Omaha daily bee., 1885-11-04

to soil her hands with labor. Every wish
she expressed was gratiiicd, and she
fairly idolizCd the kind husband who
made her life a dream of happi-
ness. 2, As years went on, and
children were born to them, their
happiness increased, and probably there
WAS not y happier couple in the world
than this Swedish halter and his pretty
wife; but it did not last, Brink was in.
duccd by u friend to invest sOmo money
IN stocks, and the speculation was sue
ccsSful. The craze of stock speculation
took possession OF him and he went deep
or and deeper into it, until he had most
OF his available capital embarked in tho
gamble. OF course, his speculations
were not all successful, in fact, most of
them were the exact opposite, and tho
gradual eating away OF his capital sad.
d3ned his spirits, and the wife did not al
ways meet u smiling husband. He was
kind to her always, but the gloom that
seemed settling on him was soon reflect.
cd in her face, and the home WAS no lon
ger the paradise it had been. For Il long
time he concealed from her the reason
for his gloom, aud his neglect of bust.
ness, for he had become SO infatuated 10y
stock speculation that he no longer ut.
tended to his business, and loft IL to be
conducted by Is employees.
HE CONFESsEI.
At lcngth, when he saw that, woman
like, she began to suspect that there was
some other woman ut the bottom of it
all, he confessed to her his infatuation
and his consequent losses, ut the same
time informing her that he had been
specializing on information gained
through the mediums, who brought him
into communication with w. &. Ralston,
who informed him of big bonanzas con
ceaied on the ComstoCk, which would
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long. lie had II double insanity. He
believed in stocks aud s%piritualism, and
he soon drew his wife into the same tie.
lusions. They visited mediums together,
and listened to the weird knuCkingS, sup
posed to come from the world of spirits.
Year by year they became more carried
away by the W infatuations, and, added
to her loss OF money, came a loss of
health to the husband, aud IA consequent
distress of mind to the wife. Their belief
IN the great fortune which was conf g
to them through stocks was rs great as
ever, but Hope deferred maketh
his heart sick" The long delay made
deep inroads on the poor fellow health,
and the other day he lay down and
passed away, to mingle, Us he supposed,
with the spirits, whose knOCkIngs had
Knocked the life out of him. 1t can be
cas- ly understood that the death of the
husband, who had been to her II perfect
idol, almost killed the loving wife, and
drove her to the verge of insanity. She
turned naturally to tIe mediums for CON
ISOLATION, and they completed the
work begun b. stocks and sorrow,
and her friends and children ware horri-
fled to find that her reason had given
way, and she WAS II lunatic. AT first she
was mild and melancholy, but soon she
became violent and in the end they were
obliged TO take her to the Napa Insane
Asylum, and there she sits writing letters
to The spirits, and raving about her hus.
band, hrIsclf, and the unseen world. Her
deep love for her dead husband has
never left her, for she points to one-haIf
OF her body and says that is Brink, the
other half herself-that they are two
souls in one body. Sometimes she says
Brink has changed into George Washing
ton and she is Martha, and there the
poor creature sits and chatters, the vic
tim of stocks and sp%Ir'tua'iS,n.