Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-08


 cneek spoke of deadly consumption. lay on wreiched, low bed, the covering of which. barely sufficient to keen her froS, freezing. while a spectral babe. whose black eyes looked unnaturally large from its extreme thnness, was vainly e1deayorinc to draw sustenance from the dying mother | How are you, Mrs. Wright r quietly inquired Charles. The woman feehlv raised herself on her arms. Is that vou. MT. West !--Oh how glad am you arc come your mother 2 Has not been at home for month, and the lady who prom ised her to look after you in her absence. only informed me to-day of your increased illness. l have been very ill., she faiutly replied, sinking back on her straw bed.- Emma drew near, she arranged the pillow and bed clothes over the feeble sufferer. but her heart was too full to speak. Charles observed it and felt satisfied. 1. Is that beautiful girl your bride? heard you were married.' Yes, and in my mothers absence she will see you do uoi suffer- Bless you Charles West-bless you for a good son of a good mother: may vo,ir young wife deserve you-and that is wish ing great deal for her. You. are very good to think of me- she said, looking at Emma, and you are just married.'- Charles saw Emma could not speak, and hurried her home, promising to send the poor woman coal that night. The moment they reached home, Emma burst into tears.
 My dear Emma,' said Charles, soothing y, hope l have not given you too se- were shock. 1t is sometimes salutary to look on the miseries of others, that we may properly appreciate our own happiness.- Here IS purse containing seventy-five dollars, you may spend it as you please.'
 Is 1t necessary to say the odious wilton Kept its place. but the shivering children of want. were taught to bless the name of Emma West, and that it formed the last articulate murnur on the lips ofthe dying sufferer ?-I5.
 Ihe Broken FlOwer.--I walked out in the morning, when the mild spring had spread her verdant mantle upon the fields and called forth the blossoms and the bud when the green shrub was expanding it's leaves like tue wings of the newly fledged bird, and the rills leaped gladly along in the sunlight, and marked and enjoyed the freshness and beauty of the scene but q little howret that bloomed lonely by the pathway arrested my attention, and turned aside to contemplate its hues and admire the delicacy of its form. It was lovely yet meek, aud rich, with fragrance, which it flung upon the light wings of the passing wind and thought it an emblem of young and guileless heart, it stood so m cd sfc snn r pluck it, although it looked so fair and in- viting, but let it bloom upon its slender stem, to meet the sight of the next passer by, and charm him with it's sweetness.
 returned in the evening and sought for the gentle flower j. but the cruel tread of the needless stranger had been upon it and crushed 1t. and it lay on the ground brok- en and bleeding, unnoticed and alone..- And thought it, as it lay thus before me, l an emblem of the human heart, when its delicate pride had been wounded by the thoughtless or the designing, who pass on their way and leave the stricken one io mourn in the silent desolation ofthe heart. moralized on the fate of the dying flow CT, aud received from it lesson that sunk deep into my mind. It taught me that on- Iy the great. the wealthy are secure from aggression like this and that their claims and pretensions are acknowledged and ] respected, whilst the innocent, and the un- pretending, are sighted and despiscd, and their merits upseen and unrewarded. Yet let not the proud one exult in the ascen- dancy which fictitious advantages may have given him, nor the child of indigence lament the lowness of the lot {; for peace and contehtmept may visit the cottage, when they shun tile lordly mansion, and tho cares and discontents of the rich have ex- cluded from the quiet hearth-sides of the poor-while even amidst his bitterest re- pinings. the oppressed may find consola- tion; he knows that the wave of time is sweeping onward forever man may wish to stay its course, when the heaven above him is unclouded and that all the myriad barks which crowd its bosom will alike be dashed upon the shore of oblivion, and I their shattered wrecks shrink beneath the sacrifice ofits waters. FGrming.-The storms by which the commercial world is conyulscd, are caIcula- ted to reconcile thousands to their farms who had grown impatient at the contrast presented between their certain means of comfortable independence and the apparent riches suddenly resulting from lucky spec ulaiions. Sun never shone upon class of men possessing more fully all the earthly means of social happiness and solid pros- perity, than the Agricufturists of this Re-