Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-27

o woman, in our hoor of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel thoul
The Mothers In Sickness.
1 think the most pathetic passage in all
the Bible is the description of the lad who
went out to the harvest field of Shunem and
got misunderstanding hishands on his
temples and crying out, "Oh, my head, my
headl" and they said, Garry him to his
mother" And then the record is "He sat
on her knees till noon and then died." 1t
is an awful thing to be i'll away from home
in a strange hotel, once in awhile men
coming to look at you, holding their hand
over their mouth for fear that they will
catch the contagion. How roughly they
turn you in bed! How loudly they talk
How you long for the ministries of home!
l knew one such who went away from one
of the brightest of homes for several weeks
business absence at the west. A telegram
came at midnight that he was ON his
deathbed, far away from home. By ex-
press train the wife and daughters went
westward, but they went too late. He
feared not to die but he was in an agony
W llNb uhUll lllo lolllAJ SOO 4lO VI lou
to bribe the doctor to mako him live lit
tie while longer He said, II am willing
to die, but not alone" But the pulses
fluttered, the eyes closed and the heart
stopped. Tho express, trains met in the
midnight-wife and daughters going west
ward--lifeless remains of husband and fa-
ther coming eastward. Oh, it was sad,
pitiful, overwhelming spectaclel When
we are sick, we want to be sick at home
When the time comes for us to die, we
want to die at home. The room may be
very humble, and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain, but who cares for
thatp Loving hands to bathe the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving
lips to read the comforting promises of
Jesus.
In our last dreadful war men cast the
cannon, men fashioned the musketry. men
cried to the hosts: Forward March !''
men hurled their battalions on the sharp
edges Of the enemy, crying: "Chargel
Charged" but woman scraped the lint,
woman administered the cordials, woman
watched by the dying couch, woman wrote
the last message to the home circle, wom-
an wept at the solitary burial attended by
herself and four men with a spade. We
greeted the general home with brass bands
and triumphal arches and wild huZZas,
but the story is too good to be written
| anywhere, save in the chronicles of heav-
en-, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among
| the sick in the swamps of the Chickahom-
| my, of Annie Ross in the cooper shop
| hospital; of Margaret Breckenridge who
came to men who had been for weeks with
their wounds undressed, some of them
| frozen to the ground, and when she turned
them over those that had an arm left
waved it and filed the air with their " Hur
rahl' of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chi
cago with blankets and with pillows until
| the men shouted: "Three cheers for tht
| Christian commissionl God bless the
women at homel" then, sitting down tc
take the last message: "Tell my wife moi
| to fret about me, but to meet me in heav
| On. Tell her to train up the boys whom
we have loved SO we'll; tell her we shal
/ meet again in the good land; tell her tc
bear my loss like the Christian wife Of {
/ Christian soldier;" and of Mrs. Shelton
into whose face the convalescent soldier
looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne
cured me-" Men did their work with sho
and shell and carbine and howitzer; won
| en- did their work with socks and slipper
and bandages and warm drinks and Scrip
ture texts and gentle strokings of the no
temples and stories of that land where the!
never have any pain. Men knelt dowl
over the wounded and said, "On whicl
side did you fght?" Women knelt dowl
over the wounded and said: where ar
you hurt9 What nice thing can max
for you to eatP What makes you cry?'
Tonight while we men are sound aslee]
In our beds there will be light in yondel
loft, there will be groaning in that darl
alley, there will be cries of distress in tina
cellar. Men will sleep, and women will
watch.
Women In Charity.
Again, woman has a superlative righ
to take care of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands Of them in all ou
cities. There Is kind of work that mel
cannot do for the poor. Here comes
group of little barefoot children to tn
door Of the Dorcas society. They need t
be clothed and provided for. Which G
these directors Of banks would know hoy
many yards 1t would take to make tina
i little girl dressp Which Of these mascu
line hands could fit a hat to that littl
girls headP Which Of the wise men woul
know how to tie on that new pair OF shoes
Man sometimes gives his charity in
rough way, and 1t falls like the fruit Of
tree la tho east, which fruit comes dow
SO heavily that it breaks the skull Of th
man who is trying to gather 1t. But won
an glides SO softly into the house Of dest
tuition, and finds out all the sorrows Of th
place, and puts SO quietly the donation o
me table, that all the family come out O
: x,a front etnns che danarts arnanti.,
A Household Treasure.
D. ". Fuller. of Canajoharie, N. Y, say
that he always keeps DR.. King 3 New Disco'
cry in the house and his family has alway