South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-13

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visit all the stricken Yesterday caused
much distress. IL not deaths. The ranks
OF the clergy, as brave . company OF
Christian soldiers ~ ever faced mar
tyrdom without fear, nave been in
vaded.
But why write morei Why try to add
words when the dark list below speaks
so plainly ofour unprecedented calami.
tyr Where it oil will end God only
Knows siaes ~ -
TRUE AND BRAVE WOMEN.
There are women OF pluck and unshr.
passable devotion in Memphis who are
daring everything for those they love
The faithless are OF the other sex, OF
those whom the world is one OF its grea.
test misnomers has dubbed 1.-The stron.
ger SEX" While John Donovan for.
sakes his wife and leaves his children to
die in strangers hands; while a son
fiies to Arkansas Springs and leaves his
mother and two brothers to be borne BY
other hands to the grave, In contrast
shines out tho faithfulness of woman, as
devoted mother. as patient. attentive
wife, as life-risking daughter. sister,
friend. By the bedside Of the burning
body, inhaling the poison Of the sick
room, foul with that odor which tells
the nature Of the dreadful disease, per.
forming service which none other will
do, wearing smile while the heart is
breaking and lifting UP the head when
in the last agony. her person is befouled
by that most repulsive, and horrible of
all stbstance-black vomit, she 81 ts
and watches, and nurses and cares for
her loved one till lie lives again r pass.
es beyond her aid. The penalty Of lfer
service Of love is generally death.
Instances come to the writer's mind
faster than he can record them, instan.
ces which are but few OF the many
which have become like part OF heaven,
In so much OF earth's hell.
A citizens relief committee man walk.
ed into an humble cottage in the south
ern portion Of the city. There he found
two children ill, one weak and listless
but evidently convalescing, the other
tossing in burning fever. A little wo-
man in black sat between the two and
was in the act Of kissing the brow of the
little fevered one. 4+as
Cant / send you q nurse, madam"
asked the visitor.
mo, sir" (the pale little woman smil-
ed), 81 have brought one child through
and l shall bring the other"
''But you are worn OUT -ts
ooh, no, sir. A kind Italian woman
near by comes in and helps me some.
times" She would not yield no other
Ind but hers could minister to her Liz.
tie ones.
An old grandmother told Rev. Mr..
Parsons not only of having nursed her
grandson TO his death, but in want of
some one else to do it had with her old
hands prepared him for the grave.
A Child was stricken with fever en-
Alabama street. CO." said the moth
er to the father, II shall never leave the
boy. but you must not be endangered"
The coward complied, and saw from
over the way d short coffin borne ont OF
his home. The mother is paying the
price Of her devotion. and bv tomorrow
will herself pass to her last home ln the
city.
~ Bun HAL d l1iy Iri6Hu WrOtc !.
"Please let mo COME" And when his
friends thodght the die was cast, they
consented to his summoning her. Bold.
ly she laid aside her hat. pushed back
her hair. and forcing smile to her lips,
entered the room. Some OF his male
friends stood outside on the door steps
TO inquire how the dear old boy is
getting along
The keeper Of house of ill-fame on
Gayoso street dared the loss OF business,
dared the desefLion Of her place by all
but one OF It's inmates, to nurse faithful.
ly TO the end one who was 10 her corn.
parative stranger, but whom chance had
brought plague-stricken TO her door.
These are few Of hundreds. Moth.
ers have made their sons leave town, and
then relieved apparently Of all alarm,
have sunk down TO die. Wives absent
have returned against the positive or
ders and wishes OF their husbands, pre-
ferring TO die with those they love rath-
er than suffer the suspense away.
God in his mercy has sent these min
istering angels TO make rs forget for n
time the horrors OF wholesale death.
and contemplate in them the glory and
beauty of better world.