The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-25

10 contagion, . I'd much too Impressive -nS
nervous in her temperament 10 DC
70 listen TO his rawlings. You Remember
nv good friend, that cautioned you eoou'
| IL from tn first"
~ know YOU did know you did"
/ .ht.d ,bs moor woman. And l did try;
hn, there. | can't help it, nohow. Bidan 10
a. ,be is in everything else, ard there never
vas better child, or sweeter tempered
me, will say that for QUE Ells) she won I
mind me in that, say what | will to her. II
I turn her out of her room she sits by the
door and listens, aud looks so pale and woe
begone that | csn't stand it. She always
thinks be wants her, and sure enough i,
seems as If he did; for though he don't seem
TO know her, nor any body else, not even me,
and has never 30 much as named her name
since that night he was took, yet when she
sits BY him. with her little hand on his head
.ni sings Que of their hymus kind of low
and soft like, 1t Goes seem TO soothe him
more'n anything. But then | know it ain
.afe for her. poor dear; and | drive her out
all can. anyways. She'll go quick enough
f she thinks it's for him, so | send her down
to the 'potecary's shop half a dozen times IN
the day for some little thing or nuiher, aud
into the neghbors' just TO beg few herbs,
| or to borrow something, az often as | posi-
| oiy can, Jest to get her out INTO the res"
| air." -, n.o,or
| "Do you think, Mrs. Hove, sala boc'or
| ua,,a wbao bs and Mrs. Howe had reen-
- a., n.rIor and closed the door-and
~ go lady aud hesisstingly-"toyo you
mr. sbe-fitte Ella, | mean-is ct all pre-
cared i? Does she know, is she aware, how
very i'll her brother is ? Ought you not TO
speak to her, and try in some degree to pre-
pare her for what may"
mo. no. interrupted Mrs. Howe, burst.
ing into tears as she spoke, aud sitting
down she covered her face with her apron,
while her ample form shook with the vainly
repressed emotion. mo, no; | haint;
cant; can't; and l won't. There, don t
ask it of me ,ain't no use 10, Tor cant nor
| won'll amt q going to Do her ex'ea
toner, for .sin's nothing Else; twill kill
her; twill will her; | know twill. You
might ask me to take a pistol and shoot it
at her, and I'd as soon do 1t Jest as soon
wouldn't be no worse for nuther of us
iou't see that I've any call to up and tell her
what the good Lord in His wisdom sees f,
to keep from her If 1t was best for her 10
know 1t, expect he could do His own work
without my agency. Prepared prepared?
there amt no preparation for SIGH tnings
guess Them as can be prepared to part
with their friends wouldat ha died o; grief
without their preparation. I'd risk um
Preparation | don't believe in no SIGH
nonsense You may 60 fussing round aud
telling a poor fellow creature what you
think guess is going to happen to them
and after all. mind you, IFS only guess, for
the wisest of US don't know nothingl and
YOU let them worry themselves out before it
comes. and what then-whst have you
gained? Well, they may be so run down
and numbed like. and kind OF supplied
they may not have realizing sense Of II
when i; does come but don't See no great
usa n that, must say-it's being murdered
BY inches instead of at one blow, and
donno as that's any easier to bear. No;
say let her keep her strength against tins
hour OF need a poor lamb! let her keep
her hope as long as God sees best 10 let he,
keep il. He knows best guess His wis
dom and love sre better than ours and
| when He in His wisdom takes II from her
/ He can give her such comfort as shf
needs and that's what we cau't do, none o
/ US, ~
/ fro BE CONTINUED