New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-03


to give advice to You, for you are as we'll
adjusted to your circumstances ~ l was to
mine, or as am to those that surround me
now. have tried hard to keep up the dig
nifty of living, but have failed. have en-
deav0red to console myself, but ! have
failed in that. l have to confess that the
discipline which my spirit has undergone
lOsOpby that l knew how to use has not
soothed q single regret. l thought that
was right at the outset, and think 90 now.
The reasons that led me to decide what my
course should be in that fatal crisis have
lost none of their force, and have nothing
to retract. was unable to influence my
wife, and che remained steadfast to her
principles. She was not passive. She was
active in giving aid and announcement
where l would have given warning and re-
proof. Fortified by the spirit Of the neigh
bOch0od and the hour, she came to believe
it heroic to stand aloof from me, and those
were days when cooled love changed to
frenzied hate. May the Almighty Father
never again visit such upon his humble
people.
Separated as am from that one human
being whose whereabouts / know not, l am
as lonely az if were solitary in the middle
Of the sch. Nothing enters my bosom. The
sympathy of NO one reaches me- knowing
can never enter into her heart again.
Fades had nothing to say. He gazed.
perhaps with but dim comprehension, at
the old mourner. and felt for him, beside
establishment at his lack of vigor, q pro-
found compassion.
Ten days later q message came from the
wife, and Eadee, in obedience to it, pre-.
pared to leave the city at once, and in the
care OF physician who was engaged to &C.
h he
Everything that the wife had done thus
far had had q peculiarly metallic ring about
it, and If the relatOr were put upon the rack
he would admit that Fades began to feel
q little uneasiness. 1t was plain that il she
proposed to 20 on in this manner. there
must soon occur little fault in the melody:
but this was only the fear of the ex-busi-
ness manager in propria persona, and it
was wholly grOundless.
The invalid arrived at his destination
in the night time. His tyrant, with q
little lantern shaped liked q pepper-box
hanging by ring and chain from her
fore-fnger, was standing in the door
way of the station. with her features bal.
anced for q smile or an agony of tears.
When Fades got out she flew at him and
threw herself upon his neck like q child.
The physician left some directions for
forms sake, and then went discreetly to Q
hotel.
This is the principal meaning of the Chat
on the wife's part, a. she led her husband
toward their sanitsrium, over an easy coun-
try path that wound through q grove of
trees:
Our house is . cottage with three veran-
das; hence, three faces and one back. Il
has q garden of white sand, and out OF the |
sand grow twenty varieties of roses, which |
bloom always, nearly. To the west is y
view of pine valley and limit |
ID sky: We shall spend many happy hours
ieet deep, with q lattice and q Swiss
'oof above it. There is also whitewashed |
,abin where one of my maids and her uncle |
md four nephews live. l pay the maid |
,nly; however, she voluntarily considers
he support of her relatives just peraui. |
lite. We have many hens; but we pur.
hase eggs, as l am told in the kitchen that
his is an of year with fowl of our sort.
1--WE have neighbOrs in cottages lust
Ike ours in all directions. They are all
'outherners, and are silent, kind and gen.
rally very thin. They know all that has
assed in the world up to seven days ago.
he common time for book parcels from
lew York, and they will be glad to speak
nth you on political matters, especially
nose of the State. Their welcome to
orthern people is real. have broken
read in nearly every house that / could
Zach by walking half an hour.
"There are no great scenes here. The
md is elevated and the air is dry. You
N do nothing at first but breathe the
ney air, calm your spirit in the calm of
10 place, and bring your soul down to the
nall things.
"We shall be able, l think, to learn MANY
ssons in fortitude and endurance, and We
all ear some of the strangest theories of
'litical and social economy that ever came | I
It OF the brain of man. I
Il predict that our sympathies with the 9
ffering will be drained very dry, and yet s
at We shall wonder how it became posi- e
Q that sympthies could be demanded t
We each other and to hate war"
Fades, feeble and languid to the last de- q
ee, did the best that his strength and
nse permitted. At first he was able only q
sit in q broad chair upon the piazza, t
til barred head and folded hands, and to S
ze down the valley with the vacancy of Y
lid. He slept but little. Every petty
Use in the dead Of night rang in his ears v
e clap of thunder. In q fortnight he u
ended so much that his wife took him for u
ort walks in the woods, he leaning upon II
ay sunshine with her umbrella. Little f,
% said upon these occasions, yet they b
1versed without cessation. 1t was not 81
cessary that they should speak to under
md each others happiness. To press &
, same pine carpet with their feet, Al
behold the same grandeur in the h
es, to listen together to the murmur of
, wind, to pause as one to breathe the | %
grant air, was communion enough, and b
, simple touch of their hands was q privi- al
q immeasurably sweet. Every moment q,
ssed thus was an aid to the crippled man. a.
It'll thankfulness that his siammering :;
rds at nightfall could but lily formulate, al
noted. on this day perhaps that he was n
70 to walk little farther without ex- -
1stion; on this, that he craved another @,
ace of food; on this, that he slept few a,
ments in the afternoon; on another, that 81
color was better, or that the palm Of his NJ
Id was tirmer, or that he was able to q,
Oh little more heartily ri
the purest and deepest, flowed az
at these tritling events. Clasped in one
'ther's arms, the husband and wife rec.
ized the direct interpositiOn of favoring or
violence. The wite's cup was too full, | hi
one day she cried: DE-
Oh, that little Of my joy might fall hs
} the sad hearts that are 80 many in tn
strange land"' ar
n day hat had promised to be fair, sh
IN came up with great speed and over by
number of strOllers in the woods ",
ong these were Fades and bis wife. She
ed him to hasten, having more fear of
rain than of the exhaustion that might tn
ne from rapid walk. They were in a
ley: The nearest house was an old villa an
n the brow of red hill. The tall pines
ut it began to sway in the wind, and the
Ids came floating up from the west with of
wild hurry with which smoke rushes
|. the zenith from cOnfsgratione.
Let us climb up this road and 20 to Mis-
. Gsrdettes," cried the anxious nurse. ha
Do you know herr" ~
Yes. She beckoned to me one day and wi
me that she liked my way of stepping"
AIDES smiled, and hurried on with COM he
sed lips, swaying from side to side, now tn,
then casting furtive looks at his wife, lit,
,au In ana hyr ha6 faao hoSu ho him L ha