Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — No Divorce. [ARTICLE]

No Divorce.

. “No,*l dtf htt wknlfa dlvo'ree,” said t Wk Jin this wide ™IIV 8 h> v toK and once devoted-buaband aga|n s I want Nm.totoethesetwp tfoyn>f his,and dlathe Joyal wife of James Putney.” ‘‘Where is your husband Inquired man who had engaged Mrs. Pptvernation. Ute ijih does hfe do?” ‘‘He isa machinist, and earns ■gbod wages, aud be is here in Ingo honre again,” said the man. “No, M-do not want a divorce. All I ask in I this wide world is to see my onoe lovF igg ahd once devoted husband again, l am sad, lonely antTHWangef, but if I can see, J amen he will eare for me. Hfo old tore wUI oome -baok tome. “He will be proud of his boys.’f Mrs. • Putney was, indeed./a aad-looking woman. ' She talked with quivering lip . and ' tearful eyes.

She • was neatly but plainly draenod, aa were ateo her two boys, who appeared to be respectively aboui: six and eight years old. She had little baggage, and inquired for a hotel. To a hotel she was directed by the man with whom she was conversing, a citizen of Indianapolis, whose sympathies had been awakened by the deep troubles which Mrs. Putney was experiencing. The Indianapolis citizen concluded to inouire for Mr. Jas. Putney, and' Immediately started out on his mission. Fortune favored

his search, and in less than an hour he found the shop where Mr. Putney worked. He did not go at once to bim, but to the proprietor, to whom he related the story of the stricken wife. Putney was said to be an excellent workman, and was earning good wages, sober and industrious, but Lis employer was under the impression that he had a wife in the city, and that the newcomer would give him trouble. But

it was determined that Mrs. Putney should be brought to the shop with her two boys, as the quickest and best way to settle the matter. It required but a short time to have Mrs Putney and the boys in the office Of the machine works. She heard the good news at the hotel with great joy. She did not doubt the love of het husband. She did not intimate the cause of his abandonment,she cherish edno animosities,she had oome with a wife’s forgiveness and affection, and a mother’s yearning for the welfare of her children. She dried her tears. She arranged her scanty toilet as best she could. She had evidently lavished attention upon the two boys to make them appear their best, aud she set forth for be shop with such emotions as a wife and mother in search of a lost husband only could experience. She disclosed, however, intense anxiety. The struggle required' all her fortitude. The_ boys—bright little fellows—

seemed all unconscious of what was going on, though the oldest would occasionally inquire of his mother if she had “found Pa” at the office. Mrs. Putney’s agitation increased, and when Putney entered the room human nature could endure no more, and poor Mrs. Putney fell as lifeless as a corpse. Putney’s amazement completely overcame him. He shook as in the grasp of a death chill. He was as motionless as a statue. The oldest of the boys, after a minute of boyish scrutiny, cried out: “My pa, my pa!” and rushed to him. Mrs. Putney regained consciousness, and then the scene was one rarely enacted in this world—a robust, burly man on his knees, wife and children clinging to bim, while penitent and forgiving words only broke the silence. Why tell the story of the separation, the infidelities of the man, the faithful-

ness of the wife, the devotion of the mother, and ail the wretchedness and woe of a syieu’s influence. It J has been told a thousand times—every day in court, where wives apply for a divorce. But Mrs. Putney wanted no divorce. She wanted a father for her boys and the old-time love for herself again. She had faith in her husband to the last, and triumphed. Siie had known him in the pride of his manhood. She had walked with him iu high places of domestic bliss. She had nursed him when sick and read and Sung to him in his leisure hours. She had beautified his home, and her two boys were the jewels which she Srized above all earthy treasures. he had known the sorrows of separation and desertion, but she had known the consolations of prayer for the erring one, and now she realized the full fruition of her triumph. She renewed her youth in that strange counting room, and departed looking a dozen years younger. James Putney was transformed into a new being, and all becausi*“no divorce” was the motto of a noble woman.—lndianapolis