The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-01-15
TRUE UNTO DEATH.

TRUE UNTO DEATH.
DasL crep. over tia city hours ago.
The hurrying crowd has found Z resting
place, and the Sounds Of labor hare ceasel
fer br.ef season How blue Is the vault
solemn rten, With hearts that are weary
Of life, we lift fearful eyes to pray for ply
from Him whose compassion is over all His
hard created.
Mem3iy stands firm al her pest as accu-
ser or comforter, and turn back the pages
Of a life tha. has been suliied By sin, and
washed With tesr. and read when the
world is not BY am a Southern refugee.
Far sway, where Summer sits queen the
long bright year through, my hone lies
mass Of blsckened unsightIy ruins, as
yours were when-tha. terrible nisht whose
date i too reccn. to 10 forgotten fecce,
merelless fame, rio.ed ike fonds amid
vslr household gods. There was another
we we're bct t.o Of thousands who had
not where to lay our heads when they dove
us, Ike thieves, from the luxury amid
ulch we were born. Sweet Annie NJ.
Wild grasses grow over her pulseless heart,
while mine throbs OH. The proudest blood
81 tie South ran blue in her veins. While
her father was yet penziless man, with
%. profession or home, the beautiful htiress
of the CID estates elopei with him from
scho J. and they were married without so
much as by your leave" to apompous suit
or whose white locks and venerable years,
backed By q million dollars. appealed more
.trone' to the favor OF her family than
her own.
Blinded by the aiorati she bestowed
upon her husband, the young wife hasten
" tn him to her father, with never
doubt bat that they would be welcome, or
at lca,. forgiven, to find her q discarded
disowael Cu.cast disinheritsl ana fcrsak-
en-, the door Of home closed to hen forerer,
and the curse Of disobcdiencs resting Ipou
her shclterless head.
In wild and rugged section Of one Of
TIE Southwestern States, stood n poor
dxelIing, half farm house, half cottage,
where tho myther-a kind and generous
wontn, usel 70 hasdshps AMI priYations
MI ,.er lile-cooked the frugal meals, wash
= the homo male linen, and ,coured the
hard white a1ars with her own hands; and
the father sturdy aul independent, toilod
,pon his .canty acres, anl literally earned
bis bread By the sweat Of MS brow"
This vas the birthplace and home Of
Annie 5 father; aud here her mother, the
late heiress aad boile-petted child CT for
tune, whose lishtcst whim had been law
found a refuge NJ show and pomp met
ito diShsarsenod and Illuminated fugitive
bride. bat lo7e gave her tenierest greeting
And welcome 10 refuge from which she
nsvor went until her ,lst home was made
ready ard she b,rne out to sleep in the val
ley The daiatlly-roarsi girl hccama the
raverl cot, where love transformed po7er-
sy into luxury, mi oorsan. sweetened hard
ship, were passed. the harniest days Of her
life
Little cared she--this bonnis bride, this
lovo-crownei Queen OF her husbands heart
for the palaces wherein Kings dwet.
S9on new Joy stirrsj IN her bosom, and
tay by daI .ho busted her cunning white
fingers with embroidery AMI bits Of muslins;
ard here, year after her marriage, she
sang soft, sweet lullables over her first
born, a little daughter, whom she named
Annie, "Surely,' she SAIL with .olemnly.
tender eyes, "mr cup runneth over"
Sweet little mc.her,-T seem to see her
new, ns she lay, with her baby on her arm,
studying the fink, placid, ezpressionless
f.ct Of the sleeping mite Of humanity. per
suaiod that il was the every picture of
TIE dark, handsome, bearded face that bent
,-u'iing over his treasures.
Bat shadow, dark rs the grave in ITS
gloom, hoverel over the dear, new home
the shadow Of the Angel of Death, who
stood at the portal. Softer grew the voice
"filte young mother, and slower the step
that tended downward to the valley of
si,al,ws. y mighty yearning vas in her
heart to see her father once more, to hear
his voice pronounce her forgiveness and
& :, assurance OF protection TO her babe, so
son - know, IS yhe had, the want Of a
In2thers love and guidance. al cannot
de il | mag no. sec him; Icould no. rest
- nv grave NJ lost If DO not hear him
promise, shc piaalC as she tossed with
yrr crinconel checks and lips. So he
came IN tins - hear hes las: eloquent up
cal to grant her petition With tears ana
sass. AMI to pour cut arayaling prayers
at hcr life might be spared him. True
10 his prejudice against her husband, he
.tir liatci that the child should nsTer bear
is fathers name, but adopt that of it.
raoiaeT: Annie NJ.
Objection could no. be made at such a
tine; int when, With her las. words. she
asked thatt be len in care OF her husbands
mother, bis wrath blazed foreeIy: but the
sail that never bent before yielded 70 the
Tea iinS eyes q his dying child ns they
followed hin rnd he sealed his consent
pen Ito lips lhat would ask 10 mere Of