Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
a LLsg0N OF THE TIMES AND
For THE TIMES.

The following seasonable and suggest
i've paragraph we find in the Washing
ton correspondence of the Chicago
Journal. The case Of DR. Bailey can be
duplicated on a smaller scale with bus
mess men in nearly every town in the
country, and is but a single instance Of
the ruin and misery produced by that
utter restitution Of time and money to
The uses of fashion and folly, which is
SO common at the present day
Everybody of middle-age in the great
party of progress in politics in this
country we'll remembers the National
Era" though it ceased to appear among
the people many years ago; and each
as well remembers too, its learned nd
accomplished editor, DR.. Bailey, No
one has forgotten either, how the
Doctor suffered at the hands of the
sIave-holding people, and their apollo
gists and sympathizers, and how he
struggled on and up against every un-
toward circumstance, amid priyation
and pecuniary distress, until he tri
umphed IN the success Of the Era, "
with 80, 900 subscribers; but the OBJ
server may not know as well about the
causes that led to the downfall OF the
paper, and, as some who know him best
think, that hurried the footsteps Of its
proprietor down to the river for that
passage whence none ever return.
DR.. Bailey's wife was just like thous-
ands of others of her sex, if not ma
jorlty Of them at the present day, with
mind filed with many foolish no.
ton; elated with and thoughtful
alone, Of the gilded trifes Of fashion,
of the baubles and insubstantial things
OF the world. To make sensation in
the social circles Of the capital seemed
TO be the acme of her unchastened am
bition. Co the street, she drew the
stare of the multitude, for her equipage
was unexceiled, and you will remember
her carriages were the most sumptuous
and the most elegant in the city, and
her horses the most gay and spirited.
These things became acceptable topics
for letter writers here from all parts of
the country, and the contrasts which
their ingenious pens drew between the
"Era's" columns which were the cham
pions of the poor of the earth, the out,
cast and the slave, and the conduct of
his giddy Drained wife, which, perforce
the circumstances, the editor sanctioned,
were of the most damaging character
These letters told the story that doomed
the ERA" The men of sterling prin
ciple among his supporters could not
brook such folly and extravaganza,
and began at once to Withdraw Their
patronage Dr. Bailey saw the Era
begin to decline, and he felt it severe
Iy, and yet to his wife be could not
say thus far aud no farther. He died,
and so did the Era soon after
But how now is it with her whose
folly doomed this once most excellent
paper? No longer the center Of prying
eyes, nor the subject of remark, she is
forgotten ! have never heard her
name mentioned, except once, and then
in reply to the question, What has
become of DIR. Bailey's wife?" the
Doctor was noble spirit, is now beyond
the vicissitudes of tide and time, but
his wife, I am told, keeps boarding
house in the city, as means of liveli-
hood, "unhonored and unsung" Is 1t
true that everything in this life has its
compensations And does "Time at
last set all things even?" Bitter in
deed, sometimes, are our experiences.