The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-27
VOL. vIs...NO. a..


lHo AuicIlCdH dTucTS MdSdZiuo
says the following story is true to the
very letter--it having come within the
editors own knowledge.
Jemima Drake was beautiful GIRL
Her father was farmer. His wife was
a farmers wife and good one too
loved her husband, was faithful to her
family, had but one fault, and strange
was it that she had that one, but it was
so ;--she always felt that it would have
been q little better to have had hus-
band, as good every way as hers, who
had some other employment; and she
cherished a hope, seldom uttered, that her
daughters would not marry farmers.
Jemima was twenty, with all the glori-
es of young, blushing, just developed wo-
manhood upon her. There were corn
shuckings, cuttings, apple pairings, and
all such pleasant things in the neighbor-
hood. The young folks saw each other
at church, and sometimes met between
Sundays. James Darlington loved Je-
NINA. John Davenport and Joseph
Clark loved her. Jemima loved James.
and could have loved John and Joseph
just as well as not. She was girl to
love and to be loved Any young man
would have been heartless fellow not
to have loved her, and any girl, not to
love James Darling, would have shown
lack of appreciation for the good and
the true hearted. IL
Between these last two there would
have been solid, bona fida engagement
but for the advent in that quiet neighbor-
hood of Mr.. Silk Ribbon, from New York.
He talked big, told of brisk business, and
rejoieed in princely prospects. Jemima.
partly with the hope of a big house up
town, and more to please her mother.
delay to make engagements with James,
and in year married the New York
merchant-that was to be.
We must hasten to the end, for we hate
long story. Mr.. Silk Ribbon has made
money, and lost it; has been up and
down in. the world, and isjust now down
low enough. Twenty years of city life
have added nothing to Jemima's charms.
Her life has been one of comparative
ease, but ofincessant agitation by elating
hopes and depressing fears and now at
the age of forty she has no very fatter-
ing prospects.
James Darlington mourned, as who
would not, that she should prefer another.
But there was Kate Grimes at the next
house. She was plain, modest, good and
a true-hearted girl, of eighteen. Her
mother was forty, and was handsome
Who could tell but Kate would be like
her when she should have borne the cares
of womanhood few years. James Dar-
lington was quite willing to run the risk.
He soothed his SORROWS for the loss
of his first love, and took the second
He is not rich. You do not hear him.
talk of millions. But he has provided ad-
mirably for the comfort and the education
of family as large as a small fock.--
He has been prosperous in what the Silk
Ribbons would call small way but it
has been large enough to insure solid
happiness; and to-day Kate Darlington y
among the host of promising boys and
girls that are grown and growing up in
the farmhouse, looks ten years younger
and a great deal happier than Jemima
Ribbon; and she has not a single fear,
when her husband goes out, that he will
encounter dissatisfied creditor. ls'1
A Gem from johnson. following
passage from DIR. Johnson's Journey to.
the Hebrides, is beautiful rendering of,
H,th In fao nft
hearsed in the public ear
Life consists not of series of illustri-
GUS actions, or elegant enjoyments; the
greater part of our time passes in compli-
ance with necessities, in the performance
of daily duties in the removal of small
Inconvenience, in the procurement Of
petty pleasures; and we are we'll or i'll
at ease, as the main stream of life glides
on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obsta-
cles and frequent interruption. The true
state Of every nation is the state of com
mon life. The manners Of a people are
not to be found in the schools oflearning.
or the palaces of greatness, where the
national character IS obscure or oblitera-
ted by travel or instruction, by philosor
ply or vanity ; nor is public happiness to
be estimated by the assemblies Of the
gay or the banqucts Of the rich. The
great mass of nations is neither rich nor
gay they whose aggregate constitutes
the people, are found in the streets and
villages, in the ships and the farms; and
from them collectively considered, must
the measure Of general prosperity be ta-
ken. As they approach to delicacy, .
nation is refined; as their conveniepcesi
are multiplied, nation. at least COM
mercial nation, must be denomiHated
wealthy.
If a set of false teeth cost Sl00, what
is tho valne of falsafto yojcef ~