The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-06
JOHN SMITH.
A Tale with a HoEal-..E Pretty Coed
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John smith sat at his; table, In tn,
lowest depths Of dmAthy eoal-mine
and helped himself 10 safle mere porl
| and be1ns. / know not Int there va,
way down In the black feceases Of th.
mans hidden soul TO mako him wan
50 mhch pork and beans. ]. look intC
my heart 70 Gnd an answer to the queS
! ton, hut no answer coEnee. ProvidenC,
does not reveal ail things % Us. Is 4
not well it should be SqIS
He was q hard, Iibn-loQldng, ada-
mainline man. His'0f were glowing
furnaces for the efHe o. fbbngllt
You felt that hf ben he
looked ut YOU ~
fotliIb t0tsHt iollit lltl8g Jf0ken
nngles Of suElisd sn0R. his mouth
was the cellar of that tower. His hair
was OF tho sort TINT reslsts a comb.
You have seen the same sort ON the
heads Of men Of great thought. It d
the tangled bush in which the goat Of
Thought loses Itself.
John Smith hlecupped, hs he helped
himself to some more pork and beans.
He did not notice that thelloo which he
had semi-consclously placed on q pa1e,
sickly child, was beginning 70 move.
But II did move, and there crawled
from under Il the shape of u diseased
dwarf Of WomaniioOd. This tlIlidl
pallid thing, uplifted itselft0its bleed
Ing feet, and nestled 70 tho side Of John
Smith. 49,
j"Y'o hue heeHseparated By unspeak-
ing space from dis humble leetle place
for some hours lOngeKtlInt Zis bOOsom
could nncomplainingly hdure, ,-E'o
have" adsl rhE
The child meant to shy, In Its coarse,
brutal, uHlttlered way, that the mann
had been absent too long.
John Smith helped himself to some
more pork and beams lie was y man,
you know, and could not answer with
ont deep Thought, He took his knife
and wiped It thoughLfully ppOn her
head, and then sawed oif1 sickly yell
low curl, When he placed that curl on
the same plate with the pork and beans,
its coils seemed like those Of some gOl-
den snake.
"GIrlctta pho sdid with the ring OF
IRON in IIisit tones, y'VSlyi is IL TINT the
beasta never want to mnrry2 God made
them us He mHde US yet they never
ask priests to mako them slaves to each
other" grr
The 'sitkly Httlc walfcriIle led closerto
that inscrutablc great heart which nn-
derlaid soul OF eternal questioning.
She shuddered like wounded hog, but
could not answer. An inward fever
The man took some more pork and
beans. "Girletta," he said, almost
6orcely, "the beasts teach me q lesson !;
but will not, dure not, SHALL not heed
some one to work for luef u support
me. I atn weary Of la96Fs aid Want
solne one 10 labor and t0ll and sEifi ert Tor
me, aud do my Waship8, AilVNe you.
HhvO ME" 81 a- it
The atom of womanhood cOntorted
her diseased features into the pale twist
Of agony, and her bosom heNSed with
stormy wnviRgs, like theside OF n tor
tured and choking brute. Falling to
tho ground, she writhed, and struggled,
and kicked convulsiyely, MS though
seized with someinward pang. Then sho
rOsealowly to her shattered little feet,
md drew an old cupboard to the mid
die OF tho wretched cave and heat ler
hend ngainst IL.
II was the Ghild'S first taste OF that
grent mystery Of perfect love which
woman i doomed TO share with tho
hing called Man.
"Y'o air indulging in secret Cacliin-
nation, at the expense OF my sair
heart"
The child meant TINT he was lnugh-
Ing nt her.
John Smith helped himself to some
more pork and beans, and sat back In
rs stern, dark chair; What were his
thoughts MS he lookeddown on thatmin-
iature fragment of womanly humanity
Perhaps he thought that there might be
angels way up In heaven just like her.
Bright seraphs, with ruby eyes, and
silver wings, and golden harps, and just
such pale, haggnrd, gaunt, sunken,
blenred little ilces.
"Girletta,p he said, II hereby make
thee mine. Take some Of these pork
and Deans fIal
She fell upon his bosom.
think @ there were any less happy, be-
vse a,,iess sS coniNs Iysra IN" ,Oo GFe ,vn:
their souls away 10 give others warmth
II you think 50, you have never felt
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