Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-01-31
Twice Married,
4 Lire!y Romance Of lie Pacific.

1t is not often that u man has the pleasure
of twice courtiug aud twice marrying the same
woman, at least IN this world and We have
scriptural authority for the statement, that in
the world to come, there is neither marrying
nor giving in marriage. But an inatanee Of
this strange and unusual repeated courtsLip
aud duplicated marriage has recently come 10
light, in which the parties are San Eranciscans,
although not of American origin
Some months since a German lady of San
Francisco felt great yearning for the Father
land, aud, with the consent of her husband,
who is also a German, she started on her jour
ney to visit the land OF her birth, aud once
more look upon the beautiful Rhine, on whose
banks her girlhood had been passed, and where
she first saw the comfy fair haired youth who
was now her pOrtly huSband-a husband who
colOred with age, as had his pet meerschaum.
She traversed the long way, and whether bump.
ing her head as she performed her modest
toilet IN the upper berth o! Pullman palace
car, or when leaning over the rail Of the Ham
burg steamer, she never once lost sight lin,
her minds eyel Of the corpulent but loved
husband, who incurred her absence in Me-
rische's cellar. anG in vain tried TO console
himself with cavier, sand wiches. douiuoes and
wiess>bier. So she, poor thing. thought but
III San Francisco events Of an entirely different
nature were occurring. The tickle husband
had listened to the Teutonic accents Of de-
signing aud intriguing companions. aud fired
with beer aud Jealousy. sought the courts and
put in his prayer to be released from the mat
rimonial bonds which tied him TO his absent
frau.
1t was one bright day in Germany, when
she was seated on low stool in an arbor of
grapevine, busily knitting stockings for the
yellow -mustached soldiers Of her country,
meanwhile singing ''Vaierland mien Vater-
land !" etc.,-that the unhappy woman first
heard the painful ti1ings OF her lords un.
taithtulness.a Il yOuIhriu wooden shoes and
no stockings. brought letters aud newspapers
TO the industrious aud loving wife She
opened them and saw that her husband had
sued ieT div Orce. -s-.-
The paper dropped from her hand as she
rolled Imply from the three legged stool, and
with the exclamation ,'Nlein GOIt in Himmel!
wat ist das = wruDg from her tortured heart,
she fell, temporary corpse, on the sward be-
low. As the writer's say when they haze ex.
hausted their powers OF description, "let US
draw vail The narrative is resumed lew
hours later, when the wife. recovered from her
temporary indIsposiron,lis bending her euer-
gies to the packing of her trunk. an inelegant
but commodIous receI tucle. covered with brass
haIIs ahu !ron hOUps, capable oi holding the
wardrobe Of Il comfortable family
Without delay she steamed across the At
lantlc and rallied over the American continent,
arriving in San Francisco only a few days
after the decree OF divorce had been granted.
This fact was communicated to her but while
1t cut her big heart almost in two, she did not
despair. shrcwd woman, turned Of forty,
does not readily resign her claim to the man
she loves.
She demanded an interview, which he dared
not dccline-in fact he was almost as read ' rs
she. lie was usheVed into her presence, and
she saw changed man The buttons were
gone from his shirt, his wrist-cuffs frayed at
the edges, and his necktie presenting a most
shabby aud dlssipated appearance. He had
grown Thin, comparatively, too, and there was
rum blossom on the left side Of his nose -
She questioned aud reproached him at first,
but explanations followed all dark suspicious
were cleared away, and, with the cries, ''Meine
kataTina !" "Meine Frirz.'
Like torrents rom the mountain hight
Ihey rushed into each Others RTms."
A marriage certificate was procured without
delay, aud within ten days Of the time when
the decree OF divorce was signed the ex wife
aud ex-husband had repligh;ed their trorh at
the al;ar, and two of the happiest mor,als in
theWhole ci'ycelebrated their second marriage.