The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-12

BURLINGTON WEI
and / shouehf they had both had quite
enough OF excited elnot iona1 feeling. Non
SENSE" was my; unfeeling reply ~ have
only done my duty BY him, and he was
gcod Gaze, And n.y. Mss ye se you pep
and take yourself Oh without any more
last words. Ny patient y getting e FEVER
ish and excited as can be, and shall hAve
him awake all night tossing about tin be
makes his leg bad. You may come - To.
morrow morning. and bring clean apron
and q knife and fork with you: And III
jobs which you may tnd useful when
you're married. shall have George
moved into the little inner ward, and you
may e.op and have h bit Of dinner with
him II You like. But be OF now. Pm the
mos: savage and ill.tempAred Of head nur-
ses IL anybody dares to disobey me"
Jessie and Dilworth both laughed, but
shawl and bonnet, and hade him brief
goodbye. geb soc fa. ssaE vs.
The next morning saw Jessie early at
The hospital, and with her Georges mother.
A kiad oSawsRgyieEand-s teEn Joy stEug-
glod for the mastery on the old wOman's
fade-a face so like nilworth q that should
have known her anywhere Tor his mother,
and only wanting the sons lRht-hearted
mobility and brightness Of feature, which,
now he had regained Jesse, shone out
again "a conspicuous characteristics. A
square, 6rm-se. face vas the mother's,
which would have been hard and gloomy
but for the lustrous, passionete, dark eyes
that shone forth from under her thick gray
eyebrows. The face of the woman stern
by nature, made sterner by her long. lone
~ battle with poverty and griefs, and only
redeemed from absolute hardness by the
reality and intensity Of her affections, re-
have sinred." she repeated several
times, a. she satduring that long, warm
summer afternoon by her sons bedside, s.
Dear motherY What do you mean ~
said George, soothingly. He was evident
" much attached to his mother. although
mauifessing certain reserve towards her.
provoked You to wrath. George. an
swexed the old woman, severely; but the
severity was for herself now, not for him.
|. 4 made you go wrong. I, that was bound
to train you mp in the way you should CO.
+ You trained me just q thought too tight,
dear mother observed George, with q
ouaintness that made Jessie and myself
smile. But the mothers gravity was IN
moved: shs s xss sl bent on full and thor
I've lived sixty-two years in the world
she said, and I've tended for my lad thro'
q sight Of trouble
AYE, that you have, mother, interposed
George, with grateful emphasis.
And at the end OF it all I've been his
ruin. Near ruined his soul, and sore hurt
his body. It's just been on account of my
pride and harshnsss that all this has come
about
NO, no, mother. You shan't say that
again Interrupted the son, eagerly. "Twere
my faul: deal more than yours. You've
been good mother to me-
=. mo. lad resumed the mother, mex ora
bly,, y was the oldest, and the one who was
'sponsible forever. II you'd had . mother
after the make o Jessie here, you'd not ha'
Rs right / should say it. The Bible says,
Honor to whom honor is DUE George
and ], we've both been wrong,-I most.
George he was willful, and, poor boy, he's
broke his leg and had to lose Il. And I've
been proud and hard. and 80 God has just
taken my pride and broken it too, like
Georges leg. He's made me see that this
! slip Of a girl here, whom ! nursed before
man than I, and will be q safer stay and
support for my own boy than ever his hard
old mother was. And 90, Jessie, girl, you
take him with his mothers blessing, and
I'll stand by while you learn me 70 be hum
BILE and meek. And now, children, we'll
talk O sotnethiu' else, she concluded, with
certain imperative and not ungraceful
command, and precluded all reply. II was
very certain that the humility was deep
and true, though it was at present some
what bitter. And think we all regarded
the old woman after tha. hard-wrung con.
tession with tenderness and a reverence
which nothing else would have won from
us with such deep and lasting sincerity.
About six months from that day they
were married, and not long after paid
then, visit in their new home. Jessie
was doing famously With her dressmaking.
The mother lived, not with them, but very
close st hand; he devoted 20 her SON as ev-
er, and much softened aseyer. George wAs
bidding fair to become q successful Shoe
maker, and was steady, blithe and con-
tented. 4 shade Of solicitude mingled
with his attectionate attentions to his wife,
as If he haa it ever on his mind to try and
make up TO her fer his former conduct, aud
10 induce her TO forget the past. AS for
Jessie, her sweet, forgiving temper seemed
ITO find no diff Guilty at all in DOING this.
They were all united and happy Jessie not
the least happy Of the group: and she said
50 openly In her frank, glad way.
Indeed, and we arc happy" responded
Dilworth, earnestly, '..and it's all along O.
Jessie, ma'am. (" he added, with grateful
nod towards his wife.
II think you're right, Dilworth," said I;
i remember your telling me in the hospi-
tai that she would be worth u leg TO yon.n
Aye, indeed, aud werep': a bit mig
taken" he replied with energy; "and if i
had 10 choose between losing the other one,
too, or losing Jessie, I'd Oft with the leg to-
morrow. She's worth the pair OF them,
and no mistake
Her price is far above rubies.' 1t was
after al the same idea expressed in the
homely phrase of an English working
man, which the inspired King Lemuel had
Icing ago recorded IN poetic, eastern dictior.
Worthy Of that grand old book in whose
histories good women play no inconsider-
able part.-UOoI Words.
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& THE FIRST IowA.--The detachment OF
Is men Of Co.'S. A, G and *, ist Iowa cav
airy, under Lieut.. Perry, which has been
stationed at this place about three weeks
past, left for Jefferson City on Tuesday,
Their upright conduct and soidierly bear.
ing. their important services in moment
Of great peril, is duly appreciated and will
long be remembered by our citizens.
On their departure the Tigers', were