Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-05-25
From tie Cu1pet Bag.
The Ec.yitcIlins widow.
GY FRANK t'lTZIIERBERT.

! Kate Wawen,--it almost seems as if | could sec
! thee DOW as in days of yorc, when thy bright
eyes shonc with 4 sun-like ustre ard cheeks were
like the roses in thy own garden.
| Bu: who is Kate Warrcn'
All, that sit, reader. | was just about to tell
thee who Kate Warren was.
! Kate was the daughter of an honest farmer
! the Youngest child, and, Of course, rcttcd and
spoiled. There WIS four girls of them-Sa!iy,
| Frank, Lizzie AID Kate but Kate was the lie
and soul OF the whole family. Active and spright-
" as flwu, she was constantly in mischief; and
! if any roguery WAS concoctcd, Kate Warren, YOU
might be sure, had something to do about it.
And vet every body in the ncighborIlood loved
Kate, from the old bed-ridden bcldamc to the
laughing, fiolcking child.
| IfKatc did not labor as hard as her sisters, she
was cqa!!v as useful. She drove the cows, ten
led the chickens and turkics, caugkt the horse
and harncsscd him when her farther was in a
hurry, and the way she would leap over three
barred fence WAS a caution to pctticoats Kate
would have been 'Bloomcr' if Bloomcrs had
been in vogue in her young days; revcrthe-
not slow at a race.
standing, with her sister Lizzie, on a little knoll
in her fathers pasture, half a mile from home
halIowing with her musical voice to the cows
and as she lcapcd from rock t" rock in her en-.
dcavors to make them "tall in" into the cow-path
| thought hcr the most lovely little syl lph had
ever met.
With all her misclivousncss, Kate hao 4 heart
"A whole hcart-but it was cncaScd 50 thor
ough!v that, though numerous nice Young men,
had hntcd their partiality for her, she cared lit
tie about tEem-and told them so. She WAS
frcc-rcncro,s to a fault. Ii she erred it was Oh
the side of humanity, and many poor travelling
bcggar WIS indebted to her ntcrpo>!tion for Il
| nights lodging n farmer Warrcn's dwcng
| But time rolled on-Natc grew older; her sis
tcrS were all married, and She, despite her own
good sense t" tIIe contrary, WIS induced by tath-
cr, nuhc sisters, umclc>, auntS ant; and COUSINS,
to we'd Il Young ml,u whose farm adjourned cr
! Eathcr<. Nvt that shr loved him-shc never
saw the man she loved, and never expected to
but mother said 1t would be 50 Hear" and faith
cr said 1T would be Il good match," and Kate
to get rid Of them, said, Yes, if she must get
married, she'd Us soon marry Henry Iilton rs
any body, and she wasn't going to be tdazrd to
death"
Poor fellow. he'd better have committed sui
eide As it WAS, it WAS next thing to it. Kate
would forget lis dinner, and when supper-timc
arrived wuul,i be over to mothers" lfhcr hus-
! bald wanted the horse Kate was sure to want
it at the same moment. and many Il time i'll the
busy season would the good man hurry up to the
barn for his horse, just i'll season to see Kate drl
wing of, Jchu-lkc, with two or three Young girls
in the wagon. Mr.. Tilton talked to her father
aud mother, and father and mother talked to
Kate; bnt she told them she married to please
them, and WAS ROW "hcr OWL wom;ln,' III could
not allow her domestic arrangements to be med
died with by other people"
One dag Katc's husband was compelled TO
walk three miles, because she, contrary to his
expressed wishes, had gone on Il drive. What
| his thoughts were, the reader can guess, from
the fact that in less than week the old mare
had been swarped' for a tivc-ycar-old colt,
which Kate WAS told WAS too hiyh-spintcI for
| her to drive.
As on every other subject, Kate differed with
her husband on this--thc more SO us the colt
idea that he could go" which made her "nX-
iJus for the Opportunity to test his qualities );
and as soon us the breakfast things were cleared
up, Kate led out the colt, and hitching" him
to the wagon started to see ">istcr Frant," who
lived some four miles off, The colt was a "prompt
traveller" and katc told her sister she loved
him dearly"
When Mr. TIton returned to dinner, the colt
was standing in the yard with one of the way
on-ShaftS hanging to portion of the harness,
trembling Ikea frightened rabbit Her husband
WAS rghtcncd, and procuring horse OF ms
tathcr-il-law started off in pursuit of his wife
Half mile from home he met Kate, skipping
mcrrily along, and suspping her whip with us
much satisfaction as though she was comfortably
seated in her carriage.
Poor man we cannot chronicle his many sui
fcrings. Kate WIS killing him by inches; yet
when he WAS taken sick she tended him with all
the affection Of Il loving wife, and when he died
she wcpl as though her heart was broken, and
every body piticd her, and said "She must have
loved han very allcctionatcly."
But Hates tears were soon dried. She was Il
widow, with only one child, Il curly-hcadrd, blue
eyed boy, and property worth ten thousand dot
lars. 1t was in her nature to enjoy herself, and
why shouldn't she?
The second year Of her widowhood, Kate visi-