New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1859-09-03

height Of pity and tenderness, that, while
it sees and condemns the sin and follv
and uncleanness Of its object, yet broods
over it with an all-shielding devotion, Ia
boring and beseeching and waiting for
its regeneration, upheld above the depths
of suffering and regret by the immortal
power Of love SO fervent, so pure, so
selfforgetting, that it will be milestone
about the necks that disregard it's tender
clasping now, to sink them into bottom
less abyss in the day of the Lord. '"2 @
Now had one long and not unhappy
autumn, lingering winter, desolate
spring, a weary summer, passed away,
and from an ill-unconscious and protrac-
ted wrestling with death Hitty Dimock
awole to find her hope fulflled,-a fair
baby nestled on her arm, and her hus-
band, not all-insensible, smiling, beside
her. ri ..-.-a.. sr.,, .-..- g.. - .....'..
It is true, that, had she died then, Alb
ncr Dimock would have regretted her
death; for, by certain provisions of her
fathers will, in case of her death, the
real estate, otherwise at her own disposal
became trust for her child or children,
and such a contingency i'll suited Mr..
Dlmock's plans. So long as Hitty held
a rood Of land or coin of silver at her
own disposal, it was also at his; but trus-
tees are not women, happily for the world
at large, and the contemplation of that
fact brought Hitty Hyde's husband into
a state of mind well fitted to give him
real JOY at her recovery. al ;, ...
So, for little while, the sun shone on
this bare New England hillside, into this
grim old house. Care and kindness were
lavished on the delicate woman, who
would scarce have needed either in her
present delight; every luxury that could
add to her slowly increasing strength,
every attention that could quiet her fut-
tering and unstrung nerves, was shower
ed on her, and for time her brightest
hopes seemed all to have found fruition.
AS she recovered and was restored to
strength, of course these cares ceased
But now the new instincts of motherhood
absorbed her, and, brooding over the To-
sy child that was her own, carressing it's
waking, or hanging above it's sleep, she
scarce noted that her husbands absences
from home grew more and more frequent
that strange visitors asked for him, that
he came home at midnight oftener than
at dusk. Nor was it till her child was
near a year old that Hitty discovered her
husbands old and rcwakened propensity,
that Abner Dimock came home drunk,
not drunk as many men are, foolish and
helpless, mere beasts Of the field, who
know nothing and care for nothing but
the filling of their Unsuitable Appetite
this mans nature was too hard, too iron
in its moulding, to give way to temporary
imbecility; liquor made him savage, fierce
brutal, excited his fendish temper to its
hight nerved his muscular system, infa-
med his brain, and gave him the aspect
of a devil; and in such guise he entered
his wife's peaceful Eden, where she brood
ed and cooed over her childs slumbers,
with one gripe of his hard hand lifted her
from her chair, kicked the cradle before
him, and, with an awful thought mutter-
ed oath, thrust mother and child into the
entry, locked the door upon them, and
fell upon the bed to sleep away his ca
rouse. u @A&sa i@ 2H a
Here was an undeniable fact before
Hitty Dimock, one she could no way
evade or gloss over; no gradual lesson,
no shadow Of foreboding, preluded the
revelation; her husband was Enthusiastically
savagely drunk. She did not sit down
and cry;-drearily she gathered her baby
in her arms, hushed it to sleep with kiss
es, passed down into the kitchen, woke
up the brands of ash-hidden fire to a
fame, laid on more wood, and, dragging
old Keery's rush-bottomed chair in front
of the blaze, held her baby in her arms
till morning broke, careless of anything
without or within but her child's sleep
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