The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-03-17

me to bed. Come up a moment and warn o.
yourselfW ,.....,.,,s- bad heard it all. CT
.Uarv we'll. Theresa |" said he. coming ont o. u
h;s room "keep the fire burning. sha'4 10 "
hack in an hour at latest" - -
He had already put on his large thIee CUT
rorad can. and his goat'shair g-eat-coat
W. walked across the square without speak
inc. went first; in q few minutes we asoenu
gu sorIe T% had placed a candle at the top OF the
stsirs; took it and led M. Steinbrenner 70 'he
oaoy y ssemsd ouiet AZ We entered. Zsffen was
s;tt;ng in an arm. chair behind the door, Win
her head on her knees, and her snooioets un-
covered; she was NO longes orying DuG pt IA
The child wRs in BED oorie' o'anu'os " .
e'%r Tbe doctor laid his cap on the bureau.
at is too warm here" said he' give 10
Then he went to the bed. Zsffen n had risen
from her chair, as pale as death. me d1c.Ga .,.T
took the lamp and h S0nea ce2sset s and lifted out
the little round limbs; he isteneo 10 'Se
breathing. Esdras having begpE to cry, y,hinS ns
tnrued round and said: "Take the otner onii9
s1av from this room-we must be quiet ! and
| besides, the air of sick-room Is not gooo i'R
| suoh small children" ,,u,.
he meant to say. = 1t was the typhus looked
at my wife; she understood IL an hoort ve-e
1 felt at that moment as IT my near .xre %ere
| torn T wanted to groap, but H5fen W as Ineie
leaning over behind us, and SAID ho'hink
The dooter asked for paper to write pre- pre-
ecription, and went ont together: leo
hin, to our ROOM and shut the door, and began
to sob. , do not
weepl Remember that yon ought TO s9S al
example of courage to two poor women.
} is there no hopef" 1 asked him in 10"
voice, afraid of being heard. ou I'LL 5o
what we can. There. that is the prescription;
90 to Tribolins his boy is up at night now,
aud he will give you the medioihe. Pc 20 QUIZ thar
| Aud then in heavens name, take the otner
child out of that room. and your daughter zoo,
, if possible. Try to find some one out OF tne
, family, accustomed to sickness; the typans ID
a contagious"
/ said nothing.
= He took his cap and went.
remember that the sickness iassea s tIr T,1 0,1
life. feared for my wife, for my dau ghter'
for Safel for Esdras. sat in corner, hsten-
ing to the babes breathing. sT%eeimes %h oh;l1 III
a passed over me; went to MIN ana ns!eneu: :e ~
q q And when by chance, Zeffen came, In sPlte OF
the doctors prohibition Tent tn'o sho"dsrs STfs "a
IS 's: "But he is my ohildl He is my chile" " she
q land art thon not my child too ~ said 1. 81
T. do not want you all to die"
IL Then / burst into tears, and fell into my
ID ohar, on a6ns. noofiUs I WAS Exhausted with grief.
y Sorle came and went, with hrm-closed lips
x she prepared everything, end cared ior every
le AT that time musk was the remedy for ty
- pbus : the house was full of musk. Often th'
1e idea seized me that Esdras, too, was gong Il
10 11 be sick. All, if having children is the creates
q q happiness in the world. what agony to SO
's' them suffer! How fearful to think of losin
hit them!-to be there, to near their iao9re D; :
- - breathing their delirium, to watch their Sink
~ ~. ing from hour to hour, from mi mute to minute
ne ao and to exclaim from the depths Of the soul:
death is near at hand! ihere Is noIntnA nm
nothing more that be done to save thet
nv child l cannot give thee my life Deaf
os does not wish for it" d.
$50 What heart. rendpg and what anguish, Il
the last moment when all is over!
oo Then Fritz money, the blockade, the famine
sre e1 the general desolation-all wore forgotten.
hardly saw the gergegut open our toor ever
,rd morning, and look in, asking:
"Well, Father Moses, welf"
a. I did not know what he said; paid no a
nv tentiop to him. $50
a,y y Bnt. what always think of with pleasur
at what 1 am always proud of, is that, in tt
,feI midst of all this trouble, when Sorle, Zehe
myself and everybody were beside ourse!Ve
ont when we forgot all about our business, and IL
everything GO, little Safel at once took chart
sps of our shop Every morning We heard
not rise at six o'clock, go down, open the war
house, take up one or two pitchers of brand
wa and begin to serve the customers
No one had said q word to him about 1t, D.
Safel had a genius for trade. And If anythlI
could console father in such troubles,
nm would be to see himself, as it were, living ov
not again in so young child, and 10 say 10 M
self "At least the good race is not extlnct !;
nta | still remains to preserve common. sense In t
rdly world" 1es' IL ls tne oniy 'on'oA"UN "a
Iaok Our schabes goie did the work in the kiteh'
and old Lanohe helped US watch, bu. sa
took the charge of the shop; his mother ant
mod thought of nothing but our little David.
"a to He died in the night of the eighteenth
ia as March, the day when the fire broke out
Captain Cabanier's house,
ned, That same nlgh1 Two snehe h ,01l roii no
court, where they both burst, shattering
open laundry windows and demoisnlng the oufcn fn,
OF door; which fell down at once with fear
crash.
TWAS the most powerful bombardment 81
!, the blockade began, for, as soon as the enc
him saw the flame ascending, they fired from Nit
'egau bronn, from the Barracks, aud the tIquet
lands, to prevent its being extngushed.
And, stayed all me wn!le wv ~ Gor.e, t;rT al
J so! babes bed, arg tne noiSo u ZIG Ou' o.
poor The unnsppy 90 n1T c11ns ~ ise bIne a