The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-06-05


~ Terror Added to the uonoranas
Estate.
u late years there have been 20
xnnny complaints both of the unftness
Z Young women for wives and the UNI
hiness of young men for husbands that
fae honorable estate Of matrimony
night almost be thought to be falling
ITO disrepute. did not statistics reas-
aure doubling public by showing that
he wedding ring is as numerous as
cver. But if dispatch from Macon,
Ca, which purported to relate the sur
pfising experience and melancholy fate
a Mrs. Fannie Howard be true, more
formidable obstacle to the union OF
twin souls has arisen than the most
confirmed cynic and pessimist ever
imagined. or hoped for. According to
the Macon dispatch the lady in ques-
ton was a widow. After her husbands
death one Sterling came into the neigh
borhood. 1.-The widow, struck by
Servings remarkable resemblance to
her late husband. encouraged his adj
vances,n and, in a word. they
were married. And now
comes the remarkable part
of this highly interesting narrative.
ssAs soon as the bridal pair stepped out
into the hallway, while the lady's at
tention was attracted by some object,
she felt her arm deprived of its sup
port, and looking up quickly observed
that she was standing alone. Her hus-
band had vanished into air. She has
come to the conclusion that it was the
materialized spirit of her first hus-
band" 1t is superfuous to remark that
this is startling and altogether weird
denoxernent;; but it is much more than
that, for If true Gt is perhaps necessa-
~ to emphasize the condition) brand
new vista is hereby opened, down which
are ranged a striking assortment Of
novelties in domestic and social catas-
trophies.
Bridegrooms have vanished before,
but not thus. We have all heard Of
INSTALLATIONS, also, but they have
been judiciouslv confined to the seance-
room, and sceptics have complained
that they manifested lack of purpose.
But if spirit bridegrooms are to revisit
the pale glimpses of the moon, clothed
in so perfect fac-simile of flesh that
their relicts can not distinguish be-
tween them and mortals, and If they
are to resume the domestic relations Of
lie in so far as to circumvent the afore-
said relicts, only to leave them in the
lnrch by the most unprincipled and
keartless Decentralization at the
ehurch door, what security or assur-
roc can there be any more forever
21ainst such post-mortem pleasantries?
Nor is it widows alone who are men,
aced by this thoroughly illegitimate
lixing up of two states of being.
Pinsters will have to devise means of
1sting the solidity and permanency of
eheir suitors, and science will be called
upon to invent new methods of detect
ing materialized spooks who would a
SQUIRTING go.
And it IS not every widow who de-
sires further roiations with the dear
departed. Ca2liostro made his great
est hit by a1nouncing that he was go
ing to resurrect the dead in French
country church-yard. All the heirs,
al the widows, thronged to the magic
ian. and paid him lavishly to let their
dead rest The moral is obvious. The
naturalization Of husbands would not
- rule be popular, and the uncer-
tainty of their characterization would
produce state Of painful tension. both
II the domestic circle and society. On
the whole. therefore. the best that can
~ hoped is that the Macon dispatch
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