Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-04-07

promising to love and cherish her forever
Shall l read it to you Arthur Glare ?"
As you will, mother, for my heart is
already broken"
In firm tones she read the touching
words:
Deal gently thou when far away,
Mid stranger scenes her feet shall rove
Nor let thy tcnderr decay
The soul of woman lies in love.
"And shouldst thou wondering mark tear,
uncouciois from her eyclids break
BE pitiful aud sooth the fear,
That mans strong heart eau ne'er partake.
"a mother yields her gem to thee,
On thy true breast to sparkle rare;
The places meath thy household tree,
The idol of her iondest care.
".ind by thy trust to be forgiven,
When judgment walks in terror wild
by all thy treasured hopes of Heaven,
Deal gently with widows child"
All, stern woman probe not too deeply
the bleeding heart! Memory has carried
him back to that bright night, and pic
turcs the peerless beauty of his BRIDE
Now his eye rests upon the pale, wan face
before him, beautiful in its waxen purity,
as the snow-white jasmine-upon the white,
glistening shoulders, now shrunken from
their beautiful ymmetry-upon the closed
eyes and compressed lips and madd ened
by the sight, he rushed wildly from the
house, and wandered all night and next
day till the hour for burial, alone and des-
peratc. Willie seeing his fathers grief,
repeated his mother parting request, that
her own loving mother should deal gently
with her erring husband. The widow was
melted to tears and, kneeling, she prayed
for strength to forgive the man who had
broken the heart of her only child and
strength was given her.
The coffin was lowered into the grave,
and the sod piled above the broken hear
ted Then the stricken woman laid her
hand upon the arm of Arthur Glare, and
said : " My son, return with US. l have
much to say to you" Together the sorrow
ing ones returned to their desolate home
together they mournfully reviewed the
past; and when at night they parted
kindly words spoken and mutual tears shed,
Mrs. Stanley and Willie left by the night
train for the formers home, their hearts
swelling with grief yet in the heart OF
Mrs. Stanley dawned faint hope, that
through the great sorrow that had fallen
upon them, the father of Willie, the idol OF
Carries heart, might yet be reclaimed,
When you have settled your business,
Arthur, come to us-at my quiet home
together we will strive to tread the true
path, so that when this life is over, we may
rejoin our loved one in heaven"
THE MIssIssIpPI.-The Mississippi pos
sesses all the attributes of great and no.
bic stream. Receiving contributions from
such great variety oflarge and far-reach-
ing branches, it is not to be wondered at
that its waters are not of the limpid de-
scription. Flowing through champaign
country uncqualed in point of beauty and
fertility in the uniyerse-through forests
dnsk with the lapse OF centuries, and which
yet resound with the yell Of the aboriginal
Indian under every variety of climate,
from the SHOWS and wildrice lakes of the
north, it trayerses the whole of the tempe
rate zone, and heaves its amazing volume
of waters at the Line.-The primeval for
est, the fairy islet the hoar and castellated
crag, the silent prairie, the mysterious sep
ulchral mound Of a shadowy race long
since passed away, the dwellings and works
of civilized race, the advancing wave of
an energetic people, destined to go forth
from the first meridian and encompass the
world these are features worthy of a river
such as the Mississippi. And while its
wild luxuriance remains unchecked and
unmodifed by the hand of man, it is not
strange that its occasionally erratic waters
should, under burning sun, send forth
pesticntial exhaltations, destructive, in
instances to life itself. Such evils will dis
appear before the improvements of the
white man, His industry will behold one
of its rewards in the subjoction of those un~
doubted hinderances to many, who, these
things apart, would rejoice to fill up a re-
gion which offers so many decided adyan-
tagcs to themselves and their offspring.
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