Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-19
A MARITAL MISTAKE.
Two Couples Newly Mated Make a
General Change ALI Around.
TRUE TO THEIR ORIGINAL LOVE.
No Lack Of Live Dramatic Element in
Every Day Experience.
A vERITABLE ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE
The Story Of Love and Adventure Which Comes From
the Adirondacks.

From Utica, N. Y, comes a romantic
story Of marital difficulties. Two true
hearts were separated by a quarrel, both
were married, but now they are reunited.
UTICA, N. Y, August 1S-Living very
quietly in house near the Central depot in
this city are a young man and young
woman known as Mr.. and Mrs. Conklin,
who have had an interesting experience
during the past three years. Their story,
as told by man who happened to meet
Conklin in the street and recognized him as
q man with another name, is as follows:
Mrs. Conklin's real name is Mrs. Eleanor
Hatch, but 1t won't be long. The man she
lives with is John Turner. Two years ago
last March Mrs. Turner was living unmar-
ried with her father and mother upon tine
west side OF the Adirondacks. Her name
was Eleanor Roberts. She was good
looking farm girl, and John Turner, stall
wart Iumberman, was her best young man.
Turner lived with his father about mile
from the Roberts farm.
Early in March, 1877, an old man named
Dennie, who lived in a cabin in the same
neighborhood, was taken sick, and inside of
two weeks he died, leaving young wife
and three children to be cared for by the
town. Under the circumstances the neigh
bors turned to with a will to help the unfor-
tunate widow and make her as comfortable
as possible. The man was decently buried,
and supply of the necessaries of life was
given to the widow.
CHARITABLE NEIGHBoRS.
No kinder-hearted people live in the
world than the woodsmen of the Adiron-
dacks, but they could not, of course, make
q woman with three small children wholly
comfortable, even if her loneliness after the
death of her husband be not considered.
There were many things to be done, such as
looking after frewood and feeding aud
milking the one COW the widow had, which
were anything but pleasant for a woman to
do. especially when her children were
fretful
Of all the neighbors no one seemed to ap-
preciate the misfortunes of the young widow
more than John Turner. He was q big
hearted fellow, anyhow. and when he saw
her crying over the coffin of her husband it
is said that he blubbered aloud, out of pure
sympathy. When the funeral was over he
was the first to take hold of the work about
the cabin which a man ought to do, and
every day thereafter he visited the widow
anu the IdJnerleS5 IN Lnelr dulctlOn.
In this, for a time, he had the hearty Co
operation of his sweetheart, but it was not
very long before she began to speak coldly
of the distress of the lone woman. From
coldness her feelings rapidly developed into
openly expressed dislike, and by the begin
ming of April John was told that he must
either stop going to the widows or to the
Roberts farm.
WIDOW NO LONGER.
The choice was made without hesitation,
for John had already passed from state of
deep sympathy to one of kindliest regard
for the widow. He bade Eleanor goodby
and hastened to the widow. Just five weeks
from the day of the funeral of old Dennie,
John Turner and the widow drove to the
nearest village where parson resided and
were made one. 1t is an interesting fact
that the widow, though young-say 26 years
old-was just six years older than her new
husband. tr
The marriage made . great talk in the
country side. Everybody was down on
John and his wife; even Johns people
sided with the girl, and made life uncom-
Portable for the boy. Under the circum-
stances, John and his wife sold the cow,
abandoned the lease on their farm, which
wasn't very much of farm anyhow, and
moved ten miles away.
and matters ran on id the old fashion until
July 4. On that day there were big doings
up at Boonville, on the Utica and Black
River road, and Eleanor was among those
who attended from her neighborhood. 1t
was jolly party Of young folks that gath
cred on the veranda of one of the hotels, and
in consequence several BoonvilIe young
people who knew members of the party
joined it. Among the rest was a man named
Charles Hatch, from Connecticut, who was
temporarily in Boonville. Hatch was the
oldest member of the group, but he was
young in feelings, good-looking, and socia-
Bile. He became the life of the gathering.
Before the day was passed he was paying
particular attention to Miss Eleanor Rob
erts, and his suit was in no wise discour-
aged.
ON WITH THE NEW.
Hatch was a carpenter, and Of thrifty
turn. He was just 40 years old; he had
handsome sum in bank, and he earned good
wages. When, after q week or so, he called
at the Roberts farm to see Eleanor he was
received complacently by the old people.
In September Eleanor and Hatch were mar
ried. ..---
Thereupon Mr.. and Mrs. Hatch bought a
farm over in.the adjoining town, the one to
which Mr. and Mrs. John Turner had
moved to escape the tongues of gossiping
neighbors. During the winter Hatch re-
paired the house and buildings generally,
and when the snow went off in the spring
he went at the fences. Meantime he had
got out big pile of irewood and had, in
short, made quite stir in his new home,
and had taken front rank as a worker among
the farmers round about
In marked contrast with the energy of
Mr.. Hatch was the life of John Turner.
John had been good woodsman and could
peel more bark than half the men he met in
the camps. But after he married the widow
ha haca ma discnurarad lost his grin some