The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-04-12

said Mrs Carleton, and know oil the
difficulties of your position, and sym
pathize fully with your feelings Of des-
pondency; and to-day, as I sat here in
your pleasant parlor, while you we're
trying to get the baby to sleep, and
Charley's little feet would patter up and
down stairs, and his little fist would
rap, and his little shrill voice call mamma
at the nursery door, in spite Of all my
efforts to quiet aud amuse him; then
just as baby must have been closing
his eyes, Bridget would call Mrs
Hewitt, Mrs Hewitt frightening the
echoes through the long halls. Find
ing I could do nothing, I sat here think
ing, thinking, till I fell into a sort of
waking Dream. ] thought it was win
ter; snow lay on the ground, and the
chill wind whistled without; but we
were warm, and well and happy in
this pleasant house The long winter
evenings we're passed in reading aloud,
and quiet chat, though that piled up
work-basket was your ever present COM
panion,
"One night we were reused from
sleep by the choking cry and hoarse
cough Of our baby pet, and when the
morning dawned, the little sufferer lay
still and cold in death"
ooh, my precious baby" exclaimed
Mrs. Hewitt, bursting into tears
Don't, Mary; pray don't tell any more
Il cannot bear i'll"
"You promised not to interrupt me.
1 must go on, said Mrs Carleton calm
| ly and resolutely.
"Two weeks of sadness and sorrow
had scarcely passed, when Charlie and
Minnie both lay scorching with scarlet
fever. On the day they we're laid beside
their baby brother, Emma, the first
born, and only remaining, sickened and
in another short week she too had pass
ed away. How still and lonely the
house was then How few cares were
yours, and how you tried to make your.
self very busy, that you might not have
time to think that you might live foI
him, the best beloved, who, more than
ever, was your earthly ALL
"Winter passed slowly away; the glo.
rious summer time, that season once SC
Joyous, was now gloomy and sad; and
then, too, the dearest and the best, was
suddenly prostrated by disease, and
after brief season of suffering, wen
to his children, and you were alone!-
: Oh, the terrible agony that rent youl
heart-stringsl words cannot describe it
But you lived, because you must, though
life was all dark, all gloom You
pleasant home passed into the hands Of
strangers, and you, with all the multi
tude of warm hearted, sympathizing
friends, with a cordial welcome every
? where, yet with desolated affections and
bleeding heart, felt that you were
alone, all alone, in the wide worldp
"What to you was abundant leisure
for improvement? There was no inoen
tive. You tried to be grateful for thu
? love of friends, tried to make other
, happy, tried to bow submissiyoly to tht
. Fathers will; but you were not necessa
ry to tho happiness of any, and tht
} sweet voices of the loved and lost werl
ever echoing along memory's halls sat
requiem notes of departed happiness
Emma, dear cousin, thank your heav
enly Father that it was all a droam1'
, Mrs. Hewitt's oonvulsive weeping
had gradually subsided into deep sob
5 before Mrs. Carleton finished her mar
ration, and she now sat looking like on
who had really been bereaved,
Mrs Carleton raised the bowed head
' and kissed her tenderly. 81 did no
wish to pain you thus, dear Emma,
- said she; "but only by death can q wifi
, and mother be released from her man
cares and duties. Bear your trials pa
tiently, and be thankful that you hav
, so many dear ones to love, so man
q sweet motives for exertion."
Just then, Mr.. Hewitt's well-know
D footsteps were heard, and with a lou
o. cry, Mrs. Hewitt sprang into the hal
"Oh, William, l am so thankful 20
b arc at home safe" she exclaimed, CLASP
l ing him in her arms, and bursting int
+, tears.
i. "Why, Emma, what has occurred t
disturb you so?" asked her husband
s leading her into the parlor. Roceivin
a no reply, he looked inquiringly at Mr.
Carleton.
r "I am the occasion Of these tears, an
s perhaps you will blame me, said Mr.
J.. Carleton, "but feared Emma did nc
4 fully appreciate her blessings; if 1 hav
= done wrong, forgive me. 1 will leav
her to explain" and taking a lamp, sh
q babe them "good night" and ascende
8 10 her chamber. Till a late hour thi
e night they sat side by side, that hui
band and wife, while sho reoounte
Il "Cousin Mary's Dream, and fully, an
II With many tears, confessed her mu
y murings and repinings under the pres
IT ure of her burden of care and labor
3. "I cannot tighten the burden Of cal
f. and responsibility, dear wife, said NJ
= Hewitt, tonderly; but the labor can
done by others 1 did not know yc
Al were oyortazing yourself so much"
d owe cannot afford it," objected Il
a wife; "the burden will not seem
G, heavy now"
k owe will ecouomize in some other d
d rection; your happiness is very dear
me, Emma"
s. "I know it, William; do forgive me-.
m Yet did not blame you. see it
10 now--my base ingratitudo to my hea
ID emily Father how much / need His fc