Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-20
An AMERICAN ROMANCE.
TIfE RENIREiBrE CIBEER or 4 m
REFr CILTFORNIi uTFE
Her Rise From Poverty and Ohscurity So Opu
lencc aud Tamc-iicr Millions Give Her
Social Position and Her Daughter
to Wed q Prince.

Some twenty odd years ago there dWplt in
California family of three persons. father
mother and daughter. The latter was % Nero
child. All were young. Tie father was a
physician. Unfortunately hciniurrd his not
very extensive practice by utcmpcuncc
His habits became 50 diSSiIatcd that the poor
wife, deSpairiug ofhis reformation, and also
of the possibility Of independent action ON
her own part to secure support for hcr,rlfaud
child, proposed a separation. Thcmnu agreed
TO It, but he was not put out like Hip Van
Winkc. He was assured that whilc he lived
she would never Cc lSe 10 help him, and that
when he mCndCd his ways their old relations
should be restored. He dcpartcd. to cure
himself, if possible and become worthy of
the woman, who, sorCly hCsCt, undertook the
maintenance of the family. Encouraged Ivy
his vitos prayers, letters and heroic con-
duct, the doctor redeemed himself At least
he thought so, and his poor wife was more
than willing to believe it, He returned t.
her home and heart, warmly welcomed harl,
to both.
Unluckily, he had either misralcuatcd his
Will power or the demon of indulgence
was simply asleep, and by no means dead
within him. He went hack to his CUPS.
and very soon the skeleton finger Of poverty
was laid upon his domestic affairs The
devoted wife, unwilling to undertake. an
experimental separation. and unable 10 r.
main where she was. determined TO try what
change of scene would do for this miserable
man, who, naturally kind, talented, and
wholesome, seemed to be inSauply abandoned
to the devil Of strong drink. Just at this
crisis. rumurS had reached California Of the
tomStoCk Lode discovery and thithrr many
ot the mining population dmurd. Across
the SicrraS to Virginia City this little and
most wTctched family iOurucvcl The un,-
tor pulled himself together for while and
did some business, but his health was gone,
auu very soon he died. Widow and orphan
were left in the very depths of poverty. Tho
generous miners had clubhcd together to
bury the doctor, The made up purse tur
the mother and child, from time 10 tlmN, and
thus saved both from utter deprivation of
food shelter and raiment.
Her Marriage with MnclSny.
There was, at that time, superintendent Of
ono of the mines a sturdy young Irishman,
who from tho lowest rounds of the laddor.
had begun to push his way 10 fortune lie
was not then more than comC,rtlhlvwcu OH.
and little dreamed of the Monte Cri~to c;lStrt
in store for him. lie used to carry the
weekly or monthly stipend to the window.
ana his visits to her became more and more
frequent At last lac married her and her
days Of fear on the score of poverty were
over. She possessed a well-tO-do husband.
VINO was the master Of his passions, and cor
tam to make his way in the world. But in
TIC h''N Oh ul~tfc>> inc unhappy woman NHu
rcSoItCu 10 the morphine habit. and could
not, Of her own effort, release herself from IL.
\ young physician at Virginia City, who had
recently graduated in France, informed her
that II she would visit Paris and put hur-lIf
implicitly under the care Of his olI urs,rr
there, her cure could be- guaranteed. While
the husband remained TO uncover, with the
present Junior senator from NCyada the
richest silver deposit tho world has ever
known, tho wife crossed the seas and sub.
mittcd 10 Il rigorous medical treatment. Il
was successful after many months ot cudur-
aucr. Meanwhile the famous California and
Consolidated Virginia mines wcro penetrated
by the husband, and the world-rgnownod
Dig bonanza, Of which he was principal
owner, made him at least forty times "A mil
Ilonalrc. The wife in Paris, now perfectly
cured and blooming. at once rose into pruui-
nencc and celebrity, for how could the mar
Ycl-luving ParisianS help adoring woman
whose talents and beauty were mitrhcd by
Such fabulous wealth 30 rumduticllly dis
covered.