The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-01-15

end@ith the assertion on my part
thatfould go, and take the baby, too,
combat would"
HIS eyes opened in astonishment
as shocked at the gentle woman be-
foreE.
Gas a warm but windy and disa-
greec day, one of those in the late
spriwhen you are dressed too warm
ly fsummer and too thinly for the
coldnd get tired easily. 1 had a
sens dissatisfaction when Mr.. Chester
left house, half angered at him and
half myself, yeti had said l was going,
and Mould lose any power had if |
gave now. That day l shall never
forge The baby grew tired and fretted
ant. heart and body both ached.-
| Ths an' hours when l tried to be
cht.1, even jubilant, with my friend,
1 shol be glad to efface fromm men,
ory. dy husband met me kindly at tea,
but tre was a gulf between us.
"lt night our baby was restless and
feven, and the next day and the next
he gT worse. My husband was we'll
nigh .lirious with grief. This was our
only lid, and imprudently had been
the Csc of his illness. He failed rap
idly. 1t is agony to live over again
those ,a1y-moanings as he looked up
into ny blanched face, appealing for
ease fonihis pain. With clasped hands,
the pst forgotten, Mr.. Chester and [
knelibedde our darling child, saw the
eyeseloe with long, last look forhelp
who W. could not give, and then asked
eachotler's forgiveness and Gods.
"'ha week aged me more than all
the eaB that have come since then but
l lernd valuable lesson at bitter
cost Other perplexing times have come
in lie, out | have learned to say, as |
overlooked them or perhaps yielded some
isn't a matter of life and
death so it has not paid to have dissen-
sion be seif-willed. I have found
that rost things come right and best
with aIittle waiting. There are only a
few matters in life that are of vast i'm
portane, and in minor things what does
it signify whose will is law? Not that a
should always be the one to
yield. Kind reasoning usually makes
one Sc; as ready to surrender as the
2ther, but where no principle is involv-
ID peace is the better way at almost any
,ost. Gentleness is as mellowing as
unlight in its influence. Few persons
an be driven in this world almost all
an be led. Try the motto l have had
or years craven on my heart, 1T isn't
matter of life and death. "
ri see," said Hetty, "where the mis-
axe lies. But l never can ask Wilbur S
1 never can humble my
elf like that. He ought to ask mine. -
ridSgHstte if pride masters you 5iii | IKE ike
hat. Good-by, my child"
And Mrs. Chester, still young, but
ich with life's experience, went out of
ne dainty room and left the young wife
lone.
After all, Wilbur James was a noble
ian, she said to herself-too willful at
ines. But who has not faults? She
ad left father and mother for him, and
ne molding of his character was large
7 in her hands. If she kept his affec-
on she might develop him about as
he chose. Could she really ask his
Just then a slight knock was heard.
he door opened, and before she had
me to reason with herself she had said:
"Wilbur, l don't hate you. I'm SO
orry;" and this time the tears were of
we rather than bitterness.
And Mr.. James did just what ninety
inc men out of a hundred would have
one, folded her to his breast, and said
"1'll take all the blame, Hetty, l was
asty. We will 60 to Versailles some
lnny day and invite the friends to go
ith us. ''-H2ustrated Christian WeekLy.