The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-10

| it she kissed you Just the came.
You had q little heaven of it for
three or four years. Then contin-
ued prosperity made you selfish.
You got SO far ahead you couldn't
stop to come back for the love an
the kisses of jamie. Sometimes she
followed You, tryin' to walk abreast
with you, and tryin' to keep up the
dear old times. But she wasn't
welcome-she was in the way. You
couldn't bother to be foolin' an
kissins all the time. She must set
tie down an be sensible DOM
without for Philip had been her
sweet delight in the dark days; but
now, when the golden light shone
around, your mean spirit kept her
dom without just the same, that
you might win more lands an stock
to put between your heart an hers.
Then more money came. Money
represents power. You began to
lord it over your fellow-men, an at
home you made slave of a woman
who adored you. You ordered her
about as you would your meanest
servant, an gradually forced her to
take that position.
you never saved her a step or
burdens weight. You let her tug
awap, toll away, die away from
from mornin' till night. An you
killed her. But, overlooked though
she was, that wasn't hat killed her.
She lost her round, red cheeks, an
her pretty, round arms, and her
her dainty-shaped hands drudgin'
for you. She lost her gold, her
bright gold hair toilin' an CROWN
old for you. She lost grace of form
an grace Of spirit draggin' an slav-
in for you. But that amt what
killed her. 1t was neglect that broke
her heart. A husbands neglect.
You starved her TO death. Towns
ley's wife died from the lack of ap-
probation, lack of love in the man
who promised to love, honor an
cherish her his whole life long. You
wouldn't treat a dumb brute as you
treated your wife. You stop and
pat BrunO's head an call him good
fellow. Y ou pick up the cat an let
her sit on your knee. You pet your
horses an feed them sugar; but you
never look back at the woman whose
heart, bound up in you followed you
lOngingly. You never stopped to
caress the tired head of your little
wife. 1t took too much time to say
'Darlin', l love you An as for
DRAWN her down on your knee an
kissin' the cheek-hollows plump an
the white lips red-you couldn't
bother. An you got to be the rich
est farmer in Tuckahoe county; but
you broke your wife's heart.
We're in the same box, you an
an Krieff-wife-killer |
Only hold that l was the more
of the two; for, while be- |
side myself with passion an rum, l |
killed my wife in an instant's time. !
You killed your jamie by slow tor
ture-the most coId-blOoded meth |
cd L know of-killed her while she |
crept on hands an knees to serve |
you. May God have mercy on your
soul L haven even pity for you.' 1 |
shall get my deserts, know ; an I'm |
bound to stick by an see you get |
yours
JAMIE .;murmured Townsley, his
whole body quivering. jamie, whis-
pered Towsley, opening his dull,
heavy eyes. 'Oh! Janie-Janie-
Janie!'
Don't do any good exclaimed
Krietf, to shout after her. She can't
save you. You've got to come along
with me. Yes, l know remorse sits
heavy on you now, but you can't
skulk behind that at this late day ::
an all the JAMES in the land can't |
help you now
But as time passed on Townsley at
last became conscious of third per-
sons presence-a presence which
soothed him, which came between
him and that waiting soul. He felt
cool hands upon his burning head,
and a soft, smooth cheek pressed |
close to his. He heard himself call
ed all manner of dear names, and |
once or twice felt hot tears dash
over his face, to be quickly brushed |
away. Best of all, he felt that
through the power of love some one
was drawing his soul back into his
body, and ne knew that this some
one was his wife. Days and DAYS
and days it took but it was q new
soul that went back and a new BODY
that covered it. Townsley was a
changed man through and through.
Krieff's soul was forced to depart
at last; but Townsley never forgot
his parting words:
Il am lost an you redeemed,' he
cried, through the power of woman
"a power which can make it hell or
heaven for mankind here and here
after. And oh. when the loving
heart wills TO create a paradise
show Your appreciation and don't
go TO coinin' money out of the gold
paved Streets
There amt a man in Tuckahoe
county, says farmer Ricketts,, $50
choice of his wife as Mr.. Towsley.
He can't do enough for her. He'd
let her walk on him, an welcome if
she wanted. Beats all naturer
And if he means human nature he
s right. But Ricketts, doesn't know
rs yOu and l do, how near Towns
ley came to being one of two wife,