Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-15
WHOLE NO. 2,491.

HDlect IMAM tnab OF In9 Dllnu mOlS
or harmless worm. For long time
could not conceive how one inau
could GO forth to murder his fel.
lew. or even why there were laws
and governments bat when
| heard details of vice and bloodshed,
my wonder ceased, and / hurried
away with disgust and loathing.
HEvery conversation of the cot
tagers now opened new wonders to
me. While / listened to the in
structions which Felix bestowed
upon the Arabian, the strange sys-
TEN of human society was explain
ed to me. / heard of the division
of property of immense wealth and
squalid poverty; of rank, descent,
and noble blood. f
"The words induced me to turn
toward myself. learned that the
possessions most esteemed by your
fellow-creatures were high and un-
sullied descent united with riches.
A man might be respected with
only one of these acquisitions; but
without either he was considered,
except in very rare instances, as a
vagabond and slave, doomed to
waste his powers for the profit OF
the chosen few. And what was i?
OF my creation and creator / was
absolutely ignorant; but / knew
that / possessed no money, no
friends, no kind OF property. was
besides endowed with figure hide
Ously deformed and lOathsome; /
was not even of the same nature as
man. l was more agile than they,
and could subsist upon coarser diet
/ bore the extremes OF heat and
cold with less injury to my frame;
my statue far exceeded theirs. When
/ looked around, / saw and heard
of none like me. Was / then
monster, blot upon the earth,
from which all men fed, and whom
all men disOwned.
II cannot describe to you the ag-
ony that these reflections inflicted
upon Ine !; / tried to dispel them,
but sorrow only increased with
knowledge. Oh, that / had forever
remained in my native wood, nor
known nor felt beyond the sensations
of hunger, thirst, and heat!
"Of what n strange nature is
knowledge. 1t clIngs TO the mind,
when ii has once seized on it, like a
lichen on the rock. wished some
times to shake off all thought and
feeling; but | learned that there
was but one means to overcome the
sensation of pain, and that was
death, Ia state which I feared, yet
did not understand. i admired sVir-
tua onA GOOD faolipo, on1 lnx,od
the gentle manners and amiable
qualities OF my cottagerS but was
shut out from intercourse from
them, except through means which
| obtained by stealth, when ] was
unseen and unknown, and which
rather increased than satisfied the
desire had of becoming one among |
my fellows, The gentle words of
Agatha; and the animated smiles Of
the charming Arabian. were not for
me. The mild extOrtiOns OF the old
man, and the lively conversa-
tion of the loved Felix, were not
for me. Miserable, unhappy
wretch -+.-.... t.-t.
"Other lessons were impressed
upon me even more deeply. /
heard of the difference Of sexes of
the birth and growth of children ;
how the father d0ated on the smiles |
Of the infant, and the lively ,sallies
Of the elder child; how all the life
and cares of the mother were wrap
ped up In her precious charge how
the mind of youth expanded and
gained knowledge of brother, SIS |
ter, and all the various relationships |
which bind one human being to
in mutual bonds.
"But where were my friends and
relations &? No father had watched
my infant days, no mother had
blessed me with smiles and caresses
Or, If they had, all MY past life was
now blot, a blind vacancy in |
which l distinguished nothing.
From my earliest remembrance |
had been as 1 then was in height |
and proportion. / had never yet
seen being resembling me, or who
claimed any intercourse with me.
What was | :? The question again
to be answered only with
yrOans.
81 will soon explain to what
.hese feelings tended but allow
ne now to return to the cottagers,
whose story excited in me such va
'ious feelings of Indignation, de-
light, and wonder, but which all
In additional love and
'everence for my protectors (for so ]
owed, in an innocent, half-painful,
TO cali them.~
TO BE CONTINUED