Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-10-04

Step over to nv cabin, some evening.
will YOU, Elizabeth, and see it's all right
with the children, poor things. The girl
Henrika can rot understand Il word of In
glish. And I'll buy present in town Tor
yOu.'
Not for the present, William-and beg
you IL bring me none-hut for the love
| bore their mother, I'll lock after her little
ones while you're away. You needn't have
asked me, brother; l should not have for
gotten the desrs,'
of course, of course said Frederick
Geel, the husband of Elizabeth. And,
William, you WON'T forget the new irons
for the reaping- machine We will want to
put that IN order against the season.
i won's forget, and III be back as early
as | Gao Tomorrow
William Geel was looking out from his
'sother's door as he responded or rather
he had turned away to conceal tie tear that
always started to bis eye at the memory of
| his lost wife.
Well, eood-b5G.' he added, turning
again and ssTVeying with lingering gaze
! the cheerful family group, the parents ard
/ sheir dvS dariiDEr. lie Inigbt have Leen
! contrasting the scene with that 10 his own
! bereaVed household.
I
| Good Sse, uncle lis2ed the children.
81 he {eft them and went his way 10
town, and little did either party dream of
the awful tragedy which was to desOIatO
| these tRin h&tnesIead before his return.
The brothers, Frederick and William
GeeI, we're Germans. They had lived in
| New York q nambec Of years alter coming
to this country; had there married two
| 81 III Ell
4 moving to the Great West with the means
1 of hug ring and stocking each fine extern
sive preris fsrR. Then land joined, the
dwellings, they erected for themselves we're
situated no more than forty rods defiant
f ON one another
Here they lived prospero1sly for six
4 years, when tie another of Williams four
little snes &Gs ARdaeOly taken from her
happy dOms and laid beneath barrow
mound, with the tall prairie grass and bril-
liant wild flowers waving above her. II
was o sezeTer aifictiOn than William had
ever looked forward to- and, bet for his
brother and hsipless babes ae wsatd have
lungso to turn back to the Father4sn6, for.
getting forever the hopes and happiness
which had animated him IN the New
World Ah! bow dificUlt to understand
the mercy that takes Our beloved 0Oes from
the evil to come.
OF all the bloody chapters which are to
chronicle this dreadful rebellion. Heaven
ersut there be GOT another of such unmiti-
gated horror o. that furnished by the mas.
sacres on our Western border.
The brothers Geel heard the toesin o!
var that resounded through the land. But
because there were as yet multitudss Of
men younger and not less vigorous. men
who had fewer Immediately dependent on
them, and who, perhaps, lacked employ
mene at home, ready and eager to fill the
ranks and fight for the Union, they waited
not indiffsreutly, however, for coming
events.
A good hearted th ugh ignorant Norwe.
gian girl, HeDriks Drieber, was installed
as house. keeper at William Geel's-a poor
substitute for what was needed, but tbs
best that could be had, and much better
than none at all She petted the children
in her rough way, and they grew to like
her without exactly knowing what it wal
that yet suudered them in feeling 90 wide,
Iy, making Henriks seem to them not un'
like being belonging to some other spe'
cies +; the girl could ueither speak nor On,
derstand q syllable Of any other Language
out hef own.
Sometimes the children would ell cry to
gethsr because they could not make Hen
Fika know what they wanted, or becaus,
abs could not tell them stories ss thei
dear mother used to do but then, sb
would frolic witt them out of doUrs, carry
ing the youngest long races 90 her back, o
gathering them around her ct the Preside
sing in her stEsngs, bat not unmnsicH
voice, songs of her native land, while the
listened and for got their loneliness. The.
olung to their father all the more clossl
because be was their only parent, ant
} their aunt Elizabeth supplied, % far q
possible, the loss of mother.
Agreeable to her promise, at dusk, OIL
that day of their fathers absence, the wifi
/, Of Frederick Geel. with her infant 10 be
arms, went over to the motberless children
). The three oldest were seated with Henrik
around the table, each with porringer O
, hot corn bread and milk but they droppe,
their spoons and sOFang from their chair
At the entrance of the welcome visitor jan
even the baby Of two years. pushing ID