The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-04-18

4 - Be careful. We whose marriage bella
Be heedful OF the bitter word.
The answer keen and Stinging;
4 The sharp retort, the angry eye, AIS
4 It's vivid lightning flashing;
The rock on which so nany hopes,
4 Are daily. hourly dashtng. sg :
Bear and forhear,s the only way r.
II u 'ss Putread iifsis paths together,
8 Il Then come. and selcoms. shining suu.
T. Or come dark, cloudy weathey-
To- TwoIovinG hearts dissolved IN one. =
at5 SGi Phat cannot1ive assnnder,t ~ .ssvs
aL ~ Iiaye put Loye's golden arEnsr on
oh, world, look on and Wonderi fifs
i 'es------7 = ----- 20 2
a. ba EFrom Harperss weeklgsI
II s.L3sR II tzsas LG -. fso = q
Allie and the New Doctor
II "a sa1E4ogal al 2nelae EsaStn ft ,
i Just outside ?, queer, yagrant- look
! ing settlement in Southern New Yorl
which. struggles along o primitive val
a ley, with great7shouldered, greer
Irobed hills, towering aboyeit on every
side, was q gray old ,stonei house, sc
Em0ssTe0ye and iyyrgroWn. that ii
/ might haye been teoeyal.W with the hill.
j side upon which At had taken root, Al
the ,fimemy, story begins lght-heart-
led old gentlemen was living IN 1t who
1 had SLEPT in the cradle under the old
caves, seventy Eears before. In his
i Iboyheod he had frelicked among the
branches of . gnarly oak and q grace
full elm which stood ON either side OF
the house, and which, in landscape
ef strongly marked features, had even
4 then acquired . broadeneds and SYM
l,yet the two trees are there to-day y
hoary old, sentinels, as watchfnl as
/ ever pyeT The best interests Of a.st the he
f. W There aha g lived the ! old mans
ldaqgh he young widow Dandy
--and Allie and Nab, her six year old
beautiful az sHa bad beelE at sweet
Twice her own. age. She. seemed as
gay and merry as her children, or as
the genial old man in his second child
! hood but then she was only twenty
three, and had been "a widow more
than i've years already. No wender
| then, that she had gone back to the
happiness of girlhood here in the old
girlhoed's home, As little wonder
that pretty Mrs. Dandy was courted
now as much as any young lady, and
a good deal more than is ever desira-
I BILE for any woman, old or young. She
was not at all silly, but very agreeable
and engaging, living SO thoroughly in
the enjoyment of the present that lit
| tie six-year-old Allie often seemed to
be the most thoughtful and care-taking
member of the household. The happy
mother was unconsciously taking
fresh compensation for her earlier, de-
| frauded girlhood. She and her chill
dren babbled from morning till night
to initiate the brook which came down
the hillside past their door, and grand
papa kept up pleasant refrain which
was like an echo, often sent out far
and wide by one grey old hill, with
its tassels of green overhanging bare,
Jagged rocks, on the other side of the
valley. ~ 4. .,f....i.fs.qof.5.5a1r =
/ = Widowers and bachelors, from far
and near, and of all ages between
twenty and sixty, were continually
finding out what an extremely happy
family this was and were always
dropping in to chat at all hours of the
I day and evening. Over and over
and over again the beautiful widow
was forced to say mo : but she said
lit SO gently and reluctantly that
nobody was greatly displeased,
and they continued to receive as much
neighborly attention as before. Mrs.
Dandy was entirely sincere in all this.
She half Worshipped her pair of little
gitls and her aged father, and was as
nearly content with the present as it
is in the nature of things for any wo-
man to be under a continual provoca-
ton to become unsettled. So che con-
tinued to be immensely popular, not
only with all ages but even with both
sexes; for women saw and felt that
under all this effervescence she really
had a heart of very tender and .'gener-
Gus sympathies. 49, .@5 5+@s. .at
But sharp criticism was not wanting
here as elsewhere in q carping world.
Words of. bitter censure had fallen
upon the ears of little Allie, and sunk
deeply into her heart. The child-love
rose up Indignantly !; but from that
day she came to regard herself as the
champion and guardian not only of
her mother, but of the whole house
hold; and amidst all the childhearted-
ness of a. happy life the little ono was
often weighed down with premature
but wholly unspoken care. The two
children seemed to be growing up ac-
tive, vigorous, and full of robust en-
joyment-in harmony with the rural
tone of the picturesque landscape in
the midst of which Providence had
planted the family cottage, laa|
Scenery is as contagious in its infu-
sence as every thing else. The Scot is
Highlander in character and Mynheer
of Holland may boast an even tone of
mental development which most ma
tlons might try in vain to emulate.
laool ke ol IN,
huence. One may often find, search
ing for colored leaves in the autumn,
some notable patch of magnetic soil
where dozen varieties of plants are
all blushing together in common
cemmunity-oak, maple, dog wood,
cat-brier, geranium are all ablaze
with the scarlet fame of a running
blackberry vine, whose triplet clusters
of gems are shining everywhere in the
grass, spring-like in its greenness by
way of contrast. A little way off a
similar group is shaded with the pre-
vailing pale yellow-livery of the del
icate naples, or possibly adopted from
the shining wide-leaved cat-briers.
Over yonder the vegetation is in
uniform of ruddy gold, as though
every thing thereabouts had become
retainer of the orange-clad sassafras.
On the left, oaks and dog-woods vie
with each other in their lead of the
prevailing fashion, and every bush
and. tree is robed in dark, heavy pur-
pie, while on the right they have
donned the conspicuous crimson of
the deeper toned NAPLES. The general
landscape is wonderfully party-color-
ed but that there is a close affinity of
coloring in a hundred local centres, is
beautifully obvious. Within a certain
limit each tree must glow and ripen
into o radiance after its kind; and
yet it is perpetual struggle of char
acfer with circnmatancaa ALI thinoa