The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-07-14
@ CADTz OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY Ii, 1858.

! men who could do it, from sheer religious prin-
ciple. believe you might Sarah. 1t would
be had struggle, and wear you to shadow
in mind and body; but you have a conscience,
and for n woman with heart as soft as pud-
ding, the most thoroughly rigid streak Of duty
in you; none of which Lefty has to depend on.
No; if you want to save her, take her away from
Slepington, take her to Saratoga, to Newport,
20 Washington; turn her small head with gay
ETY.: she is pretty enough to have dozen low.
ers at any watering place; it is only Propinqui-
ty that favors Mr.. Maiden here"
II can't do that, Josephine. have not the
means, and Miss Allis would not have the will,
even if she believed in your prescription"
"Then> Lefty must stay here and bide her
time. You believe in special Providence, Sa-
rah, don't youP'
ayes, oil course do"
"Then cannot you leave her 10 that care?--
Circumstances do not work for you. Perhaps
it is best that she should marry him, suffer, live
love, and be refined by fire."
My heart sunk at the prospect ofthese possi-
bities. Josephine put her arm around me-
"Sally" said she, in her sonest tone, al grev-
ed you dear, this afternoon. did not mean
to. grieve myself most Please forgive me.'
II haven't anything to forgive, Jo," said l..
"What you said to me was true, painfully true,
and being so, for moment panied me.
should have been much happier to be married,
Il know; but now daren't think of it. Ihave
lost great deal. have
... . ---Iost my place
My sweet, safe corner by the household fire,
Behind the heads OF chdreu;'
and yet do not know that have not gained q
little 1t is something 10, to know that | am
not in the power ofa bad, or even an ill-temper-
ed man. can sit by my fire and know that
no one will come home to fret at me,-that /
shall encounter no cold looks, no sneers no
bursts of anger, no snarl of fstnginess, no con-
tempt of my opinion and advice. | know that
now men treat me with respect and attention,
such as their wives rarely, ifever, receive from
them Sensitive and fastidious as am, do
not know whether my gain is not, to me, grca.
ter than my loss. know it ought not to be so,
that it argues vicious, an unchristian, almost
an uncvilzcd state Of society but that does not
affect the facts"
You frghtcn me, Sarah, ! cannot believe
this is always true OF men and their wives.'
Neither is it. Some men are good and
kind and gentle gentlemen, even in their fam.
lies and every women believes the man she is
to marry Is that exception Jo,-bend your
ear down closer--I thought once | knew sucf
a man, ,-and--dear i loved him."
&" My darling!-but Sarah, why"-----
Because as you said, Josey, was too old
| had seen too much; l would not give way t.
an impulse. beat my soul to know him
rang the metal on more than one stonc and ev
cry time it rang false. knew, i'll married hin
| should live and die wretchcd woman. Wa
it not better to live alone"
But, Sarah,-ifhe loved you?"
" lie did not,-enough to hurt himself; h
could not love anything so much better thai
his case to suffer, Josey he was safe Eli
thought, or said, he loved me; but he was mis-
! taken" .. n..A ~ .
: " Safe indeed lie ought to have been shot!
: ." Hush, dear" .,. ...I .u.....
= There was long pause. 1t was as wher
II you lift a wreck from the tranquil sea and let
e fall again to the depths, useles to wave or shore
y the black and CHASTITY hulk is covered it is see
k no more; but the water palpitates with circlin
" rings trembcs above the grave, dashes quic
: and apprehensive billows upon the sand, and
r. long in regaining its quiet surface.
wonder if there ever was perfect man,
IT said Jo at length, drawing deep sigh.
:, "You an American girl, 10, and don't thin
at once ofWashingtonr'
$. "My dear, am bored to death with WASH
st ington q ! Amerfcan man!--how dare yo
is call him man?-don't you know he is mytl
r. an abstraction, plaster ofparis cast? Did yo
y ever hear any human trait ofhis noticed? Wei
emit you brought up to regard him as spec
'r seraph, asublime and stainless figure, inscpart
1t BILE from grand manner and a scroll? Did yo
N ever dare suppose he ate, or drank or kissed h
wife? You started then at the idea: | saw you
ct You are absurd, 10. 1t is true that he
to exactly, among us, what demgods were to IL
e. Grceks--only less human than they. But whe
once get my neck out Of the school yoke,
IN do not start at such suggestion as yours; b
es lieve he did comfort himself as a man of lii
IN passions with others, and was as far from beiI
I'd hero to his alet.de-cha0ljer as anybody"
as BY this time we were at home, and 10 fur
or her parasol on the bench in the porch, and s.
re down besides it with gesture of weariness ar
IN disgust mingled. aR
is 4" Why will you, ofall people, Sarah quo
lit that tinkling superficial trash of proverb
ke papaLly French, when the true reason why
to man is not a hero to his ackey is only becau
no he is seen with lackey's eyes,--thc sight
low convention ridden narrow uneducat,
/, mind unable to takea broad enough view
is see that man is hero because he is q ma
ne becnuse he ovcrleaps the level Of his life, and
e. greater than his race, being one ofthem? III
c. were of the heroic race; what virtue in beil
heroic? it is the assertion OF his trivial life th
or makes his speciality evident, 1.-The shadow tn,
er throws out the bas relief "a We.chatter endles
ly about the immense good Of Washington's 9
ample believe its good would be more tn
lr- double could we be made, nationally, to s
ar b;o oa bn,non N hn ;no iivinu nm ,hunan n 1af,,r