Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-10


sacrificing, heroic story OF Catharine Doug
las and her poor, shattered arm
You know how calmly Mime. Roland went
to execution and how cheerfuliy Joanna OF
| Naples walked to the castle or Mura, and
how fearlessly Mme. Grimaldi listened to
her condemnation, and how Charlotte Cor
day smiled upon the frantic mob that pur-
sued her to the gu'llotiDa. Aut tiers
would be no end to the recital IL atteinDtsi
to present all the historical incidents wlica
show that wonian's courage woult rouse IT.
self for great emergency.
But [ neel not go so far. ~ h7ys
known some one who was considered mere
butterfly in society. Her hand had known
no toll. Her eye had wept no tear over
misfortune. Sbs moved among obssquious
admirers as careless as an insect in field of
blosso ming bucxwheat. Bat in 1867 fnan-
/ cial tempest struck the husbands estate
Before he had time to reef sail and make
things snug the ship capsizei AMI went
down. Ensmies cleered at the misfortune
AMI wondered what would become of the
butterfly. Cool men pitied AMI said she
would die of broken heart
''Sue will not wors.o say they, "aud sha
4 is too proud to beg" But the prophecies
I have failed. Disaster has transformed the
shining sluggar1 into practical worker
happy as a princess, though compelled to
| hush her own child TO sleep and spread her
| own table and answer the ringing of her
/ Uwn doorbell. Her arm had been musclei
1 for the conflict against misfortune hunger
/ and poverty AMI want, and all the other
1 jae1als Rizpah scares from the rock.
| l saw one in desoiate hona. Her mar
1 CHESS companion had pawned even the
/ chlidren's shoes for rum. From honorable
| ancestry she had come down to this The
/ cruise of oil was empty ami the last candia
/ gone oub Her faded frock was patclei with
/ fragments of antique silk that she had worn
fho t..ifr mo Low LIANT in,
| God, she had strong heart, to which her
children ran when they trsmbled at the
staggering step and quailed under fathers
/ curse. Though the heavens were filed with
fierce wings ami the thiekets gnashsl with
rage, Riz Jah wacae faithfully day after
I day and year after year, and wolf and com
GRANT by her God strengthened arm were
! hurled down the rocks.
You pass day by day along streets where
there are heroineS greater than Joan of Arc.
Upon that cellar door there are c1nhicts as
fierce as Sedan, ana heaven and hell min.
! gle in the ii sht. Lifted in that garrett there
are tribunals where more fortitu1e is de-
mandei than was exhibited by Lady Jane
! Grey or Mary, Queen of Scots
Now ask, if mere natural courage can
do so much what may we no5 expect OF wo-
men who have gazed on the great sacrifice
and who are urged forward by all the voices
OF grace that sound from the Bible and all
Many years ago the Forfarshlre steamer
started from Hull bound for Dundee. After
the vessel had been out little while thu
winds began to rave AMI pillows riss until
/ tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked,
and the fires went out and though the sails
were hoisted fore and aft she went speeding
toward the breakers She struck with her
bows foremost on the rock. The vessel
parted. Amid the whiriwint and the dark
ness all were lost but nine. These chung TO
the wreck on the beach.
Sleeping that night in Longstone light
house was a girl of gentle spirit aud comely
countenance. As the morning dawns see
! that girl standing amid the spray and tum-
J IL of conten ling elements looking throu gh
a glass upon the wreck aud the nine wretch
ed sufferers. She proposes to her father to
take boat and put out across the wild sea to
rescue them. The father saysi at cannot
/ be donel Just look at the tunbling surf"
/ But she persisted and with her father
4 bounds into the boat. Though never accus-
toned to ply ng the oar, she takes one an
her father the other. Steady nowi Pull
away Pull awayl
The sea tossed up the boat as though it
were bubble, but ami tae foam and the
wrath Of the sea the wreck was reached,
the exhausted people picked up and saved.
( humane societies rendered their thanks
I eatth poured INTO the lap OF the poor girl.
Visitors from all lands came to look on her
sweet face, and when soon after she
iaunc ned forth on a dark sea, and Death
was the oars nan, dukes and duchesSeS aud
mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwiel
castle to think they never again might see
the face Of Grace Darling.
No sucl deeds of daring will probably be
asked of you, hut hear you not the howl of
that awful storm o. trouble and sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shiverei hulks into
the breakers? Know you not that the whole
earth is strewn with the sal pwrecked-that
there are wounds TO be healed aud broken
hearts to be bound and drowning souls to
= be rescued? Some have gone down, and you
come too late, hut others are cling to rhe
wreck. are shivering with the coll, ara
strangiing in the wave, are crying to you fol
deliveranca. viii you not, oar in hand, put
cut to-day from the lighthouse?
When the last ships timber shall have
been rent, and the last Longstone beacon
shall have been thundere1 down in the hurr-
cane, and the last tempest shall have folded
Its wings, and the sea itself shall have been
licked up by the tongue of all consuming
fire, the crowns Of eternal reward shall be
kinjling into bri 5hter glory on the brow of
the faithful. Aai c rust pointing to the
inebrate that you reformed, and the dying
SINNER whom YOU taught to pray, and the
outcast whom vor pointed to God for shell
ter viii say: You did it to them! You
did it 10 Mer
Again, the scene OF the text impresses .up-
/ on us the strength Of maternal attachment
/ Not many men would have had courage or
endurance for the AWFUL mission of Rizoeh,
10 dare the rage Of Id beasts and sit from
4 MAY to October unsAetere !. and to watcl
/ the corpses Of unsheterei children, was a
WORK that nothing but the maternal heart
could have accomplished 1t needed more
strength than to stand before opened batter
les or to walk in caImness the deck Of
/ laundering steamer
There is no emo5ion so competay unsel-
/ fish as maternal affection Conjugal love
/ expects the return Of many kindnesses and
/ attentions. Fillal love expects plternal care
/ or Is heipel by the memory of past watch
/ tulness But the strength of a mothers love
| is entirely Independent of the past and the
/ future and is, OF all emotions the purest
/ The CHILD has done nothing in the past to
earn kindness, AMI in the future it may
grow uD TO maltreat its parent, but still
/ from tine mothers heart there goes forth
/ iucOnsunable affection.
/ Abuse cannot offend it: neglect cannot
/ chill 1t; time cannot efface it; death cannot
( destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle
/ chiiing; Tor the blow it has banefcent min
/ istry; for neglect it has increasing watch
/ fumes. 1t weepS at the prison door over the
incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for par ION
4 at the governors feet, and is forced away
/ by compassionate friends from witnessing
Z the struggles OF the gallOWS. Otnef HgnCS
! go out, but this burns on without extinguish-
I nent, as in gloom-strucx night you may
see a single star, one of COTS pockets, with
/ g,eaming bayouet of light guar ling the out.
posts OF heaven.
The Marclioness os Spadara, waen the
earthquake at Messina occurred, was car
riet out insensible from the falling houses.
/ Ga coming 10 her senses she found that her
/ infant had not been rescued. She went
back ana per she1 in the runs. illustrator
o. ten thousand mothers who in as many
different WAYS have sacrificed themselves
( for their children
Oh, Cespise not a mothers Lowell Ii here
to'ors you have besn negligent Of such a
one and you have still opportunity for
reparaton, make haste. If you could only
Just look in for an hours visit to her, you
would rouse up i'll the agef one "A whole
world of hiissful memories. What if she
does sit without talking muchs She
watched you for many months when you
knew not how to talk at all, What ii sac
has many ailments to tell abouts During
fifteen years you ran to her VITA every lit
+ tie scratch and bruise, aud she doctorei
your little finger as carefully as a surgeon
would bind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now; | wonder it
she ever saw you when you were childish.
( You have no patience t. wait with her on
the street, she moves so slowly; | wonder if
she remembers the time when you were glad
enough to 20 slowly. You complain at the
expense of providing for her now; | wonder
what your financial income was from one
year to ten years of age. Do not begru lge
what you do for the old folks. | care not