Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-09-19
WOman's Bravery i'm Memphis.

Ihere are women OF pluck and uu-
surpassable devotion in Memphis,
who are daring everything fer those
they love. The faithless are of the
other sex, of those whom the world
in one OF its great misnomers has
dubbed "the stronger SEX While
John Donovan forsakes his wife. and
leaves his children to die in strangers
hands; while a son hies to Arkansas
Springs and leaves his mother and
two brothers to be borne by other
hands to the grave, in contrast shines
out the faithfulness Of women, as a
devoted mother, as patient, attentive
wife, as life-risking daughter, sister,
friend. By the bedside of the burn
ing body, inhaling the poison of the
sick room, foul with that odor which
tells the nature OF the dreadful dis
ease, performing services 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 the most Iepul-
sive and horrible of all substances
black vomit-she sits and watches,
and nurses and cares for her loved
one till he lives again or passes be-
yond her aid. The penalty Of her
service of love is generally death.
Instances come to the writer's mind
faster than he can record them, in
stances which are but a few OF the
many which have become like part
of heaven in so much OF earth's hell.
A Citizens Relief Committee man
walked into an humble cottage in the
southern portion Of the city. There
he found two children i'll, one weak
and listless, but evidently GONZALES
cling, the other tossing in burning
fever. A little woman in black sat
between the two and was in the act
OF kissing the lips OF the little fevered
one.
"Can't 1 send you a nurse, MADAME"
asked the visitor.
"No, SIR" (the pale little woman
smiled. Il have brought one child
through and 1 shall bring the other.
"But you are worn out"
"Oh, no, sir. A kind italian woman
near by comes in and helps me some
times She would not yield; no
other hands hers could minister to
her little ones.
An old grandmother told Rev. Mr..
Pa sons not only Of having nursed
her grandson to his death, but in
want OF some one else to do 1t, had
with her old hands prepared him for
the grave.
A child was stricken with fever on
Alabama street. Go" said the
mother to the father; Il shall never
leave the boy, but you must not be
endangered The coward went, and
saw from over the way a short coffin
borne out OF his home. The mother
is paying the price of her devotion
and by tomorrow will herself pass to
her last home in the city.
A sick mans lady friend wrote
please let me come" And when his
friends thought the die was cast, they
consented to his summoning her
Boldly she laid aside her hat, pushed
back her hair, and forcing smile tc
her lips, entered the room. Some oil
his male friends stood outside on the
doorsteps ito inquire how the dear
old boy is getting along"
The keeper of a house Of i'll fame
on Gayoso street dared the loss ol
sbusiness," dared the desertion Of hel
place by all but one OF its inmates, tc
nurse faithfully to the end one who
was brought to her comparative
stranger, but whom chance haC
brought plague-stricken to her door
These are few OF hundreds. Moth
ers have made their sons leave town
and then relieved apparently OF al
alarm, have sunk down to die
Wives absent have returned agains
the positive orders and wishes o
their husbands, preferring to die will
those they love rather than suffer thu
suspense away.
God In his mercy has sent these
ministering angels to make us forge
for time the horrors of WHOLESALE
death, and contemplate In them tn
glory and beauty of a better world :
Ne phis AUdlnnche.