Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-19
Her Rnir Turned Whi1c.

One of the most singular and re-
markable instances of the effect of a
terrible nervous strain took place in
Little Rock a few nights ago, which
shows that human hearts retain
some of the emotions for which they
have been held accountable for
many ages. a young lady whose
wOmanly qualities had made her
the mark of much attention for gen.
tlemen, to one of whom she had,
with the simplicity of a confiding
nature, plited her trOth, had her
hair to turn from glossy brown to
white.
This terrible evidence of poignant
grief was caused by the base action
of the lover. He is a young man,
moving in Little Rocks highest So
cial circles but a short time since,
who is now married and residing in
another part of the union.
For several months his plausible
u%tterances found a willing entrance
into the heart of Mis-, 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 il 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 la
dy, whose connection with him was
we'll known, basked in the sunshine
of affection and fed the flame which
he had so ruthlessly kindled, but in
the meantime he had, in a trip
which he made, discovered a lady
who possessed more attraction in
the shape of government bonds than
Miss, and he secretly carried
on a correspondence and love affair
with her which terminated in his
marriage with her. She had not
one 1.-THE of the admirable qualities
OF his former sweetheart, but with a
snap of his fingers at sentiment and
Il clutch at coupons" he dismissed
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She, never doubling the faithful
ness of the man who had ask ed her
with such earnest avowals of affec-
ton 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 deS-
ert of a world. She went about her
daily life with a light and happy
heart.
One evening last week she pick
ed 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 wedding in a fashionable
church. She saw her lovers name
figuring in the description as that of
bridegroom. His name and resi-
dence were printed there. People
do not in 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 i'm a stupOr.
The next morning one side of her
head was white as snow, and so 1t
remains. 1t is a terrible thing to
chronicle this event and no name;
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.