Democratic Standard (Newspaper) - April 25, 1855, Janesville, Wisconsin y VOL IV WEDNESDAY cd of Him who was and lowly spirit stances were such she could su prepare forme He was assured that he still stood might do so without fear a's th Khe Democratic IS EVERT WEDNESDAY the American Street Boct Co Wisconsin BROWN Publisher and Proprietor T EU yearly in advance SI 50 paid in advance 2 00 RATES I I square 3 3 months 6 11 1 year column per year Third Half Ono Business SI 50 4 00 6 00 10 00 13 00 24 00 30 00 50 00 5 00 Office in Mr building one door cast o the Hotel m May's block Doctor A assistance where his medical si all cases THE EMPIRE H S SHELTON Co Dealers in Stoves Clothing Boot 1 Vis Y HOTEL D Proprietor co street Stipes all parts of tho ot itc carried to and from tho cars free Nov 1354 P KOBINSON Physician and Surgeon Office anil door the Stevens House WOODRUFF Counselor at Lair aad Solicitor in Chancery corner of Mainand see Janesville Wisconsin Vi liases pro npt attention J R Esq May 9th country SA UEL 31 BARROWS If Retail Foreign and i D French English nd Paints Oils aml Artists and for uses Glass Fancy articles Perfumery t to and and other loj to prosecute LII person Land Loan i J j HUTSON an 1 Shoe Main opposite Stage Houio may be constantly of an to Manship 4 SA Main all hen and liar Scc an Pictures of all kinds of Tint abd r L FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE Fare thee and if forever Still forever faro mil Even though unforgiving never thee shall my heart rebel Would that breast were bared before thee Where so oft hath lain that placid sleep came o'or.thee Which thou ne'er canst know again Tho ths world for this commend Though it smile upon the blow E von its praises must thee Founded on ano Though my many faults defaced me Could no other arm be found Than the one which once embraced me To inflict a cureless wound 1 Yet oh yet thyself deceive not Love may sink by slow decay But by sudden wrench believe not Hearts can thus be torr Still thins own its life Still must mine though bleeding beat And the undying thought which we no more may meet These are words of deeper sorrow Than the wail above the dead Both shall live morrow Wake us from a bed And when thou would'st solace gather When our child's accents flow Wilt thou teach her to say Father I Though care she must When her little hands shall press thee her lip to thine is prest Think of him whose prayer shall bless thee Think of him thy love hath blessed Should her lineaments resemble Those thou nevermore see Ihen thy heart will softly tremble With a pulse yet true to me All my faults thou knowest All my madness none can know All my hopes thon goest Wither yet with thee they go Every fueling hath been shaken which not -a world could bow to forsaken my soul forsakes me But tis words are Words from mo are vainer still But the thoughts we cannot bridle Force their way without the will Fare thee disunited Torn every near tie in heart and lone and More than this I scarce can be A eyes and tresses flowing O'er a neck divinely fair Cheeks in radiant beauty All were brightly pictured there i her secret soul revealing t Pleasure sparkling in her eye Smiles that round her lips Full of magic witchery Now tell me about I am so anxious to hear the whole Ktory and it is such ft nice evening for this too is so great a luxury to be alone with you that the rain sounds really musical as it against the window will do as you ask Forgive e have done wrong she whispered still closer to her brother and her head in its old against his heart for very tenderly in- deed did the brother and sister love each other Weldon Marshall drew his arm around his waist and then when the rain moaned and the wind muttered around the windows and the anthracite fire gied its ruddy glow with the silver astral light and filled was a little girl apparently about ten years of age her long bright curls failing in a bright tangled mass about her small looking face while her large blue eyes were fastened with an on my own Tes that is ray name And what do you want with me my little I ried greatly sui prised at this singular en- counter 0 sir do you remember a little boy that you metone evening last winter who said be had a sister Sell The mystery o ot the past and his eyes grew darker ll o full of pathetic low earnest tones us he told it -is eight years next month Hattie and I was in New York i in my You see it was three collegiate studies see it was three i years after our mother's death and you were at that time with uncle Harvard at- school wild disagreeable night and standing at the window of i my snug sanctum and looking out fully into the darkness for I had made an engagement to meet some of my evening in a part of the city Dear me how with a very feminine shrug of the shoulders as the curtains ve half a mind to throw myself on the com- this evening and not attempt an encounter with the elements absurd to think they'll expect me such a as this In short I wont tempt an my the was the conclusion of my I remember that T wheeled up the sofa ed up es yes I remember it I And you are Nelly I and I surveyed the child with enchanted in- terest Her ragged garments her pale mournful face bore a very legible a history of sharp poverty and bitter fering 01 am so very glad sir and the light broke into the little face was beautiful lo behold most must be when the gentleman more than called your name and you looked as Willy said you did 0 sir I have looked and watched and waited for you so many long days that I had almost given up ping Poor child I have out of I and blie proposed tn j X lici in o the children God had taken from to this proposition I joyfully assented for there the religious social and home phere would bo all I wished to be about my buen was anxious too that she should no dependant on even then a time when I ask Her a question whose answer I would have in no wise by her gratitude for the past have heard me speak of Ellen Evans Mrs daughter but you little dreamed that 1 had such a great personal interest in all that pertained to her character and person have develop eel with more than all that rare loveliness her childhood had promised The sister that I shall bring you is an talented and f i up Lite so a m comfortable with the the woman I softly about a mo would have come to But where is Willy now and what do you want with I was well nigh ashamed after I asked the question her poverty an- swered it so plainly 0 sir Willy isVery sick his face looks so white and strange lately I fear he going home to mother sometimes I got belter after you sent me the cakes and oranges and Willy bought me with the money you avc us and we paid the rent three so let us star there upon the volume I commune with and settled myself for a evening But it would not do My eyes wander- ed listlessly along the pages they could not engage attention A strange un- accountable feeling of and an- xiety seemed to possess me At last I re- closed the book and minutes I was in Broadway mentally ing my folly in yielding to a not resist Ah me looking back through the years that lie between that dreary and the present hoir clearly can I dis- cover the great Father's love in it is it here boy V I eoe thoush I had seen him this morning and the light from the tall window falling on him just as it fell then revealing his ragged dress and pale ed features and the cold is off Ins thick brown curls just as it end It is a strange mournful picture the dark nigh tin tho background and the little ragged buy the brilliant anil the great store with all sorts confections in front No it touch 350 was out all dav in the rain selling papers and he's so altered scarcely know him But more than the young man grew lustrous with the almost holy that beamed out from their Ellen has the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is above all Ana now my have history her to I guessed well the pane which the know ledge would give you for as brother and sister seldom loved do we Jove each other and I- know it must seem like bringing another your glass But my Ellen is gentle and she will never came between us She knows too the of our orphaned for esch other and even new out with IOTO after you Tell her said to me at last interview and tell her that without her consent I dare n ot her ed your wife When I return and h questioning eyes ask me if I have obtain welcome her to our home And Hattie brown 7 ul ua tilt Ol tne bottle were harmless and would give a to a tional reward was complied wth the request and kept his own sel honest fellow who really was much attached to me said he must in affair and should till the tle and money were out of his hands poured few drops of the a lump of sugar and to my lap It fell mto convulsions and died in h few utes case There had -in attempt to poison Never shall I forget Clotilda's pale face as she threw herself into my a she exclaimed as if to me from danger Merciful Heaven i her with the assurance that TaS my who was the of- me hew she loved me That day came at tho usual did I take I had him he came again that her husband should be informed of all that had passed many attempts to but to no purpose and a he No acquaintance has ever ex- isted between the families and now you know why my wife son's mama ter i iage vrith cannot blame her said Van would have thought that Je a soldier nnd a man c coffin form of a lovely bestrew appeared stem ed with had bo her he o her Not long after Clara was away little full sick and mother watched her and day with breaking hearts but her Heavenly Father had called her ho pent to gather this fair flower also and as lay on the bosom of her earthly father beauteous Bower Gou n the good peace Ha ha ha Inc Why who else? to be Pure The own contrivance and it ct guilders in a present whole was it was sav o But it was money well laid out fo red my and got rid of her trout r 1 so glad 0 sir wont you I see your eyes are moist with tears and if you heard tho simple touching pathos with which that child told that stor would have answerd as I dij Yes I will go now you v It was a coid winter evening t the rich banker Brounker had drawn his easy chair sm Grote employed in exactly the same ner occupied the opposite corner All was quiet in the house for wife his wild Oil said after lager bright eyes into my moment's not a o r i f- ittle fellow's lips quivered ny to eat we have wo whole into that old attic chamber Tager ful tones making the old I The dying daylight looked with smile into the room whose entire destitution one glance revealed to me I had not time for a child's head was lilted from a miserable matrass in one cor- ner I came forward a pair of attenuated me I caught their testimony of the child pulled him after into the store Hurpcl me clown n plate of I cried with mo cakes mv the astonished clerk who turned than ordinary alacrity to I drew the bov into drew the boy into at one end of the UNION HOTEL Proprietor This House froia to Mad each yes you would corns at and the little cold arms were wrapped around my neck -0 I have watched and prayed and hoped so long and it seemed as would never come but I knew you I cannot think said Tan why von should refuse to the riage can give his daughter a good fortune and you say that your son is desperately in love with her I don't to said is my will not hear And what reason has she for 1 One which I cannot tell friend sinking Oh a mystery r You I open to giving vou my ion jealousy to Her now is not 30 easy as you think How can I expect her to disbelieve a m which for tho last years she has put implicit faith He interrupted by of j j Brounker Her cheeks were ed and Tan Grote What I not at r I had a bad headache and Maurice has promised to take charge of his sisters But corns to tell you that I have his marriage with have altered my mind on that subject -In short 1 shall withdraw jny opposition to the match in By tho by continued here is a key I found some time ago 3 1 think it Cioti little rAntia bright infant one of his angels His needed this o and he called her to be she spoke to them language a softer more flowing sound tongue She of the Savior upon her husband to hide his confusion -as a key this is good news about You know I have ringe a 1 Jealous of thy Nonsense Have I not just a masked I wonder you boast of it 1 do os when and in- U little GEORGE at and Solicitor in Of- Block over H 0 Wilson's So you havo at last caught me the tend turning my yoi half sit 1 smilingly responded the youni gyman as he turned his eyes from the an- blaze where had been for the last half hour and a ers woven all around her a white robe flowing down to her feet and she smiled so sweetly and said My little ly he will come to you to-morrow and his coming will be 1 signal for then I too is my only sister since i come for you the died We arc alone row Last i My tears were falling uc wen would to-day for last night mamma came you were married sure you to me looking so beautiful with the had reason to look sharply after her for ers woven all around Rhe was the prettiest fiam she has taken such advantage of your lovo that the gray mare has become the better horse and you re fuse an advantageous match for your son Store 1 I SLOAN A Counsellors at Law is Main street Vis T L F for the State of Nc nd beautiful almost dreamy tenderness ed to drift on them rested I sister Yes To think you are really engaged What would your parishioners i cl i 1 r i 1 say it particularly ths er of I am somewhat ap their daily bequests of bo- and fruits would be sensibly r T ished But about that she and Main I J street nearly opposite the American iL R Wedding and other parties supplied with agam that Cakes Fancy Pyramids Ice cream JOHN CASE Law and or in in the Empire Block Merchants in Hardware Crockery Boots of and streets 1 rich smile went like sunlight over the grave but handsome features of the young pastor certain whether an artist would think her so Her features are regular and her cheek Nobody but money mother left is all gone you see sir and though I earn by selling papers for the last week she grew so much w ise taste I cant thank less rosy own but the emotion now 0 sir how good you but I want to Well you heed no other thanks than 9 -1 the rest She will be frightened I'm gone so long 0 sir if you only go with me Till co row I sa to gratify her caprice your son my good You nre quite T never allow any one here master but and in the present in- stance I cannot blame The ret of her refusal lies herring pic A herring pi I exclaimed Tan 1 Yes a herring pie You may iose you and your the Brounker looked foolish and rubbed his hands as he in your own trap He who pit for his enemy shall fall intc it Grace Greenwood's countenances face in was full and settled row She talked much of her She took me to tho room where I had last seen little Clara on that Christmas to tho sery I had Eily and Anna and me three loved best had played stood in the father's study held cup of ar his Suger roe and forbid them not for stick is the kingdom of appeared to understand they gazed on that heavenly bow that I cannot Suddenly the augel paused and then turned her face towards one side of the where 1 den gate Beside the gate stood an an- gel of wondrous seemed to be watching And now she the Inc objects she long and ber it was a favo V i dainty of mine and clown the boy's my wife could not endure th smell will be alone when I of it Well during the first our leave her for there's nobody to tike care of j marriage I must confess I was a T very of Clotilda My ny ANNA CORA RITCHIE To whom is the hour of twilight sc sweet as to children Too play i and yet unreconciled to trial of being put to bed half the world over have simultaneously raised -j i Cill e- seated Clara lying upon I last saw with flowers over after the spirit Lily's -a with a in her fine dark eyes on something very and lovingly should say havo been her father's face Baby Lay with a few buds clasped in her round chubby hands She that was taken brighter the in the morning that led the T child was Birl with a 5 Mer countenance girt with a there was she gazed on the sorrow of her you see and I gire her to you You are so kind and good 1 know you will take care of her and never suffer my boy I want and and I will look down from your enjoyment of our home in heavan and bless you for it all and maybe we shall come some time to take you to us You wili promise me this wont for I cannot see you and his glazing eyes niy face Yes Willy I promise it to God your me and see you and to-mor- aid if you teli me where YOU Court streets of lower bridge consin and Illinois of her deep gentle loving nature look put of her blue eyes and here is a sweet heart in the smiles that kle her small and rather You are a charming Raphael miee She is of lave for a largo stock of tal IroBSi.iflojvoring Shrubs He atthe villo mile west tho 3 pic I need not ask if her mind is for I your respecting loo well to doubt this But is short a something of one The formation of her head indicates a superior Provisions river highest market price for lleV Attorneys Of- JAMES and rotait Bookseller and Stationer r new Block oast side of the while you are mainder of your cakes I'll get something iNelly will procured a basket which I saw well stocked with a variety of fruits and most likely to tempt the appetite of an invalid adding money with me I returned to the child mother in heaven snd to I answered solemnly Kelly you heard will Kiss me once more sister There there mother has come forme Good The little cold gers sought and drew thorn smile over the stark rac it I you said that I will to-morrow morning Now be a man and care of sister len till then And are all these for said the boy as his large wondering bright eyes roamed over the basket And she has been rn rigid of day looked into that bare attic as the beautiful clay lying coW I tion obliged me to keep open house and among the sparks that visited us none gave me more uneasiness handsome Colonel The re- putation that he harl already acquired for gallantry was enough to create alarm and the marked attention he paid my wife con- was well founded What It was impossible to forbid house for in bis power to deprive me of the government contracts in other ruin -After dering the subject I fiecfded'.on doing thing na til the should be- come ail that was to know how things Having just caused a secret to be made behind stove and consecrated the ing r to story -T jui utta but oh the faculties are well ing in her sleep after an orange for a week pray God to i all this and he will for mother used to Si balanced et me she m of those great which are above ail her Barents who are never but one member of it and he was a beggar Weldon The little fingers been playfully braiding themselves with those of the young man's were suddenly withdrawn the quick blood flashed into a look of led astonishment and filled J U BE ALB and dealer in every variety of Hats Caps and side river Plain and Ornamental Painters consin on Carriage Factory are ay he those in who forgot riot tho widow and of gratitude and light fellow The next morning Hattie I received mattrass sir is he questioned Nelly her large pathetic eyes wandering from the dead face to my own My looks answered her for my not come back come back to she cried in a voice whose ing anguish will haunt mv heart has grown cold as tho ono lay be- little Eilen Evans lay less as her brother in my arms y- here It communicates with -re I room and from it I could overhear that passed in Two a pleasant part of down the little the cemetery the were turn vs face as wo parted ed aside and a child's coffin laid beneath TO summoned me to I had of time to fulfill my in I had become so greatly interested indeed the mournful circumstances whict wn eyes as she ejaculated drew me once to ths home of my not in I them from my mind But you took me so greatly by little red lips trembled DR L Block End pp 1 Ball und Boot sale by FABWELL 50 A LARGE Assortment of Fancy Brashes and Combs Tit OX'S health t Ji A at Hattie You knowT II you down to that time mv such sister you will remember was weaving hr green carpets over the meadows before we parted and I returned to the city to complete then ta enter in which before mr father's dying bed had solemnly pledged myself all the God grant me I had forgotten of the little boy's but I know that I made moment and then the tears brimmed over the lashes and journeyed down the 1 troubled you the young man as he leaned forward and j smoothed the bright hair ant's Hotel of his sister look so sorrowful darling as tho eril to what I tell and then see if ing as tho several attempts to discover it after my re- great eril listen turn to the all of which proved your own noble by social distinctions and prejudices does election Will yon do not for my sake for Eis who that the poor and the rich were alike in his sight Her ono great foible was for handsome was hardly a weak- ness forhe was all that God her household over whom the daises had long spread ng and for a moment she had looked the world's eyes to the But her Ii the'soriset day in the early and even the great city looked fairer for the sunshine that plated with gold and swept in golden ments up which I- was passing with some to supper Marshall remember to us for the lecture commences at en and it will be ed out one of ray company as we reached the corner diverged I my assent and adieu when my denly eager but timid said sir ia vour hams of being discovered I have had no ty years and indeed even know what has key Satisfied with this precaution I did not leave admirers her a visit though I promise of the wince s his you showed a most commendable place I should contented At twilight not many evenings ago five sisters were gathered around the paternal hearth tell me r tory said little ginia climbing on my knee and my waist with her arras until the dimpled hands met then nestling her ly head on my shoulder Tell me a n story i There is no refusing dear petted Jenny liio be ny Oh about fairie about fairies and children ll I I angels tell you of- a J once angels angels wil lovingly be- Ifer dress wove lily leaves It was so pure and and all about hei thero ness She the Angel of I Jittle girl was whom I- had seen so van and ill a entered and her step quicker and Shier The Angel of Death led her to ho sister angel sitting in She bower She folded her arms and pressed her o her bosom with a and Clara felt her and kiss the fond kiss of own mother Then Clara turned to the group of happy ed her rt companion They embraced her in turn it seemed to as though had awakened morn than ours very often of- those three tle away and Christinas nnd one dav I Sad 1 dream in them and this was my dream I ssw a garden so luxuriant with flowers and foliage that though The very rainbow showers Had turned to blossoms where they fell And sown the ground with flowers i Branches covered with bloom leaned war Is each other and twined themselves together bouquets From the trees hung crimson anil purple arid colored figs plums and many others such had never seen and whose names I did not know These fruits appeared transparent and clear juice sparkled tho polished seeds and stones like precious of tho tiro she had aud loved them Then the little lamb against bsr and che End wool Soon to shove their garden 1 could they said but the sound of their laughter came to In the centre as l do as trees with widely spreading branches ered snow white blossoms vines clambered trie and would through tho branches The soft air ed the floating tendrils of to the topmost branches opposite tree un- til bower exquisite for the spoken had breathed upon -us f oft rebukes in lings a way Tor times have they laid to his arms I seen their crimson mantle over his bright heap j work Day after d: and the marble ten to the of has fallen softly over them is cer must own she marie a a beautiful child and an angel stout one time tried vrith outspread wings is bending over him at another entreaty his and pointing upward is craven His mother came for him twi- It was with me a subject of much where to place the lovely child whom I always felt that Providence especially to my care I was all on earth she had to love and as time its soothing balm to her heart the affection of her deep warm nature poured upon me and even then with the exception of lay close within my heart He began to Hope in proportion as T gained it till one day he bethought himself of threatening to blow out she would not show him some compassion this proof el the strength of she burst in- to tears pleaded that she was not free In short she gave him to understand that I was the his happiness was the art of seduction not to see that ha had gained a For a while I placed her in the ise from her in country among simple people whose i widow would be readily appeased for I was exceedingly desirous that the world never become cognizant of the part I had borne in her life history I well read her sensitive nature and there might come a in her later life when it cause ler much if the world knew our After mcch deliberation I resolved to history to Mrs he with whom I boarded in entire confidence listened with intense interest and ler womanly were at once raved cursed me cause to obtain i become a him peremptorily closed an eye that and she did not know J ed her was as uneasy as following day a that increased her agitation While at last a message carae from the asking to see in as I was not in the habit of domestic affairs and business m my presence When the entered he was as pale as a ghost and scarcely seemed what told small small behalf of ray a note in he J was r Pf contents of the V na means her circum- I former into the first pie ket made of moss and embedded in I of little Clara on for floral door of Clara's house I was greeted by a took the parlor where a Christmas so tall nearly reached floor to the ceiling Trie spreading branches were loaded with and were scattered boughs The children ted their abundant Christmas presents and then led me up stairs to their mothers room On a small couch at the mother's bed little child about seven or eight years old She was motionless that thought her statue jher thin tiny hands as which they were extended countenance had an- alabaster hue and her eyes were looking upwards as tho hey could see more than we saw Little did not we when 1 her jut brought the mossy her the making a and Hying The mound the shape of a rustic and The flowers exhaled aii that t ey to their on their expanding bosoms The phere was singularly pure exhilarating shone roseate hues of ly morning of angelic tho garden chaplets on heads some had garlands twined about their or ol tiny rose would around some had woven bracelets and bound on their arms the infantile these always seen ra's voice above the laughed so happily upon the I her companions take her to a its crystal waters larger than Victoria you have that its can stand to the of ths lake them ana touched the Then quis the and laid it on en face ind smiled one thanks tree they seemed a's ays see as half of the only when united leafy chains em- bracing and him the joyous crowd stood an angel clad in a vesture that had the whitely hues of an hem was wrought stars of gold the zone was beneath her breast a single ruby shaped A of pearls her head One large in tre and emitted a a stream of ate rays that they formed a halo above her brow From beneath the loosely on her knees not in in shining waves ed beauty effulgence of her countenance no language It was I noticed that when ber face beain of to their their they and the the to fold around them to hold them safely aud the cuter leaves spread selves like sails and so they floated about the hands srith tell how long n that world there is counted as a period when the children around Hark the earth And the angels open the forth the in the distance was of Death girl through tho entered gito again with ness and sent forth sweetest odors the light the birds about of joy and tlie trees den with luscious fruk The gate anil I could see that the little girl S something in drew near the bower tle and Ed arms her to the angel and to her companions and all welcomed her with delight The timo was very short f here came again the ing of tha air Angel of death passed dark valley into tlie carry Ing very on baby opened as rora a deep sle p and knew Clara and fight and stretched round re- or baby Anna crown said ask our lap or the the That a
