Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-09-15

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interior of Wisconsin,, about t!lirty-tivt
miles northwest Of Madison, and is tht
v sent Of Justice Of Sauk County. 4 pop
ulation Of two thousand is claimed for it
and years ago 1t was a lively business
town, aud generally considered to pos
isess most Gattering prospects iur futurc
tgreatness. 1t is dead now--yery dead :
and all its admirable natural advantage.
are worth but little to 1t In its deser.
ton and decay. No railroad. This tells
the.story. t.#s
But | have peculiar affection for
the quiet, staid old town, which will re-
main as long as my heart beats. Fifteen
years ago my parents brought me here,
: quite a boy, and here I grew to man.
hood and took my aims in life.
/ 1t is a dark morning, the rain having
been falling all night, and it is as still
and quiet as Sabbath day at home.--
The distant notes of an unmusical frog,
the occasional clicks fthe blacksmith +
hammer, and the lazy buzzings of in
Vulnerable flies, are about oil the sounds
, that reach me. My mind goes back In
a sort OF n dreamy reverie over the past,
and call up scenes of long ago, the
Joys and sorrows of youth, the familiar
haunts, and the unforgotten faces. i
am almost like a stranger in a strange
, land there are few to greet me, and the
town has grown old and changed I
am disappointed. Before came ! could
bring to my mind u panoramic view of
] the old place and it's people, and now 1
see the picture was very unlike was
! indeed as it was, not at all as it is.
i When here thought that there was
never any change in Baraboo, that it
was the same year in and year out,
dry old town into which nobody ever
moved and from which nobody ever
went away. II
.:.But not:so; theiold population has been
succeeded in part, babes have grown to
men and women, death and marriage
have removed many, sapp,ings have
grown to great over-arching trees, dwell |
ings have grown old or growa Rew, and
the Baraboo of o-daylis not the Bara- |
boo Of ten years ago. Wonder, up the |
street on the left, is the house where / I
| last saw my father alive; over the tops !.
of the trees there l catch sight of the old /
school house where went TO school,
and where l built the fires for fifty /
cents q week; right over there winds
the beautiful Balaboo river in which 4 Il
learned to swim and tried TO fish OUT
of this window can sec the very seot |
where rolled OFF the pony that had
begged to ride to water, though didn't 7
get hurt so bad "a III. A. did when his
horse stepped into an old hat-aluck the
day; around the corner here is the old
house where we lived so long, now
almost hidden Try $ines aud trees and
weeds-poor old neglected place and
right here where am sitting is the old
Republic office wherein l learned to be
a printer and prepared myself to be
your Junior, dear GAZETTE. . ...,
But shall not tire you with these
personal recsollectiohs, they being that
OF which you know nothing, and pro-
badly care very little. Your sympa-
thetic nature, however, will excuse me !, =,
for such Ga have permitted myself to
trouble you with, considering, as you ,
VIII, that have no other confident than :
you--none but you to take into the rich
love corridors of my heart, deserted
heart! By the way, l never told you
elia i, SHY you had re- Mrs. Junior 10
love you too? Well, will tell you :
now, but you must be mum as it is one
of the secrets which / am particularly .
anxious should be kept from the ears of :
Mrs. Gt7indy, and the pretty girls of a :,
place 1 wot Of .'-t ". a..
Well. was young and ardent, you
know--O, dear, l am most ashamed to
tcll!--and at the age Of nineteen I was
SO desperately in, love with such witch
of brown-eyed girl that l could not
sleep o nights. / can see the door, now,
where so many tisaea tfemblingly and
blustfingly approached to inquire if
Miss Sue was in. How nay poor, weak !
-boyish heart would palpitate. am
stronger and Drawer now; I've seen tiae
folly Of girls and the instability of wo-
man, and long since, my dear GAZETTE,
gave nay affections to you, in whom =
there is no variance norshadow of turns
ing. Well the little spritc, Sue, with
her protestations of Everlasting devotion,
hardly practiced what she preached.
though thst.she neglected me for Tom
Jones and really preferred Simon Smith
to both of us. l spoke to her of obliga-
tions and she laughed me into foolish
ness, and sent me home fully persuaded
[ was a jealous biockhead, and above
ali-othegs possessed Of her heart that for
me she would live and without me she |,
would in all probability die. was very |
happy about this time Finally went
from home and.was gone year. l heard
from Sue occasionally and no letter ever
failed to set me swinging like a pendu-
lum between hope and fear, till one day
she wrote that Tom Jones was to be her
man, and to be her friend. l was very
sick after this and came near dying
n vigorous constitution, however, cav
ed me from the grave. ~. L
"Last night in emptying Uut ray desk
i found a lock of hair .......
II had q scent OF roselands oil,
And, Q twas long and fair
Miss sue, '. -#. -e'. 20
And, o. Twas long and fair. .....
This is that remains 10 me Of Sue,
and tho | have mot wholly conqured
,nly love for her, haye,eyery reason to
jpel, mt ~ S.,