The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-02-04

the lOaJhesome chain that bound him, /
but at last he yielded; and the air
seemed to be full Of voices whispering
to his tortured mind, Lost-losd
"I didn't know, said old Mr.. Lyle to
his daughter, "why Mrs. Lee came to
the window so often, looking so eagerly
towards the tavern, till he went home.
When she saw him coming, she trem
blod, and sank down below the window,
and couldn't see her any more"
His voice was troubled and tremulous,
as he continued.
"I don't know what made such
thoughts rise in my mind, Nellie; but
old as 1 am, I think strange things
sometimes. thought of an ocean Of
tears, while borne up on one mournful
wave, 1 seemed to see human being
la woman;-waiting, watching, trom-
bling with eager hope, to be saved by
a great ship that was coming. Just
as it heaves in sight, it totters-it falls
1t dwindles into nothingnessl and a
cry Of despair rings out over the wild
waters, and the woman sinks, down
down-aud is seen no morol I don't
know why it is, but I always think Of
tears, when I see druukards, or rum
sellers"
"And why should it be so, papa, why
should it be so2"
e "Why should what be so, Nellio2"
; "Why should this blight, this terrible
curse, food our whole land? We wom-
e en- are the sufferers, papa, and yet we
have no power to scatter the plague, no
voice in making the laws, bywhioh we arc
i governed. We do notwish to have, said
It the girl earnestly, "but why" she con.
- tinued, "do not our great men, who
e have the power, with one mighty blow
y fell the Giant? Why do they not ris,
up in the likeness of Him, after whost
" image they were made, and plead fot
n humanity"
The old man did not answer. Hi
l. venerable head was bowed; and he trom
ID bled with an emotion which Nellie coul,
not define.
/. She went to Elsie, laid her head OIL
Is her lap, and wept. She asked her frion
re if she would not go with her to see Mrs
h Lee, and on the next Monday evenin
e. they went. There they beheld, in viy
as id colors, the woe, the poverty, whic
n follows after INTEMPERANCE,
es Mrs. Lee looked slight and frail.-
e. The bloom of her youth was gone
70 dimmed not by age, for her years mum
bered but twenty-siz. From her pale fac
" beamed two very sad, dark eyes; an
a there was ameek, pleading look in then
lg which was very touching. In the prid
and might of his manhood, with n
Is taint on his breath, James Lee ha
e I bowed down to this woman, unmindful o
it. others whom he might have won
What was beauty to him, compared wit
ID the riches of her loving heart, the treas
Of ures Of her cultivated mind?
Ali in the days that were past
If happy days they weroI she had locke
ee up into that noble face, and asked carr
d estly, if she was indeed beautiful
NC him
"Perchance not to the world, but a
ed ways to me, my darling;" had been h
Int answer. "And them" he continue
.tv "you possess that enduring loveliues
to which fades not. Your soul is beaut
nt full, my Lucy, your loving heart pure
he Alas! that heart had learned a lif
lesson, and the brown hair upon whic
he his hand had rested so lovingly, in Il
X FIRST years Of their welded life, W
lly turning gray.
ed Elsie and Nellie had not been the
Ne long, till Mr.. Lee came. They saw Il
If troubled look which passed over b
Of Wifes oountenanoe, and the Heryo
of trembling of her frail form; but VIII,
,e- her husband entered with a steady ste
ost no flush on his cheek, and his visi,
-. clear, the troubled look vanished.
Is His little Luly, a sweet child Of 70
cir years, was delighted when he came,
She was soon on his knee, and hor vol
,se full Of childish prattle, His eyes gr,
* misty with tenderness. The fond sm
its came to his face; for he loved his ch
dren, ,-and he almost idolized his wi
led 1t was near night when the girls re
a to depart. Mrs. Lee seemed to kno
tie by intuition, THAT they we're not wealt
wOrshipping women, and so she insist
es, on their coming often; for she felt Ion
lo' ly among strangers.
les eyes, she will be very lonely" sa
lie. Elsie. "Few will go to see her, und
.u- her circumstances But, Nellie, she
-Od our sister; and now that she is stric
en-, We should cherish her the moro te