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Show A Boston paper telln of Captain Charles JR. Porter who sailed from that port twenty five years ago, leaving leav-ing his sweetheart, Amelia Hollis, behind him. Some time afterwards he heard of her marriage to another, and he never returned to Boston until Inst year, when he received a note from Amelia asking him to call on her. Then she told him that Bhe was a widow, with plenty of money, and that she had never ceased to love him. The natural consequence, of course, was their marriage, and up to this point the etory forms a very pretty romance in real life; but here the beauty is all dispelled, and what might otherwise have been one of the most delightful little tales of modern times, is abruptly spoiled. Porter had becomo a drunkard, and following follow-ing his dissolute habits After marriage he and his wife quarrelled, parted, became reconciled, and separated again. The tragic sequel that brings the story into print is the suicide of Porter in an insane asylum. |