Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-08

sat up with that sufferer. She has TO the
lar point obeyed the physician prescrip
tim. not giving a drop too much or too lit
tie, or Il moment too soon or too late. Sht
is very anxious, for she has buried three
children with the same disease, and she
prays and weeps. each prayer and sob end
ing with kiss of the pale cheek. BY dint
of Kindness she gets the little one through
the ordeal. After it is all over the mother
is taken down. Brain or nervous fever sets
in, and one day she leaves the ccnvalescent
child with mothers blessing and goes W
to Join the three in the kingdom of heaven.
Life for life. substitution
The fact * that there are an uncouuted
number of mothers who, after they have
navigated large family of children
through all the diseases of infancy and got
them fairly started up the Towering slope
OF hoyhood and girlhood, have only strength
enough left to die. They fade away some
call it consumption, some call it nervous
prostration, some call it Intermittent oi
malarial disposition, but ! call it martyr
dom of the domestic circle. Life for life.
Blood for blood substitution
\ MOTHERS SACRIFICE.
Or perhaps the mother fingers long
enough to see a son get on the wrong road,
ana his former Kindness becomes rough re.
ply when she expresses anxiety about him.
But she goes right on. looking carefully
after his apparel, remembering his every
birthday with some memcuto, and when
he is brought home worn ont with dissipa'
ton nurses him till he gets well and starts
him again and hopes and expects and prays
and cuunsels and suffers until her strength
gives out and she fails. She ia going and
attendants. bending over her pillow, ask her
if She has any message to leave, and she
makes great effort to say something, but
out Of three or fou" minutes OF indistinct
utterance hey can catch but three words
MY poor boy" The simple fact is she died
for him. Life for life. substitution
About 33 years ago there went forth from
our homes hVrdrcds of thousands of men
to do battle for their country. All the poe
/ Try Of war soon vanished and left them
! nothing but the terrible prose They waded
knee deep in mud. They slept in snow
! banks. They marched till their cut feet
! tracked the earth. They were swindled out
| of their houcst rati0ns and lived on meat
| not fit for a dog. They had jaws al frao-
/ tuYrd, and eyes eXtinguished, and limbs
/ Shot away Thousands of them cried for
water as they lay dying on the field the
night after the battle and got it not They
were homesick and received no message
from their loved ones They died in barn.,
! in bushes, in bitches the buzzards of tIe
summer heat the only attendants on their
! obsequirS
No one but the infinite God, who knows
| everything. knows the ten thousandth part
of the length aud breadth and depth and
height of anguish of the northern and
southern hattlenelds Why did these fe-
Tiers leave their children and go to the
front. and why did these young men, post
poning the marriage day. start out into the
probabilities of never coming back? For he
country they died life for life. Blood for
blood Substitution!
But we need not go so far What is that
monument in Greenwood? 1t is 10 the doc
tors who fell in the southern epidemics
Why go? Were there not enough sick tr
be attended in these northern ATTITUDES!
Oh. YES. but the doctor puts few medical
books in his valisa and some walls of medi
cine and leaves his patieuts here in he
hands Of other physicians, and takes ne
rail train. Before he gets to the infected
regions he passes crowded rail trains reSu