The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-02-23
No 28.

1ney were married. lney were happFF hLN
the early months glided away like lhg vanish
ing pageantry of a dream.
Before the year was over, he had returned
to his affairs; they were important and pressing,
and occupied more and more of hs ime. But
every evening, as he FASTENED back to her side,
she felt the WEAKNESS of absence more than REQ
paid by the delight Of his presence. She sat
at his feet, and sang to him, and pga,tled away
the remnant of care that fingered lib bis mind.
But his cares multiplied. The happiness of
many families depended en- him His affairs
were vast and complicated, and taey kept him
longer away from her All the day, while
was amidst his bales of merchandise, she
roamei along the banks of seQuestersd stream
weaving bright fancy pageantres. or deglsing
airy gayetes with which to charm als troa6ed
spirit. A bright and sunny being, she comPra-
hended nothing of care. Life was aooundlng
in her She knew not the disease 5t reflection;
she felt not the perplexities of life, To sing
and to laugh; 10 leap the stream and DeoEoa
him to leap after her, as he USED in she OLD
lover days, when she would conceal herself
from him in the folds of water lily to taa.al-
ize and enchant him with THOUSAND gaproious
coquetries-this was her idea oi bow they
should live; and when he gently refused to join
the serious work that awaited him. she raised
her soft blue eyes to him in baby 99nderments
not omprehending what he mean, but acqui-
escing, with sigh, because be said IT,
She acquiesced, but soft sadness fell apoa
her. Life to her was love, and nothing more.
A soft sadness also fell upon him Life d him
was love, and something more: and he saw
with regret that she did not comprehend H. Lle
e J. hu,r- Nor
ally shutting him out from her. llahe visited
him during the day, she found herself a hjn.-
drance, and retired When h came 10 her
at sunset he came pre0ccupied. She sa, ag
his feet, loving his anxious face lilo raised
enderly the golden ripple of laFeIinesa tnat
fell in rnglets on her neck, and tissed her so,E
beseeching eyes, but there was something In
his eyes, a remote look, as if his s9gl were ajar
busy with other things, which made her !it,is
heart almost burst with uncompreAended Iea
ousy.
She would steal up to him at Zines when he
was absorbed in calculations, and throwing
her arms around his neck WOO h,m from his
thought smile, revealing love 10 its very
Depths would brighten his anxious face az for
moment he pushed aside the world, and con-
centrated all his being in one happy feeling.
not win his life; she could charm, she could rot
occupy him! The painful truth came slowly
over her. as the deepening shadows Tall upon
sunny day, until at last it is night night with
her stars of infinite beauty but without the
lusre and warmth of day.
She dropped; and on her couch Of sickness
her keen-sghted love perceived through all
his neffable tenderness, that sarle remotenass
in his eyes, which proved that, even as he sat
there, grieving and apparently absorbed in her
there still came dim remembranca Of care to
vex and occupy his soul.
/ ''It were better were dead, she thought.
II am not good enough foE him" Poor child
| Not good enough, because her simple nature
knew not the manifold perpIexitiess the hindran
ces of incomplete life! Not gooa enough, be-
cause her whole life was centred in one whcss
! life was scattered!
| And so she breathed herself away aad Left
! her husband to all his gloom Of care, made
tenfold darker by the absence Of those CLEANS
of tenderness which before had fli1l.y irradia-
ted life The night was starIess. and he alone.
This is the epilogue! Apply it.
! THE NEBULAR THEoRy.-The startling hyl
pothess of La Place-that ours aud other
! worlds were formed by the az ~ '..8n arh
condensation of an attenuated ne5uIous mat
ter that peryades all spaGe-was strongly ia -
yored by the seeming fact that the EemarE"ota
nebuIe in Orion and others we're lnehoals
worlds undergoing the process through which
ours had passed. When the great telescope
of lord Roose was directed to these neuulse, lt
WAS announced that it resolved them mo q
multitude of distinct minute stars ana thls dfs'
coVery was regarded as a damagng blow TO
the nebular theory of creation. But Jae aa-
vocates of that theory did not yield q point
they considered it fortified by sufficient
reasoning and phenomena, even II every
nebula in the heavens should in Ike manner
/ be resolved into stars; and some oi them de-
MED that any such result had been attained by
! lord Rosse' instrument We perceive that tie
distinguished American astronoTlar professor
/ Mitchell adheres to La Places theory. lu
recent lecture delivered by him in New York
city, on the subject of comets, h Is reported
BY the Commercial Advertiser a saying:
Comets are a mystery We simply knew
nothing about them. In speaking O Jae ap
pearance OF these nebular bodies, professor d
| confessed that he was disposed 70 receive the
nebulous hypothesis as presenting yde most
satisfactory way of accounting for TIE cosno-
/ graphy of the universe. twas no alheisuca. .
! idea, but the greatest that ever filed lie hu-
man mind. do not say postivev this hypo-
thesis is true, but | announce here tonight
that the evidence in favor Of is stronger taan
was the evidence in favor of the law 20. gragi-
tation at the time of Newton's death"
TIE ARMY OF PovERrY.-Y yesterday The first
business day OF the new year, the department
of the out door poor in Park ra.uada. vas
besieged by applicants for help. 5bey crowd
ed about the door, nearly filing the large space
between Chambers street and tn open park.
and though they were admitted ard rag.s.er-
ed as fast as possible, yet the throag diminish
ed but little far into the day, and Presaatad
long and dismal panorama Of pale and pils6-
ed faces, shocking bad hats. ditto coats, faded
shawls and tattered hoods. A large proper
ton Of the importunate crowd were females
and many of them had children il their arms,
with which affecting arguments i was eoPed
TO move the superintendent's cQnPasstoa---
which however, needs no such appeal. The