Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-04-07
nit, as i. was pumped from the sick mans

stomach.
Towards morning sleep came over me,
and ] dreamed Of the pIague-of women
weeping. men and little children dying like
sheep; when awoke the sun was some
hours high, and the air again oven hot. A!
breakfast, none in that great crowd seemed
merry. NOT even the very young, for all had
heard of some dear one, dead or dying.
], was now nine in the morning the sun
was climbing into window and door, heating
the room like kiln. ] entered D-'s
room; around his bed stood two or three
Of his friends, with several ladies'. With
her long dark hair, like mourning veil,
covering her figure as she lay with her head
on the sea, o: chair, knelt the stricken
wife. The sun was now bright on the head
of the bed, where lay the dying man, prop
ped by his pillow with the dark stained
sheets in disordered rolls, over him. There
lay the man, who, scarcely six-and,hir,y
hours before, had passed along with head
erect and proud step, miserable wreck, un-
recognizable, and already offensive How.
(as. was death claiming his victim!
The brigh' sunligh, now touched his hair,
and soon fell upon his changing face, which
grew darker and more terrible to look upon;
the lips drawn back exposed every tooth,
while the bright gleam glanced upon their
white crowns, as with wide.open mouth
he abnred on, and on, for breath, slraining
muscle Of face and neck. in this last great
ba.,e for life. No longer The pulse beat q.
the wrist !; and as ! laid my ear upon his
chest, his tired heart slowly lhrobbed-
cluck-cluck.
"A! This moment, wrapped in his morning
gown, and with crossed arm, walked gently
in the doctor. In an inslan. the dying mans
wife heard the step, and .pringing up, with
her long hair trailing over feet, she clasped
his knees, and scbbed-
oh, doctor why can you no! with your
ski1i,save me my husband -
Tie doctor quietly raising his finger on
high, pushed back The hair from her broad
, forehead, sying,"The Lord alone can save"
Quietly putting my arm around her waist,
! ralsed'he "Come dear madam" ] wis-
pered in her ear, ssand bo near him, for in
, sfler years i. will comfol! you much to
(. know that you held his hand, and received
hi: assest; h1ss!h:n = .,,., .-.s. . "a
!! With shudder, and shrinking from me,
D she exclaimed, "Oh, God, cannot look up.
on him, he is too awfulr'
!, A low wailng sound, like some one in
v deepes. grief, came from the dying mans
: mouth.
J "Do not distress him more," said TO her;
c she hears you, and it grieves him; his brsin
is still alive. Ask for some sign"
r She seized his hand, and clssp'ng it ,gb,
] to her painting bosom, she cried in Q voice
= .ha, pierced our very souls,-
"Husband, dear husband. give me one lit
tie, lillle sign that you know l am by YOU,
e snd iha, you heard me pray the live long
:. night by your side 20 And his black tongue
I uttered, lol-lol-lol-lol-
+, "Oh, he hears me-" she again with agony
J cried; zone more sign, dearest, ,ha. you "
. think Of your denied God, and you have
| some lil'le hope 20
: Again the black and s,iffening tongue
S moved to and fro, and loI, Iol, struck the
: ear. He had heard her! Then with one
J short struggle oil was over.
We carried the widowed wife to an un-
occupied room at the end Of The gallery
t not tear dropped from her eye; she had
, grieved TOO much. and the hear,-springs were
5 dried. With voice fearfully calm, she said
= TO me-
"'rell me, do your northern women shed
tears when their husbands die for cannot
: think enough vet he was very kind To me
; and loved me we'll. IT'S very strange am
. so calm, when he is dead
, Fearing lest her brain nigh. suffer, ! told
her would tell her how a, the North, lit
, tie children died in our summers that one
day full of health and promise, the next day
, they allied and before long the dysen,ery
would set in, and they gradually wasted
away, with their sweet faces SO wan and
pale, and their Iillle cry hands so hot in the
, palms, they weakened on-how their
hesrl-strlcken mothers watched their fading
forms, and clung closer and closer to them,
ill robbed Of every vital fluid, naught re-
mained 10 clasp but the cold image Of their
loved ones msrbIed in death.
As related these stories, deep heavy
sigh escaped from the desola,e wife, and
tears that refused to flow for her own mis-
fortunes flowed like rain for those ofanosher.
She was saved
When the sun went down, we took the
corpse and placed it in plain pine coffin,
covered with muslin, and bore It through
the wood, where grave had been hastily
dug. His head clerk read the service for
the dead, bu. the nigh. closing rapidly in,
The pri i became obscure, and thus, with
funeral service half read, was buried the
once proud merchant. d.
Here is "case" for The lovers Of logic
"B. says sll Brlons are liars. Now B. him
self is Briton; therefore B. is liar.
Therefore the Br,ons are not liars and B.
being a Billion Is moi liar: and SO on Qd