The national Republican., 1869-06-19
ucar,Ie.. Condue, of . Journalist.


Some time In the year 1858, there resided
In the town OF Toronto, Canada West, n
young Journalist named McKinzie. In the
course Of tine he became attached through
ties stronger than that Of mere friendship to
a Miss Davidson, who resided In Rochester,
n. Y. To this lady he traced his steps,
vowed fidelity, and was betrothed. Like
Solomon Of old, he enjoyed peace, plenty,
and pleasure through the honeymoon, after
which he settled down In the town Of Madl-
son, Ind. When the three months men were
called for, young McKinzic, who preferred
handling types to bullets, spirited himself
away without even taking leave OF his better
half or collecting his outstanding accounts.
Time passed by; the Office Of the job printer
passed into other hands, and debtors paid
his wife their little accounts, and for two years
she ana her little onos were able to weather
the storm. Poverty, however, was staring
her In the face. She was yet young, ac-
complished and beautiful, and sultors sought
her hand. Like true woman she worked
at dress-making for pittanco for five long
years, still in hopes to hear from her wan,
dcring lord, preferring pinching poverty and
hope to second husband and afIluence.
As constant drops Of water wear the stone,
constant years OF forgetfulness on the part
OF her husband obllterated from her mem.
ory the hope that he was alive. A son OF
Esculapius residing near her, In Madison,
prevailed upon her TO obtain a divorce and
unite her fortune with his own. She listened
to nc charmcr and acquleseed, though his
shlftless character proved a bitter balm to
her wounded heart. Everything passed on
quietly until one morning recently she picked
up Journal from the mining region, In
which, by examining, she found the words
which indicated that her former husband
was the proprietor. Her state OF mind on
examining the sheet "can be more easily
imagined than described" Her affection
for her first love grew stronger every day,
peace she enjoyed not, and finally determined
to inycstlgate the tangled web Of events.
She wrote to her divorced husband, and In
the course Of time received reply that he
and his wife were coming to Chicago, and
would probably honor her with visit.
They actually did arrive, and, after leaving
his second wife at a hotel. he called at the
residence Of the first.
The interview was n sad one. With min
gled chagrin at his own conduct, disregard
for the love OF one whose affections had been
usurpcd bya stranger, and love of his Off
spring, now fine boy OF eight years of age,
he resolved to obtain possession of the child
at any risk. Assuming repentance, and pro.
fesslng his old devotion for the mother, he
persuading her to leave her present husband,
get remarked to himself, and give him the
child. She agreed to do so. He took the
lad 10 thc. hotel, and told her TO follow him.
On her arrival there she was refused admis.
sion to bis room. The scene at the hotel
was indcscrbable. She prayed and tainted,
and became delirlous, but the hard-hearted
editor needed not her prayers or entreaties.
He lcit on Friday with his second wife, Il
school teacher, whose fsrmer name was
Warner, and the child of his first wife, for
parts unknown. As the divorced wife has
been forsaken by both husbands, has an in.
FAINT, the offspring Of the second, has been
deprived Of her boy, and is left penniless and
almost friendles in Chicago, her lot is unen.
yiable.- Chicago Journal, IAN.
The plckpockets were not quite us numer.
GUS In Boston as the singers, but they were
| anlte as hnAY.