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JOURNAL OF
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9™ SENATORIAL DISTRICT
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Official Journal cf (he Pansii of Lafourche anti tlic Town of TItibodanx
YOL. XXII.
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1SS7.
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XO. 24.
, THE MODERN LOVER.
View* of a Prospective Motber-ln-Lav.
Ny little mr.Ms, wnuM yon I 19 wed?
Ami gaily My wen's measure tu-.nl? _ <~
Base not vnitr Imp; on I.nve divine,
J/Ae is » dr '.v.n of iiui.I long syne.
And milk >vIsir■■ a:-.:. ::i 1 du-His like rases,
OM-fMfcioneil as ili r..--.i yard posies.
Nor seek to !■ ■ ..r Hi • •> . • a .ay
At " Colley on ( 1 unit; :ir tiivnt Day. r__
Beauty and tv t nr rii.inning tilings,
But stiil t 1 ■. ■ iding ring*.
From early mo: a. m\ laite maids.
Till night In Utv. . ,• similes,
Crgeou papa, tvllli ■ ] !! . • ,:iile, s
. To spare tie i.dior, pains or tvile?
| To eln at t'.ii' rich i.nl grind the poor,
Tol t il 1.1 ng i ire i
Till fortune stays lierliotng tvlieel.
And stamps luui tt .ill in-r g diien seal.
"(Vi! r......:i • is, ta c • -v. inn the bees."
My little .!... . V, :tv taPi- ■ mtr two.
fVliai matter t'l r. r'a voa:-a i:r be tow?
Tour got den ill'.-.,is •;! and glow. .
Awl t 1 1 : ;it if 1 i- may be lean,
With plenty all \ • :ir eotr ■rs teem.
My little maids, be i ibn and bold. - <
'Tile modern loyi-r 1 -: .. uigiit and solil.
At your swe.-t tv.il, .r tvoe 1 I v.eal,
S.iall sound Un joyous tv edit lug peal. ^
For wee or tveal? For tveal or vroof __
My little ma ils, "tls 'omeiimes so, _ ... ■
And. if the s' * r t I must tell.
That riiialne, '.v. iugin , golden bell
Too often somnLs a wedding knell. '
-Lire.
A YOUNG STEPMOTHER.
"I never will onll Iter mother! I never
will love lier! Ami there's no need in
urging the mutter with me: I tell yon
that my mind is made tip!"
I stamped my loot passionately on
I'•' IV-G tt,- 1 spoke, nnd I could feel
ti e hot scarlet liu&h suffusing till my
face'.
"Isabel," lie said, caressingly, "for
my
sake,
I think for i
try
nii'l
ov< .•come
r ,V
ht'lict
> one
she
is Lit-:
lutiful."
I
turn
• J sullenly
away without a
syllable of reply, and buried myself
I tril It ; in the shadiest and
t. ■:> t re::.- walk in the garden. But
even as I leane l over the hand-rail,
mechanically living my eyes on the
whirl of the musical water below, a
Jig; hand touched my shoulder, and I
sl't tee to fir..'. myself looking directly
into the face of my beautiful young
stepmother.
4 I ibel!" she said softly.
"I did iml expect to find you here,
Airs. Farnktim," I said coldly. " I had
supposed that at least in one place in
my father's garden 1 should be free
from unwelcome companionship."
" Will 1101 you believe that 1 love you,
Isabel?" she pleaded, while her wistful
violet eyes red trembling lips would
here melted any heart less marble than
mine.
"These private theatricals are quite
unnecessary, mndanie," I answered,
frigidly. 4 ' I can scarcely he expeetd to,
veld a child's reverence to a mother
scarcely three years older than myself."
44 1 do nut ask for any such feeling on
your part, Isabel but 1 would plead for
a little love."
" It is quite useless. The memory of
my own moth'T—"and here I stopped
short, with a choking sensation in'my
throat.
My stepmother turned to steal her
arm, so fair and round in its translu
cent muslin >. ve, around my waist,
"Dear Dcb'-i," see whispered, "your
father t r eas ■■ • ;he r ••*-11 '■turn of his
first wife uom- flu less tenderly because
he has taken inly upon my desolation
and friend:- .-".css. And—"
But I stopped to hear nothing fur
ther; I was determined not to love her,
and it gave me a sort of unquiet, guilty
exultation to see that my perverse con
duct had power seriously to embitter
the happiness of both herself and my
father
Before. 1 had never given thought or
care to my personal appearance; now I
studied the trivial details of dress,
with a special regard to outshining my
stepmother.
" At all events," I thought to myself,
" I am more beautiful than she is."
I read, studied and cultivated my
mind with renewed energy; people
should not say that Mrs. Famham was
more intelligent than her stepdaughter.
I strove to render my manners as gentle
and fascinating as possible.
"Isabel," my father said,."you are
improving very* much of late, and re
mind me more than ever of your dear
mother. If you could only try to grow
a little more fond of Estelle-"
I turned laugingly away, with some
careless remark about the matter.
So weeks and months passed away,
and we, the inmates of the household, j
dwelling beneath one roof, were as far
apart in heart and nature as if conti
nents divided us or seas rolled between.
" Not small-pox, surely!"
My stepmother's voice reached me,
as if through the medium of distance,
faint and soft, although she was sitting
at my side. I tried to speak, but I
could not. I strove to raise my handjaiul
beckon, but I was powerless as a baby
a day old!
"I fear it is," Dr. Dayton's voice
answered, "and I can give you but
little hope of your husband, although
Belle's vigor of constitution and youth
may enable her to weather the storm!"
tVas my father, then, sick? And
what blighting influence cast its spells
over me? I tried to remember, but
my memory was a blank. And with
the instinctive efforts to repel my sttq>
mother's hand as she laid a bandage,
dipped in some cooling lotion, on my
brow, I seemed to drift away upon the
tideless sea of dreams.
When I recovered my senses—months
afterward, as it seemed to me. although
it could have been but a few days—Dr.
Dayton was still standing by my bed
side, and close by the window sat a
slender figure in black—its face was
turned away.
"Who is that?" I asked huskily,
point in r toward it.
"Mrs. Famham," be answered.
"Why does she wear that black
dress?" I ventured after a moment of
silence.
"My poor child," he gently responded,
"your own mother is no longer alone
in heaven. He left you his blessing,
and one day you will meet him again."
" Was—was it small-pox ?"
" Yes," was the reluctant reply.
" And I have been ill, too ?"
" Very ill, my poor girl—so near the
valley pf death that the shadows all
but encompassed your life!"
" Bring me a looking-glass."
I stared breathlessly into its crystal
depths. Thank heaven—I was pale,
worn, haggard, but not scarred with
the hideous prints of the disease I had
been battling with.
" How does it happen that I am not
marked?" I asked, with a deep res
piration of thankfulness,
"Through your stepmother's unin
termitting care, day and night! Isabel,
you ought to love her very, very much,
for if ever guardian angel dwelt in
human form, she lias boon one to you!"
Was my body molded out of adamant,
instead of human flesh and blood?
For I hated my stepmother still! I
thanked her, it is true, but her gentle
sigh told me she was not deceived hv
the empty form of words.
I was just convalescing sullieiently
to sit up when Colonel Tresselyn came
to our house. He had been an old
school friend of Estelle Bayiaomi before
she married my father, but it so
chanced that I had never soon him.
ITe was tall and handsome, with
large, black eyes, a rich, i rov. a skin
and a face and figure li! ? ■ s;;nln
tured representative of Ay ■■! And
the soft southern grace - ; ne n: r
was as fine as it was all:' dive to no.
Tiie first day that I km ?, ii> I had
fallen in love with bin. w v; the c: ;;
that I had first fancied hi 1 . an nor la 1
a deeper shadoof tend, a li.au if.;
wont toward my stepiu
The light flasued blind : /• Ka.vtior
ingiv in upon my soul! ' ! ! or :!i;Tl.
hated stepmother—she w. not t"i a
content with stealing f- •.hol
ies* girl a father's treasured love, out
she must lain take also an ay the dear
est jewel of a woman's life -the heart
of the man she loved most dearly.
I had recourse to my usual panacea
for a sore heart—solitude! I sought
the lonely depths of the autumn-tinted
woods to think and dream and bum in
upon my heart the passionate con
sciousness of my own grief and isola
tion. And I could not have told
whether I had been there three hours
or only three minutes, when voices in
the leaf-shaded aisles beyond were
floated gently to my ears—my step
mother's tones mingled with the sweet
deep accents of Colonel Tresselyn.
They did not know I was there, but I
had neither the spirit nor the pride to
reveal my presence.
44 It is useless, Ralph," Estelle's sweet
voice spoke. " I know that I am still
young in years, but such things gg love
and marriage are over for me."
"And you will not be my wife?"
" Xo, Ralph-but it is not that I do
not esteem and respect you."
"You send me awav from you?" he
, ,
bappv in your happiness! ;
And so'the unselfish, steadfast love |
of my mother conquered my willful j
said, in a somewhat piqued tone.
" There you are wrong - again, Ralph.
I would fain keep you by my side as a
dear and valued mend. Ask Isabel to
be your wife—she is young and beauti
ful , with rare richness of nature and a
heart which will appreciate you as you
deserve. As Isabel's husband you can
scarcely fail to be happy, for—"
And here the growing distance and
the rustle of the leaves drowned their
receding voices, and I sat there with
exultant throbs in my heart. Ought I
to have been indignant? Should I
have spurned the adulation which had
been laid first at another's Shrine? I
can only answer that I loved him!
In that hour my manner, as well as
my heart, altered toward my step
mother—and on the evening when
Ralph Tresselyn asked me to he his
wife, I went to her and told her of it,
with my arm upon her shoulder and
my heart pressed close against hers.
"I am so glad, Isabel!" she whis
pered, "and not alone that you and
Ralph arc to he happy, but because I
think you have finally learned to love
me."
" I do love you, mother!" I whispered
softly.
"Mamma!" I said caressingly, one
day, when we had just returned' from
our wedding tour, " I wonder that you
didn't like him?"
"Did I ever tell you, Belle, that I did
not like him?"
" Are you in earnest ?"
"Just thus far," she answered, "that
I might have learned to love him as a
wife had T allowed myself to do so.
But, Belle, there were two obstacles in
the way—your dear father's memory
and your own happiness. I read your
heart, dearest, and I knew that Ralph
need only to do so, too, to love you as
you deserved."
" A A you have sacrificed yourself
forme!" I exclaimed, almost rever
ently, as if there were something saint
like in her gentle beauty.
" It was no sacrifice, Isabel. Any
fleeting fancy T may once have felt has
vanished long ago, and I am more than
nature at last.
m:i k
ILLS
WRIGSNS.
T*o«:t I.l vtnsr—1
^ r!rJinF-Kar»l Prink*
irp^—Uuov :*
—:•(>;•" 1 Jealousy—
4*01 illca.
—ctl'uatiioaa
T!
• lfa "*
for .■'Icucy,
The al?
rmhi.
X disease of this
•ountry '
nerv
»r.s debility and
orostratio
It goes under
..>.any u.:!
. , 1
/
jut it is essen
iially t!
o r<
rae complaint.
Hospitals
and
private institu
it- m
>us patiei
Th.*
average
ilfted
States
crowded
In the
creasing every year. Sudden j
deaths from nervous collapse j
fimong on? business, profess- !
ion a! and public men are sc i
■v uncut ns' scarcely to excite j
.no majority of sui- 1
iiUtcd without ap
or ruder so-called
i or spirits, are !
a. marl
v. T
rides,
com
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The
se i
noted by nervous ;
. v kig is a fruitful
ieir gri T and horror.
biriS are startling.
They threaten the very life of
tho nation. They assail the
springs of its power and pros
perity. They wreck manhood's
strength and woiitaiTs useful
ness and beauty.
Every one should know the
causes. What are they ? The
answer is easy and terribly
£
lain: Our vicious personal
, uciaoum j
iabits; our careless and lawless i
eating and drinking; the in- j
tense mental and physical strain
arising froth*our inMYacfe after
money, position aud influence ;
the fears and struggles of pov- i
eTty; die use of narcotics and
stimulants; our fashion of
our desperate willingness to
pay any price for an hour's
t f s ggy. fFr'^n
'x~" r -'
pleasure or success. So we
burn life's candle at both ends
and fill the lunatic asylums
and the graveyards,
The disease from which we
suffer and die is, in plain Eng
lish, Nervous Dyspepsia , as it
is seated in the Nerves and in
the organs of Digestion, Assim
ilation and Nutrition. Healthy
digestion being impeded or des
troyed, the whole body, nerves
included, is literally starved;
even when there is no emaci
ation to tell the sad story.
Nervous prostration sends
out its warnings:—headache
in the morning; a persistent
dull heaviness or aching at the
base of the brain; wakefulness;
loss of appetite and disgust with
food; loss of mental energy and
interest in ordinary duties and
business; restlessness and anx
iety without any assignable
reason; eructations; bad
breath; foul mucous on the
teeth; occasional giddiness;
palpitation of the heart; sal
lowness of the skin; coated
tongue and gradual failure of
strength and ambition.
The remedy is a total aban
donment of the habits and cus
toms which cause the <11:cane
in each individual ease, and the
use of Shaker Extract of Roots
(Seigel's Syrup) to cure the
mischief already done. This
great remedy, prepared by the
Shaker Community of Mt. Leb
anon, N. Y., is especially adapt
ed to eradicate Nervous Dys
pepsia. To do this it avis
directly and gently but power
<• n v i i .
b.Uy. y.ppn the disordered sxom
liver and kidneys, restor
ing their tone and vigor, pro
moting the secretion of bile, ex
pelling waste matters from the
system, and purifying the blood.
Upon the nervous system
Shaker Extract(&e\geVs Syrup)
acts as a safe and wholesome
anodyne without the slightest
narcotic effect, and then leaves
the nerves to regain their nat
ural tone and strength: through
its wonderful influence upon
the function of nutrition.
It is safe to say more nerv
ous dj-speptiea have becu re
stored by it from the depths
of misery to a. fresh enjoyment
of life anal labor than .by any
or all other i'ornm of treatment
combined.
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