Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-08

as men woo the women they would
wed. / sued to her with gentle words
and loving looks and courtly batteries.
| crushed the wild emotions of my bo-
som, and bowed amid the crowd of her
admirers. Why did she despisc my
homage? Why could she not feel for
me the deep, up-looking reverence
which ever mingles in a woman's love?
Why did she look with half contempt
uous pity upon my passion? VAST be-
cause her sex ever scorn the weakness
they can create, and know not how to
be, at the same moment, the idol and
the worshiper? No! it was because |
was degraded beneath my follow-mcn:
| had lost all that could elevate me
above them. He who would win and
keep woman's love may give her his
heart of hearts, if he will, but never let
him admit her to the sanctuary Of bis
soul. What then could I hope when
the gift of my Utmost spirit had been the
first offering that was laid npon the alter?
sought to make Alice love me, but
the hope was futile. Her intellectual
had overmastered her womanly nature,
and in winning the firm reason and de-
cided will Of man she had lost the gen
tie weaknesses Of her sex. | asked her
TO be my wife; she refused my suit gen.
lily but firmly. Maddened by the OK
citement of the moment, poured forth
the foil tile of long reprcsscd emotion.
told her of our former communion; |
described the gradual development of
her dawning intellect l depicted the
slow outgoings Of my spirit as it was
transfuscd into hers prayed her, as
| would pray high Heaven, to recall
some memory of the past. 1t was all
in vain ; the past was gone forever
She looked on me as a mailman, and
shrank from me in terror. incvcr saw
her again.
After this topper fell upon me which
rendered me inscnsible to outward inn
pressions. My mind became clouded
like mirror, over which the damp
and mildew of long years have gather
ed images were reflected there, but
they were dim and indistinct in their
outline. The present and the past were
blended most confuscdly and painfully.
had no power to control my thoughts.
My soul was dying out with exhaustion.
They told me that Alice was mar
ricd, but the tidings scarcely moved
me, for ! could no longer be reused to
fierce emotion. Two years have pas
sed since | looked my last on her sweet
face two years of anguish such as
whitcns the locks and withcrs the heart
of youth. ] am dying; shall soon be
numbered with the forgotten dead, for
there is none to shed one tear above
my grave. am wasting away with
inanition Of the spirit. But am not
no, by heavens ! am not dying Of dis
appointed love.
In the city Of Athens, amid all the
tumult and discomfort of Greek host.
clry, died the writer of this strange tale.
The incidents he relates arc true he
did awaken to intellectual life the i'm
beetle mind Of beautiful girl, who in
the course of her recovery entirely for
got him. He sought in vain to win
her .oyc, and, upon the tidings Of her
marriage with another, he fell into a
decline, which resulted in his death in
the summer Of 1871, whether of an ex-
hausted spirit or broken heart LET
those Judge who know the fearful
: strength Of human affection. A more
practical account than is here given,
may be found in Emcrson's Letters
from the Egcan.' [Gra. Mag
WEATHER wrsE.-Sam Medary. oil
the Ohio Statesman, outs Espy the
Rain King in theories of the weather
He has discovered that the tropic-likc
winter experienced throughout the L.
nitcd States, is caused by the nenrneSa
of our Union with Texas. and the pre-
valcncc of Terjan bree=es about these
days. By the same rule, Nor East
err would give the fellow a dream o.
annexation with "Canad1."
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The PRIScETox.-The Phia. North
. American says that the steam frigatc
Princeton. now under sailing order:
from that station, goes to England tC
rcco;vo n nov big gun I'm place of the