Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-23

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venge to the foolish and womanish
feelings of white men,"
THE GAMBLER.
The husband of Emma was a con
frmed gambler, having lost the sum of
10000 bequeathed to him by an in
dulgent father His family were reduc-
ed TO the lowest ebb of poverty. EN-
ma deadly loved her deluded husband;
she had in early life deprived her
self of every qualification, to accumu-
late little property, in order that her
husband might berendered comfortable
in the evening Of his life. Unknown
to him, she had devoted her time to the
employment Of her needle for a neigh
boring friend that she might be able to
clothe and educate her children.
AS she was sitting one evening a.
round her deserted hearth, rejecting
on happier days forever fed, and weep
ing for the inconslancy of man, the
gambler entered.
It was now the hour Of midnight,
and the gambler had returned to his
wretclled home, pennyless and under
the influence ofthe intoxicatingdrau
He had staked his last dollar upon the
hazard Of the die, and in fit of des-
pair he had drank Of the poisonous
| bowl.
Neither the tears Of the heart-broken
woman, the miseries of poverty nor
THE wretchedness of home, could move
the hard heart of the gambler vexed
to see her weep, and maddened with
the effects Of liquor, he stricks her to
the floor with ruffian blow, and lays
her senseless at his feet.
She bad been to him kind and
faithful wife she had labored for his
support in sickness, she had nursed him,
and in sorrow, it was she that consoled
and comforted him.
Man may speak ofhis trials and sor-
rows-he may murder at the unhap-
piness Of his lot, his spirits may droop
and his feelings become agoinsed by
the ills of life-but what are his suf-
ferings in comparison with those Of
woman? She becomes wife and for
sakes relatives and friends, for the hus-
band Of her love, and if he prove UNI
kind, her happiness is wrecked-and
the residue Of her life is clouded with
sorrow.
FAREwELL.-How many dark and
solemn scenes oflife arise from that one
word. The fearful eye, the bloodless
cheek, the neryeless arm, and throb-
bing heart, are all linked around it.
"Father, FAREWELL" has closed full ma
| ny scene where youth, with buoyant
spirits and with heart Of hope, babe
adieu to home, to kindred and friends,
to seek his fortune in a strange land
has left the scenes where every pang
of sorrow found respondent grief, to
toll, to sicken, to die, amid another
race who know him not. ssMother,
fare thee WE'LL" with Joyous face, but
watery eye, speaks the young, the
bright, and beautiful, as she leaves her
parent hart to be the lifetime dweller
in foreign land-to yield and trust
her all into the hands of him who but
one year ago was but naught to her
bids farewell to every scene unchain-
ed to memory's strongest links, afec-
TONS dearest ties, perchance to dwell
alone, to pine neglected in another's
halls with night to fill the dreary void
of life save thoughts of home, Of that
one parting scene, the last and solemn
word, FAREWELL" till death shall still
the heart whose strings have long been
broken asunder. "Sires, breathren,
wife and children, fare We well?" says
the way worn sufferer, as he yields his
breath to Him who gave it, and leaves,
within his kindred circle here below.
a void that will never again be filled.
How awful that magic word, Fare
aUeX.
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LAFAYETTE's ENTHs1AsM.
/ recCllect no time of nv life anter-