Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-22
The Bitter not Bitten.

oQ Dy 1GS D6mOCraJ as worthy prom
nent notice in the current record of na
tive romance in reality; one of th
families resident therein having mar
tial history which, while slightly fla
vored with the inevitable Indiana, il
still sufficiently original to stimulate
the most jaded TASTE There is nothing
particularly new, to be sure, in a MARI
age between village beaux and q vii
lage belle, four years ago there il
nothing especially novel in the result o.
a third young ''party " from such 6
common manmuvre; but when you be
gin to talk of the young wife's pretty
cousin, who came from another part OF
the State to visit the baby when it was
sixmonths old, and wouldn't at all admit
that anything else could have brought
ner-why, then you started on char
acter promising an entertainment nev-
er before given in this vicinity. Pow
erfully affecting to mothers heart is
the spectacle of another female wor-
shipping her baby; and, although in
ordinary the parental heart is not thus
gushing, in this exceptional case the
father, too, went hopelessly lackadaisi>
cal at the pagent, and could not suffi-
GENTLY languish around the amiable
maiden who talked incessant nursery
Choctaw to his forid heir The pretty
cousin at first thought this was only
the mans way, merely wondered how
cious BOBBY; but after week or two a
new Interpretation of the boobyism
dawned upon her, and in state of
mind refreshingly original, she
promptly decided to do her sex exem-
plary credit. Maria's husband persist
ing in seeking opportunities to speak
with her privately, she allowed him to
escort her to evening church while
Maria staid at home with the baby ;
and when the husband and father, III
one of these walks, put to the possibil-
ity of her acceptance of such a lord
and master as himself in the remote
contingency in little Indiana law
venture, she sighed in an affecting man
her, and encouragingly whispered that
he knew how it was himself. Immedi
lately after this interview, the design
ing young thing ended her visit as
quickly as possible, and returned to
uer own home, leaving Maria wholly
unsuspicious, and Maria's BOBBY with
what he sanguinely but mistakenly
thought was as idea in his head. In a
week after her departure, the incon-
stant swain was apparently stricken
with great discomfort at the narrowness
of his worldly fortune, and with an in
tense desire to tempt the tickle good
ness by scheme of adventure at Pixies
c1, 10
her own, the good little wife patiently
consented to be left alone for a few
months, and leaving her one-half his
means and taking the other half with
him, the treacherous husband turned
his back upon home, honor, and all
that makes manhood manly. Of course
he went only half way to the Peak,
turning off from the route thither into
one of the Western counties of Indiana,
and there going through the cowardly
farce of applying for one of those amaz-
ing divorces which are always to be
had at prices to suit the times. III due
time the "decree" came, and with this
in his pocket the william wended his
way to southeastern Ohio, where lived
the pretty cousin whom he proposed to
l.
ed with a conqueror's anticlpations, he
waited upon the charmer, document in
hand, and-was at once astonished for
the remainder of his natural life! With
eyes flashing indignant fire, and nose
and lip curling in withering scorn, the
pretty cousin scolded like twenty Anna
Dickinsons, and called him the most
contemplate BOBBY she had ever seen.
When he had meanly insulted her, she
said, by incoming after her in his own
house, and before his own wife, she
had looked upon him as simply fool,
and from sheer contempt had led him
on in his idiocy; but now she knew
him for wretched puppy, and would
have him kicked from the house
only that it would be SO delicious to
have him stay to see her married to
the gentleman who was to we'd her that
very afternoon, and to whom she had
been engaged before she went to visit
Maria? At the conclusion of this ad-
dress, which as the reporters say, "was
listened to with marked attention
throughout" the gentleman from In
diana retired hastily, smiling in curl
ously CHASTITY manner, and had gone
ten miles from the place before he re-
covered from his walking swoon. -
Back to his old home, and wife and
child he went and "spake he never a
word about that decree" until quite
recently, when Maria found it sewed in
the lining of an old coat which he had
forgetfully discarded. In sound law it
never had been legally worth the paper
on which it was inscribed; butto soothe
his wife's feelings, after frank confess
sion to her, he has gone through the
religious rite of formal marriage with
her again, and thus enjoys that appar-
entim munity from the penalty of folly
which is proverbially the luck of the
weak minded.
Changarnier and Prince Napoleon.
The Bordeaux correspondent of the
London Daily News writes:
The Courier de la Gironde, confirm
ing the news of General Changarnier
hayinn snJ1bhnd Prince Nano1aon whom