The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-30
A Mothers Sorrow.


incessant throbs, night and day, and
always, not alone when storms prevail,
but in calms as we'll, so is it with moth
er's heart bereavcd of her children.
There is no grief like unto it-Racbo'
weeping for her children and refusing to
be comforted because they are not
With what long patience, what burden
and suffering does the mother wait until
the child Of her hope is placed in her
arms and under the sight of her eyes,
She remembered no more the anguish
for Joy that a man is born into the world.
Who can read, or, if he saw, could
utter the thoughts of a mother during sll
the days and nights in which she brooas
the helpless thing. Every true mother
takes home the full meaning of the angel,
word that holy thing which shall be born
of thee shall be called the Son Of Cos.
The mother does not even whisper what
she thinks, and the whole air is full OF
gentle pictures, every one on the back
ground of the blue heavens.
The child grows; grows iu favor G!
God and man-and every admlriug look
east upon it, even by stranger, send
light and gladness to the mothers heart
Wonderful child The sun i, brighter
for it The whole earth is blessed hy
its presence. Sorrows pains, wcaripcss
selt.denials. for its sake are eagerl ,
sought and delighted in
But the days come when the little ieci
are weary when the night brings ne
rest when the cheek is scarlet, the eye
changed, and the smile no longer know:
how to shine All day all plight, it i,
the mothers watch Her very sleep is
but yelled waking. JOYS the child i
coming back to health Woe; it i;
drifting out again, away from conscious
ness aud pain are never more known. Il
is far, far out, toward twilght-toward
darkness. |. disappears
The mothers heart was like heavef
while it lived now it has asceuded It
Gods heaven and the mothers heart is al
the gloom of midnight, Wild words 0
selfreproach at length break cut, as wher
a frozen torrent is set loose by spring
days. She that has lavishcd her life.forct
upon the chilli turns upon herself with
fierce charges Of csrelessness. Of unskill
Of thoughtlessncs She sees hundret
ways in which the child would have liyet
but for her, All love is turned into self
elimination. Tears come at length tt
queuch the fire Of purgatory. But grie
.akes new shapes every hour,till the nerve
has lost its sen>ibii,y, aud then she cold
ly hates her unnatural aul inhuman
heart that will not feel
A child dying, dies but once but tt,
mother dies hundred times. When the
sharpness is over and tho dullpess of al
over.spent brain is pas,,d d, .ni she mus
take up the shuttl. again sni weave th,
web of daily life, pity her not that sh
must work, must join again the dscordan
voices, aud be forced to duties irksom
AMI hateful These all ., tiodIj medi
ciucs a Lew thought i, j a,, '.repar
ing 1t is that lmmorib .,.r.., an'
strength whiJA SorF ." .',,- Aa.a it Ia
wrought the divine uteA',
"New no cha.tsning lor the p.useu. -ss.noth /
be joyous, but grieyous nevertheless afterward
it yiedeth tho peaceablo irui, of righteousness
unto unto the them :, which are exercised thereby
ann = '-,------ - ,..
A Ch'naman namcd wong Onin
Fook, alias Wong Yea iIN2 '"pfe:entin
himself to be "A m4ndai" ''at ~ tn
Chinese goyornn"n' ga 't'ciai Slsaion
has been travelling around ihl ''nntr
swindling hotel keepers aud ON - II
tried to raise = rebellioo IN Cuiaa' a
Chinklang' last year Ia conjunction wit
some Europeans and GA!he'e oi oa
character, lis nr"i' = "4' i.'c-vete
and many o' -i' a-' 30 l''- .r'r'''d IL
made hi e'c'i"' ,"'"s 'pt' Al