Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-10

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PUSHES out upon the rock crying, Away
Away and then, examining the gfbbets
to see tliat they still keep their burden, re.
turns again 10 Der tent till some swoopina
wing from the midnight sky-cr some
growing monster on the rock again wakes
her
THE omnETs IL AMERICA.
A mother watching her dead children
through May, June, July, August. Sep
TENDER and Octoberl What vigil Paint
ers have tried toput upon canvas the scene,
and they succeeded in sketching the hawks
in the sky and the panthers crawling out
from tho jungle, but they fail to give the
wanness the carnestness, the supernatural
courage, theinfinite self sacrifice Of Rizpah,
the mother a mother in the quiet home
watching By fhe casSet Of adead child for
one night exeris the artist to his utmost,
but Whois sufficient 70 put upon canvas a
mother for six months ofmidnights guard
ing her whole family, dead and gibbeted
upon tho monntalns2
90 horne, Rispah You must be awfully
tired. You are sacrificing your reason and
your life FOR those whom you can never
bring back again TO your bosom As / say
that from the darkest midnight Of the
century Rizpah turns upon me and cries:
How dare you tell me to 70 homes I lam
mother. lam not tired. You might as
well expect God to get tired as for mother
70 get tired. / cared for those boys when
they lay on my breast in infancy, and
Will not forsakc them now that they are
dead. Interrupt me not. There stoops an
eagle That ] must drive back with my
agonized cry. There is panther / must
beat back with my cubr"
DO you know what that scene by our
roadside in Palestine makes me think Off
1t IS no unusual scene, Right here in these
three cities by the American sea coast
there are a Thousand cases this moment
worse than that Mothers watching BOYS
that the rum saloon, that annex of hell,
has gibbeted Ia y living death. Boys hung
in chains Of evil habit they cannot break.
The father may 20 70 nlaop after waiting
until 12 O'Clock at night for the ruined
boy TO come home and, giving it up, he
may say, "Mother, come TO bed, there's no
use sitting up any longer" But mother
will not go to bed. Il is l o'clock in the
morning. It is half-past l. 1t is 2 O'Clock
1t is half-past when he comes staggering
through the hall
DO you say that young man is yet alive?
No; he is dead Dead to his fathers en-
treaties Dead to his mothers prayers.
Dead to the family altar where he was
reared Dead 10 an the noble ambitions
that once inspired him. Twice dead Only
a corpse Of what he once was. Gibbeted
before God and man and angels and devils.
Chained in q death that will not loosen its
cold grasp His fatheris asleep, his broth
ers are asleep, his sisters are asleep, but.
his mother Is watching him, watching him
in The night. After he has gone M to bed
and fallen into drunken sleep hi4 mother
win 20 up 10 his room and see that he is
properly covered and before she turns out
the light will put kiss upon his bloated
lips. tfMnther. why don't Won 20 to bedgn
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