Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-05-21
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One little week and from Earth to HeaY5
en- has gone the loved one A history ID ii
an hour. Aud what more is the longest
life? All of our years would not make /
second as lie strings them on the thread
of eternity! But it is not Of this we write.
but of the mourner who has lost her treasI
ure i ""f' "@#j iiio . s2bIe
Hers is little house, scommon homes
Her husband is not rich ++he is alaborina
man, as laws now run, more tS enrich 9th
ers than himself. We knew that .mot6es
a few years since-an heiress she aa5
then. She loved d young man WHY liza
great expectations He relied on others
more than himself--he leaned upep ;pxons
ises of rich relations-he married for hsag.
ty and position. This chapter is person,
alt is true-it is the history Of one,
mayhap of others. fs-# 411'los SIS 10
| The years rolled away down the aisles
Of worn-out time. or like the ySroliS or
muinuies in cloths. were BY 9hs Grsa
Hand, laid away on the ihalvss lof stM
past. never to be unwound For opened fill
He is ready to count our credit marks. #
such we have. '''' - Z" 1855
The wife, who is now childless mourp-
er, was a good, pure. loving womsnn::2a.
She worshipped the father. adered the
child. The tide Of luck and speculation
was against the husband -he lost.7Mhe bel
came poor-he was forced to flabes. IL
Twas honest labor, but it had mo- charms
tor MN. ESD e.f.ni. an:as.yfa I'd 30
When night came be needed rest.,l Ho
sought it elsewhere than by his fresiide..
His hours were passed with his feet under
drinking tables, and his earniugsl. xere
poured into glasses. His homev vsseheer,
less. His wife oft was in tears, for her
hours we're those Of doubt and waitipg,-
Her walls were bare-her floors were mn
carpeted save in one room. ~ sii~oi!o9
Her husband earned bat be squanderI
ed. The money he might have used to
beautify his home went to besqtify other
places. He said taxes were high, and he
needed fun. He was d good felfow-bee
is -good-hearted man, but he forgets 30
very easily! a7osia1 asiiias 9soa 8aff
He forgets that his cheerless home couA
be made cosy and home-like, i hs xeqld
but take there the money he squapdered
for nothing. Or worse! He iorgets hoy
Ifiitt.sS s a.sisa 81 u 10 mako
He forgets the waiting heart at home-%
the heart he loves. He forgets thatthere
was and is . duty hand 10 hand with pleas
|ure, and that duty is ever FIRST, for, il Is
the parent of true pleasure. % 'foH
He forgot that oft and oft eyes grek
tired from weeping. Is the ear ached from
listening for the. footsteps 80 late in COM
ing. He forgot that under tho roof be
kept away from so many pights one who
loved him better than all the world be-
side-better than all who were psrtakihp
of his earnings, waited and wished for bis
coming! .t-saa ~. 80 -
He was away when the little one died.
but its death awakened him to new lii1.
and to that honest, hearty manhood which
makes better those it comes ID coitact
with. There were bitter tears in hissyss
to-day. There was sadness in his heart.
There was the old love in bis touch as he
tenderly supported the sorroNing mourn
er. So ~ 'p+ ~ 2nsas sa5
We shall be miles away When tblsiis
printed. Perhaps we may meyer SEC the
church yard. the little grave or the.mourn-
ers there, but we shall often, think of those
of whom we now write. We know WHO
it is-they know. And let us, an earnest
to all who are heart-weary-a friend tpsll
who are poor. ask her to sit close beside
him and with the lamp steadily burning.
read this chapter to him. and then tell
him for us, that there are thousaHd
bright futures in store yet, and tbat o. lie
is good, and earnest, and manly ,jana o.f-
ing for others, SO will he be happy. Pres
porous and hettered. And say to him
that if he cannot call the life back to The
little form under the sward, he can, an1d
will, win back his manhood and his pluck
and will in the future be- the, brave, ,hot-
est. prudent me-loying man he car, be,
and will be, as we aH 60 on to our sSatur-
day might. '' ''ss