Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-03-29
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BY CAROLINE CHEsEBRo'.
{ Continued from last Week. J

1.-THE kirgiest kings are crowned with thorns."
Kit went home with empty hands, antic-
ipating the reception her rebellious declar-
alton would meet, too excite to restrain it,,
prepared indeed to maintain foreground that
she would starve before she would 90 GU.
again 10 beg. She had anticipated the re-
ception, but not the consequences that
awaited her words, and when she was driv-
en- out to find shelter for herself, never
was there more willing exile; there was
but one to whom she would go, and to her,
to Jenny, she went.
Jenny was asleep when Kit climbed the
stair, and in the darkness took place up
on the heap of straw beside her. With diff.
ficulty the young outcast restrained the in
disnant words upon her lips, yet she did
restrain them, and by and by the tranquil
breathing of the sleeper broug ht to her gen
tie or more tranquil thoughts. Faint with
long fastlng-she had eaten nothing all
the day and weary, for till now she had
taken no rest since morning, she closed her
eyes, but not to forgetfulness nor sleep
Life was opened to her as it had not been
bctore-wide became the prospect, but not
light, not fair The waters of the str cam
that she was fording blackened as they rose
it was bitter angry food-evil to think
Of, dangerous to ford. 1t is ever mo-
ment momentous when the eyes of youth
are for the. first time really awakened TO
lile-oftener the inexperienced eyes close
suddenly in momcniary heart-Sinkiny,
dark foreboiirg and fear. then strain vile
with delight at the prospect The brave
youth RECEIVERS from the shock and sets TO
work vaiiantly and ambtiou>ly to build
something fair and imposing in the midst of
the ruin. but he never forgcts the shadow
that stood ominously forth in the midst Of
the prospect towards which he strobe so
impatieullv. In his most secret chamber
1t abides, it sets among his guests at feasts
he recognizes 1t when he walks abroad
it crosses his path at moments when it is
least expected and least welcome He ne
yer s;igmatizcs it as an illusion; whatever
else may be false, deceptive, this his vision
Of life he knows to be true.
In the midst of path stretching darkly
among shadows, II shadow darker, and more
mysterious than she had yet seen, rose be-
fore the eyes Of Kit. TO scene always
bewillcring but not till now SO full Of mean
ing 10 her, it pointed
The pampcrcJ children. and magnif-
Gently dressed women that crowded the
streets b. day. swept in unending process
sion before her, and accustomed as her eyes
had been to such scenes. it was as if tl:ey
never until ROW gazed upon them She be-
held herself ragged, filthy, hungering,-
making her way amid the crowd, of less
moment to those women than the bits of
lace or broiIery tina! hung in the shop win
dowS--of far less moment than the coal
dust traile1 along the pavement by their
beautiful brocades. And now the everlast-
ing WHY sprung up Indignantly before her,
and it was not for her to answer; it might
vex and pcrplex her-but there is no court
than can demand of such as she an answer
TO that question.
Like incense. the steam Of tempting deli
caeies rose from the marble tables on which
they were spread, it waited past her half
starved sense more delicious than the per-
fums that steals up to tie poet from the
gardens of Persia; and there were heaps Of
fruits, golden, and scarlet, and purple, pyr-
amids-theirnam and origin she knew not,
nor were gathered for such children Of the
earth as Kit.
1t was Kits outraged moral sense that
WAS proclalming itself in these ways in her
hearing, an. ..rritling as these tho'ts IL ques-
tionings may appear, they were not trltllng
to her-they had their point and mean
ing in the new aspect of things. as it pre-
sented itself to her. The old tragic result
was pending in the young girls mind. The
new aspect that life assumed, WAS not one
calculated to soothe her excited spirit, or
TO allay it.
Nor were the grief. and Indignation, and
wonderment, more easily borne because OF
the ma9nanInnty with which Kit restrained
her tongue, and endured herthoughts alone.
No weak or selfish mind was that which in
the struggle between will and necessity
chose, in its loving consideration for anoth
err, TO fight the battle without a witness: To
receive without witness. a conviction of
her helpessness, and of the variety OF con
fiict.
But it was hard experience for poor
Kit; it was crisis in which her nature
seemed to undergo a radical change. Had
she lifted her dropping head that night
when she fought with the beasts" She
would have seen and known that the battle
was not n'ya,ched-the stars were in The
heavens, they looked down through the sky
light, but they were silent. aud their light
was dim-and they sent no reflection. nc
message into the darkness beneath. Could
He who fashioned them see less then they
In that single night Kits gayety and
cheerfulness seemed to have vanished for
ever. There was no room for 1t where those
stern, absorbing thoughts were. Philoso-
piers have diligently sought the transmu-
ta.ioa Of baser metals into gold. would that