Show ENOCH ARDEN WHO RETURNS TO SAVE REAPPEARS WHEN WIFE OF YEARS AGO IS DEPRIVED OF SECOND HUSBAND KEEPS SILENT FOR 20 YEARS John Taggart Former Pastor Wandered Wan-dered In Strange Lands But Never Lost Trace of the Woman He Loved Uloomsburg PaPresumably dead for 20 years Rev John Tnggart at onetime one-time pastor of a Methodist Protestant church at Glen Lyon this county who has with silent resignation endured tho role of an Enoch Arden for a great or part of that time has now reappeared reap-peared Just In time to save the wife of his youth from poverty Her second sec-ond husband whom she married after sho was convinced that Taggart had perished in tho Johnstown flood Is In jail in consequence of n domestic crime that has completely estranged him from his family Therefore Taggart appears an a helper and a savior to take back the wife of his youth and to provide for her and her children by her second marriage Taggarts history Is a strange one and not the least Interesting feature of It is the fact that for years he has known that his wife was married again yet he has been silent and bas always managed no matter how faraway far-away he was to somehow keep in touch with affairs here Why Taggart left this section bar long been a mystery and It Is still unexplained un-explained He was a prominent pulpit pul-pit orator and a great favorite with the Glen Lyons flock Handsome and ambitious he seemed destlued for a high church career He fell In love with Miss Ellxa Ivey one of the prettiest pret-tiest girls In Bloomsburg and they were married Though they were devoted de-voted lovers their romance was in some way an unhappy one A great deal orKOgslpan > serregardlnrHand about the time their little son Elmer was born the young minister disappeared disap-peared He says that at that time he had to bear a burden of trouble that was too much for him and he left home to escape It Afterward ho resolved solved to return and fight out bill J a 11 J4VT uaw i rr1 The Sequel Was the Appearance of Taggart at the Van Horn Home troubles but when he was about to start back he learned that the bride ho had left was already the wlfo of another man John Van Horn Ills wife had heard that he had perished In the Johnstown flood and mourned him as dead and had then married again Taggart resolved not to complicate matters Remorseful over his abandonment aban-donment of his family ho felt that ho 4 had no right to return and make new trouble Therefore he went to the far i west and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth + Some time ago how he will not tell be learned that serious domestic trouble trou-ble had arisen with tho result that i John Van Horn his wifes second husband H i hus-band had been sent to Columbia county coun-ty jail to serve a sentence for a serious J crime and that his wife and children iq I were In precarious circumstances i The sequel the a was appearance recently d re-cently of Taggart at the Van Horn home about threo miles from this place With her wpre Taggarts son r JJ Elmer and her two children by her 1 second marriage He Immediately proposed pro-posed that his wife and her children should leave this section and go with him to the west there to start life anew This the woman agreed to do I C1 |