Year: 1874

Every once IN while passage IN
the history of life is brought to light,
which is strange and more romantic than
any fiction. Notwithstanding the indus.
try of the Jenkins family, these do not
always find their way into the newspa-
per- The announcement in the New
York papers, few months ago, of the
departure of certain vessel for Eng
land, recalled TO those who were acquaint-
ed with one of her passengers, an inter-
esting story. This person was a young
German under thirty years old, who had
just completed period of teaching in
Berkshire county seminary, and who was
now with his newly married wife on bis
way to the fstherland.


Some years before, in his native Ger
many, this young man had fallen in
love with one of the blooming maidens
in the place where he resided, and his
attachment was ardently returned by the
young woman. A speedy marriage
would have been consummated, had not
parental authority interfered. The faith
er of the girl objected to the bans, and
did everything in bis power to keep the
lovers apart. In this distracting state
Of affairs they did not elope, after the
usual fashion, but the young man for
hidden the house of his beloved, bade
farewell to his country and passed over
into France, to forget if possible, in new
scenes and occupations, his fraulein.
Several years followed in giddy, fashion
able Paris, in which the self-exile gained
some knowledge of the world, as well as
made acquisitions to his studies in music
and languages. After time, as he de-
yeloped into larger manhood, and his
native abilities, adorned by culture
drew him into refined and intellectual
society, he outgrew his love for the sim
pie girl at home, and came to consider
his old attachment as mere boyish pas
slUHs 1ulo WOuIu uaNO ONCh eAAA mCti II
" The girl he left behind had only
shared in his growth and change. So
far from that, the years only strength
ened her affection. Her life had been
quiet and uneventful, and she had plen-
ty of time to brood over the image of
the absent one.


A few years more spent in France,
and then the young man came to Amer
ica to try his fortune as teacher in our
schools. A year or two more passed, in
which he was successfully employed in
the Berkshire boarding school. His
ability, good looks, and address made
him favorite in society, and he, on his
part, found the American girls quite as
interesting as their German sisters had
been. just here, and little more than
year ago, he received letter from the
father of his early fame, informing him
that his daughter was still deeply in
love, that she was, indeed, utterly dis
consulate and miserable without him,
that she was likely to die of disappoint-
ment if she could MT marry him, and, g,
most astounding of all, that she was
coming to America that she would en-
bark alone in few days for New York,
where she hoped TO be met by her old
lover. Probably quite different conelu-
sions would be arrived at by different
persons as to the duty of the young man
in this most painful dilemma. The
girls father had denounced him, utterly
refusing him for son-in-law forced to
a separation, he had gradually outgrown
his love, coming finally to rejoice in the
circumstances that had forbidden him to
ally himself with woman untitled to
be his companion. What was he to do?
The girl was on her way to New York.
Unattended, totally ignorant of our Ian
guage aud customs, the steamer on its
arrival at the city would turn her adrift.
1t took our hero but short time to de-
eide. Obeying conscience that most
would call over sensitive and morbid, he
went to the metropolis to meet the soli-
tary German girl at the wharf where
she landed, and in few days more the
long separated and strangely met pair
we're married. Several months followed
in the seminary, during which the igno-
rant wife gained some practical knowl-
edge of English, and then the two sailed
away to the old world, the husband to
fulfill an engagement to teach in Ger
man institution, and the wife to share
her fortunes with his. 1t is to be hoped
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