Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-17
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A Touching Incident.
sookv1LEr, Mo, Sept. 9Th, 1879.

BOoKvILLE, Mo-, Sept. 4th, 1879.
From the, balcony of the Land
Office in BOoUville / stood looking
down upoR the crowded street. The
county fair, which is now going on at
this place, has rendered our main
thoroughfare even more lively than
usual
While thus gazing at the commo-
ton below me, heard the bitter cries
of q female voice that occasionally
bursted through the strains of music
human voices, the tramp of feet and
the rattle of vehicles over the stone
pavement Fastening to the scene OF
distress found that q mover with I'M
cOuth wagon and a small yoke of oxen
had stopped in the street in front of a
banking house and partly iu the shade
Of that massive edifice. In front of
the wagon sat q man holding a little
girl IN his arms, while her mother in
the most uncomfortable grief was be-
wailing the loss of her darling little
girl. / caught 8 glimpse Of the pale
but sweet face of the child. She was
dying! They had stopped the wagon
rs soon as they perceived that her
spirit was ebbing away. 1t was in the
midst OF mirth and jollity the sound
of passing vehicles grated barshly on
the ear as the crowd hurried on with,
out kuo that death was in their
midst; the ladies upon the sidewalk
paused, and true to the instincts Of
their nature. tears suddenly bedimed
the ir eyes and saw the eyes of many
starlwaFt melt in sympathy
ut the words of the bereS we'd mother.
The limbs of the little girl hung lin
Der and lifeless as her father climbed
from the wagon and carried her to a
DOCTOR shop near by. She was dead |!
She was q beautiful child, just three
years old, and had been sick about
three weeks. During the whole time
of their wearisome journey she had
found no rest for her little aching
head, no cooling retreat from the
seorchiRg rays of 3 mid summers 8
sun; but she had now found rest, her
journey had ended forever. Kind
reader, l hope you will not judge her
father too harshly; he too, was suffer
| ing from fever, was bending every
energy to get back to Illinois, His
sad tale is the tale of thousands; he
was lured out West by the ten thous
sand lying advertisements of land
speculators and railroad monopoIists
was out of mohey, in a land of stran-
gers, and had no hope but to get back
to his friends as speedily as as posi-
ble
The spirit of emigration Is one oi
the curses of this age; dissatisfaction
rankles in the breast of the human
race the s'better country" they seek
is only mapped out in mans feverish
imagination; that country has never
yet been found amid all the beautiful
1 wales of cur green earth. ----.
When will man become sensible OF
the fact, that comparatively speaking
the whole is equally balanced; that
where one country has v wonderful ad
vantage over others in some respect
1t is sure to have some disadvantagC
or other of the same magnitude.
would that this fact we're written across
the vast disc of the blue sky in flaming
letters of fire, that all men might reaC
it there and be more contented will
their lot.
But as it is, the wagons of the rest
less movers are continually on the road
they go west and then move back, bu
there are many little feet that fnC
! rest, and to the scenes of their early
childhood return no more forever.
j. We,