The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-01-10

throbbing heart so near, she sune
again. Twas Of love and Paradise
Adam was enraptured by her beauty
and enchanted by her voice. This
is my mate, he thought; this is the
qualification of my longings for one
Of my kind this is the creature
loved before l saw it-loved it be-
fore knew it lived. He would have
reached out his arms and grasped
his new found love, but he feared to
frighten it away, and he stealthily
crept nearer and nearer, and then
rose up and spoke:
Fair creature, be not disturbed
| am only he who keeps the garden
l heard your voice and bent my
steps this way. No harm to thee
shall come. My name is Adam. Oh
my kind I am the first created.
Eve, for thus she was, our mother
as seen that day in Eden's bowers
would have fed at sound of Adam 6
voice, which startled her. But Adam
spoke again, and bade her stay till
more he'd said, and on bended
knees, with outstretched arms, his
trembling voice called for sympa-
thetic love in language thus:
Fair one, thou the fairest of the
fair, flee not away. Of me thou art
a part. Thou art my better half
with thee my life is love; without
thee all is dark and drear. Come,
let me touch thee; | will embrace
that form divine and swear protec-
ton. We are one and should not
live apart. Of thee l dreamed, fol
thee / yearned, before | knew you
had existence. You are my Eve.
the first created woman made fol
me, the first created man. Look
kindly on me, for till now | have
been sad and lonely.
Then Eve took voice and spoke
If you are half divine creation, and
| the other half, then why should
fear you? Without thee | am in.
complete. Together we are one
apart we are only half of what was
meant that we should be. | should
not bow to thee nor thee to me; il
| am yours and you are mine, then
honors should be easy. The right
I wish to do. I've dreamed of you
and loved your noble form before
my eyes beheld it. To me all things
are strange. l know not even
whence | came. For what great
purpose l am made | know not, but
it must be for something, else /
could not come. You first were
made; you first should know; 'tis
yours to teach me that which first
was taught to you. While we are
one, we yet are two; I am woman
and you are man; we are alike, yet
not alike. Woman is made for man
and man is made for woman, but
woman must yield to stronger will
of man else he will call her hard
and cruel and leave her to herself.
and that will bring again her lone.
illness and sorrow. But we have
met, said Eve, and we alike are
pleased one with the other; if you
will press your lips to mine and
swear that you will ever love, |, too
will swear the same to you; then
one we'll be, but not till then.
So then and there our Father
Adam and Mother Eve were welded
and arm in arm they walked anc
talked and talked and walked
through grove and bower, by lake
and brook, for much they had to say
When hunger came they pluckec
and ate, and in the heavenly shades
of Eden they sat them down te
rest and sing the praise of Him who
created them to live and love II
Paradise.
CHAP. III.-The honeymoon hac
just begun; the love in Eden scarce
lv come, when Satan also came. In
their joyful meeting; in those low
ing hours that flew SO swiftly by
the tree that bore forbidden frui,
was soon forgotten by the happy
twain. They ate it when they hun
gered they ate it without thinking
they ate it for it's sweetness.
Eden then was changed for worse
Paradise went quickly to the bad
and birds flew wild and beasts rur
mad. Everything took then a diff
ferent life. Where peace had reignee
supreme, all at once, was changed
to war. Adam was no longer recog
nized as helper of the garden; al
living things that loved him once
and obeyed his call, now turned
from him and fed or made hin
battle. On all this sudden trans
formation, came further trouble
From Eden this newborn pair were
ordered out to seek some othe
cline; to find a garden of theil
own and toll and toll for all theil
DAYS for that which they should ea
and wear.
Hand in hand, Adam and Eve
trembling under their load of sor
SOW. flew swiftly out the gates Q
Paradise and hid themselves til
they could talk and rest. Thel