Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-07-19
ANOTHER ENOCH ARDEN.
An Ohio Man Returns After Nine Years
Absence TO Find His Wife Married to
Another.
EvansNille lol Eumtprtso, luly /.

Absence 10 tlhu HIS VIE Married Il
Another.
Evansville coo Enterprise, July 4
Truth is always stranger than fiction
but We can only bc made to believe il
by startling cases like this. Teunysol
has immormlized EnOch Aardcn, but
this story Of VIM. &. Raincs, whle il
has all the pathetic features vi the
poem SurpaSseS i III thrilling incidents
and adventures Ten years ago Mr.
RalncS was II resident If our neighhor-
ing village Of Hcndryshurg, where liz
followed the occupation of II carpenter.
lie was married and had one child; hut
thinking that he eouln better his fortune
nc lctt his family and sought employ
mcnt ~ the east, expecting ta return in
4 few months. During his absence he
was engaged by his uncle to make a
nlne months cruise to Calcutta in Il
merchant vessel, via Good Hope. Tie
wrote I'M atlcctlonate letter 10 his wife,
nelosing 5000, informing her of his iii.
tended voyage, and expressing the hope
that upon his return tnoy would ho able
70 livc happily together. The vessel
sailed, and while in mid,ocean another
lcttcr was sent to his wife. After that,
silence and oblivion No word came
from tho lost man, and il VAS believed
that the vessel had gone down With all
ON board After waiting three wears
and hoping against hope, Mrs. Raines
at last concluded that her husband had
found waterN grave, and Welding to-
the solicitations of new lover, she
abandoned her widows weeds and once
moro became wife, marrying q Mr..
Kyle, who Is now Il contractor ON the
National road near ClairSvillc.
Ilie third net opens With the uncX-
pectcd return Of MIR. Raincs. The YES
sci was really wrecked on the west coast
OF Africa, north OF Cape Town. Mr..
LANES and his uncle, with tour other
men, succeeded in reaching shore in n
boat, but were soon after captured hv
the natives. The prisoners were
marched siN hundred miles into the
interior. Each tribe took ono Of tie
men and kept him lis curiosity.
Ralnes was dlyestcd cf his clothing
while on exhibition, and visitors came
OF miles to see the wonderful
white man. lie was the special pro-
tegc Of the king, aud was regarded With
o44cr 'inueN lUt ffrVuunl, nnu luiVu tlUV
far beyond the burning sands and the
rolling hillows, he might find again his
wife and child Inspired 10y these
about n year ago he mado
desperate attempt for liberty, and es-
Gaping from the tribe, he managed alter
many hardships to rcnch Cape Town,
where he engaged as \ sailor and
three weeks ago landed ut san Francisco,
and Immediately started for ONO. lie
arrived 1T Caldwell, and learned for the
first time that his wife had married
three years after his supposed death.
Unlike Enoch, he did not decide
Never To tell her never let hei know
hut with the honor of,a true man, which
even n life of six years among the ean-
nibals could not destroy, he proposes t.
lei her decide which Of the two men
she Viii I've with in the future. Lc-
gally Mrs. Kyle, is the wife Of Mr..
Raines; but Of course she was Justified
in her second marriage and MIR. Ranes
sensbly concludes that no man haS II
right to rise from the dead, ~ il We're,
and disturb relationships that We're con
tracted in good faith. lie will let the
woman choose between them, and abide
Us her decision.