The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-13

S tuition held the lamp for the timid feet
1 of reason, and they twain became one
| flesh"
Stephanuss mother, having shared "the
7 divinest rights of home" had "moulded
the life committed by God to her keep
, ing, and when it came out into the world
from her ingenious hands and intuitive
. heart, it was supposed to be "pure as
) crystal in the person ofStephanus Jones.
, AS my sister was seven years older than
myself, l had an opportunity of seeing
her go through with some OF those " try
4 ing sacrifice" of which the Rev. divine
Iso pathetically speaks The first sacrifice
that was made public "and most patent
pledge of her equality, nay her superior
i ity," to her husband, took place six years
after her marriage, when she saw her
house furniture, and even the silver plate
of her dead mother, sold under the auc-
tioneers hammer to liqudate the gamb-
ling debts of her husband "Then it
came out that in one of her super /" Iogi-
cal intuitional" fits she had given her
property into the keeping of her lord and
master and after a shameless record Of
marital infdelitics and gambling iniqui
4 ties on his part this was the end " She
had entered into the sufferings of her
i Lord Christ" twice, and two helpless
babes to De Yvicariously pitied and
Igrieved" over, We're the result When
her husband fell into the drunkard's
ways and sold her jewelry, and even the
baby's coral necklace, her sacrifice" was
CELESTIAL and :" the halo about her
, crown of thorns'' completely perfect.
However, she continued to Irvine and
weave the roses of Heaven into the life"
, of her miserable, diseased and bloated
! husband, and to "invite him into the fas.
: cinating bonds Of love-" to leave off his
evil ways, cherishing carefully the ex-
ternal fire of delicate feeling with holy
hands" but to no purpose.
} took her and the little ones home to
protec. them from the husband and faith
5 ers cruel treatment and to minister To
their necessities as we'll She had the
!. same ideas Of divorce that the good Rev.
[ erend Collier has, and thought that, /" as
she had made her bed, so she must lie In
it," hence this body of death" Steph-
i anus Jones continued to haunt her pres
!, ence, Brighten the children, beg, borrow
t or steal money from her, until her broken
! heart and over-taxed nerves found rest
} in the grave. For all such lf-sacrihcing
{ women the eloquent Collier writes the
7 epitaph, g Sacrifice is the most Godlike
+ texture of the universe" Truly woman
' finds continual fund Of consolation in
thus being epitaphed!
3 was twenty when closed my dead
: sisters eyes, and equally though
y forgot to state that neither of us had
] wings, either apparent or concealed but
7 soon found remedy for the terrors Of
the children Of Stephanus Jones, and 8
home for their vagrant father, where he
e could no more annoy us As wished tx
enter vocation where head and hanG
t were needed" opened bookstore an6
n at the age OF twenty.seven had doubled
/ my capital, and found myself the possess
e or of forty thousand dollars g fine libra
9 ry, an offer of marriage from Rev. TIber
I las Pettigrew, and my two adorted chill
e dren, who were getting along finely il
s their baby world.
My father had always cautioned MI
. against marrying either minister or a doc
7, tor, as he considered the first, as class
"shiftless," pecunlarlly speaking, and til,
G latter entirely wanting in domestic hab
G its; so | fell back upon my "insuitior
n above the plane of logic" and married
1 the Rev Tiberias Pettigrew. lib, as
always called him for short, was poor, a
p preachers are quite apt to be, but yer,
Il benevolent, and soon after we were mar
e ried he wished that the income from N,
e we'll invested forty thousand should b,
used for the support Of the family, leav
ing his salary to be used as he should
deem proper. AS | believed With th,
Reverend Robert, In the 'sunity of tn,
J" household + readily assented, and al
went on as sm' 9th" as a marriage bell"
After while my husband concluded
th:t he could invest some Of my funds t
better advantage, and changed the in
vestment, himself owning the bonds.
2 wished both of our names inserted, bu
= he argued that the man was the 'sheaC
y OF the household" and it really made M
;, difference In whose name the property
was held. Changes occurred at various
times, and always the papers were in his
! name, until at last owned nothing. We
! owned nothing, but he owned forty
thousand dollars. He had never added
! anything to my stock; I had labored all
the time, seldom affordino to hire helm
= and had three children of nv owp added
: to the two of my sister,
Fifteen years of married life soon pass
ed, with its unpoetic cups" and "downs, "
: and at the age of fortytwo I was left a
widow, with five children to care for
my sisters children were now grown to
! womanhood, but were still with me. AT.
! ter the shock death had brought, looked
about me for funds wherewith to supply
our wants. but found that what was once
mine, had passed into other hands, and 1