Milford chronicle., 1893-01-13
LINCOLN.


To those christians" who have tri'
~ in every way imaginable to make Ii
ia miserable for Rev. G. w. Burke, aud wi
g. have circulated the story that Mr. Burs
.lv has given US church news for publication
re We wish to say that he has never give
" US a single item Of church news; and fu
40 ther that Mr.. Burke and ourselves are NJ
in 'cahoots" in this newspaper busine:
there hes never been an item publishe
n in the Lincoln letters but what the Lir
le coin correspondent holds himself alon
in accountable. We cannot think of on
II word we have ever written that we wis
as to apologize for.
d. A little girl arrived Saturday, Dec. 3Ist
% 1892, to bless the home of Mr.. and Mrs
at Joseph H. Chapman.
n Protracted meetings will commence il
J. the NJ f Church Sunday evening, Janu
IS ary 22ud.
p The next meeting of the Union Mite
Society will be held at the home of Mis-.
Era Smith Friday evening, January 2oth
= Quarterly meeting at the NJ. E. Church
e Monday afternoon, January 23rd; preach.
a ing same evening by Presiding Elder R.
= H. Adams.
c NJ. Gaylord, general agent for the
National Home Building and Loan Asso-
citation, and family, who have been stop
= ping with us for several months, started
for their home in Harrisburg, Pa, Tues
day morning. Miss Della Shockley ac-
companied them and intends making her
home with them.
Miss Daisy johnson and Miss Laura
Truitt, two of the prettiest young ladies
of Lincoln, have been appointed collect
Ors of missionary money, and haYe entered
on friendly contest; the one collecting
the most money is to receive handsome
{ prize. Now its for the young men to step
mp, take their choice and pay their money.
On one of the most bitter cold days of
Christmas week, with the ground thinly
covered with snow and ice, had any of the |
good people of Lincoln left their warm |
aud cosey homes where mirth aud Christ
mas cheer held sway, and looked up the
long straight stretch of railroad track,
leading to the north, they might have
seen a mile or two in the distance a soil
tary figure trampiug southwark, and then
have hurried back to their own warm
hearths feeling glad that whoever it
might be, it was not of their household
but, had they walked up the track about
a mile they would have met poor out
cast-nearly dead from exposure -trudg-
ing on scarcely knowing or caring where
she went; her scanty clothing wrapped
as best it could to keep the warmth in
her body, and had they looked closely
into her face they could have seen where
beauty and innocence but a few years ago
had sat enthroned-for she could net I
have been more than seventeen years of
age. Beauty had not entirely forsaken
her, aud had it not been for the pinched
face from the eferts of the exposure, one
would pronounce her still very pretty. a
She stops bends over, ,undoes her gar. ?
ter, rolls down the stocking. and exposes $
Lie MAlAlE AC0AlGl AESn 4dEEAdLEu
ankle nearly to the knee. She had
mile or two back made misstep while
crossing a cattle guard and went through
The ties. The blood was still there clotted .,
10 the flesh, and more that had trickled ;;
lown aud partly filled her shoe but it a
lad stopped bleeding now, and she again d
iraws the stocking over the hurt and at Il
empts to fasten the garter, but her poor n
ingers are so numb that it is with diff v
,ulty she succeeded. On she went-the e'
,Old piercing her more and more-still "
he does not feel it so much now She
lad suffered greatly at first for she had Il
ramped many miles, but now her hands q
hat had ached so, we're numb and with
nut feeling; her feet were getting so heavy !,
low and they too had lost their feeling; ,,,
Vhen she raised them she could hardly y,
ell when they reached the ground again ia
'he staggers and nearly falls, but makes Il.
n effort and Strengthening up she sees p,
ar down the road few of the houses in yC
lincoln. She starts again, but her feet 81
re so heavy she can hardly drag them pl
long. "My Cod" she groans, "can this be
e deathl Am freezing I feel no ez
ain but am so sleepy. o, God of mercy a.
ave me, give me strength to reach some an
helter, for I cannot and will not die yet" 81
Her past life with the rapidity of light No
ing flashes through her brain; her happy tn
biIdhood oh ho,r, Iorrr ann II eaa,t,e. e
er school days, what jolly times she had mi
len, and the Sabbath School she used to fei
tend when she was innocent and purs. of
h they would not want her there now,
nd the thought causes a mocking laugh no
, burst from her lips. She thrusts her eis
and forward to catch large snow fake
lat was lazily making its way to the al'
lrth but it evades her grasp. She watches ,.s -,
softly fall to the ground, aud the act 90
woke memories of her girlhood days; ma
lie last day at school and the proudest in,
ay of her life-the scholars had pieces .
speak and she bore off the prize in re- to
ting that beautiful poem, one verse of su
hich she now uncunsciously repeats "N
)nce was as pure as the snow, but fell, col
III like the snow flakes from heaven to hell. rig
III to be Stunned as flth Of the street, to
III to be scoffed at, cursed and beat.
God I is there mercy for one fallen so low, -,
nat snce was as pure as the beautiful snow p
She stumbles on, drawing nearer to the da,
.st dwelling; drowsiness steals over her. ter
an she hold out to reach the house ou
le realizes that should she stop now for enl
instant, and that drowsiness overcome mi
II, it will be the sleep of death; but she cot
ust no, die vet. No. not vet. There ses
as a wrong III her life that must be
GIFTED first, and this journey was to try
Id right it She staggtfs, her foot slips
om a tie, she falls. then exerts all her