The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-03-13

There are shadows with the sunshine:
There are thorns within the flowers;
And serpents with their poison tongues
Lurk IN the faircst bowers.
"But there is a land, my baby
And the angel brow was bent
Still lower to the dimped face,
Where the shadows came and went,
There is II land Of love and beauty
Where the cearcst waters flow,
Where the harps are never broken,
Where the cold winds may not blow;
Shall | wing thee to its brightness"
And dear Allie how'd his head,
Closed his eyes, and mourners whispered,
In their anguish, He is dead"
All! they could not see the glory
Hallowing that face so fair,
Nor the angel fingers toying
With the baby's shining hair!
Gould not hear the Savior's saying,
suffer him to come to me,
For Of such the Fathers kingdom
Was, and ever is to be"
Could not see the happy scraphs,
Aud their singing could not hear,
For gref's tempest dmmed their vision,
And its thunder dulled their ear
Little, clingng hands that clasped them,
Baby with the golden hair
Spirit in thy guieless beauty
Smiling where the guiltless are,
Little, weary wanderer, never,
On liies lonely, darksone road,
Lead on lead them through the valley
To the city of thy God"
As | closed she opened her eyes, and
cIasping her thin little hands, she looked up
and whispered softly;
"Ncddic, the sweet angel will come for me
very, very soon. | saw mother in my dreams
last night. On, she was 80 pretty, shiney and
happy looking. | stretched out my hands to-
wards hcr-shc caught and kissed me SO JOY
fully. | wanted to go with her; she SAID :
Pretty soon, my darlng,-you will soon come,
but you must comfort your brother, he Will
be so very lonely without YOU 'Will he not
come with me, moherY said |. No, darling,
he will come by and by; IN a little tiny while
he will come, too. But he will bring many
with hm some he will send on before HIM,
to tell US what he is doing for the Lord Now
what does all that mean? | know | must die
soon; ! know that you will cry, and then after
awhile you will 90 away on the stage coach to
Pittsburgh, and will take the little Julia-what
u sweet namc-for your little sister. She is
preltier than am-so healthy. She will take
your hand, and you will walk ont of the city
To the riverside. There, under the branches
of the trees with the grape vines over your
heads, you will talk of me There you will
take your book out of your pocket and read
to her. She will cuddle her dolls and sing
Hush, my dear lie still and slumber,' or
Jesus my all to heaven is gone or, If thou
lmpart thysclt to me- or The far away homo
of the soul, or something else; and you will
peep through your fingers ut her, and love hcl
very much, Will you not"
My heart was full my eyes were running
over, and sank upon my knees at the bedside
and sObhcd aloud She placed her hand upor
my head as my mother once so often had done
and we wcpt together At length she SAID:
"Ncdde, you will miss me very much
won't your
"Oh, my little sister, my darling, my all, 20,
must not die" cried, II cannot live withou
you, | shall die, know will | feel some
thing breaking IN my bosom now oh, m.
sister, do not die"
keep still, Ncddic our mother said it wa
all right, and that by and by we should all b
at home on the sunny bank of our new hom
in the pretty gardens of our Lord. Do you
believe that NeddIc?"
u don't know. Are you sure our mothc
said that MattieE"
YES | am rery sure about it. She told m
to tell YOU So"
| We'll then will believe it II mother sal,
so-she never told me lie in all her life. Oh
my dear, angel mother, | do believe thee
will always believe thee dead or alive"
! Ard was consolcd and comiored for III
time being. Directly my eldest brother ant
his sweet wife came home. oh, how | love-
her She was Quakercss, SO mild and gentle
and yet she knew everything. Soon father
brothers and sisters went to Maria for every
thing. | called her Miriam, after the sister Il
Aaron and Moses, who played on her harp 81
the banks of deliverance-stormy Jordan.
BY and by our brotherin-law and my dea
sister from Pittsburgh came home, Their
was something very solemn in all their faces
| could get no consolation anywhere. / SAT-
to black Tom:
Tom, can't We shoot death with the lon
shotgun that hangs IN the old kitchen"
mo, honey we cannot shoot him.
Cant we trap him, and drown him in til
! mill dam al Kinder's mills:"
! mo, honey, we can't drown him neither
we can't cotch him, honey, he is so strong an
cold, and sortcr glldes along-slips IN an
takes your mudder and fadder and baby, youn
and old lie looked my twin babies, and W
could not stop him. We cannot stop him.
we cannot coich him,-but he cotches us, an
we has TO wIther and fall like de leaves oh d
forest My heart is almost Dustin too, b
kase baby Jane is gwine away, and so las