The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-08-29

there she sat, gazing at his altered face
with unchanged unalterable, undyihy lore
She gave him a teaspoonful Of his medi
cine.
who is that" he vainly said, trying
to open his eyes.
| "lt is ], Pierre. your own Louise, your
wife. your friend" she replied, quite unable
to hide her feelings.
"Leaye mel" cried the young workman:
VI Am not worthy of your affection, OF your
love. Abandon me to my fate, for have
shanlfnlIy sinned against you"
but what could provoke you to driuksoa'
"l do not know, unless il was fear OF
ridicule. They treated me rs il was a hen
pecked husband before marriage, and 10
show was not, went"
"WeiI, you won't do it again, will youi"
said Louise kindly.
"Do yon forgive me! asked Pierre in
low tone.
IL do"
"Do you love mel lie continued moro
anxiously.
Pierre, you know do" she answered,
gazing at him with eyes beaming with aiTec.
! ton.
"And you will be my wifei"
II you make haste and get WE'LL"
Bless you, my own louise. vow,
gentle girl, that the same shall never hap
! pen again. | will have more courage and
more resolution--''
"Be yourself, that is all that is needed, !"
replied tho young girl in cheerful tone.
But my work-what will they think Of
me Mt the Officer
"Don't fret about that. will 90 there
tomorrow morning and say that you have
been very i'll, and will excuse your alb.
sence."
And SO she did, and when she came back
with message from the editor, saying that
he was not to hurry himself, but get strong
aud we'll, he felt happy because this was the
natural reward Of his former good conduct.
! With a very clever doctor, a patient and
kind nurse, Pierre Dupont soon came
round, and though still a little pale and
thin, was married on the very day origin
| ally fixed. Louise insisting on keeping her
promise. The young man soon returned
TO his work, and having suffered severely
for moment of weakness, took his lesson
in good part, and made it influence his
future life. Having abandoned the use of
ST ong drink, and renounced his former
drinking companions, he found so much Joy
! aud happ ness in his home, besides his
healthy. blooming, and industrious little
w'ie; he fourd so mrch genuine delight in
pleasures shared in common with the one
ft ing pa tner Of our JOYS and sorrows; he
looked tacS with so much deep gratitude
To her forgiveness Of his fol!ies; his earnest
endeavoIs were always made to promote
his interior comfort, and to look first in all
things Ia his wife aad family, thus proving
hmseIf-on Of tie men who i'm this world
can appreciate the value and merit that
rich treasure Of Woman's Love.
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WOMEN MORE SECRET THAN WE SUP
PosE~-AN the Year Roand promulges a
new doctrine on this subject: 1--WE laugh
at the woman's tongue, and wonder when
woman keeps secret; but every true
woman keeps box of choice reserves for
her own private indulgence. The man
! mysteries are not hers; if he cannot keep
them to himself, let him expect them to be
blown abroad. Her own secrets of love,
of loss, of self-denial, Of unsupported suffer
ing, no woman exposes alto, ther, even to
her nearest friend. There never lived a
husband happy in the true love OF his wife
who fairly knew all the depths of her mind
about him. Every man profits stupidity by
the wise little perceptions that arise so
quietly and have no utterance, except in
deeds, of which We vaguely ascribe the lit
ness to special faculty called woman s tact.
Women, III short, keep to themselves four
I hiths OF the secrets Of society, and do it
with winning air of irankness all their
own. n man with secret Will be stony
portentous, or proyokingly suggestive, he
Will keep his mouth shut oSteutatiously. a
woman is too absolutely secret to set up a
public sign over whatever may lie buried
in her mind. She gossips, prattles, pours
out what she does not care TO hold, with
such an air of unreseryed simplicity that
all mankind is mystified, and says, in friend
ly jest, y woman only hides what she
don't know Among the uncducated poor,
this difference between the woman and the
, man is most conspicuous. The innate pow
( crs OF her sex place her at once upon an
( cmincnce which man can only reach by
education She must needs often be tied
to one in whom there is not the grain of
understanding requisite to the formation of
true sympathy by far the greater mum.
Der of the wives Of the unskillcd laborcrs
and mechanics live more or less happily,
, and more or less conscious of the hidden
life within them, having such seal upon
their minds and hearts"
>s.
INDUSTRY IN JAMAICA.-Tbe last num-
Der of the London Economist has the fol.
lowing table Of the exports from Jamaica
of unrefned sugar for the year 1885 to
1850, inclusive. Though the population
Of that island has increased about ne hun
( drcd thousand since the act Of en- lncipa-
ton, yet the production of one Of Ter main
products of industry has fallen off nearly
threo-fourths since 1885 The cause OF
that We leave TO others for explanation.
/ EIports Of uarcfaed sugar iron, Jan,aico
Poupds