The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-09
JAMES aRAYsoN,s WOE.
Like Hnoch Arden. He Returns to Find
his Wife Another's.


bis Wife Another's.
From the st. Louis Republic.
ARDMoRE. l. T., Sept. 29.-Forsaken is
the refrain of sad story that will follow
James Grayson to his grave and make rest
less and ftful the last gasps of his ebbing
life His hapless experience and living life
are an intensified reproduction of the fiction
of Enoch Arden, but unlike poor Encch he
will have no sweet psalmlst to make i'm
Tnortelles OF the ruby drops falling from his
despairing heart. His pathetic history has
just been brought TO lignt in Ardmore,
where he witnessed the destruction of the
cherished hope of years. Alone he left
with the curse of the "W andering Jew" to
go on and on without rest until heaven shall
come to his relief with the balm of endless
sleep.
Grayson was Kansas pioneer, and it was
there IN the morn of budding manhood he
met Jane Casaway. She was lassie of
comely proportions and fair to look upon.
They were soon in love with each other, and
courtship and marriage followed in quick
succession. Children we're born unto them,
first one and then another until five little
heads crowned the suspicious union. Mr..
md Mrs. Gravson were poor when in each
others arms they agreed 20 face the world
together, but at the end OF ten years by
around them comfortable little fortune.
Thus far it had been all sunshine for
them, but now the clouds began to gather
misfortune upon misfortune came thick
and fast. First drought burnt up their
crop; then an epidemic carried away their
cattle aud horses; and at last with the home
mortgaged, they were reduced to penury.
Driven to desperation by his troubles,
Grayson determined to leave his family and
recover his fortune in a new land.
Settling what little was left of his property
on them, against their earnest entreaties,
he babe them goodby and turned his face
toward California in quest of gold.
He followed mining with but Indifferent
success, and a year went by and
his fortune mad not improved. He had not
written home, for he had no means to send
to them to relieve their wants. Hoping, he
toiled on, and the second anniversary of the
last dav with the loved ones arrived He
was making money and laying it up to
carry home. The time had passed to
write, but he was buoyed up with
the happy picture he drew of the
surprise he would give them by his sudden
appearance, and he dreamed of the peaceful
days ahead he wonld spend in luxury with
his family.
He had been away three years, when one
evening he threw the pick and spade aside,
drew his So, 900 out of the bank, and took
the train for home. But what had become
of his wife and children in all this tlme9 At
first they visited the mails regularly for a
letter from him, and when none came they
thought he was sick, and they had hard
time struggling for bread and mourning
for the husband and father. But when the
Gays became months and the months years,
they were forced TO believe that he was
either dead or had abandoned them. After
waiting two years Mrs. Grayson went to
the courts and procured a divorce, and
few months ago moved to the Indian Terri
tory near Ardmore where in a little while
she consoled herself by marrying John
Lester, a well-to-do farmer.
Grayson, not dreaming of this, went to
the old home in Kansas, but instead of the
welcome he expected met only strangers,
and from them learned that his family were
here He followed in haste but to find his
wife of three years ago in the arms of
another man, and his children calling a
stranger father. The surprise was severe
shock, and made him ill. Recovering, he
acted with noble generosity by dividing his
property among his five children and leav-
ing for parts unknown.
This story is literally true, even if
stra niger than fiction