Year: 1870

laws OF marriage. Hart OF THIS
time, for the first and only time
in her married life, she paid small
sum for her board. Two Of her
children were born there, and the
expenses came principally on her
father, although at the birth of the
Youngest child he paid the physici-
ans bill with the result of a public
in 1860. After she returned
to Mcfarland, q suit for the recovery
of borrowed money with which bis
Western hands were purchased was
decided against him. and she was
ordered to pack her trunk and be
ready to leave the city, as he might
at anv time be arrested; so in De
cember she was sent back to her IA
theirs with her baby. Mcfarland
soon followed and stayed till Febru-
ary. With twelve hundred dollars
in his possession obtained from the


sale of a piece Of property put ont


of his hands when judgment was


obtained against him, they went to


Philadelphia, and he went to Wash


ington to seek an Office. In a few


weeks he returned disappointed, and


they went once more to Wisconsin.


There they yresided a year and two


months, the happiest time Of her
life with him, but he never earned


any money, and they lived with ex-
.treme economy on whatwas left of


the twelve hundred dollars. At the


expiration of this tine Mcfarland


became morose and iIl-tempered, and
finally told her he was getting out
of money and had no way Of getting
any. She had attracted some atten-
ton in private circles by her read
ings, and given a public reading for
the benefit of the soldiers hospital


On this Mcfarland proposed to take


her to New York and have her fitted


for the stage, in the profession of an


actress. He also annOuced that he


should himself adopt the profession
.of an actor, in case her success be
came assured. He had been some


time teacher of elocution in mill
tary school in New York, and began
training her in reading ofstage parts.
In June, 1861, he sold all their little
furniture in Madison, and brought


her east, first going to her father
to leave little Percy, so she could
devote all her time to the stage. AT
New York ne began drilling her, and
sent her to Mrs. George Vandenhof
to be fitted for the stage. She also
began 10 give redings in the fall, and
! paid their board during the fall and


winter with the earnings. At Christ
mas, 1862, she felt so hopeful of do.
ling well with her readings that she
sent Mcfarland to New Hampshire
to get Percy. He took all her little
stock of jewels, and sold them all in
Boston. Mcfarland was unsociable
and cruel to her.


In the fall and winter of1S62-63
they occupied only a sleeping room


on the parlor floor Of No. 56 Yarick
street, and he could give full scope
to his furies without being over
heard. She was studying hard fol
the profession for which he design
led her, and to make a success in
lreading, by which she was to sup
lport both him and herself, He
would lock himself into the room
with her, threaten to take poison and
make her take it, snatch up her scis.
lsors, and tearing open his breast
would brandish them about, swear
ling he would let out his heart S
blood, and told her he kept loaded
pistols with which he would at any
moment shoot her.


| He left her one evening, declaring
| he would shoot a gentleman because


he had invited her to join himself
wife and another lady in a party to


some public picture gallery, He


merely professed to be jealous, how
ever, for her conduct gave him nc
shred of cause. One morning dur
ling the winter, after Mcfarland had
been out nearly all night in drunk


en- orgie, he struck her a blow across
the face which made her reel back
ward. Although he had often pinch
ed and hit her in some of those fits
of drunkenness, he never before


struck her so cruel a blow. With
out raising her voice she said. 81


shall never be able to forgive you
for such an outrage" Before that
she had shed tears under his cruelty
and tried to reason with him, but
thereafter, whenever he was in one
| of his paroxysms, as he called them


she never moved or spoke, but keep
ling self-controlled as far as she could
looking him in the eye, because she
found it would prevent any mortal
violence She believes now, as then
that her life has been saved by 81
lence and self-control He some


times approached her with hands ex-
tended, fingers bent like claws, as if


he were about to clutch her throat
and cried: How l should like-like


Ito strangle yoq," or, "Your life is


bound some time to end in a TRACE
'dy," or, ''Your blood will be on your
own head" and only restrained him
because she looked at him without


saving a word. In these furies he


would often seize and break anything


which was at hand, lamps, glasses,


mirrors, and sometimes the heavy
furniture of his room. Oft he would
rise from bed in these incontrollable


attacks ofpassion, tearing away bed


clothing, tearing in shreds his own
night clothing, throwing anything


he could find which was brakable,
crashing about the unlighted room,
till it has seemed as if there could
be no Pandemonium worse than that
in which she lived, And all this he
would do without explanation or
even a pretext of complaint against
her when she knew no more what
excited his frenzy than babe un-
born. He would sometimes keep up
this conduct and this abuse for
hours without a syllable or amotiOn
being made on her part, and would
then burst into tears, beg her pardon
say she was the best woman that ev-
er lived, and then go to sleep ex
hausted. She never told him after
that winter she could forgive him or
could love him, although he some
times implored her to do so, because