The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-03-27

the city. But yol,dcr Is a clear light burn
Ing and outside on the window easement
is glass or pitcher containing food for
sick child. The food IS set in the fresh air.
This is the sixth night that mother has sat
up with that sufferer. She has to the last
point obeyed the physicians prescription,
not giving q drop too much or too little,
or a moment too soon or too late. She Is
very anxious, for she has buried three chill
dren with the same disease, and she prays
and weeps, each prayer and sob ending
with n 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 convalescent
child with mothers blessing and goes up
to join the three in the kingdom of heaven.
Lite for life. Substitution The fact Is
that there are an uncounted number OF
mothers who, after they have navignted q
largo family Of children through all the
diseases Of infancy and got them fairly
started up the Towering slope Of boyhood
and girlhood, have only strength enough
left to die. They fade away. Some call 1t
consumption, some call 1t nervous prostra
ton, some call it Intermittent or malariAl
indisposition, but call 1t nanrtyrdom Of
the domestic circle Life for life Blood for
blood. Substitution!
A sscri6oang Mother.
Or perhaps tho mother fingers long
enough to see a son get on the wrong road,
and his former kindness becomes rough re-
ply when she Expresses anxiety about HIM.
But she goes Digit on, looking carefully
after his apparel, remembering his every
birthday with so1ne me,nento, and. when
he Is brought home, worn out with dfss1-
patton, nurses him till he gets we'll and
starts him again and hopes and expects and
prays and counsels and suffers until her
Strength gives out and she fails. She Is
going, and attendants, bending over her
pillow, ask her II she has any message to
leave, ana she makes great effort to say
Aom4thing, bot out Of three or four min
utes Of indistinct utterance they can catch
but three words, my poor boy!" The
simple fact IL she died for him. Life for
life. Substitution!
About 80 years ago there went forth
from our northern and southern homes
hundreds of thousands of men to do battle
Tor their country. All the poetry of war
soon vanished and left them nothing but
the terrible prose. They waded knee deep
In mud; they slept IN snowbanks; they
marched till their cut feet tracked the
earth; they were swindled out OF their
honest xations and lived on meat not dt for
a dog; they Ind jaws all fractured, and
eyes extinguished, end limbs shot away.
Thousands Of them cried for water rs they
lay dying on the field the night after the
battle and got 1t not. They were homesAck
and received no message from their loved
ones. They died In barns, In bushes, In
bitches, the buzzaris OF the summer heat
tho only attendants on their obsequies No
one but tho infinite God, who knows every
thing, knows tho ten -thousandth part Of
| tho length and breadth and depth and
height Of the anguish of the northern and
southern bsttlefelds. Why did these Ia
theirs leave their children and 60 to the
front, and why did these young men, post
poning the marriage day, start out into the
probabilities If never coming backs For
tho country they did Life for life. BLOOD
| for blood Substitution
Cases Of AerOksn.
But we need not go 30 far. What Is that
monument In Greenwood 1t Is to the
doctors who fell in the southern epidenics
Why gos Were there not enough sick to be
attended in these northern latitudesS Oh,
yes! But tho doctor puts n few medical
books in his valise and some wills Of nedi-
cine and leaves his patients hero in the
hands of other physicians and takes the