The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-03
A REAL LIFE STORY.
FROM WEALTH To DISGRACE AND POvEHTI
THROUGH DEVOTED LOVE.

The misery resulting from unequal mar
riages, often CLOSED by the name Of love
matches, Is much greater, much widespread,
in this democratic land, where they mostly
occur, than people are wont 10 believe. The
misery is not only experienced by the mar
ried couple Il is often so entailed upon their
children and their nearest Of kin as to con-
stitute the deepest tragedy of life. A very
salient and distressing example Of the sort
occurred many years ago in Cincinnati; and
the rash man who welded an unworthy wO-
man has since endured such degree Of mis-
fortune and anguish as seldom falls to the
lot even of the most afflicted humanity. He
was when he met the girl whom he after
ward made his wife, an insurance manager
of one of The largest companies in the United
States, and was accounted one Of the best fl
nanciers and business men in Ohio She was
a boolz-binder, rather SNOWY, though coarse
/ looking, by no means handsome. and so far
/ from prudent that her good name had suffer
ed. She was so Haunting in manner, so in
/ discreet in behavior, as TO be In a sense noto-
/ rious. After becoming acquainted with her,
he. as The phrase is, fell desperately in love
with her. Altogether out Of his station, even
/ if she had been circumspect, she no doubt
| understood the value Of her new acquisition,
/ and resolved to make the most of him, the
most being, of course. to turn him into hus-
band. Managing very adrOitly to that end,
his relatives and friends were Mortified i'm a
few weeks TO learn that he had actually made
her his wife. i was wholly unlike him, for
his connections were eminently respectable
his habits Of the best, his autecedents uneN-
ceptionable To all remOnstrances he an
swered, 4 love her; Jhat Is enough She IS
pure, good woman and has been fOully
slandered. YOu viii see that she viii justify
nv selection" He then had a salary Of S25,-
COO year from the company. and made so
much money on his account that he was soon
a millionaire. His wife did not change. Her
new and luxurious surroundings only rem
dered her vulgarities more conspicuous She
was never quite accepted socially by his set /;
but he. with a strange fGtuity, wOrshiped
her trusted her absolutely, would not hear
syllable against her. He was the incarnation
of martial chivalry. Time went on they
had children, boy and a girl, who grew to
maturity. Every effort was taken by their
father 10 EDUCATE and rear them suitably.
The boy was clever and promising the girl
was handsome and interesting. But the
taint Of the maternal blood was ineTadic6ble-
The young man became very dissipated, a
sot indeed committed forgery in Chicago :
was arrested, thrown into prison, and COM
mitted suicide The cir!, after being q belle
and having been engaged TO several excel
= lent men, took deliberately TO vicious courses,
> drank to excess. and became a shameless
! wantou Her associations were with the
i lowest and vilest- and recently she was pick
y ed up in the slumS of St LOuis, a perfectly
!, disgusting creature. and codsigned TO a mad
u house. She had often tried in vain to take
y her own life, which, happily, must now be
Y near its close. The father lost his wealth,
discovered his wifc's infdelity putheraway
and she went at once to the bad She sank
into woman of the town i'm Chicago, and
: died there miserably, the uufortunaJes of hel
: own class defraying the expenses of her fu
~ neral The poor father is now in that city
depending on a small salary, gray-haiTed
e prematurely old, heart-brOken, an object Of
L profoundest pity, and all through misalli
u ance Was ever tragedy more complete
? Webster, AIarlowe, Ford, MassinEer, have
'S nothing in their dramatic dismsys to exceed
this awful accumulation OF sin, agony and
" horror.