Litchfield enquirer., 1843-05-18

detail of symptoms, and when questioned
 seemed thoughtful and abstracted,
 "Doctor," said the father one morning, as
 the physician stood in fixed Respondent
 attitude, gazing on his patient, "do you ap-
 prehend danger in the case"
 "There are appearances cannot at all
 like," said the physician, with heavy sigh,
 "we must do what we can"
 "Surely, sureiy," said the mother, "you
 do not think it possible that this disease can - and here her voice failed.
 1 "Unless some change in symptoms spec
 dily occurs, can feel but very little encou-
 ragement," replied the physician. "I have
 done all can-there is nohope but in God" l How impossible it seems to the untried in aff]iction. that death can touch what they
 love best. The idea of losing this idolized
 daughter had never really crossed Mrs.
 Selden's mind, and it entered it now with
 an overwhelming force but, alas for her,
 that was not all. She knew, she felt, that
 if there was any truth in the religion she
 professed, her child was unprepared to die.
 She knew by her own, and oft repeated pro- ] fessions, that she did not love, and did not
 mean 10 obey the obligations of religion,
 and that she did prefer the world to her
 Savior. It had sometimes made her moth-
 CT uneasy that herchild live so. but the tho't
 had never crossed her mind that she might
 also die thus. She had looked forward to
 time when her daughter should become so.
 bered by years, and prepared for the adop- l tion of more serious views and purposes She expected that tthen, by the grace of God, an acceptable time and day of salvation 1 would come. She had not thought of this 1 unexpected call---this coming of the Son of 1 Man while she was not aware. Who can hoVu cha h,rnn hnP NhilH. hour after hour passed, and no healing or 1 favorable change appeared. She thought not now of the beauty of those eyes that ga- 1 zed vacantly on hers-of the curls thatfell wildly around the fair face, tossed by the | restlessness of disease--of the lovelinesss the graces, the accomplishments, that had
 been her pride, her idolatry-she thought
 of but one thing-the soul. Her child was 1 dying was simmortal ]! was sunprepared!!!
 "Oh tell me, what can say to her" she
 said to a christian friend who stood by; II
 am afraid to say any thing -I ana afraid
 not to say any thing!''
 "My child, my dearest, do you know that you are very sick ?'' she enquired as sho bent over her daughter. The large blue eyes of her daughter were raised, and she looked at her mother with a l listless, languid gRze. and answered pas- l sively, "Am IF" @
 "Would you not like to have MT. L----- come in and talk and pray with you, Isa- bella 2" @ s43 "Wait till am little better," said the { girl, turning her eyes away vacantly, and putting her hand oa her forehead; amy head is so confused now, can't think," and as she spoke, a mortal paleness passed like the shadow of death over her face. l And was the work of life, the whole work for which christian education is designed,
 to be begun and finished in such an hour! 1 CANINE FIDELITY. IA most touching inci- 1 dent of canine fidelity occurred lately in 1 this city, which we intended to record at the time, but which, in the multitude of other duties, escaped our recollection. We re- ceiyed it from the physician of the family. and it's authenticity in all the particulars ie beyond question. A bright and interesting child, some four years old, the son of mer- chant in this city, was much attached 10 . fine Newfoundland dog, about year young CT than himself, and the attachment was ful- ly reciprocated. They were constant conn., panons, and the little fellow was scarce ever without his shaggy psayfellow. Tho boy was taken sick, and the dog watched by him with solicitude that was most aftec- l ting. He was almost constantly in the rooms and when the physician made his daily callss | Dc WOulO AOOk IGOtIl ubg1 bO tUT Ctauu W1tu expression which could not be mistaken,and which showed that he understood both tho object of the visit and the danger of his lit- tie master. The child died. Tho dog never tasted food afterwards; he refused every at- iention and every effort to console him, and in three days he died. Kind hands laid the noble brute by the side of the boy he loved | so well. and tears of genuine sorrow moisten- l ed the turf that covered his noble heart.- l Who shall say that the spirit which animal ! ted such affection, died with tho body that
 vainly strovs to confine 1t l-PrOv. JoWs. 1 THE REPORT CouRrEous- Everett,
 our present Minister to England, delivered an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Soei- ety at Cambridge, at their annual celebration few years ago, and after the public exerci- l ses were over, the Society had dinner, aa 1 is usual on such occasions. Judge Story, who presided at the tables, is said to have l proposed the following sentiment. after the cloth was removed. in compliment to the os- ator:
 "1ke orator of fhe day--Applause follows the footsteps of fame whersrsr ~ ikkEveEesO goes"
 This directed the attention of the whole | company to Mr. Everett, who immediately
 arose and made the following very happy 1 retort: .a
 1 "Ths Members ef ths Legal PScfessiOH- 1 However lofty their aspirations may be. they
 never can rise higher than one Story" | BSrlineew FFS Pesss I