Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-09-30
SELECT POETRY.
From Harper's MagiEine for October.
Hannah Jane.

We are willing TO contribute our share towards Civ |
Inc the following soul-strring conception the mmo.
ality Il Justly deserves Its sentiments worthy
Of the noblest purest mind. and Its lesson aud moral
.hould nnd fixed lodgment In every ponderng heart
II NAsBY has made polnts-politicsl pointsbefore,
here lie point, which. In spirit is akin to divinity
while the effort commands our admiration and per.
meaes every nbre OF our better nature, cannot hut
envy the power that blends In the garb ~ exhuberant
playful fancy, the generous emotion Of pure, warm
and gracious hcart.-Ed. Telegraph.
AIsl Mer,tneather Represen,dttrs IN Congre. o1n NE
Thirtythird Dis'rictOr Inddnd-Ldu Writer Or.
atOr-soires one SoetdIP'o1Lein.
She isn't half handsome az when, twenty years
At her old home in Pceton Parson Avery made us one
The great house crowd full Of guests OF every degree
The girls all envying Hannah Jane-he boys all enyyng
Her fingers then taper and her skin white as
Her brow hair-whst 1t was and son and fine
No wind.movcd willow by a brook had ever srch
The form of Apirodite. with pure Madonna face
She had hut mesgre schooling; her little notes to me
We're ful Of crooked pothookr and The worst orthog
Her dear" she sset with double e. and kiss" with
But when ones crazed with passion, what's letter
more or lessf
she blundced in her writing, and she bundcred when
| she spoke,
And every rule of synt"x that old Murray made she
But she was beautiful and fresh and I-well, was
Her form aud oerbalanced all the blunders Of her
tongue.
was little better. True. I'd longer been at school:
My tongue and pen were run. perhaps trfe more by
But that w9snl The neighbors round, who both OF us
sad-which bclieved-shc was the better of the two
Ans changed. TIE light OF seventeen's no longer in
Her wavy hair s gone-that want the co6eurs art sup.
Her form is thin and angulnr she slightly forward
bends.
Her fingers, shapely, now are stumpy at the
| ends
She knows but very little and in little are we one;
The beauty that more than hid that great defect is
My pdrrcnu relations now deridc my homcly wife
And pity me that am tied TO such clog for life.
I know there is difference: at reception and levee
The brghtest, wltes and most famed of women smile
| on me;
And everywhere hold my place among the creates,
| men;
And sometimes sigh with Whitiers judge. ALAS it
| might have been"
When they all crowd around me. stately danes and
brilliant bellies.
And yield TO me the homage that all great success COM
Discussing art and statc-craf and literature az we'll.
| "He"
can't FORGET that from those streams my wife has
newer WIN Opnelih Wcpt nOr WIN JhCk fallstaH
laughed
OF authors, actors ortistswhy she hardly knows the
names:
She slept while speaking the Alabama claims.
The wife wedded us she was before my prosperous
I travel o'er the resry road we travelled side by side
And wondered what my share would be If Justice
should divide.
She had four hundred dollars left her from the old
tate;
On that we married, and thus poorly armored, faced
wrestled with my books her task was harder far
| than mine
Twas how to make two hundred dollars do the work
of nine.
AT last wns admitted; then had my legal lore
An ohice with Il stove and desk of books perhaps
wifely skin,
And love for me and faith in me- and back of that q
Will.
had no friends behind memo Influence to aid:
worked and fought for every little inch of ground
: And how she fought beside me never woman lived
In two long years she never spent single cent fo
dress
All! how she cried for JOY when first legal fight
When our eclipse passed partly by and we stood II
The fee fifty dollars-'twas the work OF hplf
First captive lean and scraggy, Of my legal bow an,
spear.
! | well remember that nv coat-ihe only one had
Was Sc DIV grown and thrcadhare, and in fact, mos
, The tailcrs remark when modest order made
Cash is the basis. Sir ON which we tailors do GU
: tlade."
Her winter cloak was in his shop by noon that yer
8 She wrought hickory shirts at night that tailor
: got coat, and wore IL but alas! poor Hannah Jan
Ne'er went to church ur lecture till VAIN wealhe
Z came again.
!: Our second season she refused cloak Of airy sort
| That might have decent suit in which't
court:
: She made her last yearss bonnet do that might hav
ID Talk OF the old.tme hame-enveoped martyrs afte
thatl
She made herself most willingly household drudG
= and slave.
What wonder that she read magazine or bool
Combining AZ she did In one, nurse, housemad, sean
stress, cook
What wonder that beauty fed that once so adored
Her beautiful complexion my fierce kitchen fire devou
Her plump. soft, rounded arm once too fair to
Hard work for me that softnoss into sincwy strcng
congealed.
was her altar and her love the sacrifcial fame;
All. with what pure devotion she TO that altar came.
And fearful flung thereon alas did no, know
All that she was, ard more than that. all that 81
might have been
At last won All. then our lives wild
was far mp the rising road, she, poor girl where
every race,
WAS far up the heights of fe-she drudging at Il
bnse,
She made me take each fall the stump she said tw
career
The wild applause oflist'nng crowds music to n
What stimulus had she TO cheer her dreary soltudct
For me she lived ON gladly in unnatural wdowhood'
She couldn't read my speech. but when the pa ers
agreed
Twcs the hest one of the session, these comments S
could read.
And felt with gush of pride thereat, which had
er felt.
She sent them to me in note, with half the wor
misspelt.
to the legislature went and said that she should 90
To sec the world with me, and what the world was
ing know.
With fearful smile she answered, "No; four dollars
the pay,
The Bates rates for board for is Just that
per day"
At twentyeight the state-house on the bench at tn
ty-three;
At forty every gate in life was opened wide TO me-
nursed my powers. and grew and made my point
life; hut she
Bearing such pack-horsc weary leads, what could "
man bet
What could she be- Oh shame! blush to think wi
she has been:
The most Lr selfish Of all wives TO the sehshst OF
Yes, plain and homely now she Isl she's Ignorant,