The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-06
Enoch Arden I,aprOred Upon.

living in her home in Monsoon became pos
sessed with the desire to go West and
teach school. In the town of Anamosa,
Iowa, she found her vocation and, by and
by, husband. He was the youngest and
INDUCED son of a wealthy widow. The
happy couple set out eaIly i'll the matrimo-
nial sea, both being only about nineteen
years of age. When our heroine wrote to
her father, in Munson, Of her plans, he
went on to Iowa for a few months visit,
and being pleased with his daughters pros
poets, built and furnished house for her.
The mother of the young husband gave
him a fine farm, we'll stocked and equipped,
and no young couple ever started in life
with brighter prospects.
In short time, however, bad specula-
tions and mismanagement had stripped
her husband of all his property. His pride
was terribly mortified by this turn of
affairs, and in sudden desperation he left
his home, his wife, and infant daughter,
and enlisted in one of the first regiments
which was raised to put down the rebellion.
His family received 4 few letters from him,
and then came an unbroken silence. In
vain they wrote to him, and then TO his
officers and comrades. lie was reported
among the missing. The wife or widow
she knew not which-at length returned
to her Monson home, and entered the en-
ploy of Tinkham & Co, proving herself
capable and efficient in the millinery de-
partment.
At the end of four five years she re-
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soon married a gentleman there, having
first for the sake of certainty, obtained
divorce from her long lost husband, al
though really supposing herself a widow.
In few months after this marriage, this
second husband died and the lady again
returned to the New England home twice
widowed as she supposcd) and soon was
in her old place at Tinkham's.
Some months ago-and this is one of the
strangest incidents in this eventful history
she dreamed that a hack called at her
boarding place ana took her to vhe MaSsa-
, soft House, where she met her missing
husband, to whom she was united III mar
, riage. Tie dream of course made a deep
impression on her mind, but as months
wore away and nothing came of it, she re-
gardedit more and more as only dream. "
But one Gay last fall q letter reached the
postofffce in Anamosa, directed to her.
Some one who knew her caused it to be
l. re-directed to this city. 1t so happened
It that she was absent on visit at the time,
= and after remaining at the Springfield post
T Office awhile it was returned to Iowa. Her
S friends there then enclosed it in another
= envelope and sent it here again, and it
e finally reached her as she was at her work
o in Tinkhams store.
On opening it she neatly tainted. 1t
was from her first husband, from whom or
of whom not lisp had been heard by his
friends for thirteen years. 1t stated that
" he was in the wilds of Texas, following
the hazardous life of rancheros. He had
. left home with the determination of never
returning until he had made good his shat
tered fortunes. Several times he had 81
far redeemed this VOW that he was on the
point of seeking his family and friends,
" when some turn of the wheel of fortune
. had dashed him back to poverty. At length
the fcllle goddess had favored him, and he
= was rich again. Whether his wife was
- living, whether she vas the mother Of an
other mans family, and a host Of other
questions asked, she hastened to answer.
Other letters were written by both, but
= all failed by reason of hostile Indians, faith
less carriers, etc, Of reaching their desti
> nation. But the one assuring him that hi:
wife was still his own and telling where
she could be found was enough,
" one afternoon at the Massasoit House i
- there was such a firm as Tinkham & Co
- in the city. Being assured ou this point
he called hackman and told him to drive
- to their store and bring Mrs. - to the
hotel. She was not at the store, and The
hackman was directed to her boarding
place, where he found her, and-the dream
was proved true The meeting is not fol
- US to describe.
" The next evening there was wedding
- at the house of prominent clergyman il
this city, and the bride was a woman VIII,
was then married for the third time We
= had had but two husbands, and by thei
:, side stood a blooming miss of fifteen :
49, witness the marriage of her own legitimat
father and mother.
= The romance ends happily, as all sucl
stories should. After visiting friends j
various parts of the North this winter th
y husband will return to Texas to settle u
his extensive business as cattle dealer an
:" then return to spend the rest of his lif
u, with his family, either in his old low
Il, home or with his wife's friends at lib
/ East.
'y Our friend Enoch Arden is highly ed
=" ucated and cultivated gentleman, and not
oe withstandiug his long exile from civilize
| life, he re-enters society with ease an
ace.-SpriHqfe!d (Nass.l Union.