Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-02-03
WHOLE NUMBER 81.

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her person she was blooming and beauii<
fIl as Hebe. She had but a faint reeof-
lection Of her father to damp her happi-
ness and she had no other source of un<
easiness. Her mother was beginning to
lose in the endeaFmentsof her children, the
bitter recoTlections of his dssertion, when
like the bird Of III omen he returned to
coavince them that their tranquility was
built on a sandy foundation.
Margaret received her husband as shs
thought peniteut (for such he appeared
to Be,) should be received, and as her
gentle nature prompted. The peniteness
however, which had imposed upon her
was but assumed, and having possessed
himself of all the money which his daugh-
ters could raise, and induced his wife to
mortgage her small property for his use,
he.again deserted his family. This sec
ond desertion was perhaps more deeply
felt than the first By this injured woman,
and she saw not why she should not be
permitted to sink under the burden which
she had carried SO l0ng, and which she
now felt to be heavier than She could
bear. But murmuring and impatisncs
endured but for a moment with Margaret,
whilst patience and courage under mis-.
fortune we're habilual to her, and she
soon returned to her accustomed habit Of
industry which her husband late draughs
on her had rendered more necessary than
ever. Two years had elapsed since her
husbands second desertion, when INTEL
figence was brought her that he was dy1
ing, and in want of every comfort. Mar
garet was too infrm and delicate TO un4
dertake a long journey, added to which,
her eldest daughter, who had been lcng
gradually sinking under Ill health and
misfortune, was now too I'll for her to
leave. 1t was therefore deereed thatths
mothers darling Phebe should carry
comfort and assistance to her unworthy
and unfortunate father. Phebe had never
been from home i her life, and this was
melancholy commencement of her traT1
els bat they were destined to be fsRand
short in this world. Her sagerhess to
be With her father and to supply. his
necessities, caused her to Overrate her
strength, and she travelled with a rapidi<
ty which being unaeeustomed to, she vas
unable to bear. Is was on the fourth
day Of her travel that she arrived on tbs
banks of the river on the opposite side Of
which her father was. It was in Deem
Der and heavy rain falling, which frOzs
as it fell The gentleman under whose
care she was travelling endeaEored to dis
suade her from crossing the river that
night, bntznOthing would induce her to.
remain so near to her father and not Be.
with him. She therefore insisted on
crossing, which she did in an open boat,
and exposed to all the inelemency Of the.
night. But she arrived too late; her
father had expired in the morning of that
day. The shock was in a great measure
unexpected BY her, for she vas too new
to the world to be prepared for disap--
pOintment, or to look on the dark. side Of
the picture, and her sanguine temper al
ways induced her to huild her airy easr
ties on the sunny side of futuritk5 She
therefore had busted herself in picturing
her father S recovery and consequent ref
OrmatiOn. Her distress rendered her
neglsctful of her own wants, and having
remained in her wet clothes all nigHt,shg
was too i'll the next morning to pay the
last duties to her fathers remains. Hss
illness was long, painful, and. among
strangers, but she at length recovered
sufficiently to stand her long journey
home, where she was welcomed With
joy as unbounded as their grief had been
at her detention. Bat their JOY was Of
short duration, for the quick eye. Of afec-
ton saw that this first absence was but
prelude to a much longer one She was
indeed in rapid and confirmed decline,
and although she used all the various
remedies prescribed for her she was hope
less from the first, of her recovery. Her
presentiment was but too trRe, for in
three months after her return she expir-
ed. Her mother still survives, but it is
easy to see that this last blow has brought
her some steps nearer 10 her final rest
ing place, and that she looks upon this
world and the things of it as mere shad-
ows compared to that world Of realities
to which she is Fastening.
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vrcrors To persist IN kissing pretty
black eyed girl when she resoTutely declares
she don't want you to. -ItlOoks as though
you wouldn't take her word.
John, why don't you stop crying and 60
to sleep2 What do you want? I've got
the tooth-oche-thats what want
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