The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-08-20

what she thought good husband SHOULD
possess, she wisely refused them all. On,
. was from no less a parsonage than Deacol
Gershom Grimes.
: Now, Deacon Grimes had the reputation
5 of being an exceedingly pious man; and i
r piety consists in making long prayers, anC
in putting on an elongated, lugubrious Wis
( age,-in selling and buying in nasal, can
, ting twang of voice, and always securing tht
best end of the bargain in robbing the. wi
, dows and fatherless, and ostentatiously ma
king donations to Bible and Missionary Soci
+ leties-than was Deacon Grimes pious man
par excellence. When the day of reckoning
comes, and such mems garments of self
righteousness stripped off, and their hypocri.
ley appears in all its nakedness, how viii
; their blasted souls shiver and shrink to NEE
the just anger of an outraged and ayengng
God
= Well, this Deacon, good, kind, friendly
f Isympathising soul, had loaned the widow
} $40, to enable her to pay off mortgage or
the homestead, which her late husband had
been unable to take up before he died, in
consequence of having sold a yoke of oxen
take his pay in bills of the cold Farmers
Exchange Bank" which broke just before
the mortgage became due.
! Everybody said how kind the Deacon was,
thus to assist the poor widow in her necessi-
lty. Miss Mehitable Mcgrin, an ancient mai
den, exclaimed: "Twill certainly be a
match though for my part, can't diskivel
what the Deacon sees in Widder Wilcox SC
wonderful captewatin, she alters looked tc
me like very p@tchjky kind of body; and
what's more, what kinder right has she tc
have two husbands, when some on us can't
get even one,-I should like to know. Not
that | want husband, no, by no means;
wouldn't have the best man in the whole uni
Iyarsel world; and don't care who knows
it, don't"
| Now, the widow, though very thankful for
the loan of the money, could not for the life
Of her discover why she should surrender up
her person to such man, in liquidation Of
such debt; so she. very kindly rejected the
Deacon's offer.
On the night of the widows refusal the
Deacon went home, nursing his wrath to
keep it warm" The Deacon was implacable
in temper. His pride was wounded Re-
}venge to him was ever swee. morsel. The
next day he sent the sheriff with a writ of
attachment on her goods and chattels, real,
personal, mixed; and, for want thereof, to
take the body, The widow still had friends /;
gave the required bail, and the Deacon was
banked, as we shall see in the sequel.
The gentle reader, the kind reader, or the
reader neither gentle nor kind, no matter
which, will please stick pin here, as we
must make trlAing depression in our event
! full history.
Jacob Wilcox and Sarah Westerly were
children and playmates together In COM
Ipany they hunted hens eggs and jumped
upon the hay from the great beam in the
barn, they were taught their a. b. c. from
the same spelling book at the woman's school,
together they chased the butterfly over the
green-sward; and when the evening came,
they sat under the old apple-tree at the corner
of the orchard, and ate their blackberries and
milk from the same little porringer.
What wonder, then, that their affection
for each other grew and strengthened with
their growth and strength, and when he ar
rived at years of maturity, and she was Just
blushIng into womanhood, they should be
drawn together by the silken cords of love,
and should seek to unite their fortunes, for
veal or for woe, in the indssoluble bands of
marriage?
How Jacob woed and won his mountain
Inymph-how his heart beat against his ribs,
and leaped into his throat, half choking his
utterance, when he urged her to become his,
for ever and for aye-how she blushed rosy
red, when as thejoy of her young heart she
gave her full consent-their plans and hopes,
their joys and sorrows--are they not written
in the Book Of Undying Memories. There
let them remain,
AT the time of which we now write, Jacob
was in his nineteenth summer, a manly,
lad, the stay and the staff of his
widowed mother. IIisassistance on the farm
seemed absolutely necessary; but the debt to
Deacon Grimes remained unpaid; and some
plan, if possible, must be devised to settle
this annoying debt. Twas their great trou-
bic: the spectre that constantly haunted
themin their sleeping and walking dreams.
After much family conversation, it was at
last determined that Jacob should go to the
far oft city of Boston, seek employment and
endeavor by honest industry to earn the re-
quisite sum.
On a bright sunny morning in May, Jacob
swung his pack and set forth on his travels.
With eyes running over with tears, his mo-
ther said to him on leaving "My dear, my
only son, you arenow going forth into a wide
and wicked world, full of allurements to en-
tice the unwary and entrap the inexperienced
fear not-read your bible--say your pray
constantly tomeeting on the Sabbath
avoid evil company as you would the
may the great God preserve
thee! fiat any time your way seems block
ed up and all before youis dark, dreary and
dcsolatc-fear not, my son God will pro-
vide a way"
With these instructions fl om his honored
mosher he set forth for the distaut city, say
ing, as he bsde her. good bye, "For your sake
the sake of my sisters, and for
the sake Of sweet Sarah Westerly, will
work my fingers off to the knuckle joints; but
Deacon Grimes shall be paid to the utter
most cent"
After eight days Of weary travelling, he
came in sight of the great city. AS he en-,
erred, thenoise and hustle, the contemplation
of trucks and carts, Of men and women, hur-
rying to and fro, and the jar and discord of
4 tumultuous city at first amazed and be-
wildered him--the whole contrasting strong /
" with his simple lifein the country
Walking in the middle Of the street. clo-