Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-02-14

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pain the language OF Scripture
she refused to be comiorted .
nef children were careless. hannv
ana 10 health-they had their scbnoi
and comrades; but she had made ta,s
friends IN Salem, where her husband
had brought her bride.
she was not "A women of broad
nature, and yet she was intense. SHE
mad found all she wanted or needed
IN her husband'safiection and society
even the children were SECONDARY.
70 MIN IN her heart; and thouOh ala
had acquaintance in her own social
sphere, and dispcnded charityas free.
~ as her means would allow, there
was no one now to whom she could
open her heart, and thus find relief
OF 1.-THE grief that speaks"
a dreary Sunday In November had
come Ia an end. The twilight shade
ows had fallen, and, after going into
the nursery, 20 see the children SAT
N bed, she went down to the library.
20 spend a solitary evening. The
rain beat iiercely against lie win.
doMs.and,in its gusty pauses, tile surf
sent its laundering echo on the wing 4
OF the wind, even through the hear
oi the tOwn Shestood before the fire.
Ia hersomhre widows weeds, gazing
nbsentiy into the iiickering flames,
She WIS thinking about the prncla.
nation for Thanksgiving. Day, that
had been read from hepulpit that
morning, and smile. sadder than
tears, crossed her lips. "Thnnksgiy
ing. sl'e murmured, keep Thanks
giving She sank into chair, and
lost herself ia a gloomy rererie. Shi
thought oi tile many times she had
kept that festival kept il outward
IN and in spirit, Tor she WAS goo,
woman. and had meant % be
grateful one, Till three months ago
aforementioned her childhood. Hoy
long the years seemed then: how sh
iooaed forward 10 the gathering q
nnnts and uncles and cousins, In Tia
old rel farmhouse; and what won
!. derful viands grandmother Away
spread before them
Then she was a girl, coming bae
from school, and her brother brongh
his classmnie home with hint
spend Thanksgiving" So she liza
= met her husband Her brother wa
dead long since: and now James
= low cry escaped her; the ire gre
10 dull; and she vent on with her r
q view Oi the past Then came h.
:. wedding on Thanksgiving Day.
/, After that. were not oil her THINK
3 givings alike full OF cheer, grntitud
g blessed nessg Aud now
h Il shall not Try 10 keep Thank
n giving" she said dreamily, and loo
!, ing %, saw her husband sitting opp
site her in his own chair, which :
~ had never moved from It's place
ID the hearth. Strangely enough, q
~ felt neither surprise nor fear, nor q
- she remember her loss. II seemed
natural To see him there. that only
y sweet sense Of peace stole over I
n soul. He looked al her with tend
u gravity. and very clearly and slow
n. repeated a invoriie quotation Of h
:, Thou sccst We are not all alone !
" happy" adding, there nrc oil
widows besides You, Hattie
ie' other widows? What did hem
" A brand fell, blaEed up, md went q
- She started up and looked eager
"A about. The chair opposite hers W
empty. The clock on the man
&c stlAk nine. II had marked the hi
ds hour. she remembered, just rs
al frat brands Toll together. IL b
=, l,cou n dream, then. She shivel
- and came back TO reality, lighted
II lamp. fed the dying FIRE, and retu
ne nj 10 her new grief. New, becai
that face had been 40 real, her gu
~ meas so deep, aud now It
Inat once more. with a fresh
ng renyemont. Hut though the te
y Iell hopelessly and fast IRON herey
leu nnd her heart nched anew with
1s, bellious anguish, still his words X
M recurring to her. She had ,
"n Thought of that before. There "
IN otber widows. no doubt-others
~ rowing with her sorrow, IN klht
'ut nnt IN derrec. She remembered
1N- srnl whom she had visited IN
M charitable rounds, and was start
me ~ remember how she had pas
rat their sorrows by without any !
nd sympathy. A sense OF eompanl
rus ship stole upon her, as II sudde
en-. wrecked on some desert shore,
had met with beings of her own T
ny' after long. lonely weeks oil size
snV and despair.
,se. Then che thought flashed a s
ear her that these women must az
the tbs recurrence Of Thanksgiving,
de- ma shs did. Why could she not
IRE tbemsl TO keep the day with her
She fell asleep thinking the ma
'th' over. and awokc in the morning
ser, o : shame.faced sense of some y
me and interest creeping into heT =
lin. h;shorto 40 sneredly wretched. =
me she remembered her dream
her husbands sad, grave face rerl
ON, ahe had done wrong IN moue'
ana ,nd him 40 devotedly that even
her children had been eetasi1elr,oLn
'ad, nIare. Possibly IL would please u.s.,
the ",, c n abe carried out her plan