Smyrna times., 1868-05-20


temptations were broken off and removed He
did so, and went home; but there he continued
course of fintemperance, and soon, by gambling,
the natural adjunct of intemperance, ran thro'
all his property and reduced himself and his
family to absolute poverty.
During all the time of his rapid descent, the
young and loving, but now nearly heart broken
wife, clung to him, pleading with him to cast
out the hellish demons that were poluting his
soul, and surely and swiftly leading him on to
the most certain and irretrievable ruin. But
he needed not her entreaties; he did worse,
for he beat her; and when her heart was
breaking under its load of woe, and her white
face would be turned up imploringy into his
in mute appeals tor his reformation, he would
slap her cheeks with his brutalizcd hands until
their ashen hue was changed to deepest purple
A man would have cursed the brutalized hus-
band for such conduct. But not so this loving
wife. To all appeals made to her to leave his
wretched house and return to the pleasant one
of her parents, she turned deaf ear, and an
swered-"I love him and cannot desert him
now. [ will save him through the help of
God"
But matters grew worse instead of BETTER
The wife and her two children were often with
out food, and the husband and father seemed
to have become more fend than human. Still
the faithful wife clung to him still she pray
ed for him and still her faith was unshaken
that he would ultimately yrefOrm, and again be.
come to her, all he was in the first year of their
love and welded life.
One night in December 1865, the husband
came home at late hour. The poor wife was
crouched over the fast dying embers with her
helpless babe i'll her arms. She noticed that
Esterly looked more wild and crazed than usual
and that his nerves were twitching at fearful
rate, yet she did not fear him. Finally he
asked her why she had not better fire. She
replied that she had no more wood. This
! seemed to make a maniac of him, and the de-
mons that had been lurking in his wake or be-
setting his footsteps, seemed suddenly to pos
sess his soul and seizing the infant from his
wife S arms, he hurled it upon the Goals, and
for a time would not allow the wife to re-
move it.
He was delerious-the mind had yielded to
the demon pressure, and he was a madened,
desperate fend Finally the child was rescued
from the fire, but it was too late to save it. =
In agony it fingered for two days and then God,
III His mercy, took it up to Heaven, and gave
1t a home among the angels.
The maniac father rushed out into the night
shrieking and screaming; but soon afterward
he was seized by some officers of the town,
| taken to hiswretched home, and there confined
for days, until, through the skill of physician
and the constant nursing Of his wife, he re-
covered,
At first the wife told that while sitting over
the fire nursing the child she had fallen asleep,
and the child had dropped from her arms into
the fire, and it was this accident, she said, had
crazed her husband and caused him to flee from
the house. 1t was nearly year before even
her parents knew to the contrary.
| When Esterly had recovered, the wife told
how the child came to its death. She AYERS,
with the utmost soemnity, that this was the
| first knowledge he had of it. Then, she says,
he resolved to lead sober life in the future
In few months he left home, went to South
ern Illinois, got employment, and is once more
engaged in business for himself On Tuesday
night, the wife arrived in this city, on her way
to join her husband again. She remained here
with relative, from whom We derive the above
facts, until yesterday morning, when she left
on the train of the Louisville, New Albany
and Chicago Railroad en- route for the home
Of him who has filled her heart with such an.
guish, and has dsrkened so many years of her
life with sorrow, that otherwise might have
been bright and happy.
And all this is wOman's love. All this is
wife love. How deep, pure and exhaustless
Is that fountain. Nothing in heaven above sur
passes it-nOthing in this world below equals
it. A loving wlfe-faithful forever May the
holy angels keep both the wife and her hus
band, so that her faithful loving heart may
never again know sorrow.
SMALL FEET-Women are mistaken when
they suppose small foot au element of beauty
A foot should bear a just proportion to the
figure; if too large, it argues coarseness, and
gives heavlness to the manner, forbidding
ease and grace of movement. A large foot,
however, argues certain honesty of character,
and which of course more than atones for the
lack of grace. Large feet also imply stability
A man who is jealous in his temper should
marry woman whose feet are large: such are
generally keepers at home, and modest withall
they are not given to gadding-their feet
abide instheir house. The sentiment of beauty
is less in size than certain litheness and elias
ITCHY Dress has great effect upon the foot
and very long dresses are not adapted to ex-
hibit it to advantage. The long robe certainly
destroys its elasticity. The French foot is
meagre, narrow and bony; the Spanish is
small and elegantly curved = thanks to its
Moorish corresponding with the Cas-
tilian pride-high in the instep; the Arab foot
is proverbial for its high arch-"a stream can
run under the hollow Of his foot, " is descrip-
tiOn cf It's form the foot of a Scotch lady is
large and thick: that of the Irish fiat and
square; the English short and feshy; the
American foot is apt to be disproportionately
small A foot should be arched, fairly rounded,
and its length proportioned to the height of
the individual. 1t should have a delicate
spring to it, and the ancle should be rounded
and firm.
TELEGRAPHTo FEAT.-The most extraor-
dinary telegraphic feat on record is the trans
mission Of an extraordinary message from Lon