The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-02-15
A Pretty Girls Work.

About three wears ago, a sun offairest omen
shone upon wedding in the little town 81
Hamilton, Ohio. The happy PAIR were
young man of high connections, unbiemish-
ed character, and some artistic attalnmentF'
and a young lady from one of the most re-
spcctable families in q neighboring town:
Every circumstance Of the union, as IS SO Oh,
ten tho case, gave promise of harmony anu
happiness for the lives united; the hushaau'
was in thriving business; the wife was fair,
devoted, and an admirable housekeeper' anu
the friends of both predicted tor them tnat'
long should they live, happy should they BE-
blest with content. and from In sfIrtune free.
Such. indeed migh have been their envlable
destiny but for pretty girl, In the Sc
cond year of the marriage. there came to
Hamilton, apparently in quest Of employ
mcnt, one Of those beautiful, homeless young
natural sinners who seem to drift every
where about the world for the profanatlon
of happy homes. She drifted into the lives
Of the two mated ones introduced above,
and, with no more efforts than such tcmpters
generally seem tomake, caught the husband 5
heart and woye an incxtricablc web around
it. The wife blinded herself to the unhappy
event so long as she could; hoping against
hope for the mans final strength to break
from the spell cast over him; bat, at last,
wounded honor and affection could be silent
no longer, and the wife spoke to her hus-
band, as it was her right. The accused
made no denial of his infatuation; he said
that he could not help it-that he must
leave the place or be lost Willing to both
aid in the rescue and forgive the captivity,
the wife proposed that they should move to
St. Louis, thus resisting temptation by fly
ing from it. Quick consent was given by the
bcwitchcd husband, and they removed to the
great city. Soon after settling there, the
wife, while On shopping excursion, saw III
the street the girl from whom she had once
withdrawn, as she hoped forever. Renderd
miserable and suspicious by the circumstance:
she followed her to house in a sidc-strect.
where. at the door, stood the broken hearted
husband waiting! Without hesitation the
wife darted to the side of the abashed man,
silently caught his arm, and fairly compelled
him to 90 with her into the building, which
she whom sne purSueu ltu us' chto'eo
Following the girl Of Hamilton into a room.
she led her husband forward and said, You
have made this man a traitor to himself and
his God, you have broken my heart and
destroyed a happy home. Ny husband
thinks too much of you to care for me, and
Inow solemnly relinquish to you all my
claim upon him, add bid you both goodbye
tor ever Without another word or look
she hurried from the house, and before the
day was over had left the city. Not to sec 1
the only consolation that the betrayed and
wretched mayknow, in the silent sympathy OF
old friends and life of humble resignation
before God not to plunge madly through
deaths momentary darkness and forgctful'
ness into an eternity of divine wrath; but to
fly to another city, and there deliberately
enter upon a career as de graded as her whole
former life has been noble! There she is
now, beyond hope, beyond help; because she
still loves her ruined husband, and believing
that his soul is lost, chooses rather to be
with him hereafter in pcrdition than without
him in Heaven.