The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-02-07

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and tell her so. / never cell poison to
. woman tdst cry, ond dosnot wish de
rat get black in de face. So be calm.
So Tom few home ngain; and Eva
rejoiced; and, hearing that johnson
was single man, who acknowledged
himself to be engaged, she did not rip
the patch off as she had first intended
| to.
A MARBLE HEART.
A Deserted Wife and Heart Broken
Mother-An lnh man ProTsssor
of the lHu mn AMI ztng Art.
john Church is q prominent pub
Usher and vender of music, and music
al instruments, in Cincinnati. He is
man who prides himself upon person.
al appearance, and with the young Ia
dies who have been wont to flock to
his store on Fourth street, he is gen.
orally esteemed a love of man. But
with that fair exterior the interior bar.
ometer of human nature, known as
the heart, as it beats in John Church's
bosom is about as hard and callous .
substance as the granite which distin.
guishes his native home in New Eng
land. Many years ago he came from
that sterile region to Ohio, and settled
in nCincinnsti, and then wooed aud won
a beautiful and estimable girl, Miss
Carrie Corwin, who waa as good as
she was fair, and who bore him three
pledges Of affection, one boy and two
girls. The former died early, and con-
scquently, for no ostcnsible canse,
John Church, who loved himself too
well to realize the sacred affection of =
husband and father, proposed, and by
his harsh treatment, effected, . separa-
ton from his wife, he taking posses
sion of one OF the girls, aud leaving
the other in care OF the discarded wo-
man.
The undying love Of q truthful heart
for Lhe unworthy object upon whom
she had lavished her girlish affection,
is best exemplitied by the following
letters, in which she piteously pleads
for reconciliation:
CINCINNATI, March 20. lS74-OH!
JOHN: Come 10 see me tor, one short
time, come, let US talk together, for the
sake OF which you left me; for the
sake of your future. Come let US go
together to Birdie's' grave and there
forgive and forget the past. There let
us renew our marriage vows, and
with his sweet spirit lowering over us
we will begin new life, with our
hearts to holy love aud endurance to
all eternity. Your own, CARRIE.
This brought no answer; so, o n the
27th of March, 1874, she again ad-
dressed him as follows:
CINcINNATI, March q, 1874-OH! |!
JOHN: Once more l must write to
you to come to me for only short
time. Can you, will you. let your
heart turn cold, and cast me off forever
and ever without even once seeing
me? DO not let it be forever. Come
to me, implore you. Come, and let
US at least part with gentle words.
You are killing me, John. tell you
love you as dearly as ever. I cannot
believe those cruel words. You wish
for separation John. will never
believe it until have heard your own
lips speak it to me. Then, although it
breaks my heart, must suffer it al
ways, loving you the same through
life. have refused to listen to all,
when they say you will not come to
me. look for you all the same. l
must see you; come to me, John, for
the sake OF the love you once felt for
me. Oh! John, could you only know
what I have suffered since we have
parted. l know you, too, have suffer-
ed know it, Only if we must part
come and hear 1what have to say.
You will never reg, ct it, but if you
refuse, IN time you will. You must
feel you have not been right. Come
this morning to me. DO not seek your
friend, Mr.. Storer, Come to me alone
and be not afraid, John. God will be
our witness, and He ia our best Judge
and guide. Come, my husband, come.
have been dear to you at times; try
to remember it, and come. Only come
and listen to what have TO say, and
then if you still wish to give me up,
God help me, will bear it unlil He,
in His mercy, shall call me home.
John, this isnot merely wife pleading
with hu band, but heart to heart, aud
soul to soul. Guard it, John, and
come to your own through ell for
ever and eyer. CARRIE.
But the plea, SO touchingly present.
ed, was disres arded by the cold blood
ed husband, and 80, dcspsirin. Of ever
moving his flinty bosom to any kindly
remembrance OF the past, she lived or
in her solitude, until the climax Of
grief was reached by the death OF her
child, Alice, her sole comfort in bitter
years Of sfllictiOn. 1t was then she
made this last appeal:
CINCINNATI, Friday night. March 81.
| lS76.-MR. CHURCH: l have hoped
until now that you would feel de-
sire to know something of our angel
Alice's last illness, and come or write
to mo to hear of it. There was much
that was lovely for me to recall, but
much more that was terrible agony.
God only knows why little child
should suffer SO much. Her suffer.
ings the last few days were worse to
witness than those Of our angel boy,
because she vas ever conscious Of each
pain until the last two spasms. AS
she struggled in the second called to