Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-03-14

door-khob; footsteps are lnaffied; voices
are hushed; great shadow hovers III
everv room--broods in every heart. 3D..
Dear Nelly! the we@anliest woman
tho w;fel;est wife-the truest oil
The rimy Of her life was in her heart
One year a wife-the mother OF an
hour and now one of the white-robed
of tho LORD - x19212-@ ~
Revond the coming and the going.
Bsvond the ebbing and the Towing.
BEYOND the ever and the never.
/ left the white canopy; the tace is
beautiful in. death; stoop and KISS
the white forehead but the icy touch
chills me. Death has snatched the
love light from the eye, the carnatlon
from the cheek, the ruby tint from the
lin and left the, face very white and
still. the lips forever mute. turn to a
ife-size portrait over the mantle. Here
is nellie with all her rich. warm nature
in her face; brownest eyes, with brown,
curling lashes, in which all intense low
ingness of her heart lies mirrored; red
lips forever curved IN smiles that seem
Just ready to speak and welcome me IN
the old, loving way; "a bright, warm,
womanly, winning face. 0, Nellie. we
shall miss you, through all the years
that come and go we shall miss you;
in all the changes that the years must
bring to us we shall miss you; but ali.
he most of all-your faithful, wifely de-
votion. the constant ministrations of
your loving hands and willing feet
made his home, -hallowed place, his
life an ecstasy of bliss. Your love
glorifed his present, frightened all his
future, and now lonely and desolate
and camfortless he sits by his desolate
hearth. 1t is terrible to see strong
man, in the prime of manhood, standing
at the very threshold of a brilliant ca
reer with undisputed talent on the one
hand, sure, speedy success on the other:
a man to whom life is dear only as ii
blesses those who are dearer to him
than life, to whom life is precious only
as its beauty and glory crown them
terrible to see such man with all the |
purposes of his life suddenly struck |
from him-with all his nature rent and
torn by such agony as comes to hu-
man soul but once in lifetime, be that
lifetime long or short; terrible to see
the current of his life wrenched from
its channel, as by some volcanic shock t
the bed of river is upheaved and It's
waters forced to hew out for themselves
a new passage; terrible to see all the
chords of his being swept SO rudeIy
that ever after they will only attune
themselves in the minor key.
Nellie! Nellie! in that far-off land
where you walk in white does it sad
den you to see this? Does your heart,
faithful still to its earth-love, yearn to
comfort him? to hush the little wall
ing voice that vaguely misses the /
mothers bosom? The child will wax
and grow; soon tongue, and hands,
and feet will learn the lessons of life;
the baby's crowings will develop into
childish, lisping prattle; the little
hands will be swift to do mischief: the
wavering little feet will grow steady
and.assured; then, perchance, be quick
to enter forbidden paths, There will
be no mothers exhaustless tenderness
to sympathize with his little griefs and
joys; no mothers loving hands to check
and guide his hayward steps. Doubly
orphaned, because no memory of
dead mothers love goes with him, with
its hallowed influence, to shape his fu-
ture. The sorrowful earth-valleys will
open their bright but false vistas;
paths bondered with roses will beckon
him on; but the paths are paved with
sharp stones; the roses are full of
thorns; the eager little hands will be
rudely torn; the darling little feet
bruised and cuts Other children will
pass BY, tenderly lifted over the sharp
stones; the roses will be plucked for
them by careful hands and the stems
freed from thorns; he will perceive
this, yet dimly understand. Here he
will learn his first lesson of sorrow.
With his little heart full Of unutterable
longlng-his great, brown. questioning
eyes full of tears-his little mouth I.
tremulous with expectancy, he will
send 2 keen. sharp knife to the fathers (
heart Papa papa, Where's nay nam.
MAJ" Will the portrait over the man. {
tie satisfy? Will a toy. placed IN the
hand Of starving child bring a smile L