Year: 1860

A young lady, beautiful in person and at
tractive in manner, who resided in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Boston, was sought in
marriage some years ago by two men. One
of these was roor aud not a mechanic;-
the other was rich and not mechanic
The woman loved :he former the family
of the woman liked the latter. As is the
case in such affairs, the woman married TO
please her friends. Having thus 'tsoId her.
SELF" she ought to have been miserable but
she was not Her husbands unaffected
love subdued her heart, and his gold smoot-
he'd the rough places in the human path
Fortune, seeing that this couple were too
happy, lrowned, and the mans fortune took
wings and flew away. Thereupon the hus-
band wound up his business: put his wife
and children of whom there were two, at
comfortable boarding house, and then de-


parted for California in search of money
Some letters and some remittance arrived
from him al first, then nothing came and
there was blank OF several years. The
wife thought herself deserted. The family,
whose good opinion OF the husband had be


gun to fail, told her that it was clearly a


case for divorce. When she had become


well accustomed to The sound of this un-


pleasant word, the disconsolate was thrown


into The society of her old mechanic lover,


now prosperous, and still unmarried The


memory of her early, real love became up


on her, and she believed with secret Joy


that he remained single for her sake. This
. thought nourished her affection, and at last
she Obtained divorce from her husband,


who had desered her, and remained absent
beyond The time allowed by the statute
This accomplished. there was no barrier
between her and the mechanic of her youth.


She informed him that she was his forever,


when he should choose TO claim her hand
Her feelings could not have been pleasant


10 learn that, since his rejection by her and
her marriage TO another, the unromaniic
| hewer of wood had drowned his passion
for her in the waves of time, and that al
the time of her handsome offer he 10 longer
palpitaled for her. In fact, 'Barkis was not
willin.' As if all this was not embarrassing


enough, who should turn up but the hus.
band, who made his appearance IN the form
of letter. announcing that he had accumu-
lated dazzling pile of wealth, that he was
! on his way home and that she was 10 meet


him in New York The letter also child
her for neglect in not writing 10 him fol


years, and il was clear that he had sent as


surances OF love and also money at intervals
! during his absence; where these had gone


no one knew. Here, then, was trouble
! No husband, no lover. The one she hat
| divorced the other had refused her. TAX
! ing cousel with herself, she packed he
trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was unex
! ceptionabe, and came 10 the metropolis
! She met the coming man on his arrival, anc


told him the whole story as correctly a:


she, naturally prejudice in favor of the de
| fendant could tell it. The husband scowl
! ed growled, looked at the charming face


and the becoming toilet. remembered Cali


fornia and It's loneliness, and look her tC


his heart. A clergyman was summoned, {


marriage was performed, and a new vol


ume in their life's history was opened.