The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-03-03

We select the following beautiful pic
| ture from recently published address of
| Richard.V. Cook, Esq, Of Columbus, Tex
as, on the "Education and influence of
| Women" 1t will touch the heart of the
reader. We seldom stumble upon so well
expressed an idea of woman's true mis-,
sion
Il fancy a young man just emerging
from the bright elysium of youth, and
commencing the journey of life. Honest,
noble and gifted---the broad world to his
warm hopes in the future scene of atllu-
ence, fame and happiness. Underhis ac-
tive energies business prospers, and as a
consequence friends come about him.
Ere long he meets a sensible and amia-
bic girl who wins his heart and loves and
trusts him in return. He doscn't stop to
ask what the world will say 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
own happiness. He doesn't stop to in
quire whether the girls father is rich in
lands, slaves or gold but he marries her
for the most honest and philosophic Of all
reasons--becausc he loves her lie
builds his home in some quiet spot, where
green tress wave their summer glories
and where bright sunbeams fall. Here
is the Mecca Of his devotion, towards
which he turns with more than Eastern
alteration. Here he is green island in
the sea Of life, where rude winds never
asSaiI and storms never come. Here,
from the cares ad troubles of existence he
finds sOlace in the society of her who is
gentle without weakness and sensible
without vanity. Friends may betray him
and foes may oppreSs but when towards
home his weary footsteps turn, there
beams upon him golden smiles Of welcome
the clouds lift from bis soul--the bruis-
ed heart is restored and the strong man
made whole. | seethe man fall info ad-
|ofsiiy creditors Saz Shis-rf0perty, pow
erty strTgS him in the face, and he is
avoided ON all hands as a ruined bank
upt. When be sees aH gone---friends,
credit and propcrty-grief-stricken and
pennilesS lie seeks his humble home.-
Now does the wife desert hin, too (! Nay,
verify When the world abandons and
porsecutes the man, she draws closer to
his side, and her affections are all the
warmer because the evil days have come
upon bim. The moral exeelleneies other
soul rise superior to the disasters of for
tune. And when she sees the man mourn
ful and disconsolate, like Themistocles
by the houahold gods Of Admetbus, hers
is the task to comfort and console. She
reminds him that misfortune has oft over
taken the Wisest and the best; that all is
never lost while health and hope survive;
that she is still near to love and eBeour-
age him. The man listens, his courage
rallies, and the shadows flee from his
heart armed once more he enters the
arena Of life. Industry and energy re-
stores him to competency fortune smiles
upon him, friends return, and
"Jcy mounts exult;ng on triumpht wings"
again the scene shifts. | see the
man stretched weak and wasted on bed
of sickness. The anxious wife anticipates
every want and necessity. Softly her
foot falls on the carpet, and gently her
hand presses the feyered. brow of the suf-
ferer. Though the pale face gives eyi-
dence of her own WEAKNESS and suffering, |
yet through the long watches Of each re-
turning night her yigils are kept beside
the loved ones couch. At last disease
beleaguers the fortress Of his life, and the |
golemnly warns his patient that
death is approaching he feels it too, and |
the last words Of love and trust are de-
dressed to her who is weeping beside his
dying bed. And in truth, the last hour
hath come. l imagine it fit time to adj
part, for the golden sun himself has died |
upon the evenings fair horizon, and |
rosy clouds bear him to his grave beyond
the western hills! Around the couch of
the dying man weeping friends and kind
while the minister slowly reads |
the words Of promise
80 am the Resurrection and the Life,
saith the Lord he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live;
and whosoeyer iveth and belieyeth i'll me
shall never die
Slowly the clock marks the passing
and silently the sick mans life
is ebbng away. Slowly the cold waters
are rolling through the gatcways of life
and now, MS the death damn is on the vie |
fms brow, and the heart tlirobs it's last
pnlsations, the glazed eye opens in one
full, farewell glance of fatfectionupon the
trembling weeper who bends over him,
and ere the spirit departs forever, the an
gels hear the pale wife whisper" III meet |
thee-lll meet thee in heaven |"
There is pbrenologist in London who |
can tell the contents of harrel by ex-