Show s fi B as r B I 1 1 cw 21 2 1 jwj vi THE MAIN ACTOR IN THE PROVO ASYLUM the nobility of two loving hearts truth is stranger than fiction our readers will remember that a few weeks ago a man named abel on a swede residing in ogden was taken to the insane asylum at provo being insane at intervals tho public know not at that time tho pathetic side of tho story nor tho nobility of two hearts beating for each other fully milos away the true tale of suffering and mental agony choso two hearts have borne is u stranger romance than pictured in tho vivid imagination of tho novelist noye list seven years ago abel s mother cime to ogden from halmstad sweden her boy was abc that time a sailor and about 17 years of age his girl playmate of childhoods years was named emma at the time his mother left for america ho had not seen his for one year and he has never seen her since yet they were betrothed had vowed to lovo each other to live for one another and in future years to blend their lives in one four years abel upon tho seas he had then gathered moans enough to make his loved ono comfortable for table one dreary night lour years ago the ship which ho had learned to love was struck by coating ico in mid ocean due vrest of the norwegian coast tho sides of the ship were crushed in and the crew were forced to resort to jhc thc lifo boat it was lowered in the darkness of the night all or mom but abol and a dane reached the boat safely but these two not being able to see the boats leaped too far and struck the water on coming zip abel struck the boat stunning him but his comrades him into the boat by the hair there as now eighteen in the boat as they rowed from the sinking it being night they were only dressed in their night clothes for fourteen hours they drifted on the water drenched and chilled to the bone they were then discovered by a passing ship rescued aad carried to canada mere abel worked his way gradually westward making his means by chopping in the timbers in depth of winter or working as a farm hand in summer he at last scraped up enough money to carry him to his beloved mother in ogden where ho has resided for two years i during all this time correspondence had never ceased between him and his affianced they were ab de doted to each other as ever ho labored hard day after day to get a little money wherewith to bring his sweetheart here ho was a young man of super sen feelings and keenly alive to ridicule an event which had occurred in the life of a relative caused him to feel that bis companions weald look upon him with contumely he took aery adlo word and flighty speech to himself and gradually grew morose and melancholy finally ho began to shun society and consider himself looked down upon in his gloomy moments ha forgot the bright side of life and saw naught but despair ho neglected to write to his affianced or at least tho intervals between letters became longer than before after long delay ho broto again and the contents of the next message from his native land almost shattered his reason during the shaping of events on this side of the watery another part of romance was being enacted across the ocean emma who loved nilson the most ardent devotion proving herself faithful to him through so many years was gradually being surrounded by a web of circumstances which she could not control abel being absent for so long many persuaded her that ho would not prove true she refused to believe it and clung tan to a hope that others thought lost was brought to bear upon her persuasions and inducements were held out to her to make her yield hand not heart to another abel failed to and in despair believing that lie had ceased to think of hershe promised herself to another a former playmate aud intimate friend of abel he under promise of marriage which he bodd have honorably kept tempted her io a moment of weakness and sho foil some timo after n postmarked utah was blared in her hands and with throbbing heart and quivering lips sho opened it with feelings of joy expectation and regret it was from abel the old spark revived with redoubled energy and in iier anguish sho cried abul loves me still and I 1 have faltered sho broke down in tears and for a timo could not bo comforted to her lato lover she said abel yet loves me ho still and ho longs for my companionship lean never marry you and I 1 have proved faithless to my love and cannot marry him 1 have ruined my whole life in calmer moments she penned her confession to abol tho letter was tear stained and the anguish and sorrow of the poor girl was traced in every line sho asked him to forgive her and forget that she had lest her only love and would bear the burden alone this was the letter that almost drove hia reason from him he took tho letter to his mother in tones which she will never forget he said she is others and how I 1 love hor was the flickering flame to die would he spurn her w others would havo done while under a similar blow no his was a nobler soul his was a love too strong to die with such a bettor before him ho road and reread re read it while tears rolled down bis cheeks finally ho said i slowly what a penitent letter she writes sho is willing to abide by her fault throughout her whole life I 1 cannot give her up bbs must come he wrote her that she was as dear to him as ever come and we will yet be happy to his playmate who had beba the cause of her fall he wrote telling him that bo still loved emma but that ho would not separate them if she ars f erred to stay As he had been silent so long sho was not to blame for supposing him false the playmate wrote him a touching letter his pardon for the wrong and vowed it would never have occurred had ho for a moment looked on abel as still retaining her imago in his heart in their correspondence they settled the matter as brothers A letter from emma raised the query shalla ll bring the babe it was another trial but love conquered and the oue eriEg tho little boy be will be welcome reached the girl across the sea she prepared for the journey purchased clothes for herself and babe and provided extensively for their comforts that they might be of no burden for some time after reaching ogden in obedience to a strange request of her lavor not to take any ship which carried or had ever carried cormons mormons Mor mons sho took passage on the doomed danemark danmark Dan mark what she bad to undergo on that journey we all know shipwrecked as her affianced had been four years previous she landed in america everything was lost her presents for her lover tor her mother her work of months all was lost last saturday evening eman appeared with her five months babe at the house of sirs nilson in ogden her troubles were to end her happiness restored vain hope her heart beating wildly she knocked on the door it was opened by mrs nilson the girl fell in her arms crying oh mother where is abel her mother with streaming eyes told her that he was sick at a hospital whither bo had gone for treatment she dared not tell her the truth had she done so the two young lives would have been blighted forever had emma learned of his condition she would have accused herself as the cause of his derangement and with her burning love for him her reason too might bavo fled of her babe ale said T never knew how I 1 loved him till I 1 sav him lowered in tho basket from tb 0 dan mark through clouds and sunshine continually shifting abel Nil sons sweetheart has at last reached the goal only to find it vacant deserted by her love to this caa bo added dr fern 1 lands statement he visited the young man before his confinement and he declares that melancholy is the cause of his insanity further still that as he is perfectly rational abc dimce which his letters from the asylum fully evince nothing will ever cure him but the loving attentions of the object of his affection and her continual companionship this is further proven from the tact that he is continually crying for his liberty that he might work and provide for the girl and her babe |