Year: 1860

a young lady beautiful in person and


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 a mechanic;


the other was rich, and not a mechanic.


The woman loved the 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 sold


herself" she ought to have been misera-


Bile, but she was not. Her husbands un
affected love subdued her heart, and his
gold smoothed the rough places in the
human path. Fortune, feeling that this
couple were too happy, frsyned, and the


mans riches took wings and used them
in fight. Thererpon the husband wound
hp his business, put his wife and children,


oil whom there were two, at comforta-
bic boarding-house, and then departed
for California in search of money. Some
letters and some remittances arrived from
him at first, then nothing came, and
there was blank Of several years.
The wife thought herself deserted. The
family, whose good opinion Of the hus-


band had not lately been so often pub
lished as formerly, told her that it was
/ clearly a case for divorce When she
had become well accustomed to the sound
of this unpleasant word, the dsconsolate


wife was thrown into the society of the
mechanic lover, no-g prosperous and still
unmarried. The memory Of her early,
real love came upon her. and she believed
with secret Joy that he had remained
single for her sake. This thought nour-
ished her affection, and at last she obtain
ed divorce from her husband, who had
deserted her and remained absent beyond
the time allowed by the statute.


This accomplished, there was no bar
rier between her and the mechanic of her
youth. She informed him that she was
his forever, when he choose to claim her
hand. Her feelings cannot have been
pleasant to learn that since his rejection |
by her and her marriage to another, the .
unromantic newer of wood had drowned |
his passion for her in the waves of time, !
at the time of her handsome offer he no |
longer pal pitated for her. In fact Barkis
vas HoL Wiling as ii All liliS were NOT
embarrassing enough, who should turn
up but the husband, who made his ap-
pearance in the form of letter, announc-
ing that he had accumulated dazzling |
pile of wealth, that he was on his way
home, and that she was to meet him in |
New York. The letter also chide her for
neglect in not writing to him for years
and it was clear that he had sent assur-
ance of love and also material aid at in
tervals during his absence; where these
had gone, no one knows. Here, then,
was trouble. No husband no lover
The one she had divorced; the other had
refused her. Taking council with her.
self she packed her trunk, seeing that her
wardrobe was unexceptionable, and came
to the metropolis. She met the coming
man on his arrival, and told him thJ
whole story as correctly as she, naturally
preudiced in favor of the defendant, could
tell it, The husband scowled, growled
looked at the charming face and becom-
ing toilette, remembered California and
its loneliness, and took her to his heart
a clergyman was summoned, marriage
was performed, and new volume in
their life's history was opened.