The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-02-07
HOME AFF ECTIONS.
BY DIR HAWKES..

The heart has memories mat neve
die. The rough rubs Of the world can
not obll,erate them. They are mrm'
ories Of home, early home. There i
/ magic in the vety sound. There IS lh,
old lree under which The light hearted
boy swung in many summer day ,yon
der The river in which he learned tC
swim, there the house in VIII ch h.
knew PARENTS love, and found pa'-
enps prolection--nay there is The room
in which he romped with brother OF
with sister, long since, alas! laid in iht
yard in wh ich he must soon be gait
red, over shsd owed by yon old church
wl,her with jorus troop himself, ht
nss often followed his parents 10 wor
.hp with and hear The good old MAJ
Who gave him TO God in baptism. Why
-ven the very schoolhouse associated in
and tasks, now comes bick 10 bring
pleasant remembrances OF m,ny an occa
sion that called forth some generous ex-
hlbillon Of the mobiles, traits Of hums D,
nature. There it was that he learned
o feel some of his best emotions. There
perchance, he frs, me, The being who
W her love& tenderness in after life ha,
made home for hi mself ,happier even
han that wh ich his childhood knew.
There are certain feelings Of humanity,
and those too among the rest that eau
find no appropriate place for their exer
else only by ones own freside. There
is sacredness in The privacy of lha
spot which it were species, of desecra
ton to violate. He who seeks wan,on
y 10 invade it, is neither more nor les.
than a villain: and hence here exists nc
snrer test of the debasement Of moral
IN community, than the disposition tc
tolerate in any mode the man who. .disre
CARDS the ssnotities Of private lifa. In
he turmoil of the world, let there be a.
'eas, one spot where the poor man ma,
ind sffeclion tina, is disln,erested, where
'e may indulge a conf lencs which i.
not likely TO be abused
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GERMAN LOVE. The story we Civ
n4Iow, could only have happened il
Germany, or be related of Germans. I
Young girl Of 81, Rose KobIe, sh o.
tender, become acquainted with stu
lent of Pharm icy, one Theophilus Ke
pier This acquainlance, apparently
very slight, was seon forgotten by lh
oung man, but excited love, vioIen
4lmos, 10 madness, in The heart Of Rose
A peasant girl, an intimate friend o
Rose who had discovere The secret OF
her pasaion, made shameful profit Of it,
ntensity. She addressed the poor cir
letters pnrporring to be written By Keep
pler. and csjoled her Tor fourteen years
During the whole of that period sh'
never once saw her fbnced betrolhed
but letters asking for money. sugar, hraI
Iy, and even linen, poured thick upor
Ner. The excuse FOR not seeing hel
we're of The most strange and mprobs
BILE nature, such as, that il conssquerc CT
| Of failure on his examination he was Ia
ken 10 house of detention in Holland,
constructed expressly torhe punishment
| " bOlte'Vh NuhblhdNNS' pNSI was Wv
'enor Of all the correspondence; misfor
Dune seemed 10 have rained on him. A
one time he had bro zen an arm, snolhe,
4 leg. Sickness. suffering and especial
y destilution afflicted him; The last be
ing an appeal enduring and unendinl
Rose, at different periods: had SET elev
en thousand francs, an enormous sun
'or one 10 her position, TO collect whicI
he was obliged 10 deny herself all bu
the necesssries of life, and 10 socra
flee her little patrimony and that Of sis
ter. Al last after ID years OF CONTINUED
,nxietIes and privallons, Rose read il
he newspaper an announce menl Of IN
death of Theophlns Keppier apolherca
~ of Winlerhsch, whose dlsconsolat
widow and sffl cled children, &c. There
upon, on complaint 10 The an horptes tn
criminal who had wllhered her yout
aud wasted her property was found i
her bosom friend. The punish men in
lllcted is fourteen years oulins ment i
. dungeon, from which, during a cer
tain period OF each year, oil Iigh, is eS
Ided.
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