Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-01-04
DIED..

his 2lst year, of consumption, Ashbv w. Mark
wood, son OF F. M. hardwood. dyer, formerl,
OF Staunton.
McCLUNG-On Dec. 2sd, at Dunedin, Florida
where she mad made her home for twenty years
Mrs Mary McCung, born in Augusta coun
ty, Va, August llth, 1924.
SMITH-At her home on North Augusta stree
in stanton, Dec. 18th. o. consumption, Mis-
Regina Smith, aged twenty-five years.
NJ RRAY-At her home on Stafford street, Sun
day, Dec 3lth, at 4:3J r. N Miss Margare
Murray, aged forty-eight years.
In Memoriam.
Died July Goth, 1894
SUSIE r. BRATroN,
Aged 49,
Her sun set, while it was yet day.
"The fairest things have ileetest end,
Their scent survives the close,
But the roses scent is bitterness
70 him who loved the rose.'
and nn amy gnlse or at any tmes grim
stilled-a life like that of the fair young girl in
whose memory these lines are penned-ah, then
is there bitterness" in 1.-THE roses Scent'' then
do we need all our fortitude and trust. 1t is a.
If a rare and lovely flower whose opening we had
show the world this perfect thing whose sooth
ing perfume was already being felt by all around
and Just as the snowy petals We're unfolding, full
Milling Its glad promise, a stealthy hand was out.
stretched, the slender, graceful stem, snapped
and all its tender beauty laid low in the dust.
So died this pretty child only 10, q bright
debonair girl, with laughing dim pled saucy
face. lovely child with Winsome Wavs' prOnd
ana ambitious, but gracious. magnetic and at
tract1ve; she stood before us the embodiment of
sparkling youth, and pure young womanhood
ab out whom the Heaven light still fingered.
Fair as the angel that said Hail! she
seemed
Who, entering, filled the house with sudden
light"
She was indeed the joy and hope of her fathers
nome. Sorrow had already entered there, for
the mother, and a gallanty young brother b al not
long before crossed the river with "the boatman
pale; to The better shore OF the Spirit land" The
lonely father, and sorrowIng mother-aunt left by
the quiet hearthstone drew sweet comfort from
the cherished anionship of this dear child,
never dreaming, that even then, she was turn.
ing her footsteps :" Homeward."
Or sparkling, light hearted temperament, she
was was yet a God fearing. conscientious, noble
Christian girl loyal to her friends and true to her
God. Her pretty laugh, sw eet voice, and win
ming ways broughtjoy 10 all her associates She
classes at school. graduating in June, 1898, with
distinguished honors. 1t is quite possible that
she was delicate ever after her return home, and
on the 18th OF July 1891, her beautiful young life
was ended.
"She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
AND fearlessly en- tered the phantom bark,
we felt 1T glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark"
Oh, child. with heart so sweet; Oh, Ii tile girl,
dear little girl lying out there on the bleak hill
side, with mute lips and pulseless hands SO
patheticaiy folded, our hearts cry out for Won
darling. and we long once more to see your dear
lace, TO LOOK into your brave. true eyes, and hear
the merry laugh that rippled SO gaily from your
red lips and yet
"lengthened BREATH
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friends
sometimes the sable pail of death
ConcealS the faIreSt boon His love can send 1"
And some day, We will clearly know and un.
derstand that ''God knew best.'
GLOW quiet is your heart my little one!
Sorrow can never tear
Nor disappointment wear
Its quiet! Such content!
All surely Heaven meant
TO grant you Wondrous boon,
1t Stllled your heart so soon
1t left you such sweet quiet little one''
What stronger proof of immortality could be
given us than this early death? The lovely cas-
ket that held the precious gem was dear to us
ana we would TAIN keep it in our sight, but the
pearl without price is not within it now Were
denss nor retain faith in benefcent Ruler of the
Universe. We must believe that our loss is thy
gain, that experiences far more blessed than
those OF earth are thine in a nobler sphere and
that Christ our gentle Saviour, will one day lift
the veil from before our eyes and bid us compre-
bend the infinite. Then shall we behold with
rapture faces long unseen, and feel the dross OF
earth slipping away like q garment
ANA snail we say that thy short earthly exis-
tence was in vain? Nay
sit is not growing like tr.e
In bulk, doth make man better be.
VI standing long, an oak three hundred wear
10 fall log at last, dry, bald and scar;
lily OF a day
Is fairer far in Nav
Though it fall and die that night.
1t was the plant and flower of Light
In small proportions we Just beauties see.
And in short measure life may perfect he
p. B. H.