Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
Story Of The Wedding Ring.
BY BERTHA M. CLAY.

London Thornton Cameron tried hard
for professional engagement; but
young, unknown, without friends or
influence, how was he to succeed?
From the great city he had gone to
Liverpool, only too thankful to take an
engagement that brought him a hun
dred per annum. In Liverpool he and
his wife had taken furnished lodgings;
and there little child, baptized at ST..
Johns church under the name of Is
may Cameron, had been born. In
Liverpool Mr.. Cameron had tried the
hopeless and difficult task of endeavor-
ing to maintain a lady, brought up in
the midst of affluence and luxury, on
one hundred per annum. The struggle
had been from the first a most hope
less one. With careful, economical
wife he might, have weathered the
storm; but Katrine had seldom heard
the word economical and had but a
poor idea of what it really meant.
she was perfectly ignorant of the
value of money; she had always had
exactly what she wished-the cost of
i 1t was matter she never considered.
She had been brought up in one of
the most luxurious homes in Eng
land-what could she possibly know of
small economies and sordid cares?
She wondered why, now that Thornton
had an engagement, they could not
have good wine She was i'll, and she
missed her fathers wine more than
anything else. She raised her beauti-
full eyes in wonder when Thornton
once, wishing to please her, brought
her bottle of Fine old Port"
, THAT is not good wine, Thornton, -
she said ut is not like the wine we
had at home. Get me some of that"
1t was with difficulty he made her
understand that they could not afford
: 1t, and it was with equal difficulty he
: taught her even more painful facts.
He gave up the task in utter despair;
and started out in the world to find
something better.
He was traced to Chester; and at
Chester it was found that, after strug-
Cling for some time with adverse cir
cumstances, fate and fortune both
against him, he had broken down en-
tirely He had spoiled his life by the
very action that he had hoped would
make it. He had thought 20 reap a
fortune by marrying the only daughter
of rich nobleman instead of which
he had married every prospect life
held for him. How could he, poor
unknown musician. without friends or
interest. keep an elegant, refined lady
in comfort-nay, supply her with even
the most common necessaries of life?
He could not possibly do it. and the
knowledge that he had made such
lamentable mistake killed him. He
had been seized with a dangerous i'll
ness. which gave but little hope that he
would ever recover.
| He had battled with it for some time,
but at last he had died, and had been
buried at Chester. His wife had re-
NAMED there for some time in the
greatest restitution, and then left, TAX
ing her little girl with her; and there
all traces of her and the child had been
lost, Some of the cleverest detectives
in England had been employed to find
her and failed Mr.. Ford, who had un-
dertaken the chief direction, was
ashamed of his failure; he did all that
was possible. but he averred to himself
at last the task was hopeless. and that
he had no choice but to abandon It,