The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26

The farmer }eade his peaceful hfe.
Unyexed by toll and tricks fot gain;
He turns the fertile mould;
Then scatters on the golden grain,
And RAPE reward hundred-fold;
He dwelis where grace and beauty charm,
For God hath blessed his hons and farm!
A Child's Dream Of Star
BY DICKENS.
There was once q child, and he
stro11ed about a good deal, and thought
of a number of things. He had q sister,
who was child, too, and his constant
companion. These two used to wonder
besay long, Of ov pn! Rss at
at the height and blueness of
depth Of the bright waters; thes.
wondered at the goodness and Po-er o.
God, who made the world lovely.
sometimes: "Supposing all the chill
the flowers, and the water, and the sky
be sorry. They believed they would
be sorry.
"Fof 3" said they, the bids are the
children Of The flowers, and the little
playful streams that gatHbo1 down the
hillside are the children of the waters,
and the smallest bright specks, playing
at hide and seek in the sky, all night,
must surely be the children of the stars,
and they would all be grieved to see
their playmstes, the children of men,
no more"
There was one clear star that used to
COME ottt In the sky before the rest,
near the chtirch Spite, above the graves.
It was larger and more beautiful, they
thought, than all the others, ana every
night they watched for it, standing
hand-in-hand, at the window. Who
ever saw it first cried ott, 81 see the
star |" And often they cried Oft both
together, knowing SO we'll when it
would rise and where. So they grew to
be such friends with it that, before
lying down III their beds, they looked
out once again to bid it good night, and
when they were turning round together
they would say, "God bless the star. ="
But when she was still very young,
Oh, very, very young, the sister dropped
and came to be so weak that she could
NO longer stand in the window at night !;
and then the child looked sadly out by
himself, and when he saw the star,
turned round to the patients pale face
on the bed, 81 see the stari" And
then smile would come upon his face,
F." God bless my brother and the star :"
And so the time came, all too soon.
when there was no face on the bed and
when there was little grave among the
graves, not there before, and when the
star made long rays down towards him,
as he saw it through his tears.
Now these rays were so bright, and
they seemed to make such a beautiful,
shining way from earth to heaven, that
when the child went to his solitary bed
he dreamed about the star !; and
dreamed that, lying where he was, he
saw train of people taken up that
shining road by angels and the star
opening, showed him a great world of
light, where many more such angels
waited to receive them.
All these angels, who were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the
people who were carried up into the
star and some came out from the long
rows in which they stood, and fell upon
the peoples necks and kissed them
tenderly, and went away with them
down avenues of light, aud were SO
happy in their company that, lying in
the bed. he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did
not go with them, and among them one
he knew.
The patient face that had once lain
upon the bed was glorifed and radiant,
but his heart found out his sister among
all the host.
Hrs sisters angel fingered near the
entrance of the star, and said to the
leader among those who had brought
the people thither:
els my brother Gomez"
And he said "No."
She was turning hopefully away,
when the child stretched out its arms
and said:
"Oh, sister, I am here I Take me "
And then she turned her beaming
eyes upon him, and it was night, and
the star was shining into his room,
making long rays down toward him as
he saw it through his tears.
From that hour forth the child looked
out upon the star as on the home he
was to go to when his time should
come, and he thought he did not be-
long to earth alone, but to the star, too,
because of his sisters angel gone be-
fore.
There was a baby born to be a
brother to the child and while he was
SO little that he had never yet spoken a
word, he stretched his tiny form on the
bed and died.
Again the child dreamed of the
opened star and of the company &
angels, with their beaming eyes Ell
turned upon those peoples faces.
Said his sister angel to the leader:
els my brother Gomez"
And he said Not that one, but
another"
As the child beheld his brothers
angel in her arms. he cried:
"Oh, sister, I am here Take me J"
And she turned and smiled upon hins
and the star was shining.
He grew to he q young man, and was
busy at his book, when an old servant
came to him and said:
Thy mother is no more. I bring
her blessing on her darling son."
Again at night he saw the star, and
all the former company. Said his SIS
ter's angel to the leader:
"Is my brother Gomez"
And he said, Thy mother"
A mighty cry of Joy went through all
the star, because the mother was re-
united to her two children. And he
stretched out his arms and cried:
"Oh, mother, sister and brother, 1
am here take me"
And they answered, "Not yet, and
the star was shining.
He grew to be man whose hair was
turning gray. and he was sitting in his
chair by the Preside, heavy with grief,
and with his face believed with tears,
when the star opened once again.
Said his sisters angel to the leader ::
els my brother Gomez"
And he said:
"Nay, but his maiden daughter"
And the man who had been the child
saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a
celestial creature among those three,
and he said
"My daughters head is on my sis.