Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-06-19
iRiHs.-- VOL. rs, NO. 3.
Two Interesting Women.


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Many writers have devoted them
selves to telling US about the wive
or great men. We know somethin,
OF most or them. Their PECULIAR
ties and domestic virtues are re
corded and safely preserved. Blu
who will tell us of their sweethearts
who never became wives2 Of til,
gltls whose beauty filled their bow,
ism hearts with admiration and IN,
selfish love: a love purer, better
and holier than that which acco M
PANIED them TO the alter in late,
years. Few men marry their first
love at all. The man who fIirts I'm
thirty cannot love At least, hecan.
not love as boy loves.
Not long since met a lady who
was for years the betrothed of Sena.
tor Carpenter. She loved HIM with
a woman's wild devotion. She
watched every movement of his life
with an intense anxiety. She was
keenly sensitive to any reproach
cast upon him as if she bore his name
ahd shared his life. And yet he had
broken his VOWS and married anoth.
Ell. He had held her heart in thrall
until she felt that it was worthless
to any one but him, and flung it
away as a discarded thing. He
wrote her after his marriage and re-
celved her forgiveness and her bless
ing. lie carries with him still her
tondost, sweetest thoughts. Whom
he speaks to the Senate there is an
ear aiar off listening for every word;
and when he receives the plaudits of
men ho thinks, perhaps, of one
whose smile is worth moro than all
their praises, who will smile when
others frown, and will be true when
all else is false.
There is living in Detroit a ven-
cradle and respected lady, who to
those who know her, is the heroine
of strange story. She may be
seen almost any day on the streets.
hurrying from hor tour ON shopping
back to her pleasant little home
where over her fsncies have full play
and memory is supreme.
She is q woman of rare intellect
and great cultivation, charming
conversationalist, and an exemplary
Christian. She has been twice mar
ried and twice widow, and now as
time is drawing his silver tracings
through her hair, she moves alone
The loved ones of the past are gone.
Her interests and her affections
draw her toward the world of spir.
its.
She was in her young days tho be-
trothed of Jefferson Davis. Why
never married is not known. She
treasures too dearly the casket of the
past to open it to other eyes. Il
may be that to her near and dear
ones sho tells the story. l am not
among them, and do not know it.
1t is certain, however, whatever
may have prevented the consum-
nation of their early plans, she and
the rebel President have never lost
their regard for each other. They
still exchange letters, and wach over
each others welfare. TO such lives
running in different channels, and
yet having the sympathy of heart
and interest, must have much to at
tract each other. His has been a
life of noble achievements and ig-
noble failures-full of excitement
and thrilling episodes. Hers, hav-
ing its own vicissitudes, born like a
woman, has been quiet and unob.
Lrusive, but, perhaps, as wonderful
as his. When | see her on the street, |
Or see her in the church, | feel like
to her and asking her story.
| know it would be interesting. The
sweetheart of Jefferson Davis? Who
would not like to go back of his plot
-ings for power, and his struggle in
behalf of treason, and learn some
hing more of his boyhood, and how
he acted when in love.