The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-02-08

fur paltry sum; but he had not the sam |
which eonid'buy II. Three hundred dollars
Is a-pitiul amount, hlt tor want Of it Mar
ian heat was beginning 70 petrify. Mar |
ian did what she eeuli Il was but little; |
that which she could not do was killing her. |
lie could make no provisions for wife or
child-there was none in bis power. He
would leare them IN the care of lin who
fed the ravens The morning c1mc Mhea
john Elmer was to !eare his hoase-d-rk /
and rainy---colt. and OH 50 dre1ry. fIe
tfClt that Il was for the last time. lie parted
from Narian--0h, what paTtiEgl So
wretchod. so sorrowfull Ii was just ike a
soul torn from the boiy-he locked into her
face-he sss nothing but anguish; and that
strange stiffness which sometimes comes
inaccountably over children was upon Grace.
Ha sna,chcl himself aw1y-he dared not
look BACK. Marian took up her child, close
aC0iRst her bosom, so close it struggled 10
ttt'tree, and turned anil went in. H.
4 rich st6ckholder remarked at dinner
that day, baying paid SIX hunirol for his
Two .ons TiThat coPpelheal Elmer went
torlay--oaali not raise thu '>plaluGeks. =,
Good enough for him-ho might have vol
teeTed long ago" -tFtnHift n"' -'1nr .a'.
Such sympathy hYl Marian. ' l". n
Weeks 1Rl months passed on 1t was
lroary with Marian, OH 20 lonely, She
h1l nothing bpt Trace now She heard
from Joha bnt seldom. 1t was very seldom
he scnt heFIuoncy, foT the wages Of draft
ed man arc not wonderful, aud it was hard
to make the cHas inert The Writer was
come on, and everything was going up; her.
house rent hal fallea due, ana she was in,
need of wood StranR. what changes are
wrought in so short tine. From modest
ease Marisn was coming to want--it might
be to suffering or staivation--shc could not
tell She left her baby and went ont to
hunt work She had her sewing machine,
and she could sew She had not counted
the iiiheulEes1 Her husband wasa drafted
mana "hutternut they had no thing for
her do. They gave their work to the lami-
lies Of Uhion vomhteer34 , NEiani looked
meant Was her husbands belief 4 re-
proach? VAST adj graco tobe drafted?--
| Il SOFT fell upon him. She was proud.
! and found Grace CRYING for her; and the
room cold, her pride began to give way to
! lespare One day came letter to Marian.
| She real it tcaressly, but il was the wedge
that, driven sharply in, divided the already
{
John telling how he had been unah!e to
/ bear the rough usages of war how Ihe had
| fallen i'll, and After lying lony time IN the
| hospital, had aibd He should have written
her before, Mt had bceh Separated tr6ti
John on detached service during his SICK
ness. Then spoke Of his 'gailantry, his
! close observance of his assumed duties, &c
/ But what mattered all this to Marian? He
was dead--f1e was gone--Shs could never,
never see his dear face again She would
/ never be held in his arnlS--n2ver feel the
| pressure of his kiss He was dead, and
Grace was fathcrless. But Maran's grief
was silent. Shero M and took up her
| burlcn, and thotght she would live for the
| little one BUTT was hard work to ike. -
| She got some little work to do, bat she
could only rent one room now, and b9rciy
| keep them in food. Sometimes they had
no fire for an entire day. Even Marian )
health suffered, and the chId took a severe
cold that eniledin3 the Group and Terminated
| it's little life. Marian thought she had Sut-
| tcred her full measure Of loss, but >Mhen
! this last aRd-enly treasure was, taken away.
! the last tie that bound her to this life was
! bfoken.g ~ hst Wa country tegbeg? IN all
| It's Ienkthand breadth : she had mote to loye
her-no spot in its boundaries she could caIl
her home What was it to her that the
country should be saVsd2 She, was dying
Of grief aud staryatop' 4, ( iIiaH
Work became scarce and hard to get
Some one was always before her One by
one, shessold all her little articles of. value-
lsposedof all tliose.htt}e thing which had
made her rooms SO pleasant when she and
John ard baby were all so happy together.
Then, when there was nothing left, she sank
in a slow, nervous fever. After it was gen
orally known that Mrs Elmer was destitute
and sick, a few Neigh bors began to drop ii
to try and do something r,the unhappy
woman; but tardy conscience had failed tc
remind them Of their duty until it was toe
late to aid her. She died-this broken
hearted wife OF the conacript, with John
name aadyt he baby. on her lips. L She sail
she. was1goMg to meet them in q country
where all vas peace. And yet what matter
it? There are Just such heart aches snl
heart brakes all over. the -lan1,z, It.is no
one Woman alone who goes 'doSps to4 fh
grave broken hearted; not merely one or
pflant hat suffers; hunger and cold, .j0n
among niafy,is Marian Elmes 4-only one.
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