The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-06-14
"E. ST LYNNE" OUT WEST.
Kemnrkable Story OF Mixed Family Re.
lutiOns In Louisville.

The Louisville Courier. Journal relates
the following: The quiet neighborhood
OF Jefferson street. between First and
Brook, has scandal, and the people who
dwell in the vicinity are discussing and
are agitated over it. The scandal ia all
about wife who deserted her husband
and ran away with u neighbor, but who
repented, SAW the error of her way, aud
returned TO be forgiven only to find that
the forsaken husband had taken up with
the neighbor's wife. The chief actors in
this scandal-play are Jacob Meyers, his
wife Mary and David Schoif and his
better half, Susie. Meyers lives on
Jefferson street, near Brook, and makes
his living by selling the products of the
garden. His wife is handsome brunette
OF about 35 summers. They have five
children, the eldest being girl about
II years Of age. Schotf and his wife
lived on Brook street. near Jefferson, and
have one child. The two families were
Intimate, and the wives were considered
the best of friends. About month ago
Meyers awoke early one morning to at.
tend the sale Of his vegetables, and
found his wife gone. She had stolen
away in the night, and gone he knew not
where. The same morning Mrs. SchofI
found her husband missing. The coming
night brought neither of tho missing
ones to their homes, and when the de.
serted husband and the abandoned wife
learned of what had happened in the
home OF each they suspected that Schoff
and Mrs. Meyers hnd cloped. Their
suspicious were confirmed; Meyers had
lost wife and Mrs. Schofr husband
he was deserted husband and she a
forsaken wife, and it appeared to them
that they could find consolation in each
other. He had family of children and
she had baby with no father. Each
could supply to the other what had been
lost. He would find wife in her. and
she husband in him, and the children
would have both father and mother.
This was the idea that suggested itself
10 them, and in a few days Mrs. Schofr
and Mr.. Meyers were living in the same
house, and so far rs The people could see,
were 10 each other as man and wife. In
two weeks their former loves seemed for.
gotten. They had taken things as they
were, and making the most of the cir
cumstanccs, were not ut Gii put out by
their abandonment. They were happy
in their home. and were preparing to re-
tire on Saturday night, when some one
Knocked for admittance Mt the outer door
MIR. Meyers opened it, and into the light
came the face and figure Of the wife who
had deserted him. She had rcpented of
her sin and came home to be forgiven.
at his feet she fell and pleaded to be
taken back to his arm and home. She
pleaded 80 and was so penitent that he
to.gaVc her, but could not take her back
and restore her 10 her former place.
Mrs. Schoff had been instituted there
and he was contented to see her remain.
For her children's sake she begged to be
allowed to remain, and her husband
granted her the privilege Of staying in
the house and playing second fiddle
Thus do matters stand in the Meyers
home. The wife looks after the children
she has wronged by her desertiop, and,
to all intents and purposes, plays the
part of housckeeper and servant. She
sleeps in small room up. stairs by her
self, while her husband and the woman
she has wronged occupy the bedchamber
together. No one knows what has be.
come of Schof. He was left in the
country and has not appeared since Mrs
Meyers returned home. How long the
present state of affairs will remain can
only be surmised. The wife, humble and
penitent, is thankful to be allowed to
remain in the house in any position,
while Mrs. Schoh does not seem inclin.
ed to retire from her position as mistress
of the Meyers family. The neighbors, in
the meantime, are much shocked, and as
long as Mrs. Schoff and Mr.. Meyers con-
tinue to live together the same neighbors
will remain Mortified and have the scan
dal for theme of conversation.