Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-02
NA..THURsDAY MORNING-
gers will count up the old people. in most

gers will count up the old people. in most
any community.
Here is another qa citation, however, and
it IS paragraph Of exquisite sentiment:
The dead are the only people thnt never
grow old. There was something t,i,c::l
IN nrrestment of time in the cnse OF the
youthful miner, olsEsEhom We have ALREADY
spoken. Your littiesbr0ther or sister that
cleu long ago remains in dcA:h Mni IL, re-
membr"nce tue snlne young thing forever.
II ns fourteen years this evening SINCE til"
writer's sister left this world. She WAS
nitSen years old then-She is fifteen vet
nave grown oder since thea hy fourteen
years, but she las never changed MS they
advanced; and if God spares me to four
score, never shall think of her MS other
than tue youthful creature she fnded.-
Lne other day listened as poor roman
told OF the death of her FIRST born child.
Hc was two years old. She had small
green, across which was stretch
cd rope that came in the middle close TO
the ground. The 10y was leaning on the
| rope, swinging backwards and forwards,
aud shouting With delight The mother
went into her cottage aud lost sight of
INN tor minute; and when she returned
the little man was lying across the rope,
dead. 1t had got under his chin; he had
not sense to put it away; and he was suf
located. T!e mother told me. aud ba-
lleve truly, that she ind never been the
same person since; but the thing which
nhinly struck me was. that though it ia
eighteen years since then, she thought OF
her child as an infant of two years vet; it
IS little child she looks for 10 meet her at
the Gate of the Golden City Had her
child lived he wOnld have been twenty
years old now: he died, and he is only
two; he is two yet: he will never be more
than two. The little rosy face of that
morning, and the little hnlf articu.atc
voice, would have been fitintly remember
ed by the mother had they gradually died
! into boyhood and manhood; but Tint duy
Stcrcotypcd them: they remain unchanged.
The piece concludes thus beautifully
and appropriately:
Have you seen, my reader, the face that
had grown old in life grow young in death:
The expression of many years since, lost
for loug, come out startingly in the fna.
! lures, fixed and coM2 Every one has
| seen it; aud it is something strang. ha,7
rapidly the change takes PLACE. The
marks Of pain fade out, aud with them the
marks OF age. once saw an aged lady
die. She had borne sharp pain for many
days with the endurance Of IL martyr; she
had to bear sharp pain to the very last
Tho features were tense and rigid with
Suffering; they remained so while life re-
maned. 1t WAS beautiful sight TO seq
! the change which took place in the very
instant of dissolution. The features,
sharp for many days with pain, in that in
stant recovered the old aspect of quietudc
which they had horne in health: the
tense, tight look was gone. You saw the
signs of pain go out. You felt that all
suffering was over. 1t was no more of
course than the working of physical law
but in that case it seemed as it there were
t further meaning conveyed. And so it
seems to me when the young look comes
back ON the departed Christians face
Gone, it seems to say, where the progress
OF time shall no longer briHgage or decay.
Gone where there are beings whose life
may he reckoned by centuries, but in
whom life is fresh and young, and always
will be SO. Close the nged eyes Fold
the aged hands in rcstl Their owner is
! no longer old!