Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-07-14
A NOBLE WOMAN.
GENERAL cANBY's WIFE.

was merry oldfashioned wedding and
Captain E. R. S. Candy and Lousia Haw-
kins were married. Both were young,
the bride was beautiful, gifted with a
reed like grace Of movement, and rich
and exquisite voice that still haunts my
ear with the echo of its remembered mu-
sh The old people shook their heads
that night and said she was too tender
for a soldiers wife; it would not do for
her to brave the hardships and dangers
of2he new countries. His calm, earnest
way Of loving. had won her whole soul,
and throughout the shifting changes of
all this tract of years she has gone with
him, and where he was there has been
her home-her very home. Along the
lonely frontier, at desolate outposts, in
Florida. in New Mexico. in California,
even on the rough edge of the battle that
gentle delicate woman has hovered near
her husband, and the banner over her
head was love.
/ In the fruitless march to Utah, under
Buchanan's administration, her tent was
pitched among the mountains where the
troops wintered. And recolleet a let
ter written, to q kindred at home, de-
scribing their camp and how gladly she
ate the wild garlic, as a preventive to
scurvy, when it started under the melt
ing SHOWS of a late coming spring.
What the husband gained in moral
height by companionship Of the Christ
ian wife how much he owed to her, and
we through him, has not been recogniz-
ed His inherited tendency to gloom
was charmed away in that serene and
gracious presence. There was healing
in the wings of the guardian spirit, and
l through her ceaseless vigilance. whatever
could harass and annoy was smoothed
from before him as by the unseen agen-
r cy of fairy hands. Partly to this un-
failing care is due that even poise of
brain which kept his judgment so finely
balanced that, as has been said of Wash
! ington in action, ''he never failed to OBJ
e serve all that was possible, and at the
r same time to bound his aspirations by
d that which was possible
: Nothing could exceed the knightly ten-
h serne>s, The -ee,.r.ly doforeaoA- his-
!, manner to her. He early learned-as
e sooner or later all must learn-that a
Il little love is much better than fame, and
! those who knew him merely as the 81
lent, infexible officer, could not guess
IL how the loyeliness of her life was blend
% ed with his, and filled it with an under
u song of wonderful sweetness.
1t is pleasant in this age of individ-
uality and self assertion, to find wo-
- man like her of whom write, who has
= ever considered the question of rights,
>, is content to vest her ambition in an
u other, and be simply wife. She has
not lived like the lilies who toll not but
: has ever been an active, earnest worker,
N mindful of others. forgetful of nothing
:. but self Her household was directed
- with wise and elegant thrift more
i abundant than any waste and once, when
N the general laughingly complained Of
J. being kept on short allowance she sur.
- prised him with sum saved from his
:. pay sufficient for the purchase of a farm
;, in Missouri. This, too, was for others,
of In Richmond she made our enemies Low,
- her, and in New Orleans SAID, 81 cal
8. hardly keep anything, there is such suf
~ fering about How many she has warm
100 ed, and cheered and comforted, only tn,
recording angel has written. Durin.
i their first married years her early beau
~ ty sprang up anew at their feet, and lit
= tie girls caressing chatter filled thei
IA house with music but the divine frient
nc of children took the young child in Hi
= arms, even as he took the child. of old
- and has kept her safely housed in heay
u en-sate from sickness, from the bat
on tie, from the temptation, from the weigh
ha of years. Immortality would seem bu
a cheat if with the dust died our affec
tions. When the everlasting doors wer
am lifted and the hero crowned and anoint
?" ed, went up to see the King in his beau
,ol, ty, there was his little girl. Perhar
ht- no more child,
But fair maiden in her Fathers mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace"
This true husband and wife may ye
'' have their quiet evening together. God
7 coo love will take her to his side again, th
iao sunset will be fair and at evening tim
there shall be light.
- | write of Mrs. Candy in the past, b
- " cause the light of her life has gone ou
- and she lies sorely smitten, yearning fc
si0- rest near the hillslope, to which she
drawn by such strong and subtle tie
This is Memorial Day, and our so
. dlers' graves are green and gloriou
The spot where her heart with her hel
- lies buried is rich with perfume, heape
with blossom and verdure. and thel
''0f with reverent hand lay this little lea
Like Ophelia's rosemary, dts for +
'iu- membrance.
S. E. WALLACE.
ook Cra@tordsuiue, May 80.
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