Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-03
HER HAIR TURNED WITS,
An Unfortunate and Terrible RE-
suit of Mental Torture.
Little Rock earstte.l

Little Rock Gatette;l
One of the most singular aud re-
markable instances of the effect af a
terrible nervous stain took place in
Little Rock Sfew nights $40. which
shows that human hearts retain some
of the emotions for which thcy have
been held accountable for many as,s,
A young lady whose womanly quail
ties had made her the mark Of much
attention for gentlemen. to one OF
whom she had, with the simplicity OF
a con6ding nature, plighted her troth,
had her hair to turn from a glossy
brown to white.
This terrible evidence Of poignant
grief was caused by the base action of
the lover. Heis a young man, moving
in Little Rocks highest 3ocial circles
but a short time since, who is now
married and residing in another part
of the union.
For several months his plausible
utterances found a willing entrance
into the heart of Miss -, and it
may be that she would have staked
her soul deliberately and honestly on
the nobleness of the young man.
His affection was not so wide as a
door nor deep as a well, but she
thought so, and if a woman rises up
in the dignity of faith and loves a
man, all the prohibition utterances of
all the prohibitionists would make her
cling closer to him. Miss - then
believed that the world contains but
one man. This was wrong; for there
Is more than one man in the world.
The individual, whose name would be
given were it not out of respect to the
young lady, whose c%onnectsOn with
him was well known, basked in the
sunshine of affection and fed the fame
which he had so Iuthlessly kirdled,
but in the meantime he had, in a trip
which he made, discovered a lady who
possessed more attr ction in the shape
of government bonds than Miss,
snd he secretly carried on a CORES
pondence and love affair with her
which terminated in his marriage
with her. She had not one 1.-THE Of
the admirable qualities of bis former
sweetheart, but with a snap of his fin
gers at sentiment and a clutch at
coupons" he dismissed the little lady
from his mind.
She, never doubling the fsithfulness
of the man who had asked her with
such earnest ayowals of affection to be
his wife, did not suspect that he had
been unworthy Of the confidence of a
pure heart. which is like a sparkling
spring in this desert of a world. She
went about her daily life with a light
and happy heart.
One evening last week she picked
up a paper from the city in which her
lover was visiting, and almost one of
the first things that struck her eye
was the description Of a brilliant we'd
ding in a fashionable church. She
saw her lovers name figuring in the
description as that Of bridegroom.
His name and residence were printed
there. People do notin real life faint
as easily as novelists would have us
believe, and Miss - did not "keel
over" but she felt the sickening
blight Of a holy trust betrayed, and
through the whole night lay in a stu.
por. The next morning one side Of
her head was white as snow, and so it
remains. 1t is a terrible thing to
chronicle this event, and no names
will be given at present. The base
wretch who has accomplished the
desolation of a soul like that of the
lady, the subject of this article, will
be held to a terrible account by his
conscience, if he has one.