Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-10-20
A Beautiful Sketch.

We select the following beautiful picture
1.r., from recently published address of Rich
tle Education and Influence of Women.
1t will touch the heart of the reader. We
do not often stumble upon so we'll express
ed an idea of woman's true mission:
L fancy young man Just emerging from
the bright elyseum of youth, and commen-
cling the long journey of life. Honest, no.
bic and gifted-the broad world, to his
warm hopes, is In the future scene of afflu-
ence, fame and happiness. Beneath his
active energies business prospers, and as a
consequence, friends come about him. Ere
long, he meets some sensible and amiabls
girl who wins his heart, and who loves and
trusts him in return. He doesn't stop to
ask what the world will saw about the
match In case he marries her. Not he
The world is kicked out of doors, and the
man determines to be the architect of bis
own happiness. He doesn't stop to inquire
whether the girls father is rich in lands
and slaves and coin; but he marries her
for that most honest and philosophic of all
his home in some quiet spot where green
trees wave their summer glories, and where
bright sunbeams fall. Here is the Mecca
of his heart towards which he turns with
more than Eastern alteration. Here is
green island in the sea of life, where rude
winds never assail, and where storms never
come! Here, from the troubles and cares
of existence, he finds solace in the society
of her who is gentle without weakness, and
sensible without vanity. Friends may be-
tray him, and foes may oppress; but when
towards homo his weary footsteps turn and
there beams upon him the olden smile of
welcome, the clouds lift from his oul-thc
bruised heart is restored and the strong
man made whole. | see the man fall into
adversely. Creditors seize his property,
poverty stares him in the face, and he is
avoided on ali hands as a ruinel bankrupt,
When he sees all gone-friends, credit and
property and pcnnilcss, he
seeks his humble home. Nov, does the
wife desert him too! Nay, Verify! When
the world abandons and persecutes the
man, she draws close to his sids, and her
affections is all the warmer because the
evil days come upon him. The moral ex-
cclIcncies of his soul rise superior to the
disasters of fortune. And when she sees
the man sit mournful and dcsolate, like
Themistoclcs by the Household Gods OF
Admetus, hers isthe generous task to COM
fort and console. She reminds him that
misfortune has oft ovcrtaken the wisest and
the best /; that all is never lost while health
I IL, a a
love, to help and to encourage him. The
man listens, his courage rallies, and the
shadows fee from his heart armed once
: moro, he enters the arena OF life. Indus
5 try and energy restore him to competency
fortune smiles upon MIN, friends return
Z and-"Joy mounts exulting on triumphant
wings"
r Again the scene shifts. see the mar
stretched, weak and wasted on bed o
sickness. The anxious wife anticipate.
every want and necessity. Softly her fco
falls upon the carpet, and gently her hanC
I, presses the fevered brow OF the sufferer
:, Though the pale &c gives token of he
own weariness and suffering, yet through
the long watches of each returning night
her yigils are kept beside the loved one
couch. At last disease belcaguers life
: and the physician solemnly warns his pa
C tient that death is surely approaching
He feels it too; and the last words of low
J and trust are addressed to her who is weeI
Il jng beside his diving bed. And, in trutl
o the last hour hath come. ] imagine IT
S y fit time to depart; for the golden su
!, himself has died upon the evenings IA
le horizon, and rosy clouds are bearing hir
i 70 his grave behind the western hills !
I Around the couch of the diving man weeT
c ing friends and kinsmen stand while th
IL minister slowly reads the holy words I
r jIromise II am the Resurrection and III
r iLite, saith the Lord he that beLieretk 0
Ine though he ,Oere dead, y.f shall h ig
ID ind ,choso Eoeh and beLiegeth ia me, sh0
j. I.ever de-"
u Slowly the clock marks the passing m,
IN !nents, and silently the sick mans breath
n bbing away. Slowly the cold waters al
olling through the gateway of life. An
v, ow as the death damp is on the victim
I'd l.row, and the heart throbs its last pulls
D. lions, the glazed eye opens and turns j
er l,ne full, farewell glance of affection upo
IS The trembling weeper who bends over hin
sd nd ere the spirit departs forever, the al
b, Iels hear the pale wife's whisper
Iaaet hee-IW meet thee an HeGren
~ BITTEs BY SNAKE. A boy by the name
,dward Mulligan, whose parents reside
lie kfitchie county, at Petroleum, on the Nor
,l- 'Festern Virginia road. came to his death Ia
e. eek from the bite Of rattlesnake. Tie bC
tb ,as lying on the floor Of the house, near II
- ed OF his father and mother. During Il
~ Light. Mr.. Mulligan discovered that the
ny lgas a snake in the bed in which he was slee
Nv inc and IN the a,tamn, To d;snasch - II ~ :.