The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-10-12
A Foolish Young Wife.


From the Kansas City MOI Times, Sept g.
Soon after the arrival Of the eleven
O'Clock Hannibal and st. Joseph train on
Monday night, the railroad bus" depos-
tied at one of our principal hotels young
4 and beautiful girl, about nineteen wears
OF age She had no baggage. and was
I apparently in great distress 1t was with
a tembling and chokcd voice that she gave
her name to the night clerk and desired
10 lie shown to Il room. In the morning
1 the landlady OF the hotel waited upon her.
/ and. after considerable difficulty, elected
| the following history of her troubles:
| Her name She gave as Etha Adams. She
had left her parents home, near Lima,
/ Sandusky County, Ohio, one week ago.
the restless, dissatisfied bride Of a Young
farmer, who had been given to her as her
husband. They had been schoolmates to-
gcthcr in childhood, but of late years they
had been separated she attending school
/ at Oberlin, he working on his fathers farm.
| The marriage was not Objectionable to
! her, neither was it her choice The Young
couple were married and took the train al
Norwal1 for Cleveland, where they took
passage via the lakes for Chicago, intend
ing, as she states, to visit some friends of
her husband near Elgin, Illinois.
The steamer was crowded with a gay
and festive cosmopolitan crowd, includ-
ing preachers, gamblers, farmers, traders.
tourists and 'schoolmarms. The even
ings were long and pleasant and the COM
pany sociable. In the party on board
We're party from Buffalo, among whom
was a good-looking, well-dressed youth,
not more than twenty-five years of age,
TO whom the young wife was introduced
George d. Rankin and Mrs. Adams
! soon bename very friendly, and to pass
the evenings away Mrs. Adams, who had
been nurtured in the lap Of ee-loveism,
proposed a game of ''Planchette." The
mysterious board was produced, and as
She says, lit worked to !. charm.n They
played with the trinket every evening up-
on the cabin table, and from it she learned
that Mr.. Rankin was her true husband
and that nothing should intervene to keep
| them separate. Through the mischievous
'planchette" Rankin planned an elope-
ment at Milwaukee, and q flight to his
friends in Colorado. The stolid Young
farmer, busy with the fast youths on the
forecastle and deck, noticed nothing I'M
usual in the close intimacy between his
Etha and the young New Yorker, nor did
he suspect anything when she asked and
obtained from him his well-filed pocket
book. The New Yorker and Mrs Adams
took II short walk while the steamer
touched at Milwaukee and of course for
got to return. A fast night train carried
them to Chicago, and then on to Quincy,
where they tarried in conceamcnt to
watch for and elude pursuit While there
Rankin obtained possession Of her money,
amounting to nearly 81 900, and exchange
ed a worthless gilt ring for a valuable
diamond one-a gift from her mother.
They continued their journey on Monday,
and all went we'll until they reached
Cameron, when her 'saf1inity,'' Rankin,
left her, as he said, "lor few minutes to
take a smoke in the forward car" He
did not return; the train moved on, but
he came not. Mrs. Adams became anx-
ious; she called the conductor; he had
note for her. written on one of Rankin's
own cards. 1t read:
DEAR GIRL am called suddenly away from
You. Return to your hubby" at Elgin until /
call for your. Au revOr. GEORGE.
The train brought the shame-stricken
wife 10 Kansas City without baggage or
means to return home. Her dream of love
was suddenly broken, her cup of Joy
dashed aside, and she now realizes the
first bitter lesson of human depravity and
the folly Of ''Panchctte,"
Fortunately she remembered that her
mother had friends living in the city, and
yesterday by the aid of the police, found
one of them in Mr.. d. p. Jamison, pro-
prietor of a railroad clearinghouse in
the Bottom. There she will remain until
her husband calls or sends for her.
The Panama Star tells the following
story of smart dog: "When the dog
wishes to cross a river where alligators
abound, he goes up the stream a great
way and barks with all his might. the
alligators go there and wait for him to
swim across. The dog knows what he is
about; when he sees from the number of