The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-10
DIVORCED IN THE DESERT

Andrew Jackson Hathaway, in 1S49, was
a well to do farmer in Iowa, with wife
precisely such as thriving young farmer
should possess; bright boy of twelve and
a sweet-tempered daughter of between ten
and eleven years of age, constituted the
two domestic idols of the Hathaway alter.
Their names were respectively William
Henry Harrison Hathaway and Janet Dial.
rymple Hathaway. The father Of the elder
| Hathaway had served as lieutenant under
| jackson at New Orleans, and belonged to
prime family of Davidson county, Ten
nessee, which had formerly lived in Vir-
GINA, and had good revolutionary blood
IN his veins Andrew Jackson Hathaway's
fathers help-meet came from a represent
i've Rhode Island family, and, according
to the archives of Providence Plantations,
a family renowned for its deeds of valor
| during the ''times that tried mems souls"
This little bit of pedigree has nothing much
to do with the sketch that follows, although
pedigree sometimes helps aman as it al
! most always does horse. And, again, it
is well to show that our Hathaway family
had pedigree that any American might
be proud Of for Mrs. Hathaway, too, came
from good revolutionary stock, with an
even divide of Massachusetts, and South
Carolina in the makeup. Her name was
Vashti, she having been christened after an
old maiden aunt Of Fall River, Massachu-
sets. Andrew and Vashti grew up on
neighboring farms in Ohio, where both
William anu Henry and Janet Dalrymole
were born. 1t may not be uninteresting
right here to state that the young love that
existed between Andrew and Vashti was
not entirely uninterrupted-on account of
the youth of the parties, however; nothing
else-and, whether theyca or not wheth-
or the MAN in the moon was looking they
each kept an eye upon the nocturnal move
ments of "the old stormer" Gas Andrew fe.
licitously nicknamed his sweethearts sus-
pecting sire), as night after night they ex-
changed sentiment, and something else,
over the front yard gate.
1t was upon one of these delightful occa-
sons that Andrew and Vashti had plighted
their troth, as had Lucy and Lord Ruther-
ford almost two centuries before. by break
ing silver coin between them, and had
mutually invoked malediction on which
ever of the two should be false to the COM
pact,
The reader will perceive, now, why the
Hathaway's named their daughter Janet
Dalrymple. And it may not be out OF
place-indeed, it isnt-to state that, of all
SCOTS heroines, the bride of Hammer
moor is perhaps the most widely known.
Her sad story, you know, is, in the main,
true. The maidcn's name was not Lucy, as
Sir Walter has it, but Janet-Janet Dalrym-
ple-who was daughter of Lord Stair
She and Lord Rutherford had plighted
their troth, aud had invoked malediction
on whichever of the two should be false to
the compact. The parents of Lady Janet
vehemently insisted on her marrying Dun
bar Of Balloon. The mother acted in the
most cruel manner in forcing her daugh-
ter to this match. Janet, brokenhearted
and helpless, managed to perfect an inter-
view with her lover, and sobbed out O text
from Numbers, KIM, 2-5, as an excuse for
her obedience to her imperious and unre-
lenting parents commands. The lovers
parted in sorrow Rutherford in great an
ger, and Janet overwhelmed with grief
The former had not the spirit of Young
Lochinvar nor the latter the wit to run
away with him. The poor thing was, in
fact badly frightened, She was carried to
church to be wed in semicrazed and
more than half dead state At night
a hurricane Of shrieks came from
her bridal chamber, where the bride.
groom was found on the floor, pro.
tusely bleeding from stab; and the bride
sat near, in her night clothes, bidding those
who had rushed to the scene, Take up
your bonny bridegroom Janet died in
three weeks, insane. Dunbar of Baldoop
but never opened his lips on the
cause which led to the tragedy. Lord
the lover, died chlldless in
1885, 1t was queer fancy Of the Hatha-
ways; this naming of Janet. Calling the
boy after Harrison was entirely proper and
extremely American. II Is as we'll to state
to keep up the connection, that Andrew
md Vashti were married at the home of the
after in Ohio, in 1885; Andrews father
md mother both died In 1910, and Andrew
Inherited the Hathaway farm. In 1s48 he
Ind his family moved to Iowa, and
,ere Hathaway farmed 1t until the winter
,f 1S40.50.
II was a bitter cold day in December,
$40, The snow was piled six feet deep,
m level and the mercury marked "a de.
vrpea haioSv yern That dav noocon Hath