Year: 1860

The New York Tribune relates the fol-
lowing true history:


A young lady, beautiful in person AMI
attractive in manner, who resided in the


immediate vicinity of Boston. was sought
in marriage some years ago by two men.
One Of these was poor, and mechanic j;
the other was itch, and not a mechanic.
The woman loved the former; the family
of the woman liked the latter. As is the
case in such affsirs, the woman married
to please her friends. Having thus sold
herself, she ought to have been miserable,
but she was not. Hor husbands unatfect-
ed love subdued her heart, and his gold
smoothed the rough places in the human
path. Fortune, feeling that this couple
were too happy, frowned, and the mans
riches took to themselves wings and used
them in flight. Thersupon the husband
wound UP his business, put bis wife and
children, of whom there were two, al
comfortable boarding house, and then de
parted for California in search Of money.
Some letters and some renlittsnces arrived
from him at first, then nothing came, and
there was blank of several years. The
wife thought herself deserted The FAM.
ly, whose good opinin of the husband had
not lately been so often published as for,
merry, told her that it was cl early a case
for divorce. When she had become
well accustomed to the sound of thi. un-
pleasant word, the disconsolats wife was
thrown into the society of the mechanic
lover, now prosperous and still unmarried.


The memory of her early and real love
came upon her, and she believed with
secret Joy tha: he had remained single
for her sake. This thought nourished
her affection, and at at last bhe obtained
divorce from her husband, who had deser-
ted her, and remained absent beyond the
time allowed by the statute. This accom-
plished, there was no barrier between her
and the mechanic of her youth. She in
formed him that she was bis forever. when
he should claim her hand. Her feelings
cannot have been pleasant to learn that,
since his rejection by her and her marriage
to another, the unromantic hewer of wood
had drowned his passion for her in the
waves of time, and that at the time Of her
HehuooLAo SiioA no uO IoH5ST pa plJdLeu
for her In fact, Barkis was not wliin'.
As ifall this were not embarrassing enough,
who should turn up but the husband, who
made his appearance in the form of let
ter announcing that he had accumulated a
dazzling pile of wealth, that he was on his
way home and that she WAS to meet him
in New York


The letter also child her for neglect in
not writing to him for years, and il was
clear that he had sent assurances of love
and also material aid at interval. during
his absence; where these had gone no one
knows. Here, then, was trouble. No
husband, no lover. The one she had di-
vorced the other had refused her. ia.
king counsel with herself, she packed her
trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was unex
ceptionaI, and came to the metropolis
She met the coming man on his arrival,
and told him the whole story as correctly
as she, naturally prejudicsd in favor of the
defendant, could tell it. The husband
'cowled, growed, looked at the charming
sd tahfoirhnia RI and its loneliness, and took
her to his heart. A clergyman was sum
moned, a marriage was parformed, and
new volume in their lfes history was
opened.