The Newtown bee., 1878-08-01

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 wnffl be no one Inc Q to mind it. so l stayed, but no algn came until tho sun
 wiuS high In tho sky, nud then, boys,
 heard soft step behind mo, as l snt watching the rope, not daring to take
 my eyes from it 10 see who came nearer and nearer
 "What my little Nudgo doing here?" asid Jthns voice, I've come for my breakfast. and my husband stood lcan- ing over mo. ..'rhe boys John | was all that I could utter, never stopping 10 asls or wonder how he could have come to mo.
 God pity us, wlfo, If the boys arc down below" WaA all hc anid and in an Instant he wls gone for aid. He met the two men returning from the coal shaft just beyond tho garden plling, md dazed as was by everything that day, knew enough to run to tho house fora bit of food, that might never meet the lips 1t was prepured for, and to lend a hand at crank, as my John and nn- other brave soul went down out tof sight. Tho signal came to draw back before many seconds, and inc two men could not lift themselves out of the bucket when they came in the air, but held on, with white, gasplng faces, although we wound up 5s fast as we could and when l saw them, knew my boys would never come back to me as they had gone from me. but had my husband safe, and l tried to take that into my soul and to make it grow there and cover up the wound that I had got"
 You didn't tell us how your husband got out, gasped Paul, thinking of his own just escaped danger.
 |" No, forgot that, thinking of the boys. There were terrible eruptions and explosions down there in the deep blackncss, and the lamps seemed of no usc at all, the air was 80 thick; and Gt q alone knows how, but the way between the east and the west shafts was opened by some angel and tue DC or fellows es- capped death by it. At that dreadful time the mine was so filed up that the Old places are not cleared away yet, and that is what I am waiting for. It will come soon now. John never got well. He went away from me day by day, un- til at last l could find him no longer; but in some way he left all his cheerful ness and thankfulncSs behind, for me to live by. The last words he said were 'Inl going to the west shaft to watch for the boys; you stay and watch here That night he died, and 1 saw the same full moon walk down the great blue field up above, and the shadow of the mOun- tain came up, and it WrS all darknCs'; but the sun was shining when Izifted up my facc, it had been shining full on my face and on Johns -but it was not the sunshine thatmadc his shine so, it was something that he saw i'll heaven, and they put him away with the light still on it.
 That night the miners brought up from the depth below something that they touched tendcrly, and carried with uncovered heads into the little brown house.
 Little Aunt Nudge need watch with Vistful look the miners comirg up no longer; her boys have been found.
 The little brown hut of a house has gone from the mountain; the little wo- man, who had found the fountain of per pctual youth. is gone from the earth to where life springs are immortal, and she sees the something that John saw in Heaven; and to us, who watch and are left, there are dark mines, and miners ever coming up and going down-wait- ing for us to give them helping hand, and to pour into the shafts of life of the sunshine that God gives richly to those that dwell on His mountain.