The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-07
LIFE AND DEATH.
BEAUTIFUL SKETCH BIZ oHAs. DICKENS.

about good deal, and thought of a number
of thirgs. He had a sister, who was child
too, and his constant companion. These two
used to wonder all day long. They wondered
at the beauty OF flowers they wondered at
the height and depth of the bright water :
they wondered at the goodness and power of
God, who made the lovely world.
| They used to say to one another, some
| times, Surprising all tie children on the
earth were to die, would the flowers and the
water and the sky be sorry 20 They believed
they would be sorry. For, say they, the buds
are the children of the flowers, and the little
playful streams that gambol down the hill-
side are the children of the waters and the
smallest bright specks playing at hide and
seek in the sky all night must surely be the
children of the stars and they would be all
grieved to see their playmates, the children
OF men, no more.
There was one clear star that used to come
out in the sky before the rest, near the
church spire. about the graves. It was
larger and more beautiful, they thought, than
all the Others, and every night they watched
for it, standing hand in hand at the window
Whoever saw it first cried out :" see the
star - Aud often they cried out both to-
gether, kdowing so we'll when it would rise.
and where. So they grew to be such friends
with it that, before lying down in their beds.
they looked out once again to bid it good
night; and when they were turning round to
sleep they would say, 'God bless the star ="
But while she was still very young-oh,
very, very young-the sister dropped, and
came to be so weak that she could no longer
stand In the window at night: and then the
child looked sadly out by himself. and when
he saw the star turned round to the patient.
pale face on the bed: 81 see the start" and
then a smile would come upon his face, and
little, weak voice used to say, "God bless
my brother and the starp'
And so the time came, all too soon, when
I, nnI.Sl1 llNlD cd ont 0lOVNn
no face on the bed; and when there was q
little grave among the graves, not there be-
fore and when the star made long RAYS
down toward him, as he saw it through his
tears. G
Now, these rays were bright, and they
seemed to make such beautiful, shining way
from earth to heaven, that, when the child
went to his solitary bed, he dreamed about
the star; aud dreamed that, lying where he
was, he saw train of people taken up that
shining road by angels. And the star, OPEN
ing, showed him great world oflight, where
many more such angels waited to receive
them.
And these angels who were waiting, turned
their beaming eyes upon the people who were
carried up into the star I; and some came out
from the long rows in which they stood, and
fell upon the peoples necks and kissed them
tenderly. and went away with them down
avenues of light, and were SO happy in
their company that, lying in bed, he wept
for joy.
But there were many angels who did not
go with them, and among them one he knew.
The patient face that had once lain upon the
bed was glorifled and radiant, but his heart
found out his sister among all the host.
His sisters angel fingered near the entrance
of the star, and said to the leader among
those who had brought the people thither:
SIS my brother come?'
And he said, 8 No"
She was turning hopefully away, when the
child stretched out his arms and said
"Oh, sister, / am here! Take mel"
And then she turned her beamiDg eyes
upon him, and it was night and The star
was shining into his room, making long rays
down toward him as he saw it through his
tears. =M
From that hour forth the child looked out
upon the star as on the home he was to go to
when his time should come, and he thought
he did not belong to earth alone, but to the
star, too. because OF his sisters angel gone
before.
There was O baby born--a brother to the
child and while he was so little that he
had never yet spoken a word. he stretched
his tiny form out on the bed and died
Again the child dreamed of the opened
star, and of the company Of angels, and the
train of people and ali the rows OF angels
with their beaming eyes all turned upon
those peoples faces.
Said his sisters angel to the leader:
Ills my brother Gomez"
Aud he said "Not that one, but anoth-
err
AS the child beheld his brothers angel in
her arms. he cried, "Oh, sister, am here
Take mel"
And she turned and smiled upon him, and
the star was shining.
He grew to be a young man, and was busy
with his book when an old servant came to
him aud said:
khnr In III.
blessing on her darling SON.
Again at night he saw the star, aud all that
former company. Said his sisters angel to
the leader:
"Is my brother come"'
And he said # &
"Thy mother"
A mighty cry ofjoy went forth through all
the stars because the mother was reunited to
her two children. And he stretched out his
arms and cried
"oh, mother, sister and brother, I am
herei Take met
And they answered "Not yet" And the
star was shining.
He grew to be man whose hair was turn
ing gray. and he was sitting In his chair by
the freside. heavy with grief, and with his
face believed with tears, when the star
opened once again.
Said his sisters angel to the leader:
sis my brother come?'
And he said:
ebay, bat his maiden daughter"
And the man who had been child saw lis
daughter. newly lest to him, q celestial cres.
turc among those three, and he said
my daughters head is on my mothers
bosom, and her arm is around my mothers
neck, and at her feet there is the baby of old
time, and can bear the parting from her, God
be praised I"
And the stal was shining
Thus the child came to be an old man, and
his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his
steps were slow and feeble, and his back WAS
bent. And. one night, as he lay upon hi.
bed, his children standing around him, he
cried as he had cried SO long ago:
"I see the start
They whispered to one another: HE Is
dying"