance, and
promising not to do 1t again, but tc
be stIgmatized by him as an 'old her
was more than she could forgive OF
endure. and she has taken the init
iatory steps towards divorce
The husband meanwhile, Is cuss-
ing his own stupidity. lie had {
lot of envelopes with the printed
words on one end-'if not called fol
within ten days to be returned t
- Some of them had the
blanke filed out with his own name
and throughbome strange; but entire
ly justidable fatality, he got hold d
one Of those envelopes and used it Il
enfOld the passion ate missiVe hisma
tGre pen had traced to his iRamGTata
The widow being away from hOml
until the ten days. grace had axpired
the postmaster, like prompt busi-
ness man, as he Is, returned tbs let
ter 10 the writer's address, as peOpll
take pills according to dIYectioBs oI
the wrapper, with the above result
1t provided 9 bitter pill for tha in
constant Benedict to swallow HI
has endeavored to make it up witt
, | his wife, and induce her t0WfthdrAv
! the suit for divorce, but she VOW
/ she will never again live with a mai
, who, in letter to e secret fiame, call
+ his wife an old hen.' So the end
not vet. --