The Red Cloud chief., 1882-06-15
WHITING.

IL
cant believe my wedding day was fifty years
fTo!
T@'s : ;h- SECOND day of March! The clock Is
t. sun shitcs ia across the room. just see
the Z .iks - ~.
] can't reno nBar hElf OF thcm who nod 81
~pieaAlnIF.
The little EnSi IN sp-rfows nt in the lilac
bush o%utsiIc:
like - vstra tho busy fhina. There's one
that > irc f and tried
To break q string tac children tied around a
branch on" day:
Hos hard he pull. it with his bcak! Now be
has IJwn away.
So it was fly years ago! IL doesn't SEEM 80
long.
I've fclt Iav nye more this last year, ana yet
] don't 10 much about the house, but still ]
know what : done:
know as well what's going on az Jane or any
one
Jane frris me dreaffuIly sometimes. and yet
size z always kind.
she l. IFS inc when there j. no need and has me
on her mind,
She needn't thinE I'm past I'll use, or that I'm
Ike To- fan:
I've never missed my footing yet, though I'm
80 Oh and Nj.
But; things doa't seem 10 take my mind that
AaA.Hrsf ffD4 NAst :
IEkc Ia folks I used 10 know: 1 keep old
fashsonf-f WAYS:
Tread tn Psniins and Book Of John, and find
TIA n nl@ay- new:
And ] g n kait, DLt j can't sew same as ] used
ODD.
The young folks thinE they understand just
how . manage life;
We oi1 folks pity them; we've learnt its
,E8n. and ! -. and strife.
Lifc Is a iisbi, tell you plain. it doesn't como
u Eaud
Just a. you want to have 1t come, or just MS
you have planned.
nyou'd f~orc,old me how Irs been through aI
These nifty years
j should have b zen discouraged and had no lack
Of fears,
And " sh.d 1 could lie down and die, but
somehow I've hal strength
That's como To mr. with every day ali through
my whole life's length
] STATED fair my wedding day. for my dear
mau was kind
And always pleas mt spoken: we were mostly
Of course, w, had our fallings out, tut nothing
that would last:
Hallway WAS my fault, for ! was young and
spoke too fast.
And John. you sec, was older by some ten
years than 4.
AT first / Was afraid q. him when we KEEP; com.
Jtapy.
lie was u -"rt or man on whom you felt you
tpNtn depend.
But very quiet IN aAs ways. His mother was u
Friend.
Ny hardest time was when be died. il seemed
to nr twas wrong
The Lord should take him cut OF life and Let
m- tirag along
A. best ! could. wiih little means and NIL T.y
children SHili!,
Just wnan We seemed to sec our way and get
HasaI NJ all.
Fgtff ed Ls.gsra lggs IL 81 hal l.agn my Isf.
had su.i" me:
II had had mn easy time and not known pow
sF.N
should htVs been a Eighty thing without a
Iiurnci ray haui TO crcrythlng-to knit or
tuI.d Il fence
There weren't the folks "a call ON then that ]
cpnid ct today.
Tor help wus scarce. tac farms were few, and
Ia no IA ans g. pay.
wclit t. work with al my might and tried my
Lomc o. he ~:
But / gan i"H you many a night I've cried my
self 10 sleep.
know III" Lord has prospercd me. Eve done
the iss<t l could.
And I've stood Ina my lot and place as ANYBODY
sherli.
The farmland some folks would have sold I
hrlt. hrcauS" I knew
Some day twuGld b, good property, ami all
my hopes cUInc true.
I've parted with it piece by piocc-you see the
town has grown,
Just as John always said il would. II other
:piks bad known
And had the foresight that he had: Instead
How ! should never get along unless the farm
WAS sold.
MY bows grow fast and soon took hold, AMI
th"n my way was plain,
For all The money they had cost they soon
brought back again:
And like n busy hive OF bees VIC were from
We had our health, the Lori lie thanked, and
that made work seem light
homes Of their own.
Excepting .Janc. and hut for her I should be
let alone;
she had her chances. too, but then she's no.
She marrying KIND:
j couldn't do without her now, I'm glad she
stayed behind.
I'm glad I'm mistress of my house,: tho chill
Unjust break up that Jane and 1 were better
on e. STAY
With some at them, FOR I'm so old and James
not over stroag:
But won't listen To their plans: I've mad
my own too long
My life seems like n book that's read anu put
up on the shelf:
% 70 re n hurry ing round; don't feel like
myself:
Sonnet ms I'm tired of keeping still, I want IL
h at work:
lsee - many things 10 do, and l don't like 10
shirk.
fused 10 have to toll and plan, and now I have
10 wait,
Aud I suppose l mustn't fret, but in q future
Stale
shall he sure TO flni my place and be some
rsn again.
For there We siill shall serve the Lcrd-the
Scripture says II plain.
So it's my golden wedding day, though we
have been apart
For forty years, ard Vet John knows that he
has kept my heart
And ] know that h looks for me and waits for
me Ia cone:
I've tried Ia do the hest l could-and here or
there its homer
-Nnrah o. gelcett, IN Dur Continent.