The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02
STORY FROM LIFE.
Two Funerals and the Lesson They
Taugnt.

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Taught.
Heis what the worm used 10 term d man
abput-sown, but has since changed into
the less respectable worm FOUNDER. Thu
particular rounder is man who has al
annuity of $1,000 and over left him by al
aunt who spent the latter years of her LII,
trying TO make her nephew believe thaf
the pleasures of the world were foliiet
and. fraiities. cankered as the apples O
Sodom, an argument hey relative refused
TO entertain Nevertheless, the good lady,
who has been under the daisies for ten
years, III spite oil ner nephew refusal tt
follow her teachings, remembered him IL
her will to an exten. that leaves him COM
fortabfy fixed for life. He is an ardent
student OF human nature, findinE anIuse-
ment in the proceedings Of the police court
where he spends an hour every day. h
i 8 also fond OF studying life among thu
lower classes, TO whom he is very chart
table.
Theotber da Y he was Longing in the office
OF Mr.. Pugb. the prosecutor, coGversing with
that gentleman and some newspaper men
Boys" he said 10 the latter, "a story
came to me yesterday which, III its coD-
trast OF conditions may interest you We
will call this ChapterI.
"a man who occupies prominent POSI-
ton in the commercial world and Is also
good fellow, popular will, his associates,
business and social alike, had daughter.
and it Is with regret / speak in the past
tense "a little girl Of five years, dainty ans
sweet as the tower she WIS called after
Marigold.
.'Sne WIS all the children Of her fathers
house, lovely, spoiled beauty. Hei
father was never so busy that he had no
time to stop i'll the whirliDg humdrum o
business to chat and caress his pet when hei
mother brought her to his ofIice- But
day came when the child no longer sat OF
papa's knee and ruined the pens upon h.
desk. CT pla yed with the inkstaDd.
AN oIninous sign on the house, almost III
chilling 10 the blood as The Grape that flut
tered from the door afterward, announced
that .diphtheria was within.
Sad it was to lose the child, but how in
finitely harder for those parents TO watch
their EARRING suffer death Ill one fits most
painful forms Choking and struggling 10
the breath thai could not come throug nthe
closed throat. Marigold's dark eyes closed
forever in this world
I'm the yard the big setter that loved the
touch OF 4 tiny hand SO well, and who's
great, honest eyes always yearned Tor
sight or his little mistress, howled anc
npamed plaintively. In the room of death
wept the father and mother No Heighbors
were present; neither were there later in
the day, when the childs death became
better known, any friends there.
That the interment must take place
Immediately was the memorable Ia OF the
health Office. The father, with his own
hands. had to robe the fair young body for
its final resting place He carried the
coffin to the hearse, which was followed
to the cemetery by 4 single carriage
No Kindly words OF sympathy, so grateful
to the panied heart, no gentle wo,nan's
hands to press the mothers, or soft lips
to kiss the tears away.
Where were all the jOvial companions
of the father? Absent That sign on the
house had driven them away faster than
the waters OF the sea routed Pharaoh's
army. Antbese people were endo wed with
refinement and education that is said TO
breed higher grade OF humanity. Be
heve 10 go il you viii, but first listen to
chapter second, which is the last.
There died few days ago. continued
the narrator iii that quarter of the city
where a number OF Italians live in turubling
tenements, and which is also given up to
different forms OF vice, a young child.
The disease was diphtheria in its most
malignant form. The sign warning the
public was placed On the house. 1t might
as well not have been there, as far as the
neighbors were concerned.
'.In 4 narrow room. crowded with an
old rusty stove, and a tuinbled, broken
bed, lay the body. Standing on every
available inch OF space. and filhng up the
narrow hall were men and women. whose
dark features betokened Them children OF
the land where Savonaroia suffered and
Petrarch sang
Sitting On broken chair near the
cheap coffin was the mother By her.
smoothing the aching brow ard hnshing
the fast falling tears, stood group CT
women who wept almost as continuously
as the stricken parent. In tie hall was the
father, his scanned. broDzed features. usr-
ally impassive, pallid and convulscd with
grief Around him clustered Lis friends
friends, indeed-clutching his bards. ,m-
bracing him, saying tbousard comforting
words in the soft tongue of the South.
1.-THE coffin was carried downstairs, NOS
BIZ one pair Of hands. but by half cczen
eager ones, and a long string Of hacks went
after the hcarse to the lprying ground.
No Ignorance On their part caused this at
tendance. They. Knew all tie Icrrors OF
the ball in the throat as the Trscaus call
the dread malady. But they were also
aware of the sympathy that two of their
plumber demanded. and they give ii gladly.
II have no comment on the two cases,
both OF which l knew Positively to be
true. but think the Inference is plain"