Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1855-09-27
thought her. would never have broken her
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engagement. =Fi 5f
..She looks unhappy already. met
her, the other hight, at Mrs. Warren's.
and | thought. more than once, that she
actually shuddered when her husband
drew near: and no wonder, for he looks
like brute alongside Of her. | believe
you were right in what you said, when we
last talked of Ellen" . Ha
ssHer husband was carried home, with
in week after their marriage, intoxlca-
ted. Some of his bachelor friends. who
had come up to the wedding, staid for a
dinner he gave to them at the hotel: and
such behavior, it is said, was never seen
in the village before. Poor Ellen!''
| The forebodings Of Mrs. Jones were
even more completely fulfilled within the
| lapse Of years. Young Newton went
from bad to worse, became a sot and a
gambler, outraged his wife in the tender
est point, aud finally after dissipating his
entire fortune, perished miserably on the
! highway, during a snow-storm, and was
/ found, the next day, dead in a drift, with
an empty Jug at his side. But, before this,
happily for her, Ellen had broken her
heart. Her children. two in number,
would have had to 60 to the alms-house.
had not George Brown. now eminent in
his profession stepped forward and adopt
ed them: For he never married. Some
men recover easily from disappointments
Of the heart. but there are others who
never do. The idol, once shattered, no
fresh one can win worship. George
Brown belonged to this class. He and a
maiden sister lived together, and became.
after Ellen's death, parents to the orphan
children. #
1t is not always, reader, that marrying
merely for fortune, ends in tragedy so
deep. But is never leads to happiness.
where it does not break the heart, it de-
grades the character, so that the wife, who
/ might have been blessing to herself and
TO others. becomes Of 'sthe earth, earthly, !"
utterly fails Of her mission in life, and
dies at last. having achieved no more than
liz she had been Of 4sthe brutes that per-
ish."
SHALL l PRAY TO CHANCE.-An Eng
|lish lady, who had forsaken her God and
the Bible, for the gloom and darkness Of
| infdelity, was crossing the Atlantic, and
asked pious sailor one morning how long
they should be out.
i .sIn fourteen days, if it is Go1's will,
we shall be in Liverpool, answered the
1 sailor.
i ..If it be Gods will.'' said the lady,
/ .what senseless expression. don't you
{ know that all comes by chanceN
| In few days terrible storm. and the
LADY stood clinging to the side of the cabin
I door, in an agony Of terror, when the SAIL
) or passed her. 3.
i s.What do you think said she; Evil
the storm soon be over1 .sti#
!, at seems likely to last for some time ne
7 madam. Z .bs.s4. il.
! ..Oh.' she cried, 'pray that we may no
be lost .... . a
], His only and calm reply was, "shall
| pray to chance?' .sa
q Or The following advertisement ap
q peared in the New York Herald, und',
et the head OF swants." We warrant it j
more honest than three fourths Of the ad
J. vertisements that appear under the sam
2 caption: s5@sa.
n An Internal rascal having been on
d spree for the last three weeks, has com
n the conclusion to reform. Any one d.
). string his services in the dry-goods. we
n goods, or to do with any other kind I
o goods, will confer = favor BY keeping m
= out Of the penitentiary. Can make ny
Il self generally useful At anything, not afra1
!, . to work, aged 26, with good address.
II stand 5 feet s--long enough to fly rouu
to the interest Of my employers. Addre:
re E. p, Herald Office. t1s 5.ss z..ls
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