Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — Read this, Young Ladies. [ARTICLE]

Read this, Young Ladies.

We heard a very pretty incident the other day, which we cannot help relating. A young lady from the South, it seems, was wooed and won by a youthful physician living in California. When the engagement was made the doctor was rich, having been very successful at San Francisco. It had not existed six months, however, when, by an unfortunate investment, he lost his entire “ heap.” This event camo upon him, it should be added, just as he was about to claim his bride. What does he dot Why, like an honorable and chivalrous young fellow as he is, he sits down and writes the lady every particular of the unhappy turn which has taken place in his fortunes, assuring her that if the fact produced any change in her feelings toward him, she is released from every promise she has made him. And what does the dear, good girl! Why, she takes a lump of pure gold, which her lover has sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and, having it manufactured into a ring, forwards it to him with the following Bible inscription engraved in distinct characters on the outside: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest will I go, and whither thou lodgest will I lodge; thy people will be my people and thy Goa my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” The lover idolized his sweetheart more than ever when he received this precious evidence of her devotion to him both in storm and sunshine. We may add that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, ana that he subsequently returned to the North to wed the sweet girl he loved and who lovedhlm with such undying affection. Reader,, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done, are pretty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives. —Pittsburgh Commercial. The City of Boston owes $43,657,883, its debt having increased to that amount -from $8,500,600 in the past seventeen years. During all that time there has been no reduction until last year, when the sum of $842,677 was paid off.