Year: 1872

Love for the Graccless.


That certain class of the middle aged
unmarried philosophers whose great
enjoyment it is to sneer at all of human
natures most cherished pretensions of
ennobling sentiment and common sense,
derive endless aid and comfort from
what is unqucstionably Il very strong
and frequently developed tendency of
the mortal heart to hestOw it's signal
devotion upon the most graccless of
objects. Mothers are forever doting
upon scapcSrace sons, i'll apparent pre-
ference to their dutiful and steady
brothers; !; the prodigal, after no end of
foreign dissipation and neglected home
correspondence, returns ut last in rags
to the homestead to be almost Sutloca-
ted by the caresSGss and bounties of the
hitherto least demonstrative of sires
and multitudes of instances can be cited
to prove that the heroicalIy faithful
wife is very often the particular prize
of the most contemplate of husbands.
Here is n recent newspaper story to the
point: Some time in 1870 there were
married, ut Auburn in this State, Il
young man of the weakest possible
moral character and a young woman
immeasurably his superior in that and
all other respects. For about year
the purer, better spirit restrained the
grOsser and lower from any overt act Of
weakness or Wickedness, but after that
the husband began to show his natural
traits, and entered upon 4 vigorous
campaign for the breaking of his wife's
heart. Not achieving the result with
satisfactory speed he exercised por-
ton of his abilities in that line against
society in general, and at last made law
itself so actively his enemy that the
better part OF valor inspired him to fly
before it. Leaving town hastily by
night he also left his wife to bear her
loss as best she could. And-she mourn
ing him as many q loyal, honest hus-
band, dying in harness for his wife and
children, has not been mourned-wait-
ed a while to be sure that she was really
deserted, and then announced that she
would follow and reclaim I" the wander
err or die in the attempt. With what
money she could gain from Il hasty sale
Of all the little property belonging to
her, the devoted woman, deaf to all re-
1nonstrances, started on her way. She
was able to ascertain that the "Wander-
err had gone westward, and that he
had joined Il band Of negro MINISTRIES /;
and upon such indefinite information
as this she sped from town to town,
through Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Lawrence and Cheyenne,
even unto Denver, in Colorado. The
News, of the latter city, says that, upon
gaining the wilder part of the West,
the lady assumed a masculine disguise,
believing that it would afford her bet
ter chance to penetrate the haunts in
which the precious object of her search
was likely to be found. To Denver the
love-chase had led her at last; and on
an evening Of last week, in one Of the
lowest theatrical resorts of that corpo-
ration, she met him whom she sought.
The "wandercr" was no longer II min
strel he had opened Il small grocery in
the suburbs, and his presence in the
low theatre that night was but inciden-
tai to his visit to the town for goods.
AT least such WAS his story; and the
disguised wife, whom he recognized ut
her first salute, believed in his reform
and wcpt tears of JOY upon his shoulder.
Greatly had the true heart vcnturcd to
find the lost one, even though it must
ever be doubtful to many minds wheth-
or the found was worth the finding