Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-27
Love sh.s Gu.hsd ON,


The fate OF Ernest w. Wiley, of
San Francisco, should be a warning
to all future young men to beware OF
highly poetical young lsdies. Miss
Jennie OarlOtta- Short, who lived at
San Leandro, was probably the most
gushing soul that ever carried a young
man with her to the heights OF bliss
on the etheFeal wings of maiden love.
Sometimes Ernest went to see her in
her fathers house, but the love was
generally made by letter. What can
be sWeeter than this little mention Of
one of her interviews with Ernest at
her home. 1t explains itself:
SAN LEANDRO, Wed.
Dear little lump Of concentrated
siOeetneSS: So you missed the five
o'clock train this morning. am aw-
fuI sorry, pet. 1 am afraid you have
offended your folks this time past for
giveness. But never mind: lay the
blame on my shoulders-'twas my
fault. l came in your room this
morning about six o'clock. You were
sound asleep. 1 went up to the bed,
patted your brow and kissed you once
once, did I say? 1t was about a
dozen times. You still continued to
sleep. 1 then tucked the clothes
about you nicely-Went out and set
the table; helped my mother little
and came back-when, 10 and beholdl
my Ernest was gone. How unkind
you were this morning to go of with
out my seeing you for a minute. |
think you might have taken breakfast
with me instead of going to the hotel.
Never mind. I'll get even with you
yet. I shan't write you a nice long
letter this week. You don't deserve
it. JENNIE.
Wonder if he was asleep all that
time, or 'possuming? Here is one of
her letters IN which she endeavors to
unfold her inmost nature by turning
her whole constitution inside out:
81 have two natures-one calm, re-
fective and logical, disposed to trace
effects to their causes; another, wild,
giddy and poetic, disposed to skim
over the surface and trace the beau
tiful likeness in nature. The latter is
in the ascendant to-day.
"Were 1 to attempt to reason on
this hot, broiling day, it would be in
this wise: First, corn is food; second,
food is necessary to life; third, there
fore corn is necessary to life. Reason
ing in a circle! Sound, is it not? o,
I tell you that to-day am exceeding
ly lazy, but possess so much beauty.
1t would set you crazy, if you could
only see me noWI! I have
had a long talk with my father to-day.
He remains as obstinate and stubborn
as ever-will never hear to my marry
ing Ernest Wiley. / shall be disin-
herited, disowned, and you know the
rest. But never mind, Ernest. All
that he may say will not have the
slightest effect. It seems as if
my acquaintance of a few months
with you has cast over my whole ex-
istence a bright glow of happiness
has ennobled and elevated my moral
nature and taught me the harmony
and beauty of friendship, and gradu-
ally led my mind to silently worship
and adore the grand intelligence Of
all things.'
How is that unbosOming for high?
1t is enough to make any sensitive
young man jump to the stars and fear
no fall There ought TO have been
no mistake about it, but there was.
That gushing heart became frozen,
and that flirting pen wrote another
AEALCA ~ Ii -CoNg NC---Lo ILL N--AN a
great change had come over the spirit
of loves young dream. She did not
and could not love, and would not
marry without love. So she told
Ernest to write and visit her no more,
but hunt up some worthier girl and
forget her. She was cruel only to be
kind. She had become the great fe-
male truth-teller for his good. En-
nest did forget her, but wrote her a
letter first.
A chemist who was called IN sta
ted that he found in Wiley's stomach
one and six-tenths of q grain of aka
loid morphine, equal to three-quarters
of an ounce of official laudanum-
twelve ordinary doses. All of Wiley's
young male friends who were aware of
his fall from the seventh heaven Of
bliss knew he was going to do it, but
they did not think 1t would be so soon.
These are his last words. There's
something in them for firts to pom
der:
SAN Francisco, June 6, IA.
DEAR JENNIE: 1 enclose and you
viii find all of your letters. I know
you did not think of the consequences
when you entered into your Irritation
with me, and therefore forgive you,
but have a little favor to ask of you,