Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06

aWdhcueu 10 the TACT tnat they were not
only unsuited to each other, but positively
incompatible. The girls family and
friends bitterly realized the state of affairs,
but arguments, protestations and entreaties
fell upon ears deaf to all opposition, and
with the blind obstinacy of an infatuated
girl she hurried to her fate. 'And so
they were married." and for brief period
how brief alas their lives were made
blissful by the often deceptive glamor of
the moon of honey. Then, slowly and re-
morse.essly came the awakening, and in
the harsh light of everyday life the glitter
ing mirage Of their cherished ideas faded
into pale, cold reality, and the girl soon
found herself possessed of all the attributes
of typical heroine of romance-youth.
beauty, an unloved and unloving husband.
and an unhappy heart
II will be useless to attempt to portray
each varying phase of suffering, each
shifting shade of despair which daily
wrought upon the unhappy girl. Estranged
from her family and friends, pride enabled
her for time to bear up under the burden
OF her daily life, but when indifference
upon the part of her husband was sue
ceeded by actual brutality, further en-
durance became impossible, and with
desperation born of her sufferings, she
tore herself from the home and ties of her
childhood and youth, and fled, to resume
among new faces, new associations, under
new name and new conditions, the
pursuit of that overriding marsh
light, called happiness. OF her struggles
and trials attendant upon her fight, we
have nothing to do; but when she appeared
as Miss Weber before the august Board
of Trustees in the town of Gilroy, CAL,
armed and equipped with frst-grade
county certificate, her beauty, youth and
tact so worn upon that dignifed assemblage
that she very soon found herself the sue
cessful applicant for position of teacher
in the schools of Gilroy. Though she
may not have found in this commendable,
if not very lucrative, employment of guild
ing the laundering steps Of her little pu-
pills along the steep and rugged path of
knowledge any vast amount of happiness,
there was at least peace; and Time, that
mute physician whose mesmeric touch can
still every heartache, at last wrought for
her perfect cure.
Months afterward she learned that the
death of her husband had absolved her
from her marriage vows, and if she received
the intelligence unmoved it was because
she had already mourned with surprising
bitterness the husband who had never
lived, the man of her ideal. Contented
though her life now was, it could not be
called complete. There was yearning
for the protection OF home, longing for
life that is the natural sentiment of
every woman's heart, and this long
ing was strengthened rather than weak
ened by the memory of that fleeing
joy she had experienced, followed, though
1t was, by so much unhappiness.
In this mood she was one day idly glanc-
ing over an old newspaper when her eye
CHANGED upon one of those we'll known adj
yertisements which can always be found in
the column of personals" In this the
usual respectable gentleman of wealth
and fine position solicited correspondence
with a refined and intelligent lady. OBJ
ject matrimony" Moved by what was APP
parently whimsical fancy, but which was
in reality the hand of fate, she wrote to
the address given, IL. D., P. o. Box 176,
Grass Valley" and a day or two later was
surprised to receive manly and courteous
letter, SO sincere and respectful in tone
that she had no hesitancy in writing again
10 the uecOrOuS stranger.
Thus long correspondence was begun.
She learned from his letters that he was
wealthy citizen of Grass Valley, who,
after arduous labor in the mines, had at
last accumulated enough of the golden
dust to enable him to live in ease for the
remainder of his life, and his loneliness
had palled upon him; he longed for the
tender companionship of woman; he
yearned to experience the sweet spell
which a wife weaves around bachelors
neglected hearthstone, etc. The CORE
spondence became gradually more conf
Dental and affectionate, and finally the
momentous question was propounded, and
favorable answer returned, and all
through the medium of the postal service.
1t will seem strange that woman who
had passed through such an ordeal as
Miss Weber had experienced should have
tempted fate second time by engaging
herself to man she had never seen and of
whom she knew absolutely nothing, save
what he had seen fit to tell her; but it is a
well established fact that no woman
is ever discouraged by an unfortunate ven
ture upon the treacherous sea of matri-
mony. On the contrary, those who have
made most tempestuous voyages and been
most disastrously wrecked, are often the
more ready to embark second time,
strong in the faith that this time skies
will be fair and winds favorable.
Miss Weber had by this time accumu-
lated about eleven hundred dollars, and
after providing herself with modest and
tasteful trousseau, was in readiness for her
wedding day, which had already been
fv~d Shortly hafnra ba dow orr;vaJ tba
groom found that important business en-
gagements would render it almost impossi-
Bile for him to leave Grass Valley, and it
was decided that she should meet him at
Grass Valley, when the ceremony would
be performed Immediately upon her ar
rival.
The details of the trip were arranged
and thus it came about that Miss Webber
found herself passenger upon the Grass
Valley stage upon that fatal Sunday when
Dribblesbie and friends intercepted her
progress, but SO CALAMITY saved the trunk
containing her little fortune and her trous-
seau from demolition by powder.
When her lover failed to meet her ac-
cording to his promise, no misgiving arose
in her mind in regard to the step she was
about to take, and the passing feeling of
annoyance at his absence was quickly dis
PEELED by the elaborate explanation Of her
hostess. But when he leaned toward
her after the words had been pro-
nounced which made her his wife, when
for the first time since her arrival she
saw his face, what horror and dismay must
have filled her fainting soul when
she found she had married-had linked
her life second time to the man she had
believed dead for years, the husband of her
unhappy youth.
1t was fate!
WEAK will power deranges a mans life
in every direction. His will must be weak
when his body is wasting away with rack
ing coughs and nightly sWeats.