The Newtown bee., 1878-05-23
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A CITILD'S,DEhTE-EED.
A PATHETIC STORY or THE DYING vI'
 IONS OF A LITTLE DEAF-MUTE.

A PATHETIC STORY or THE DYING yIs-
 IONS OF A LITTLE DEAF-MUTE.
 From he .SI. Lcu;s .'ouWai, April 1S,
 The following story was tolda JOmnGi reporter yesterday by d lady whose yer lcity i4 undoubtrd. Some four week ago, Carrie Wilson, an interesting little girl, aged about 10 years, after d prOtrac- ted illness, died at the residence of Ter parents, No. ,02l North Fourth street. From the day she entered this c;lrG-ladcn world her troubles began, for she was born a deaf-mutc. Her parents were very poor people, able only by the strict est economy to shift through from one year to another, and the little one Wh s organs of both hearing and speech had b zen stricken by the Divine hand was l looked upon as a something human, Of course, but nothing more than little bit of bodily ills, who would always, in her hclplessness, have to be provided for 4 few years ago her father died, and her mother found It doubIy hard to surpo.t { & large family of small children. About 1 tAis time Mrs. Ann Bailoy. q great hearted. Christian woman, residing at No. 5, 70S Choutcau avenue, became ac- uuaintcl with Mrs. Wilson's circum- stances and, having a tender spot in her heart for the little unfortunate, for she ,l>o had q deaf daughter, conclulei to adopt little Carrie. Mrs. Wilson was not avcr@c, and after few weeks soiourm in Mrs. Dailry'S q lilly, Carrie was >elt t" Fulton, Mo-, to be educated under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Futile. She spent two years, but her health, always poor, failed entirely, and she was brought back to St. Louis t. die. Mr . Wilson, had in the meantime, married again, and being in better circumstances than when Mrs Bailey adopted Carrie re. Il l4tcd that she shOulI be once more placed under her care. The days went by, and the little innocent creature grew weaker, and weaker, for con assumption never rclaXcs it's grasp from king or clod princess or peasant. One forenoon Mrs Bailey and her daughter Hattie received n message stating that Carrie Was dying and that she askol for them continually and half an hour later they were Ut tl.( bedside where the large speaking eye. were taking on a happier expression, Through her feeble sighs she communi ralel the wish to be left alone with he bcncfactor, and when her relatives hac left the chamber she related the follow ing story through her own pcculia language:
 At s o'clock that morning she was al alone in the little room, her mothc having rcadiu ted the pillows aGd gen into another part of th Duilln; t attend to her household GU ic5, and oI looking up she saw her dead father bend Lin5 over her. Sh" wlj not frightoned for he seemed so kind and good, and hi face was just like the portrait she ha so often looked at for hours at time i Mrs. Bailcy's drawing-room--the portrai , of Christ at the well in Samlria. III seemed pleased and happy ' her li,t' fingers said, "and bending his hca down by the silc of my ear, he whisper ed-and 1 heard just as plain as an person could hear Carrie, my DOC little afflicted lamb, you will soon hay no more trouble, for l will take you Jesus in exactly four hours Even { he said that, Mrs. Bailey, our clock i the other room, that can see when il door is open, and it w open then, f
 mamma had l5ft it that way so if wan ed anything Icouldtapo on the headL0al and she would hear it, indicated just , Only four hours more, Cariis, hc sai
 and I heard. it so plain too. and the tt',ing my face hctwc en his hands h' were so light and soft and not bit lii they used to be when he was on cart before. he kissed me such long kis and left me. - .s.
 The little hands lay quite still for {. m mute or more, apparently tired ou Mrs. Bailey says, and then theJ si 4 naled:
 "I began to feel easier: this pain here (pointing to her heartl left me a at once. and thought could get np aI \ play like used to before I got sick. C