The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-02-04

was but little better True I'd longer been t
school
dy tonge and pen were run, perhaps, trife more b
rale;
But that was all. The neighbor's round, who both
us well knew,
Said-which beiievea-she was the better of tn,
two.
Airs changed: the light of seventeen no longer in he
eyes;
Her wavy hair is gone-that loss the coiffeur's al
supplies ....r.-.
Ter form is thin and angular che slightly forward
bends
Her fingers, once 50 shapely nov stumpy at the
{ ends.
She knows but very little and in little we are one
The beauty rare that more than hid that great defec
isgonc. r
Ayparvenu relations now deride my hosnely wife,
And pity me that am tied TO such clod for life.
know there is difference at reception and leve
rhe brightest, wittiest and most famed of woAei
smile on ms;
And everywhere hold my place among the creates
men;
And sometimes sigh, with whittier's Judge, "Alas
! it might have been"
When they all crowd around me- stately DANES ant
brilliant bellies,
And yield to me the homage that all great success
compels, @r3
Discussing art and Statecraft, and literature well
From Homer down to Thackeray and swedsnborgo
He'll"
can't forget that from those streams my wife has
never qHaffed .....-.
BIAS never with Ophca wept nor with Jack Falstaf
laughed:
Jf authors actors, she hardly knows th
naRea;
She alept while WAS speaking of the Alabama claims
can't forget-just ut this point another form ap
The wife welded as she was before my prosperous
i years;
travel DER the dreary road we travelled side by side
And wonder what my share would be If Justice shou
( divide.
She had four hundred dollars left her from the ol.
estate, .-.-
On that we married, and thus poorly armored facet
our fate,
wrestled with my books; her task was harder faI
than mine hH
r was hew to make two hundred dollars do the work
Of nine.
At last was admitted then had my legal lore,
An osice with stove and desk, of books perhaps a
score;
She had her beauty and her youth and some house
I " wifely skill,
And love FOR me and faith In me, and back of that
Will.
! had no friends behind memo influence to aid:
worked and fought for every little Inch of gro und
made.
And how she worked beside mel never woman liFt
on less
two long years she never spent a single cent fl
dress. F
And how she cried for JOY when nay first legal fgi
was won.
When eclipse passed partly by and stood In tn
rhe fee was fifty dollars-'twas the work of half !
first captive, lean and scraggy, of my legal bow and
spear.
well remember, when my coat the only one I had
Was seedy. grown and threadbare, and, in fact, mos
SHOCKING bad"
rhe tailors stern remark wheA / a modest orde'
+ made,
Cash is the basis, sir, on which taiors do ous
I trade"
Ier winter cloak was in his shop by noon that very
day,
She wrought on hickory shirts at night that tailor
bill to pay.
rot coat and wore it: but alas poor hannah Jane
Meek went to church or lecture till warm weathe
7 came agam.
bur second season she refused cloak of any Sort
That might have decent suit in which T. appear,
court.
he made her last years bonnet do that might hav
a hat;
Talk of the old-time, flame enveloped martyrs afte
that!
save,
she made herself most willingly household sdrudg
and slave.
book,
stress. cook!
What wonder that the beauty fed that 50 ono
adored!
Her beautiful complexion my aerce kitchen fire DE-
voured;
Her plump, soft arm was once too fair to be oon
cealed:
Hard work for me that softness Into sinewy strens
concealed
was her altar and her love the sacTifcial flame,
And with what pure devotion she TO thataltar came
And, fearful. flung thereon--alasi did not know
then
all that che was and more than that, all that sh
nighs have been
at last won success. All! then our lives were wide
parted;
was far up the rising road she. poor girl where
started.
had tried my speed and mettle. and gained strengt
In every race 1:
was on the heights OF ifeshe arudging at the bas
She urged me take each fall the stump: she sal
'tsas my career
The wild appliance Of listening crowds was music
my ear.
what stimulus had she TO cheer her dFcary solitude
She couldnt read my speech. but when the papers
agreed
Twas the best one Of the session. those comments q
could read,
And with gush OF pride thereat, which had nave
felt,
she sent then, to me in note. with half the Wors
misspet.
to the Legislature went and said that she shonld
TO nee the world with me and whaF the word.is DOR
now.
with fearful smile she answered, !. Ne foar dolla
IL the pay
The Bates House rates for board for one o nst %
anm per day.