The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-08

Don't you know Jed

Humphreys"
The doctor hesitated few moments,
and then he said: "Wbat is the mat
ter2 Perhaps / can send some medi
cine. have just got in and am very
tired, and don't want to go down 10
the hollow tonight unless it is neces-
sary."
ooh, please do come, doctor, the
baby ia awful sick. I'm so afraid ii
will die, and it's 80 cunning and cute
The baby is all the fun we've had this
whole winter"
The boys voice was choked with
tears. The doctor dressed and put on
his heavy ulster which hung in the hall,
and went out with him.
81 can't do anything to help that
baby, jed" he said as he saw the little
one lying so silently in its mothers
arms half hour later.
Cant you do nothing, doctor, moth
ing for the little critter? 1t seems like
as if we couldn't stay here nohow II
the baby dies"
The doctor shook his head. at is
past all human help, jed" he said.
"The baby is dead"
The physician did not speak as ten
derry as he usually did when patient
had passed away. "What mercy"
he thought, shat this child has passed
out of this miserable homeP'
The tears that fell from this stricken
family as they stood around the little
body seemed mysterious to him. Why
should they mourn for that baby? But
when he heard the mother say, as he
was passing out the door, ooh, Jed,
| 10 "a ha,
lean her head on the arm of the
husband who had been so remise in
trying to provide for his family, he was
touched.
Cant you pray, Mary9" Jed asked
Mother used to pray, but haven't
prayed so long, 1 couldn't say nothing
the Lord would want to hear"
81 can say, Oh, dear Lord, pity us
and comfort u.s. Jed; that's all can
say. haven't said a prayer for SC
. long, Jed. forgot all about the Lord
and that's why he took our baby
We've never been 30 near to heaven
before, Jed; the angels have been in
this old house to night and took oul
! baby; Jesus has got her in hi;
arms. Don't you remember that pic
ture in the book the children got in
, Sunday. school of the Good Shepherd
with little lamb in his arms? That,
: : the way he gets the mother sheep tt
! follow him. He takes their lambs"
ats amazing strange, Mary, how a
little critter like that will take hold OF
your heart strings, and how like tear
: ing 'em to pieces it seems when it's tool
away"
! The next day everybody in the vii
lage had heard of the dead baby at the
Humphreys. One after another OF
Christ's messengers went to comfor
the sorrowing ones. The little coffin
the flowers, the necessary garments f0l
the family, and the decent clearing W
/. of the shiftless looking home, together
with the kindly words the minister sale
10 them about the Savior's love for lit
tie children, appealed 10 the hearts Of
: Jed and Mary as nothing had before.
,. 1--WE all want to go where the baby
is," said jed" every one on US, anC
, we must 90 TO church now, Mary, ant
j. take our children, and try TO bring zen
!, I, up better than We did before, and w
:, must be better ourselves"
1.-THE Lords ways are past f1ndins
out" said one of the directors of the
= sewing society the next season. "W'
have not anything to do for the Humph
. reys this year. Jed has worked 81
steady ever since that baby died, ant
Mary has encouraged him by takin!
7 good care that his wages are well spen
i and that things are taken care of. Tha
> new baby, after all, had mission t,
perform during its brief stay, and no
p. body in town needed such litt
= heavenly guest as much as they di
down at Jed Humphreys. Sur
, enough, what short sighted mortals W
all are."-Ntao York Evangelist.
HANDSOME is that handsome does,
D and if Hoods Sarsaparilla doesn't d.