Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-12-26

loFe VI oJuerS, us eSseutlil u MS oNu zap
piness. The nan who expects none is
child Of despair. There may be hearts so
frozen by sefshness, or ossifed by pride
and ego ism, or psralyzed by disapp int
ment, as to be in iherent to affection.
But these are icebergs drift ing in dark
ness, on Polar seas; cold. barren, desolate.
In them no tree or shrub plauts OF no
flower sheds its fragrance there. No mel
ody of living joy is chanted there, God
found that it was not good for man to be
alone, chiefly because he needed the con-
scious affection of q female heart, to soften
the asperities of his own, and tue give
completeness to his being.
In the deep full aft ctou of wifc's
heart, the husband finds that nppre iation
and interest which almost every soul covets.
This stimuli, ties his enterprises. This
makes him brave in peril. This cheers his
hard labor. This comforts him under ir-
rtation, SANDER, repr uch, in the outside
world, 10 meet this crayin. of man wo-
man is adapted She is not ambitious of
wealth or fome. She shrinks from great
changes or great perils. she is no* ftted
for the struggles Of forum, tie conflict of
arms or the lubors Of the field. Ter home
is her earthly Heaven and she holds a
loving heart t. cheer him, TO %hom God
has given loftior ambition, deeper era
wing of car his wealth a stronger arm and
a higher courage,
Subjected, by the ordinance of G ID and
the Laws OF the land 10 abide sterncr will
than her own: she 10 furnished with a
veal of ffection which makes her bur
den Of sub rdiniion light, and melts and
moulds t. tenderness the controller Of her
destiny.
Il IN loved at ME, says the hush and
OF the son; and this thought nerves his
principle in the h'ur Of te ,ptation, and
gives solace to hardships on the land or on
! the lo,c so.
The reasurcs Of a wife's affection, like
the grace cf God, is given, not bought
Gid IS power, ltc3n sweep doA n forests,
raj cities, build roads arl dccS houses
1t can collect troops # batteries, and in.
spifc awe and fer; tut alas wealth can
never purchase love. 3 napartc ess ,yed
to subiug cation of Europe Under the iuiu-
encc IF go'ius almost inspired--ln an
Uiton ins Itiable and backed by millions
Of armed men. Ho almost succeeded in
swaying his sccptrc from the straits Of Do
yer to the Mediterranean; From the Bay
of Bscay to the SEA Of AzoF. On many
Il bloody ield his banner foatcd in triumph
but you will all hear witnoss that bis
gre test conquest was the unbought heart
of Josephine bis sweetest and most pr CO.
less treasure, her outraged but unchanged
lqYr If men have failed to ostima'e the
affection Of true hearted wife, he will be
likely to mark the value in his loss. when
he heart which loved hun is stilled by
death.
III. The heat Of her huSJGnd acA,
SgeIy trust IN q. a.faitA)M wyt Jor compan-
i9nship.
he family relation gives retircmen nj
without solitude, and society without the
rough intrusion o. the world 1t plants in
the husband S dwelling friend who can
hnnr hiI lnpcn mil th ,I az; H.,
can appro' late his repetition of oventc
only important as they are embalm-d il
the heart. Common friends are luked &c
US hy slender thread. We must retain
them y ministering in some way to their
interest or their employment.
as We cannot always give novelty and
interest to our conversation as we canno
always make it for the Interest, couveni'
ence, aud pleasure of cur friends adhere
to US, as we are liable to those pecuni ry
and social viaissitudes which may tax the,
patience CIR their purses, our ordipary
friends, li,e summer birds, are liable tc
come and &c, to be co dest when We most
need symp THY, and absent ard iuliEer
cut wien we most need their support.
Whit a luxury it is for a man TO feel
that in his own home there is true and
sf1c ionate being, in whose presence he
may throw off estraint withou. danger t
his dignity; may conade without de fear @
tie achery; and be sick or unfortunate with
out being Abandoned.
II in the outward world he Crews wear,
Of human selfshness, his heart can satel
tru't in ne whose soul yearus for bis har
piness a-d chose Indulgence ovcrlooks hi
detecs. No wonder he says
NY every earthly Joy to blend
And ERtnCu Sc N, lifa
Give me true aud tender friend,
Aadbe gh friend my Hits,'