The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-09

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Hannah Jane.
MI NlERGlwEATnER, REPRESENTATIVE lS Con-
uRrss FRON THE IHIRrY-THIRD DIsrRICT or
d. lNDIASA- LAWYER, WRITER, 0nATOR--
VI ! 'gyEs 0SG SOCIAL PROBLEM.
q 'll't half So handsome as when, twenty
90, ''is IgunG,
A. l.Iir old home in Pikctown Parson Avery
II (I1lu ~ one;
asS great housccrowdcd full Of guests Of ovCry
; Jfhsme,
1f'og.rls all cnyying Hannah Jane, the boys all
III so'yng me.
lal.f changed the light of scvontecn's no long
!, AZ In her eyes;
t..isr vavy harris gonc-that loss tho coiiIcur's
!, rs supplies;
'tl-r l1rlni is thin and angular; she slightly for
n ward bends;
s3'.r fingers, once 80 shapclY, now arc stumpy
y - -llc ends.
- ow there is difference at reception and
ayCC
he brightest, witticst, and most famed Of wO-
And every where hold my place among the
greatest men
Aid sometimes sigh, with Whttiers Judge,
"Alasl 1t might have bcCn."
She had four hundred dollars left her from the
OLD estate;
On that We married, and, thus poorly armored,
faced our fate.
wrcsilcd with my books her task was harder
far than mine
Twas how to mako two hundred dollars do tho
work Of nine.
At last was admitted; then I had my legal
lore,
An Office with stove and desk, Of books per.
haps score;
She had her beauty and her youth, and some
h0GsCwilcly skill.
and love for mo aud faith in me, aud back OF
that will.
had no friends behind mc-no influence to
aid;
l worked and fought for every little inch OF
ground made.
Aud how she fought beside mo never woman
lived on less:
Intwo long years she never spent u single cent
iUr dress.
All how she cried for Joy when my FIRST legal
fight was won,
When our eclipse passed partly by, and We
utOOd IN the sun
Tho fec was my dollars-'twas the work Of
hall year
First captive, lean and scraggy, Of my legal
bow and spear.
/ well remember, when my coat tho only one |
had)
Was recdy grown and tlreadbarc, and, in fact,
most SHOCKING bad"
The tailors stern remark when u modest or
der made:
"Cash Is tho basis, Sir, on which we taiors do
Our trade"
Her winter cloak was iii his shop by noon that
very day;
She wrought on hickory shirts at night that
taior's skill tOp pay.
got a coat, and wore It but alas poor Han
nah Jane
No'cr went to church or lecture till warm
weather cnmoaSain.
n negro ever worked so hard a servants pay
TO save,
She made herself most Willingly household
drudge and slave
What wonder that she never read u magazine
or book
Combining as she did in one, nurse, house.
maid, soamstrcss, cook!
What wonder that the beauty fed that once
2 SO adurGll
Her beautiful complexion my fierce kitchen
fro doyOurCd
Her plump so!i, rounded arm was once too
fair TO be concealed:
Hard work for nc that soitncss into sinOwy
strength congcalcd.
was her altar, and her love the sacrilcial
flame:
All with what pure devotion she to that altar
came,
Ard, fearful, flung thGreon-alas did not
know 1t thun-
all that she was, and moro than that, all that
She might have been
At last I won success. All then our lives
were wider parted
Twas far up The rising road; she, poor grill
where we started.
! had tried my speed and mottlc, and gained
strength In every race;
Twas lar up the heights Of life she drudgng
Rt the base.
At twcntv-cight the Statc.housO on the bench
ut thirty-tliruO;
At forty every gate In lie was opened wide to
me.
l nurscd my powers, and grew, aud made my
point in life but che
Bearing such plcs-horse weary loads, what
could woman bc2
What could she be2 Oh, slamel | Iblush to
think wha, allc has been:
The most unselIsh Of all wives TO the sclllshCst
OF men.
Yes, plain and homcly now she is; she's igno.
/. rant, It's tue:
For me she rubbed herself quite out repre-
sent the two.
Well, suppose that might do as other men
have dome
First break her heart with cold neglect, then
shove her ont alone.
The world would aay twas we'll, aud moro,
would give great praise TO Inc
For having borne with "sucll wife 10 un-
/, complainingly. ...I
And shall n mol The contract 'twixt Han.
nah, God, aud mo
Was not for one or twenty years, but for ctcr.
nifty. .'
Nc. matter what tho world may think know
down in my heart
That, ifcithGr, I'm delinquent she lins brave
" done her part.
There's another world beyond this and on tho
final day
VIII intellect aud learning 'gainst such dOvo.
ton weight
When tho great one made Of MS two Is torn
apart again,
I'll Elck tho beam, for God is Just, and lie
knows Hannah Jane.
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