Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-04-19

And tells me of such unbounded love,
And bids me come up to their home above;
And then, with such pitiful, sad surprise,
They look at me with their soft, sweet blue
AID Il seems to me, out Of the dreary night,
| am going up to that world of light,
And away from the hunger and storm SO wild
am sure shall then be somebody's child.
How Happened to Marry.
Sometimes i'm obituary notices. tile
| newspapers give us the cause of death,
Why not the cause of marriage? We
should be vastly more entertained.
For instance: aa
| "After lingering filtration, job
Smith to Kate Fling"
. IN ! DIT Of pique. the disappointed
Washington Gray to the stupid Miss
- 80 Bewareoo Of, desperate steps. ,Ths
darkest day--a' 2 = s,'t'19ff
And-so- forth.
Now propose to give as briefly as
possible the rise and progress OF my ac-
quaintance with the second Mrs. p,
and why was induced to make her
my wife,
1 had thought I should never marry
again. When / boarded with my lit
tie family at Mrs. Gibson's remarked
to my landlady, with deep feeling, that,
in case L should be absent in time OF
fire, l hoped she would not forget to
visit my room and take from the wall
my wife's portrait. j felt1tiIat could
calmly part with small portion of nv
wardrobe; but the likeness of my
sainted Elizabeth I-could never spare.
where Igo, thou goest, said /; '.arid
never while have my senses shall the
canvas which represents the sweet feat
ures OF my lost darling be converted by
second wife into a. fire. hoard.n
had BEEN for years Wholesale gro-
Ger in good and regular standing, and
should no doubt have continued in the
same business up to the present time
IL had not been satisfied that my four
children We're suffering for country air
and freedom. i am not richman, but
1 have acomDetency; and decided to
retire from the city to the town of Pic
cadilly, and devote my enegies to the
cultivation of garden seeds.
Piccadilly Is small, but thriving
village, with q salubrious cline, and a
population Of some fifteen hundred
souls. For years had heard Of the
superior intelligence and morality of
Piccadilly. My. lamented Elizabeth
had been partially etiucatedat its Acad-
emy, which still flourisned there be-
hind four Lombardy poplars.
"Papa," said Caroline, my eldest, O
girl of fourteen. the week after our ar
rival, "Tilda is home, sick, and says
she must leave. us.
Matilda was our housekeeper, who
had lived with us for ten years, and
thoroughly understood the ways of her
mistress, the deceased Mrs. Pratt. At
the intelligence that she had given
warming, was so much startled thatI
spilled my coffee into my bosom; but
Caddy In tears, Icontrolled myself, and
said, stoically: A
"No doubt, my dear, we shall con-
tinue to live without 'Tilda. I can
only say she is q foolish girl and we
must iinf some one else who will do
Then left the table and went into
my gardenS for itwas time to trans
plant the eatly tomatoes.
'Tilda asked my pardon that noon
with red eyes, but with her carpet-bag
dangling from her arm. "She was fit
to die ~ithgrief at leaving tile dear
chiidrenT hshe said, t.but stay she
could not? Hnd would not, with the
whole village peeping into her pantry.
She wasn't used to country folks, and
wouldn't stand and be told she put too
much cream In her dough-nuts. And
that woman that sat in the calSs135o
would be the death Of her YETI
i afterward ascertained that Matilda
referred to Miss Peters, worthy lady
who lived opposite, and watched US
from her sitting-room window, which,
was Affording the facilities of an obser-
vatory Matilda had likened to GU
p0la. sfsie eie. -
There was no help for II, and our
housekeeper left. .s...5 i'.s..
1T Is SO strange she dislikes this vii
lage," said Caddy. II think it's beau
tifuI; for rybody takes such an in
terest in us, papa. / never go out but /
am asked all sorts OF questions about
you and the children; as If people
really cared for us, YOU know. But /
think I've found cut why 'Tilda
wouldn't stay; it's because you're q
wid0wer.n
Because what?' 40
makes remarks. 'Tilda Ii young wo-
man, and Miss Peters saws YOU are ike.
ly to marry again. Oh tell me, dear
papa, that You certainly viii not !u
You foolish child ~ replied /, laugh
ing; though ut the same time I could
have wept to think Of my darling's
head being filled with such nonsense
II have no intention of marrying any
one certAiuly not my Kitchen girl; 30
dismiss such foolish idea" 4 -
AS spoke looked at the portrait of
my departed Elizabeth hanging over
the piano, and sighed. For two years
that woman had been "dust and
daisies" but had never ceased to re-
gret herl Had i ever thought Of fill
ing the vacant plate at my fireside by
any other presence? Too well knew
the nnatchless worth of her had lost.
Now commenced alvigorous search
for . domestic. WAS proudly informed
thai no foreigners were to be founl In
that virtuotls region, and I was sure of
good American help. To the detriment
of my early vegetables Ispent days In
riding about the county, Like q distract
ed knight Of chivalry, demanding of
every one I met where 4 could find :
fair Dulcinea 70 be queen of'the roll
Meanwhile Ii MY y poor little caddy did
her bIundefIHg best. The children
were kept from absolute rags, though
every time / looked at them q rent app
peared. or o. button disappeared. We
had what were called break fast, dinner,
and siI,tior and tried to kxwal low the