Year: 1876

Altaf.


Four brief years ago there lived in


Lexington, KY, with her parents


most lovely and lovable young girl,


the idol of her family and relatives,


and cherished by her hosts OF friends.
Her father was, and is, lawyer OF


prominence and wealth her moth


er, most charming woman, at oae


time the worshiped belle of Louis


vile. Although scarce eighteen, this
young lady was suffered to visit Gin


cinnati at the invitation of an old


schOolmate. Here she was plunged


deeply into the vortex OF fashionable


society, and wss suffered to come and


go at her own pleasure, with no jeal-


Gus mothers watchful eye TO look sf-


ter, and no father to advise her where


and with whom to go. Being natu-


rally free of manner and cOnfiding, she


was easily lured and Won by a soft


tOngued, persuasive, handsome william


to whom she had been introduced,
and with whom she spent much of


her time. This man, who was much


her senior, succeeded in Turing his
victim into an elOpement, but not


marriage. The distress of the Cincin-
natl family to whose protection this
girl had been entrusted was only


equaled by the despair and anguish of


the girls family when the elOpement
and disgrace became public.


A brother started from the desolate
and dishonOred home, vowing to res
cue his sister and punish her sedueer.
After time ne found the young lady
in Indianapolis, in place of shame.


He plead in vain for her to return to
her home and her unhappy parents,
promising that all would be forgotten


in the great joy of her return but she
would not hear to his importantly,
and finally escaped from him and the
house, and for q long time nothing
was heard of her. Her brother still
kept the pursuit of his sisters 5etrayer,
until one day, at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, eighteen months after the
elopement, he came upon him. The
seoundrel realized his peril and drew
his pistol. Both fired aud both fell,
the brother slightly, the sed1cer NOR
tally wounded.


This was over two years ago. The
young lady returned to Cincinnati,
where she became proprietress of
bsgnio which was much frequented
by the young Kentucky bloOds who
habitually go to Cincinnati TO have
good time, or sow a portion of their
wild oats.


Among these visitors there came
one from Richmond, Kentucky, a
handsome young man of good family
and prospects, and who had known
this wayward girl in her fathers
home. He became desperately en-
amored of her, declared his passion,
impIored her to abandon her present
marriage. She reasoned with him
that any connection with her would
only bring disgrace upon himself and
his family and soil, and blight his
future that, for herself, she was now
ruined, had nothing to care for, and
was desperate. She bade him leave
her, but he would not He remained
in Cincinnati, laid siege to the house
by dag and by night, and so psrsis-
tent and sincere were his wooings
that she so far relented as to make
this solemn compact with him She
would quit her present mode of life
and go away off East, where she
would enter an academy for two years
and complete her education. During
that time he was not to see her once,
nor were they to correspond. BE was
to return to bis home, complete his
legal studies, get admitted to practice
his profession, and then, il his more
mature judgment satisfied his present
and il his affections re-
manned unalienated, he was to come
for her and they would marry.


She entered private academy at
Exeter, a small town in far off Maine,
and so sweet was her demeanor, and
so sad and pretty her walk in life,
that all who came in contact with
her were drawn toward her by her
gentleness, her modestv and her con-
spicuously marked beauty. And she |
worked hard and patiently, and wait |
ed the expiration of the allotted two !
years, with an eagerness that became |
intensely painful as the end drew |
closer. Now that she had reformed, |
now that she bad changed the current |
of her life, that she might make her
self worthy of him, her great heart |
would break should his love prove
tickle. Would he come? Did he |
cblll AO4u uCI UcaI 1ueoC Qu6SllOu5 |
she would ask herself hundreds of |
times daily, until the suspense and |
well nigh set her dis
traught.


One day rap came to her door, and |
a servant announced visitor in the |
parlor. She trembled violently as she |
hastily descended. Indeed, her feel
ings so overcame her that she could |
reach the room. When she
finally did enter she met her own |
father. Great was their mutual joy |
at this auspicious meeting, and |
greater hers when her brother an
nOunced that her lover awaited them |
at the hotel.


They were duly married, and q |
handsomer or happier couple never |
stood before an altar. Yesterday they |
registered at the LindelI Hotel in this |
city, and it is their intention to spend |
3 week in st. Louis ere they go to |
their new home, not many hundred |
miles of, where he will open an Office |
for the practieepf his profession.


II the first part of her life was tenn
Dest-tossed and wild, may her latter |
career be as smooth and gentle as q |
impid stream, as pure as the snow
that fell last night, and whittier than
the wild lilies on the prairies that |
her new home.


Honesty the Best Policy.