The Nevada journal., 1852-05-08

monstrated--in vain; tried persuasion
twas useless entreaty--'twas no
90. She was in sober earnest, and the
only alternative left him was a prompt
remuneration of his heresy, or to Sc
parate bed in another room. Jack did
not hesitate. To abjurc the great and
established doctrines of his party, to
renounce his allegiance to the faith
that had become identified with his
very beidg, to surrender those glorious
principles which had grown with his
growth and strengthened with his
strength, TO the mere whim and ca
price Of a woman, was utterly ridicu,
lous and absurd and he threw himself
from the bed and prepared to leave the
room.
As he was leaving The door his wife
screamed out to him:
81 say, my dear, when you recant
your heresy and repent your past err
rors, just knock at my door, and per-
maps VIII let you IN.
The door was violently slammed,
and Jack proceeded wrathfnIly in quest
of another apartment.
A sense of insulted dignity, and the
firm conviction that he was martyr
in the "right cause" strengthened his
pride, and he resolved to hold out un-
til he forced his wife into capitulation.
In the morning she met him as if
nothing had happened, but whenever
Jack ventured to return TO the rupture
Of the night previous, there was a
Laughing devil' in her eye, which be-
spoke her power, and extinguished
hope A second time he repaired to
his lonely couch, and a second time he
called upon his pride to support him
in the struggle, winch he now found
was getting desperate. He ventured
curses 'loud, but not Deep" on the
waywardness and caprice of the sex in
general, and at his own wife in parti
Gu ular--wondered how much longer she
woull hold out--whether she suffered
as scutely as he did, and tried hard to
delude himself into the belief that she
loved him too much to prolong the es-
arrangement, and would come to him in
neutrality-suspicious. that very night,
and sue for reconciliation. But then
came the recollection of that innex;-
BILE countenance, of that unbending
will, and Of that laughing, Implying
eyc--and he felt convinced that he
was contending against hope, and de-
spairing.y he turned to the wall for
oblivion from the wretchedness of his
own thoughts.
The second day was repetition Of
the first; no allusion was made to the
forbidden subject on either side. There
was look Of quiet happiness and
cheerfulness about the wife, that puz-
zled Jack sorely, and he felt that all
idea of forcing her into surrender
must be abandoned.
A third night he was alone with his
thoughts. His reflections were more
serious and composed than on the
night previous. What they were of
course were only known to himself, but
they seemed to result in something de-
cided, for about midnight, three dis
tinct wraps were made at his wife's
door No answer, and the signal was
repeated in louder tone, still all was
silent, and third time the )or shook
with violent attacks from the outside.
who's there?" cried the voice Of
his wife, as if just aroused from a deep
sleep.
"lt's me, my dear, and perhaps a
little the best whig you ever did see"
| The revolution in his opinions was
radical and permanent. He moved to
another county, he became popular,
and offered himself as a candidate on
the whig ticket for the legislature, and
was elected, and for several sess on.
represented his adopted county, as 8
firm and decided whig.
THE VANITY OF RICHES.
Mr. Furouson the notad hihulont