The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-26
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and II you Ito not know what that means
shall not stop 70 tell you"
sit matters very little who or what am, ,
he continued. 81 have lain in silks and pur
pie, and grew up ~ one born TO command
went 70 college, and very likely you thinI
was haram scsrum devil Of . fellow -
Boosting, hunting, driving, cultivating wine
cards and 81 on. Well, if you think 80, 70.
are mistaken. vas a quiet, stadious youns
man; and might add moral, and il woall
have been perfectly true. loved books
study and peace; Was good scholar, liksc
the arts, and was quiet infant. But still
bad fiery devil 10 me.
''lfei in love with little doll OF u CIR
about my own age, that Was IL, and fol
whom | would have taken my heart out oil
my bosom. | could have put her in my
breast to shelter her as one would little
bird and she loved me with such y strength
OF faith, tn Il had been Don Juan himself
| had such lavish trust in he, that l would
have been converted from debaachee into
an honest man.
''Shc i. still now o. Il frozen rill--sleep-
ing like th' streams Of winter--she will ney
er waken again.
''les, sh. vas = lovely little trusting flow
er, the dsusater Of n worthy tradesnan,
who loved her Us the apple of his eye but
she was worthy OF II throne, and | would
have given her one il | could. She is poor
uow. and so be j.
"Onr dream OF love was delicious but
brief. She elopei with me, she became my
wife.
'My parents heard that had eloped with
the daughter ~ tradesman, and threatened
| the poor fellow with ruin and annihilation.
1t would no. have taken much TO have broken
his heart. for II was half gone already; but
what was done could not be undone, and |
thought my father an mother loved me too
we'll u thwart me, and that | had only to
bring her home and give her another father
and mother, who would love her like her own.
meant t, have put her back into his bosom
and said 'enbrnce your daughter, but also
embrace my wife, and you can love her still p
but that day never came. / believed, how
ever, firmly in it, nnd Was happy, living in
little Eden Of my own, far from the tur-
mol OF life. aud expected my little baby
hourly.
"My parents prevented this. Yes, they
hinderec nil. We lived in Wales at this ne
Rod, and when my baby was born, and she
put in my bosom aud laid her own sweet
little head beside it, prayed for her, for
both, and owed them more and more. Then
lmads up my mind to return to nv father
home.
lone dny went to my little home, after
walking, nod found that she was gone Then
the sleeping devil within me woke up. /
learned from the people OF the house shat
as'ern man, and . pale, proud woman, rich
y dressed, dAJAs up in splendid chariot,
drawn by four horses, and carried Of.
robbed me, Of my wife and child. This man,
thus woman, were my parents. l travelled
day and night, and arrived ut their home in
town.
/ u demanded my wife; they called her a
designing, cunning girl and they said some
thing worse Of her than / could bear. and |
silenccd them, and made them turn pale and
tremble. demanded my child. They de-
| med any knowledge OK either. | cursed
them both, and left the house never to re-.
( Urn again.
II need not tell by what means traced
my Aiicc through stages Of wretchcdness and
pennry, TIL found them both, mothe. and
enid, lying on u mean pallet in a parish
workhousa
II have called curses from heaven. and
hres from hell to ayenge this U pardonable
wrong-tor what had this pale and tender
dove done to win such an injury? But when
saw her thin, pale cheeks, and heard her
moaning, and saw her wasted babe on the
half starved breast Of the woman | adorsd.
still"d By soul, shed no tears l heard
her utter cry Of JOY aud pain, and then
the thin helpless hand wnnderei over nv
head, AS laid it kneelins by her side IL
that horrible hole, upon her breast beside
my child
10 lose parent, to lose . mother one
ioyes--to lose friend one is devoted too
lose dog that has been your companion for
long years, is all painful; what was il TO
thisf Was it for this that L sought her ,
Was It thus my parents had shown their love
Was II to SEQ her die that had moved the
heavens and earth to discover her?
Take nay head in your arms dear George.
said she family. Take my child IN YOUR
arms too. Kiss me-kiss the baby. You
love us-do you nots God bless YOU
70 not separate us. Do not forget US.
! have borne much-but loved YOU 80
dearly, an forgive every one as | hope to
be fsrgiycn.'
The rough soldiers turned away and one
or two wiped their eyes.
''Littlc Alice" said I. 0are Won ro;no
withou; NE 80
Il am only going before you,n she said
and felt that she spoke the truth: 81 am
wv ~isSp INC ClOotI let me
feel your lips; lift my head; put INV baby,s
mouth to mine' md she died. And far
an hour after held her baby in INV DO.
som, till felt it was cold. Ii was dead
too.
There vas . long, deep, impressive pause
AMI he again went on.
THAT made my heart desolate, wretched
and void saidl-l, IN turn, desolated their
household and wrecked their peace forever.
as they had two passions to feed and foster
the moot boundless love for me. their only
child, and aprids which God gave them, they
had also given me, and the latter the greater.
they SACRIFICED me to that pride. Well.
On their pride. They kneltt to me in
Inc dust aud ashes Of their humility, and 1
,corned Thorn.
They offered me bride the faire,t in IN.
and, and only laughed vt them. Thew
could not give me little Alice, and | hnd
nothins else for to ask. had q grand In.
,eral from that workhouse for INV wife and
'hiid, put my name on her cofin lid. and
hter that day forgot that had name or
parents, and | felt that l had aranuad
tticc, tor their house il house Of unourn-
ng, and the world ]. to them IA 10 me
'epuichre. II
And this IL the reason that l don't care
Shat Goa es or goes, what happens, or does
N h1nn