River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11

uSeu language WHICH MI. fIeueIlch
May, on hearing of it this morning,
| felt bound to resent as he did.
As the result of the ARRAY, Bennett
challenged May. and a hostile meeting
is said to have taken place in the State
of Delaware, ON the 9th inst. resulting
in seriously wounding May, but doing
no damage to Bennett.
Happy Grandma.
Grandma Barton was one of the hap
piest women / ever knew. Although
she lived eighty-seven years, and saw
many shadewy as well as sunshiny
days, her life was beautifulall through.
She accepted the SORROWS as well as
the Joys, as sent by her best Friend,
and trusted Him in the darkness, as
well as in the light. But her greatest
source of earthly happiness was the
fact that her children and her grand
children loved her so truly and SO ten
derby. She never felt, as too many
blessed souls do, that she was other
than constant joy and comfort to
them.
In many ways she was great care
and burden, but they never allowed
her to feel it. 1t was beautiful to see
them all so loving in their attentions
to her. And now that she has come
into possession of her mansion in the
Skies" how pleasant to the dear ones
left will be the memories of the hap
piness they gave her, through many
long years, and especially the last few,
when she appreciated them SO thor
oughly..
Her husband was prominent phys
ician in one of our smaller Eastern
cities, and while he lived. there were
no two persons in the whole country
more loved or respected than the doc
tor and his kind, sunny, hospitable
wife. Their house was always. full of
company, their table loadedwith boun-
ties, allthe guests made to feel that
they were especially welcome. But
twenty years ago that good Christian
doctor, who had cared for the souls as
well as the bodies of his patients. went
to the 'better land" and the home
was broken up, and the lovely, lonely
mother went away to live with dear
daughter, whose husbsnd, one of the
best ministers, preached in a town not
| far distant.
And all these years the sons and the
daughters, with their children, have
striven in every way to make grandma
! happy. She was not always left at
/ home when a pleasant picnic, or nice
drive was proposed, as t0omany grand.
mas are; but there was place and a
welcome scat for her. Her room was
the sunniest, her big chair the easiest,
| her seat at the table the warmeSt, heI
bed the sOftest of any in the house
She was great reader, a very inter
esting talker, and from her long and
varied experience never lacked fol
listeners. The happiest hour of the
twenty-four for the children was the
one after prayers and before bed time
when they all sat about grandma
knee and heard sweet Bible story, OF
some bit of her own history, related
in her quaint way.
But, a short time ago, she began
suddenly to fail, and ere many weeks
had passed poor grandma'S chair wa
vacant, and the children would wills
per so softly at twilight. as they miss
ed the pleasant voice and the accus
toned story, "HOw strange it SEEM
| WITHOUT STtnunld!
want to tell you of her last birth
day, which began so sweetly on earth
and whose close found her in heaven
Her daughter a few days previous t
this sickness had just returned from
the Centennial, and one morning sh
said TO her mother:
''How glad | am that we came HON
before this severe sickness! Did yo
think when you were taken sick tina
perhaps you might die when ! wa
gonei'
Yes she replied, 81 dIa.
''How would you have felt II yo
had!" asked the daughter.
Her reply was : "NIary. | did thin
| would like to spare you the trial G
. seeing me die
, What a lovely, unsellish mother
The day befre her death, the daugl
ter and two Of her children slipIe1 o
for a while Qeaving her husband
. sit for her) to purchase some birthda
{ presents for grandma. They bougf
s her a pretty new cap, necktie, SON
: | ruches for the neck, a handsome ne
t. Counterpart for her bed, and ordere
Q the most tempting things for her dill
/ ner they could find in the marke
5 Her birthday morning found her vel
. comfortable, and. after her breakfas
n the new Tuches were placed in III
s second-best black silk, and her daug
>. ter dressed her to sit up for awhil
q Then she kissed her by twenties
; the eighty-seventh time, recalling
i every twenty the place where gran
|. ma was, and the circumstances whiC
O at that time surrounded her, whiC
r she seemed to enjoy very much.
l. Afterward the children and the
# father brought in the presents, h
wrapping the new spread about hiT
lie putting on the cap, necktie, etc.,
show them off, and all making merl
s. over them. But as grandma did n
il seem to enter into the merriment We
II heartily, her daughter quietly ask
a her:
is .Would you rather wear the 'whi
lie robe aboye!f' and with a sweet, bear
b. ing smile on her face, she said:
" Eyes, would y
n And that evening, after a pieasar
If comfortable day. talking much wi
II her loved ones of the joys before he
VI I'LL ENftNN. ttAAA tAhsS anu EtAASs
n the summons came, and, without
ID struggle or a moan, she passed fro
1t earth TO Heaven. and put on the .whi
" robe washed in the blood of the Lam
Is What beautiful close to the chapt
p Of life
r How fewthereare in this cold. hea
ID less world who are taking any trout
d, to make the aged mothers and fathe
" happy and comfortable! How soon t
er children forget the days and mont
IL and years of constant. loving ca
IS which dear mother so Hnselfshly
tx slowed upon them, and how thougl
IN less are the grandchildren of many
at tie attentions which the dear graz
ed mas would SO lovingly receive.