The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-07-01
Vol. "a, 10. 81. whole 10. SCI -

lgers: nor Why wear Il still ii Che smooth
bands he admired 90 ven. Soon after then
learned to read the language ofihose dark
blue eyeslanguage Of deep, strong, cher
fishing Iofe--and The thrilling tones 81 that
rich voice bore often % my charmed ears
THE words ofmanly music. Those we're the
golden days Of my life--tlie world vas
Paradise; beings around me angels all
were e me beautiful and good; and from
lmorn till eve my heart was dancing, singing
lie trembling ecstacy Of bliss. Trembling
from The fullness or its own deep eIadness.
It passed, that glorious dream---thc gentle
lcaress, the soul-speaking glance. the words
IOf love, Iknew no more. Circumstances
Insin exorabIe and more cruel than the grave.
parted US, and my lies romance was over.
One brief year-<the oasis Of my desert path
land then knew what it was to bury in a
deep. deep grave, my dead frst lore. The
grass is long since green above il. but the
IineFemost recess of my heart is sepulchre
for eyer Since then Jessie, my kind Girl
friends and happy young wires have select.
tied the perfect one, destined for the BY their
own kind wishes. Manly. noble hearts have
been at my command; but. because I found
no answering warmth Of love. no heart
ssirrrings Of JOY! choose thus 10 remain
alone. But, now listen. Jessie: I was wrong.
and my life one grand mistake. am lone.
| ", dreary woman;none are bound to my de-
clining years by the strong ties of blood.
Ny only JOY is in losing my own capacity
for JOY or woe in the life interests Of others
IT'S true. Lizzie is the pride ofmy age. but
soon she will 60 to make and bless happy
home. to sit beside her own hearth-stone,
and I shall be alone--alone in the "wide,
wide world The weight Of desolation ia
that sad word. .'alone, is known only to
those who journey to The grave as I must
Jessie--a solitary woman. With none %
bless her.none whom she may bIot Bear
with an old maid and listen to her counsel
II is not woman's destiny, Ii Is not her
duty to be alone; elinging and dependent as.
the vine in her nature, like il her heart help
'lessly stretches out its tendrils, for the sure
support Of manly strength and vigor. Have
no IDEAL Jcssie--no absolute perfcction5 bur
when heart that throbs with honest. man
~ lore for you. is offered you, creep close
toits inefmost recess. and lei 6 Be oFfor,
every storm citadel for thee Be rs JOY,
its pride. its life; and when At last. the fow-
ers bloom upon your grave. let them be
Ratered BY the tears Of affection, and leave
your naInf cnshyined ii the ..holiest ofho-
lies" Of more dian one warm heart This.
Jessie, IS woman true 0ork
DISTANCE 10 THE SuS. Dickens House.
hold Words gives the reader d graphic idea
AZ the distance to the SUN from the earth,
when II says
Imagine railway from hero 70 the sun.
How many miles Is the sun from usg WHY
/ We were to send baby ID an express
train. going necessarily hundred miles an
hour, without making any stoppages. tho
baby would grow % be boy the boy
10 be man--lhe man would die without
seeing the sun; for il IS distant moro than a.
hundred years from US. But what d rhis
compared 70 Neptune's distanceg Had
Adam and Eve started BY our railway to 20
from Neptune to the sun at the rate of gay.
miles shc hour, they would not have GOT
there yet. for Neptune is more tlan sir
thousand years from the centre Of the t5s-
tenn"
A SMART BoT-A boy,ouly twelpf years
Old. who walked all The way from Ohio g