Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-10-09
I'M HURRIED, CHILD.
BY EMMA BURT.

BY EMMA BURT.
80, mother, look! I've found a butterhy
Hanging upon a leaf. Do tell me why
There was no butter! o, do see its wings!
i never, never saw such pretty things
All streaked and striped with blue and
brown and gold.
Where is its house when all the days are
cold?"
ayes, yes" she said in absent accents mild,
"I'm hurried, child"
"Last night my dolly quite forgot her prayr's
An when she thought that you had gone
dow stairs,
Then dolly was afraid, an so / said,
stdon't you mind, but say'em in your bed, ;
Because l think hat God is just as'near.
When dolls are 'fraid, do you 'spose He can
hear?"
The mother'spoke from out the ruffies piled,
"Pm hurried, child"
40, come and see the flowers in the sky
The sun has left; and won't you by and by,
Dear mother, take me in your arms and tell
Me all about the pussy in the well?
-asSh wa INV VI hAO III III MOOu.
Anthem, perhaps, about Red Riding Hood
"Too much to do. Hush, hush, you drive me
wild;
I'm hurried, child"
The little one was very quiet now,
And grieved snd puzzled was the childish
brow;
And then it queried, ,"Mother, do you know
The reason why you must be hurried so?
l guess the hours are hitler than /,
so l will take my pennies and will buy
A great big clock, o, big as it can be,
For you and me-"
The mother now has leisure infinite.
She sits with folded hands, and face as white
AS winter. In her heart is winters chill.
she sits at leisure, questioning Gods will.
"Mychild has ceased to breathe and all is
night.
Is heaven so dark that thou didst grudge my
light?
lie! God! l must discover why
Time move so slowly by.
. mothers sweet, if cares must ever fall,
Fray do not make them stones to build a wall
Between thee and thy w and miss thyright
TO b~lessedness, so swift to take its flight;
While answering baby questionings, you are
But entertaining angels
the richest gifts are gathered by the way
For darkest day.
cowARDLY vANDALs.
. Tuckahoe, N. j., Sept, 80.-Late last
night a number of young men discov-
cred the corpse of a womau living ex.
posed beside an open grave in the local
cemetery. Upon investigation it was
found to be the body of Mrs. Mary
Wallace, the deceased wife of a we'll
known prohibitionist, of this place.
The appearance of the coffin showed
that it had been roughly handled, and
the body had evidently been subjected
to rough usage also. A ring was miss.
ing from n of the fingers.
The news of this discovery spread
like wildfre and the town was soon in
a foment of excitement. An effort was
made to learn the indemnity of the van
dals, but without success 1t is sus.
pected that it is the work of revenge on
the part of adherents of the liquor
party because of the attitude of the
dead woman's husband on that cues.
ton.
WOMEN WIN AGAIN.
Elgin, ILL.,, Sept. 30.-Women scored
another victory among the Methodists
today. The Rock River conference, by
a vote of 140 to 81, decided in favor of
the admission of women as delegates
to the general conference. Every PROM
nent minister in the conference voted
for the women.
WIN ALSO IN KENTUCKY,
Cincinnati, Sept. 9O.-The Kentucky
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which adjourned today in
~Covlngton, on the proposition from
the general conference in regard to ad.
hitting women as delegates to the gem
Wv" SouAViVuS0 NOI6u III favor OF al
mitting them.
1t is not often that the pulpit is in
vaded by the insidious enemy, mar
cotics, A sad case is that of an emf
nent clergyman in New York city,
who has recently resigned his ministry
because he has ruined himself by
stimulants. He confesses that the con.
slant struggle to produce something
new wore away his strength, saying:
There was a time when l thought /
should go mad. For months l had an
awful pain at the base of my brain,
and | got no rest. l admit that under
the stress of circumstances ] did things
that | should never have done. l used
stimulants, among others cocaine. ~
His example is a notable warning to
those in similar stress of occupation
not to attempt to fortify enfeebled en-
ergies by destructive agencies.
A TEXAS MAYOR SAYS WHISKY DOES IT.
Jink Evans, Mayor, Corsicana, Texas:
The brutal crimes of negroes which
Children Cry for