The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-09-27
True and Brave Women .

There are women of pluck aud
indispensable devotion i'll Memphis
who are daring everything for those
they love. The faithlcss are OF the
sex, of these whom the world in
one of its greatest misnOmcrs, has
dubbed the stronger sex. While
John Donovan forsakes his wife,
and leaves his children to die in
strangers hands; while son hies
to Arkansas springs, aud leaves his
mother and two brothers to be
borne by other hands to the grave;
in contrast shines out the faithful.
ness of woman, as a devoted moth
er, as u 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 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 betOuled by
that most repulSive and horrible of
all observation-disclosures vOmit--she
sits and watches and cares for her
loved one till he lives again or
passes beyond her aid. The penal
ty OF her service of love is general.
ly death.
Instances come to tho writer's
mind faster than he can record
them, instances which are but few
of the many which have become
like q 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
convalescing, the other tossing in
burning fever. A little woman in
black sat between the two and was
in the act of kissing the brow of
the little fevered one.
Cant / send you a nurse, ma
dam !" asked the visitor.
I" No sir" the pale little woman
smiled, 81 have brought one child
through and / shall bring the other"
"But You are worn out"
"Oh no; sir. A kind Italian wo-
man near by, comes in and helps
me some tines" She would not
yield; no other hand but hers could
minister to her little 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 strick-
en- with fever on Alabama street.
"GO," said the mother to the father,
- shall never leave the boy, but
YOU must not be endangered" The
coward complied, and saw from over
the way short coffin borne out
of his home. The mother is
paying the price of her devotion,
and by tomorrow will pass to her
last home in the city.
a sick mans lady friend wrote
"Plcasc 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
"a smileto her lips, entered the room.
Some of his male friends stood out
side on the door steps to enquire
how the boy is getting along"
These are q few of hundreds,
Mothers have made their sons leave
town, and then relieved apparently
of all alarm, have sunk down to die.
Wives absenthave returned against
the positive orders and wishes of
their husbands, preferring to die
with those they love rather than
suffer the suspense away. God in
his mercy has sent these minister
ing angels to make us forget FOR a
time the horrors of wholesale
death, and contemplate in them the
glory and beauty of u better world.
Chickens Coming Home to ROOst.
Jackson Clarion. ...
When the fanatics of Illinois,
were preaching the "univcrsal
brotherhood of man" and "sOcial
equality" with all that the name
implies, and insisting that their
creed should be incorporated into
Southern society, the people of Al
rican descent of that State naturally
thought that if it was good doctrine
for Mississippi, it would be equally
as good for Illinois, and SO they have
against the laws aud ordi.
nances of the latter commonwealth
which are in conflict with 1T. Here
is what happened in the city of
Quincy the other day:
Special to Globe Democrat (Rep.)
Quite u breeze was created in
Quincy, Ill. this morning at the
opening of the different public
schools, by the attempt of the col
ored population to force their chill
dreu into them, Notwithstanding
the orders of the school board to
the contrary, they having provided
an excellent building and teachers
for the colored children. The
greatest trouble was at the Jackson
school near the Lincoln (colOred)
school. Here some fifty or sixty
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