Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-03-06

attacked Lizzy's throat---descended and
fingered along the croncital tubes, and.
finally fixed itself upon her lungs. From
this dangerous place it was not dislodged,
as an actue disease, until certain consiitu-
tional predispositions had been arotised 4
into activity. In fact the latent seeds or
that fatal disease known as tubercular
consumption, were this time viyifie1.
Dormant they might have lain for years.
perhaps through life, ifal exciting causes
had been Stunned. Alas the. principle
Of vitality was now awakened. s
Slowly, very slowly did strength return
to the body of Miss Walton. Not until
the Spring opened was she permitted to 20
into the open air. Then her pale cheek,
and slow, feeble steps, showed too plainly
the fearful check her system had received.
| A week or two after his remonstrance
with his niece about her thin shoes, Mr.
Walton returned home. Several letters
received by him during the winter advised
him of the state Of Lizzy's health. Inlhe /,
Spring her mother wrote to him
Lizzy is much better. The warm
weather, trust will completely restore
her. tt-sa
But the old gentlemen knew better
He had been deeply interested party in
case like hers before. He kneu that
summer, with its warm and fragrant airs,
would not bring back the bloom to her
cheeks. In July came another epistle:
'The hot weather is so delibitaling FOR
Lizzy, that am about taking her to the
sea Shore =. a.
Uncle Thomas sighed as he read this,
permitting the letter to drop from before
his eyes, and sat for some time gazing up
on vacancy. Far back his thoughts had
wandered, and before the eyes Of his mind
was the frai!, fading form Of beloved sis
ter, who had years before left her place
and her mission upon the earth and passed
up higher. -s ri s,ss, =.
'The doctor says must 90 South with
Lizzy,' wrote Mrs Walton early in De-.
cember, 'and spend the winter. We leave
for Charleston next Tuesday and may pass
over to Havana r.
Uncle Thomas sighed as before, and
then became lost in sad reverie. He had
been TO Havana with both Of his sisters.
The warm South had been ofuse to them.
1t prolonged but did not save their lives.
And so the months passed on-the sea-
sons came and went-but health alas re-
turned not to the veins Of the lovely girl.
1t was an autumn day, nearly two years
after that fatal cold, taken in consequence
of wearing thin shoes, that Mr. Walton re-
ceived letter sealed with black seal.
'As l feared, he murmured, in low,
sad voice, gazing half abstrac,edly upon
the misssive. He knew 10 we'll its con-
tents. Dear child! saw this from the
beginning
Andthe old mans eyes became dim with
moisture. & san enst
He had not erred in his conjecture.
Lizzy Walton was dead! a'
Golden American Denocracy. -.ss y
| Sir Richard Golden, in an address
which he recently made at meeting be-
fore the Mechanics institute at Leeds,
thus felicitously, but characteristically,
gave his impressions of Democracy in
America. Golden goes in strong for cheap
newspapers. With some over radical ten-
dency, perhaps England at this day, has
no bolder, no wiser, or more practical re-
former, in the true sense Of that often
much-abused word, than Sir Richard Cob
den---
"You have heard" (sail Mr. Cobden)
something about the state Of Education in
America. The thing which struck me
most in travelling through the. United
States, was the great elevation ofthe mass
of the people there above the condition Of
the same class Of people in this country
(hear, hear. } say, if a man visits the
United States, and travels through that
country-if he leaves this land thinking
himself democrat, but is in reality some.
thing else, he will come back real thor
ough Tory. He will find his preiudices
so shocked by rubbingof his elbows against
the really mechanic class Of that country,
in the steam-boat, the railway carriage,
and everywhere else where he travels
that if he be mere kid glove democrat,
and have no real sympathy with the mass
Of the people, he will come back what he
is in reality when he set out-a real aris-
tocrat (hear, hear.) But if he goes there
desirous really to ascertain whether the
people there are elevated above the work
ing classes Of all other places in the world,
he will come back delighted with the So
cial state Of America (applause.) What
struck me most of all was that did not
find in the New England States any class
corresponding with the masses Of the
working classes in our agricultural and
manufacturing towns. Really they are
raised infinitely above us indeed, l have
no hesitation in saying that the mass ofihe
people, whether employed in the work
shop, or upon the land, in the States of
New England, are as much elevated by
their education and the largeness and clear
ness Of their ideas, above that class in En-
gland as that class in England are raised
above the same class in Austria Proper"
No doubt much Of this is owing the demo-
cratic institutions Of America; but much
also is due to the habit Of reading which
cheap newspapers have introduced
"Cheap and nasty" is Tory satire; and
even good men apprehend an influx Of
of bad morals from penny papers. They
are wrong: when the price Of The Liver
pool papers was lowered, three or four
years ago, there was reduction TO the ex-
| tent of 10, 900 weekly i'm the sale in this