The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-07-09

- syspt .Sg sh he. isSs xisn'fiIg shilsi.
%oos 30 1a, the shSte sseg *sth *innntng NBsles.
Like the grasefnl.eysnet sailing..i s'il L.
..Spsd khe risipn far Ansy, i"i' 'i.ny ~
Dizzy heights serenely sonling l:.f !.
.Whesa,shu lark pnnfs forth his lay;
There tho mist htr form enshrouds, ~ j. (
.ldke n.godslees lin th dcfDud6l. no, .5.n;.
Thus" cried, "our fortnnea waiver, ,;'Ni.'o
.:,,And thR prize vge Hdlue moat ei.it,.. . ~
6tAys.0 ShAe, and then foreverI .io.I;l + +
Leaves us mourning treasures lost.",i III!
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'Is NOusitv1nK fzsF' Use fulhesi. i:Ii
NpElong aihsaa gq6sd ga "a looking eslmasl,iiu man, in
middle life, enma. t0iour door, asking for
''the ministef,~'i dWhsn 7infGrhcd that
he was ,dhs ,Sf,, fe, town., he seemed disap,
poh1ntesd pohn! apa! hhxiops. ~ On, being .Ques-
TONED ss.ho hiE business. he answered: :;
'9dhhyel lost my. mother, and as tliis.
place Used to'be' her home, and my
father lies hehe. we h4ge come to Jay her
beside. hm.H,, Our heart rose in sympa-
thyt and we said:eni - .l"r,'! ar old. J,
Wellyss SsB{fad BSa tGa Rssh siroha,
a;Ah .heaitauea. :itan mother is q great
loss in general; but our mother has out.
lived Rat nsefuIness; die was III, her. !.se-
cond. .;aiiIdHdoa, and hsr mind Vas Va. as
weaE as her. r.ahodg.t 80. that she. i. .wasl. no
comfort to herself and was butHen'to
saSeess5asan 4 I !! gt o
j 4! Ml!fsyAoVeahoEMM Il TlnhalW Soesi iI
h6f, We agreed to Eeep her among us. q
year about. But I've had more than
my share Of her, for she was too feeble
to be moved when my. time was out; and
that was more than three months before
her death. But then ahe was q good
mother in her day, and toiled very hard
to bEingEps I!p.32o III hul. 2YolssN
Without looking at the face OF the
heartless man, we directed him to the
neighboring pastor, and returned to our
nursery. We gazedion the merry little
faces, which smiled or grew sad in imita-
tion Of ours-those little ones in whose
ear no word in our language is half so
swees aY ImgtAeY"an Fondgfed9a thfti
say OF us-''She has outlived her day
OF usefninoss-she ia no comfort to her
self, and O burden to- everybody elsel"
And we hope before snch day would
dawn, we might be taken to our rest,
God forbid that We, ehon}d outhve; the
love Of our childreni Rather let .uB die
while our hearts aro part of our own,
that our grave may be watered with their
tears, and our love be linked with their
for ians!a' ws a ASbe s5a e soSs tSa
sanctuary to pay our only token of re.
spect for the eyed stranger; for We felt
that we could give her. memory a tear.
even though her own children Had mono
to shed-;f is.. ,-ao'.., .s - .sE ;.Vili .t
'tShe Was.a good mother in her dsy.
and -toiled hard TO biting us all up; ahe
was no. comfort to. o.herseIi, aud q burden
to everybody elsei''i Those cruel, heart.
less words rang in our cars as we saw
the cpfan borne 4H the aisle.a The; bell
tolled fdngr and loud, till its iron tongue
had ohronioled the years Of the toil-worn
mother. One-two-three-f
fiye-hpw CLEARLY and, most merrily each
stroke told Other once 'peateful aihmber
on hey mothers bosom, apd of her seat
OF nightfall at her. weary mothers knees.
the tale Of her sports upon the green
sward. in the meadow, and by the brook.
Observation-Disclosures & n----fourteen.--
htleen-spoke more! gravely; Of fohdol
days, and little household joys and cares.
Sixteen--seventeen- n-eighteen-s0 sounded
ont the dreams Of enraptured vision ol
maidenfq6d[ tKnf bthe sdfeYns OF early
love. Twenty spoke Of The young
mother, whose heaeSts was full to bnrsting 8
with the new, strong love which God had
awakened Ia her bosom, Aud, then
stroke elter streks. told uf her iearly
W5mahh0odAo Of che love and cares, and
hopes And tolls, through which, ,shs had
passed dusing these long years, till City
rang ont hatsh ind loud., From that to
sixty told 'oi' the warm hearted mother
and grand mother living over again her
Own joys snd ao1rows In. those OF her
children and ohildren's children. Every
family iof gil the group wanted grand.
mother them. and the only strife. was
who should eeoure the prize; but hsrkl
the Bell tolls onl. Seventy-seventy.onie
--two-three- -four-she begins to grow
sesble, requires some care. is not always
patient or perfectly satisfied; she goes
from one Guilds house to another, 80
that no ono place seems like home. She
mnrnnrs in plaintive tone, and after
all her toll and weariness, it is hard that
she cannot be. allowed home to die in;
that she must be sent, rather than in
vited. from house to house. Eighty
eighty -three-four-ah, she
is now second child-now she has out