Year: 1860

- and II EN- married.


few Years ago young and beautiful lady,
living nos thousand miles from Boston, had
two suitors, one poor and the other rich, the
latter having less favor in the eyes of his mis-
tress than his rival. And as is also usually
the case In such instances, the young lady's
preference confieted with that of her relatives
and friends. SO decided were they i'm their
opposition to match with the poor mechanic.
and 80 loud in their praises of the other. that
the young lady finally consented to become
the rich mans wife. They lived happily to-
gether, But in the progress of years reverses
came! the best calculations cannot always put
on misfortune; and her husband announced one
DAY tnst his failure had swept away his prop-
erty' But he did not blow his brains out, nor
take poison, nor did she 60 back to her mother,
or regret the day she had ever married him
No Both were too sensible to act so fooIisbly.
He spent few days with creditors in arrang-
ing matters, and then the couple moved away
very quietly In week everybody knew that
MI - had failed, and a week later the Cos
sips added to their statements the fact for a
WoDder9 that he had gone 10 California to try
and repair his fortunes, leaving his wife. with
two young children, with means epougb for
many months to come


year passed, and Mrs heard from her
husband but once, and then only by few lines,
which accompanied small remittance-an
announced that his stay might be longer than
he had anticipated Another wear went by
and only one more letter came, this time full
OF business, and stating the period Of his return
SUN more indefinitely. Then came a blank of
several years, with no letter, no money. no
news OF any kind from her husband The
tongue Of scandal was not silent during the
period OF doubt, but every circumstance re-
nectlng on the fidelity of the husband to the
wife was magnifed, till she was led to believe
herself deserted. Without means, she had to
depend on her friends for her subsistence
thrown occasionally into the society of her
Iormer rejected suitor, part of her old love
returned, and believing that he had remained
single for her sake, and having nothing to hone
Tor from her missing husband, she finally ap-
ptled Tor and obtained divorce on the ground
OF desertion. One can imagine what her feel
lngs were when she learned that her former
lover had never, since his rejection by her and
marriage to another, cherished other feelings
for her than those of friendship


der disappointment was sharpened with
anguish when, a few days after she received
letter from her husband, stating that he had at
sangulne expectations, and was then on his
way home, with closing request that she would
meet him in New York She gathered from
the letter that money had been sent her often
during those years, but which she had never
received. She knew her husband, if affection
ate, was also proud, and feared that he would
never forgive the slight involved in her act of
obtaining divorce. But she finally resolved
on full confession, and on the day of the ar
rlval OF the steamer, she was the first to greet
her late husband, who after hearing alf the
particulars of her conduct during his absence.
was at hrst inclined to refuse his forgiveness
put hnally decided to overlook the past, with
lts mistakes and errors and again accom- pa
MED to the altar the object of his early afec-
tiOns- Boston Ty1ceIer