Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
4 Grass Widows Adventures in
the New Town.

LeadNluc Eclipse.
Leadville is now passing through its
most romantic period, and from now
until We settle into city of one hun
dred thousand inhabitants such incl
dents as we are now about TO relate will
be of not uuirequent occurrence. The
circumstances came to the knowledge OF
a reporter at the dinner table this alter
noon, and acting on the hint, the clew
was followed up until at last one OF
those life histories, which, occur now
and then and inspire new faith in hui
man nature, was revealed. Five years
ago Young man whom we shall call
Smith because that is not his name,
was married to a beautiful girl in one OF
the interior towns of Iowa. Smith was
then only twenty-five years old, and,
though intelligent, well-educated and
active, was only a clerk in a dry-gOOds
store, depending upon meager salary
for subsistence. Common prudence
should have dictated to the young
couple the propricty OF waiting, but
they loved each other, and laughed at
the future. The father of the young
lady was one OF the pioneers OF the
town, rich, naughty and purse-proud.
He was enraged at the match, and
coarselv told the delicate young girl that
she had made hard bed for herselfand
must lie on it. With an amount OF
money ridiculOusly small, considering
his wealth, he dismissed her finally.
The couple went to housekeeping, but
with all their love and economy failed
10 make both ends meet. The money
which the young wife brought was eX-
pended during the first year, and love,
which laughed at loCRsmiths," flew
out of the window when poverty came
i'm M the door. Misunderstanding
chickering's and quarrcls followed each
other i'm rapid succession, and finally 1t
seemed to the unhappy pair that 1t was
impossible for them to live together, and
after a more violent quarrel than usual,
Mrs. Smith took her babe and went to
her fathers only 10 have the door shut
i'm her face. Returning to her own
home she found her husband had left a
note stating that she would never see
him again. In fit of desperation, she
sold her stock of furniture, placed her
babe in the charge of her husbands
parents, with money enough 10 make 1t
comfortable for year, and started for a
large city 10 make q living. This was
only a little more than year ago. The
old story Of a young, refined and unpro-
tected female in a large city was re-en-
acted i'm her case. She fell, and in three
months had become reckless, Always
finding admirers, she drifted from city
10 city, occasionally sending little
money for the care of her babe, which
she loved with passionate tenderness.
During all this time, however, she never
forgot her husband, having learned that
her love had been Clouded, not eXtin-
puished. Last week she arrived in
Leadville. As she descended from the
coach she noticed in the throng OF
bronZcd faces one that seemed strangely
familiar. though covered with an enOr-
NOUS beard. IL disappeared and she
went TO her lodging with q strange feel
inc Of unrest and deSolatiOn. The next
day i'm walking about town she again
encountered that face and met a glance
that caused her 10 tremble. In another
instant both her hands were seized, and
she knew that her husband, whom she
had never ceased to love, stood before
her. He had come to Lcadyille imme-
diatelv after their separation, had pros
pered, and, surprising that she was still
at her fathers, was abOuting starting
ior home with sufficient means 10 es-
tablish himself in business in their ma
tive town. She told him all; he forgove
all. and the next day the strangely re-
united couple left to begin new and
happier life.