The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-05-24

NVS)lfSA Nr-[[[-S~& LOVING nature. Men
M/ZSGSW5R(00llg looked and felt the
0hV94SNSSe2S=%g spell, and thought
- S5(NoC0lNSSS themselves deceived
" ~ - HBB because, in the face,
there was no sufficient charm to account
for the reaiing Such magnetism is exer-
eised by all strongly tender natures, and
the sympathetic soul becomes instantly
sensitive at contact with the magnetic cen
ter. How often is it said: u wonder what
he can see in her to loveP' because, for
sooth the eye of flesh can not penetrate be-
meath the surface May it not be, must 1t
not be, that it is given to the eve of love te
see and to the heart 81 love to understand
that which is hidden from the multitude
the inner beauty and worth, that soul-love-
illness which is the only pure and abiding
beauty.
But, IL you had seen Kate Wilton afoot
and aheld, you would have, inevitably,
turned and watched her with growing
feeling that she was somebody; for, to a
superb physique, she added rare grace OF
carriage. To see her walk was revela-
ton, compelling the reflection that, among
the stumbling, wincing throng of Woman
kind, walking was lost art. Glowing
with exercise, her eyes sparkling, little,
struggling tendrils of hair curling about
nef lOfeHcdu anu dfOulll hti ldpS
was at its best In repose, her face lost
its great charm-the charm of light The
difference in her face when in repose and
when emotion or exercise stirred it was
the difference between the cold, gray sky
at dawn and the warm, bright sky at sun
rise: between the stream that flows sober
ly in shadow and the merry, laughing
stream that leaps in the light. For this
reason, pei haps, any attempt to describe
Kate Wilt( ms face ends only in a category
of featur; ) Her light, brown hair was
worn roll 81 back in curling wave
from hel pure, high forehead the
eyes beneath were large and gray; nose,
straight and over large, mouth also rather
large, with lines which, straight in repose,
could soften and become sensitive when
she was aroused or interested. Her chin
was firm aud well nodded and the white
neck was full and faultless in its curves.
The striking characteristic of her face
was strength. An artist, with line or
two, could have made it sweetly strong or
sternly strong, but strong it must be, in
any case. Her nature was of that kind
which seems to be instinctiyely religious.
The doctrine of particular, all-pervading
Providence, 80 hard of understanding for
some, was to her the most natural of be-
liefs. Hnr religion was pure love, and if it
be true that
"He urayeth best who loveth best
All things. both great and small"
then Kate Wilton's prayers should have
had peculiar efficacy; for her regard for
life, in its lowest forms, amounted to al
most reverence. Perhaps this was due as
much TO surroundings and education as to
the inherent qualities of her mind. Left an
orphan in early girlhood, Katie had been
taken home by an aunt, who was widow
and childless. Aunt Ruth was Quakeress,
and while she faithfully fulfilled the desire
Of the child's parents ami let her receive
her religious education in the worship Of
the denomination of which her father had
been pastor, she could not do otherwise
than impress upon the child, not so much
by word as by living example, that peculiar
reverence for the Father which is charac-
teristic Of the peaceful sect ''Thee must
be very still in myself, my child, If thou
nearest the Divine voice." was precept
that bore its fruit in Katie's life.
She grew up believer in divine voices
and sought TO make within herself that
holy calm in which no whisper of Heaven
is lost 10 the spiritual sense. Among the
voices that Kate Wilton listened for was the
voice of God, speaking through human lips
the words of love. Whittier thou goest
/ well go.n There was not a particle of
coquetry in her; to have sought lover
would have been to outrage every instinct
of her fine and delicate nature Yet she
thought daily of husband and of home.
The maternal instinct was strong within
her, and child faces and child voices came
and went in her pure dreams. Daily she
prayed for the man who was coming TO her
with ever nearing feet feeling a sweet de-
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soul loved, unknown of name, unknown Of
form, would be blessed from source I'M
known or tranquilized and refreshed in
hours Of loneliness and struggle by her in
tercession. II was a rare and singular
thing that she should feel that the qualities
she loved must be mOrtally incarnate and
come TO her some day, TO be known Of name
and cherished of body.
And so it came TO pass.
BY a chance as seeming strange as the
meeting in mid ocean Of ships from antip-
odal ports, as strange as the meeting of
long parted friends i'm the crowded
thoruughfare of a strange city, Carl Burton
came into her life and found it swept, gar
nished and prepared That one year Of
love, which followed, seemed a year Of
more than human JOY. Perhaps though
happily she could not know il, longer ex-
BtAASuA1 NbuAA iiaNb EhOMh uth Nltbf as
the sunlight makes even common things
beautiful, so she owed TO the glamour Of her
own love-its abnegation and intensity
much Of the beauty which she found in her
lover. Perhaps she might have slowly
learned that her ceaseless prayer TO be wor-
thy Of him was needless, on even that his
embrace was parasitic, drawing on her life
10 nourish "a selfish existence. But all such
thoughts were far from the mind Of Kate
Wilton. Life seemed royal progress. She
moved through landscape bathed in sun
light radiant with color, sweet with song.
As her religion WIS love, so her love was
religion, and no sacrifice that love could
ask but she would have gloried in making
it, l. is comparatively easy, oftentimes,
10 make voluntary Offering Of that which,
II Withdrawn from MS BY sovereign power,
wouid stir us p ANGRY mutiny against the
supreme authority that orders all things
aztec the COUNSEL Of His own Will
An this dream OF leve was to fade
the SKY become overcast and the
birds cease their singing During
an hts year Of first love Kate had heard
she roll Of drums, ihc good byes u Fl lends,