Year: 1870

About three years ago. sun of fairest omen
shone upon a wedding n the little town of Ham
lton Ohio. The happy pair were a young man
of high connections, un blemished character and
some artistic attainments, and young lady
from one of the most respectable families in
neighborng town. Every circumstance of the
union as is so often the case, gave promise of
harmony and happiness for the lives united the
husband was in thriving business; the wife was
fair, devoted and an admirable housekeeper, and
the friends of both predicted for them that long
should they live, happy should they be, blest
with content, and from misfortune free. Such,
indeed, might have been their enviable destiny
but for a pretty girl. In the second year of the
marriage, there came to Hamilton, apparently in
quest of employment, one of those beautiful,
homeless young natural sinners who seem to
drift everywhere about the worl0 for the protan-
alton of happy homes. She drifted into the lives
of the two mated ones introduced above, and
with no more effort than such tempters generally
seem to make, caught the husbands heart and
wove an inGxtricable web around it. The vile
blinded herself to the unhappy event so long as
she could hoping against hope for the man
final strength to break from the spell cast over
him but, at last, wounded honor and affection
could be silent no longer, and wife spoke to hus-
band as it was her right. The accused made
no denial of his infatuation he said that he
could not help it ) that he must leave the place
or be lost. Willing to both aid in the rescue
and forgive the captivity, the wife proposed that
they should move to St. Louis, thus resisting
temptation by flying from it. Duck consent was
given by the bewitched husband, and they re-
moved to the great city. Shortly after settling
there, the wife, while on shopping" excur-
sion, saw in the street the girl from whom she
had once withdrawn, as she hoped forever.
Rendered miserable and suspicious by the Cir
cumstance, she followed her enemy to a house


in sdestreet, where, at the door stood the
broken husband waiting Without hesitation
the wife darted to the side of the abashed man,
silently caught his arm and fairly compelled him
to go with her into the building, which she
whom she pursued had just entered. Following
the girl of Hamilton into room, she led her
husband forward and said I" You have made
this man a traitor to himself and his God you
have broken my heart and destroyed happy
home. My husband thinks too much of you to
care for me, and | now solemnly relinquish to
you all my claim upon him, and bid you both
good bye forever" Without another word or
look, she hurried from the house, and before the
day was over had left the city. Not to seek the
only consolation that the betrayed and wretched
may know, in the silent sympathy of old friends
and a life of humble resignation before God not
to plunge madly through death and momentary
darkness and forgetfulness into an eternity OF
divine wrath but to fly to another city, and
there deliberately enter upon a career as de-
graded as her whole former life haG been noble !
There she is now beyond hope, beyond help ;
because she still loves her ruined husband, and,
believing that his soul is lost, chooses rather to
be with him hereafter in perdition than without
him in heavenly. Y. World.