The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-02-16
Friday Evening. Feb.IO,Ts5t.


A FAtRT WIFE.--A meEehant maffIsI i
Fairy. lie was SO manly, SO earne6f s1
energetic and 50 loving that her hearl i q
constrained towards him, and she eafs ID
her heritage In the Fairylahd to ACCEPT ifs
lot OF womaii.
They were married; they were happy,a1d
the early months glided away like ths Fsa-
ishing pageantry Of dream.
Before the year was over lie bad fefdfnes.
to his affairs, they were important tsd
pressing, and occupied mere and more ii
his time. But every evening as he haaftn,
ed back to her side she felt the weariness y
absence more than repaid by the light II hls
presence. She sat at his feet, and sang 10
him, and pratted away the remnant Of cate
that fingered In his mind.
But his cares multiplied. The bappinebs
Of many families depended on him. His #
fairs were vast and complicated, and hey
kept him longer away from her. All fbe
day, while be was amidst bis blades of DER
chandise, she roamed along the banks II .
seqnastered stream, weaving bright fstcy
pageants,o or deyising airy gaities vi n ahiEh
to charm bic troubled spirits. A Bright sun.
ny being, she comprehended nothing Of care
Life was abounding in her. She knew moi
the disease Of reflection; she felt not the
psrpexites of life. To sing and to laugh
to leap the stream and bscken him to lear
after her, as he used to in the old IoveI
days, when she would conceal herself from
him in the folds Of water lilly-to tantal
izs a. enchant him with thousand coque l.
ries-this was her idea of how they should
live; and when he gently refused 10 join
her in these chi.dlike gRmbsls, aud told hel
of the serious work that awaited him, she
raised her soft blue eyes to him in babj
wonderment, not comprehenoing, with
sigh, because tie said il.
She acquiesced, but soft sadness fell up
on her. Life to her was love; and nothin.
more. A soft sadness also fell upon him
| Life to him was Leve, and something mere
g. she saw with regret that she did not com
prehend it. The wall Of Care, raised b.
busy hands, was gradually shutting him Ou
! from her. If che visited him through tht
day she found herself hinderance and re
tired When he came to her at sunset h
came preoccupied. She sat at his feet, low
ing his anxious face. He raised tenderIy
the golden ripple of loveliness that fell il
/ EluSiCLS Ol DCI HCChs HeT eOl
bsseeching eyes; but there was a somethin!
in his eyes, remote look, as if his sou
were afur, busy with other things, whicl
made her little heart almost burst with IN
compreliehdine Jealousy.
She would steal up to him at times wheI
he was absorbed in calculation, and, throw
ing her arms around his neck, WOO him from
his thought. A smile, revealing love in it
very depths, would brighten his anxious
face, as for moment he. pushed aside tn,
world, and connected all his being in on
happy feeling.
She could win moments. from him, sh
could not win his life; she could charm, sh
could not occupy him! The painful trut
came slowly over her as the deepening
shadows fall upon sunny day until at las
it is night; night with her stars of infnit
beauty, but without the lustre and warmt
of day.
She dropped and OH her couch OF sickness
her keen sighted love perceived through a
his ineffable tenderness, that same remote
ness in his eyes, which proved that, even a
he sat there grieving and apparently absorb b
ed in her, there still came dim remembran
ces Of care to vex and occupy his soul II.
at were better | were dead" sh
thought; 81 am not good enough for him."
Poor child! Not good enough becaus
her simplesnatare knew net the manifol
perplexities, the hindsrances of iacomple
Iifst Not good enough, because her whol
life was centered in enc whose life wa
scattered!
And so she brcathed herself away, an
left her husband to all his gloom of care
made ten fold darker by Che absence ofthos
CLEANS of tenderness which before ftfull
irradiated life. The night was startless,an
he alone.
MELANCHOLY EFFECTS or THE SPIRIT DE-
LUsIoN.---We have painful duty in record
ing the necessary arrest and confinement o
two of our most worthy citizens--iather an
son-yesterday afternoon. The father ha
been for sometime believer in that mos
H.. LII 80, u Nuf