The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-07

ding os his will, death posspcneA k,a doom until hts tack vas ended
 saw Ais eemains the moxnins of tn nigAs he died. W'itA Als Aansss Sressal upoa hia breast, his rmoluae iAca w.e soseened wsth an expsession Feaemhiin9 tat q siesp, AAd knoW from what \ saw tAat tAe rsnownsd ssesy of his saiciAs was Alas. The ssormy Rle of a nohasE chaEacter, maEred wilA more ianoAle pas- sloas tAan ordinarily iAEls so the lct ef msA. had paseed lntn sllenca and mem osy, quiet a eAild.
 Thia inciaene has carried ne kusa naw theme. Of the mogo baAusilal enosioRs of the human AeaEt humanisY is strangely ignorant. Take for illussraaioM tAe tonck- ing care and love ef a mother fog her crippled or detoSmed cAild. Wat pity we extend to the paseas, unaware that ia the loving care tksre is . sousce of gresa comfort. The same result occurs in tha nursing of any loved patient
 know A man who. in his cyr.ci.sa. has won ios hlmself wide nown as as lshmaelite. This man crsasea wonder M his tender selicitude for an invalid wite. and he is regarded as Byrons Corsais. Proud of one virtue and q thousanl erimes." The woyid-his world -lt,ls knows tha, this awakening aad exercise of tenderness is . blessing to its possesses.
 Whitcomb Riley tells me of . hu. motisi. the wittiest, most delicate ana pure of all that toll la our midst, whs lived devoted to hts Invalid wife. aad is her death suffered As no man ever suk kA A A..L wife, through helplessness, was more ts the poor fellow than A healthy, hearty helpmase would have besn.
 One summer passed at OAkiAndS amid EFsa; crowd el hay fever patients. l remember vIvidly, from the fact oi aa artist stricken with paralysis, coming te pass the summer montha, accompanied by hts wife The painter was on the shady side Of lie when he married q ii,tle Essa yeaag enough to hs bis daughter. Paralysis followed, and the vie became his nnEse. Her quiet care, har anpEe- tending devotion, called forth much ad- imitation among the thFong ol people af that summer resort She vas his hands, feet. voics--his all---and iolk looked os wcnderingly and pisied the poor woman, and when the old man died. which hs did one night. we all isl, relieved, and said: "Now the little widow will have some comfort"
 Somehow or other she dld not seem ss realise the great blessing thA, had come to her. She sep, much in . Quiss way. Her eyes grew caverpous and her cheeks hollow. The poor ,hing, avoiding sym- pashy, passed hours alone. u all was e ahsurdly diHeFent from wha, vas ex. pecsed and ough, to have besa the fact that teeling of imp s..sncs, nearly Akia to disliks, grew up and spread.
 One morning the little widow failed to appear st breakfast, . meal she seldom honored by eating. As knockipg eliciseA no response slender mulat,o boy was tossed through the ,Tansom to unlock the door. When that door was unlocked we found the little widow lytng on her bAck, v!th her thin hands meekly folded on hW oreas. dead of broken heart. At lsaa the fAshioaabie doctor pronounced t heart disease.
 That which vas though, to be . griev. ous burden had, in fact, been A blessing. When the old man, numbed 10 brain anA crippled in body, found . refuge in the grave, all that she had of lie, all iss iee- derness, love, and sseet, helpful de- pendencs disappeared with him, snd hsr little horizon dafksnsd dowu to death.