Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-12-02
} YITTILL TENN, THURSDAY, DGBMDR 1852 M4
T Il TUESDAY


) only one tho blight echoed and re.ech
0 ed through His brain. "Shoul,
, she die-oh! should she die
i For sometime lie stood transfixed
, s. irving to dRecll the bursting sol
t hat was AMIDST sitting him, when h,
fflt Slight pail at his coat by Ellen
With her pretty lips half parted
{ Papa" She half whispered; "mayn'
Il go up stairs a I'D tell mamma yo,
q b love her dearly?"
! He caught her to his breast aaC
clasped her With the warmth Of hi.
new love closei1 his arms, he kissed
her again /, na| gain, blessing his Ma
ller tllat o4tq the mouths of babes
and suc CEILINGS he has ordained praise:
then relea4 4ihg the delighted child
he said, ''ffsI aar!ing, if yof wish
to. =
| The child few up stairs, while her
ftther followed more slowly, 'm4mma,
she screamed, bounding in t o the
room, ''you won1 cry any NOR +, nor
have a headache nov, father SAY s that
be loves you dearly, my own dear
mamma."
The poor woman sprang to her
feet; she coaldh't comprehend the
scene; she was beYildered; her pale
cheeks flushed and grew palhd by
turns. She look ed first at her hus-
band, and then Ellen; who had ex-
pected her mother to laugh outright,
and appear as gleeful as she, little in
nocent being
"Alice," said her husband in fall
tering tones, "opr child is our peace
maker,she has M Tde me better man;
p do love yol Alice, viii you f1rgiae
me for my cold1ess and neglect?"
With a low, tErilling cry Of delight
the wife fell within her husband S
arms. He was forgiven. she was
happys ia that moment old barriers
w-ra broken down, old ASSOCIATIONS
forgotten, and h@ soil Fmnly resolved.
with the help of God to be no more
an alien from home; to remember the
VOW he had taken, an ID become wor-
thy Of tie dolE Edeilce reposod in
him.
Little Ellen danced around the
foom, tossing h4r yellow carls and .
Tapping her han ds as she shouted,
fohl l an SO happy; mother won't
Try any more then under childish
yet holy impulses she knelt rever-
Intly down and Tipped the little prayer
lie had repeated ever since she vas
bout two yea.s did,
God bless my DAZZLING mother.
Ny dlrIing ia;hkr TOO;
And may we love each olher.
A. Chrisls aear tluck should DO.
Think you thdro vero no blissfal
cars Shed in tho little chamber, as
hey listened to the petition Of the
rtless babe?
The parlor was right CHEEKY thai
voning; little Ellen sat uplater than
sunl because shd was too happy to !
leep, theastrI Ilshd dla food Of red light !
ver the neat, we'll ordered room, the /:
tbl4 was filed with books; the piano i
rte opened and giving forth sweet '
ounds as of old, undo 7 the touch Of t
be now light-haarted wife; and a t
ote was sent to the c ID rendezvous,
] which NIr. Crosby dec lined the hon I
! Of bcing made Pres dident of the t
tie nd yer met with )
is companions again, nor dld he
ON that time, qpitf tha soul destroy
:, sparkling wine Z
Little Elien IS now ldrSe, Uut aS y
aautiful IS ever She will soop give Il
sr hand to me wbrthy of her; and c
le remembers as If it we're but yes n
dark hour when she found r
'urage TO tell her father that Che Is
a not love her mother. - Still viy1 q
" does she recdllect the Wild and
yfal feeling with which she ran uH
airs, father says he loves you dear IS
/, mamma; you won't cry an d
ore!" Il
Two children Il ave recently died h
om eating ohestn dts-one in Cleye- Il