The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-01


JACK. take the gentleman = beaver
And hang 1t hind the door.
What five whole days on the journey.
Comm by boat and eari
Good gracious who'd nave thought jon
Could ever live 80 lar
Away from tho Youghiogiieny.
The farm, and the mountain blue.
] wouldn't believed 1t Of her.
And that's 'tIiSt me and ycu.
Yq9 say she's not very lonely
Then she don't feel the worst.
Whati Jennie has got o baby2
You should have said that first
Aud now please repeat 1t over
| can't believe my ear.
just think l--my Jennie motheri
Psbaw. now. what's this "a tear2
Here. Jack. run off 10 the kitchen.
Tell mother TO come quick.
Let the bakin' go to thunder.
Let her not strike a lick
Till ahe hears the news from Kansas.
Twill mako her very vani
SO you knew the little ones mother
Your hand; we'll shake again.
Perhaps you may think me foolish
For maxim such q row:
But you must excuse an Old man
Mind I'm grandpa now.
Well, well how the years slip by us.
For ali the world like the white clouds
Adritt in summer skyl
Rut only in this they differ
We're going with the ears
into the harbor Of old age.
Up to the silent piers.
Where each may discharge his burden
And fhrl HE wrinkled sail.
And thank the Heavenly Master.
Who saved him through the gale.
But what is the use in taikin'-
I'm Just Dustin with JOY:
believe could whoop like an Iniunl
And you tell me it's n boy.
And she called him for her father?
Yon see, she don't forget
The old man who used 70 nurse her
And play peep with hia pet"
Stranger, your story has called uD
A night long. long ago:
The night came to this mountain
Through binding wreaths OF snow
We came in n Conestoga-
Only my wife and {.
She bat the bride of q twplvemonth
~ nder and coy and shy.
We started in shinin weather:
But then it blew up cold.
And the snow fell thick md heavy
And down the mountain rolled
In drifts rs big as the wagon -
All. sir that was storm
Each tree was deeked Of in feathers,
Pretty. but not so warm.
The snow kind of stopped our motion,
Night hedged us oil ahout
And then began to wonder
How we'd weather h out.
5uss thnn, as rny lnek would have it,
Jane said she felt quite queer:
Can you dream how felt then, sir,
And not woman near2
The wind moaned among the branches.
thought it would pierce me through.
Said /. Jane, there's but oae OF me
sly coat may save you hro.'
She cried. and refused to take it
Man-like, | had my way:
Then on that mountain kncH down,
And OH how / did pray
Prayed for tho night to be over.
Prayed for human form.
Prayed for the Father to shelter
NY pride and hope from harm.
think he bent down to listen.
For, way up there on high.
Angels camc out with little lamps
And hung them in the sky.
! cracked the whip over Rosin.
Told Jim to git along.
And then, with rush, we started
| broke into a song;
Not that felt much like singin'.
But had often heard
Women in Jnne's way were skeery..
SO | sung like blvd.
Wen. ] reached this place bout midnight
And thanked God with smile:
Then ran to the nearest neighbor-
and that was half q milo.
At the door | kicked and pounded.
And mate my trouble known
You can bet your bottom dollar
] didn't come back aione.
The women folks built fire.
And stood out in the bail.
And there shiyered and trembled
Until there came sQuail,
II wasn't much OF a holler.
But then ii gave me start,
And ever si ce that blest moment
I've had q bigger heart.
But pshawl let us change the subject
You are too young man
To grasp such delicate questions.
Or yet to understan
So IN not bother you further
Bout Jennie's babyhood;
But yhow this l nil say,
She was pretty and good.
What's the use keepin' a secret?
She married gainst our will. e
A lad by the name of Jackson,
Whose father kept the mill.
| thought him too young and shiftless,
Though he was big and strong
And / told my daughter. kindly,
He'd never get along.
I'll not soon forget her answer.
Twas spoken like queen.
Said she. Il will take chances.
Whatever comes between"
What | said | don't remember:
Ny anger did tho rest.
And that night Jennie and Jackson
Left for the distant West.
No one can tell what | suffered
j walked around all day
With q face as white as chalk, sir,
And tried but could not pray
Now a man can't reach his Maker
With heart so full OF scorn
Against an honest fellow man
Who for some good WAS born.
You ask did forgive Jennie?
My precious little kid
Big tears swept away my hate, sir.
Forgiven Of course / didi
Git outl do you think I'm crazy2
Bill wasn't half so TALL
Had a scar where Jake Hill hit him
For bitin' brother Paul.
Yes. under the beard by Jingol
Forgive the words sed
When you and Jennie were courtin
And after you were wed,
Iwish was out in Kansas
Oge day in Tuscaloo;
believe I'd eat that baby
That's Just what / ,c0uid do.
BARTLEY CANPBEI
A shocking case OF infanticide
urred at st. Valerien, Canada,
Teek, when a woman named Guer
nnoyed at her infants crying, seize
y the heels and beat out Its bra
gainst heavy wooden chest.