The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-01
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Y Nea. where they We're seated stood
..ofls home where a Mr.. Watson and
ag resided.
d, adding remarked: Morse, it
...,r to Bill Watson's as though
g. hard time to keep soul and
ether. 1t is said that Bill is
.. al OF his time. He used to be
andy; and it seems but a short
hat he was running around here
.. ay after Maria Temple. l was
.,>. hat she married him, as she
Pin head so high and was quite a
.,1ut on airs. 1t is a lucky thing
FROM 5 all the child they have. He is
I'M. boy, playing around the stream
- be ought to be in school"
,a4t MIR Spaulding's last remark Mr..
,o. rspied: ''Spaulding, l can't agree
gau bout Watson and his family. |
..., Natson when he was nothing but a
r D truthful, kind hearted one he
al. We always put quite a high value
word; and after reaching mature
MAS thought as highly of as any
n4 ny men about here. | am &C
..s.. Vs. tn people who reside in Mrs.
native town and they tell me
M.us- not a better girl raised in the
,. size made the most of her oppor-
1d graduated at the little red
Sc and taught school number
s.- She was teaching here when
tile acquaintance of Watson.
led to think much of each other
wear OF two they We're married
ong tinely,
Eatson could turn her hand to
sind Of work. Their home was
If neatness. | tell you,
Mrs Watson never passed her
ming street yarns and retailing
never yet saw woman more
2o among the sick than she
I.4 is her health would per
is hardly a house about here
1s not watched with the sick
mes with the dying. She was
ageAter tie last three nights
nal assisted in robing her for
lit tlat Mrs. Watson was ap-
Ur1t here as she deserved to
hnl of a remark that Mrs.
IusJ before she died. In
a neighbor she said: Mr.
are some people whom every
sing but they don't begin to
it heart as some who never
ID Of praise. I thought how
4> III this life, but how differ
. ., in the life to come, when we
- lnown for Just what We are.
Watson and his wife had been
year or two a son was born to
never was there a more joyful
l3I a child than little Jimmie
son seemed to take fresh cour-
Spered in his business. He
at quite sum of money. AS
went by Jimmie was promis
a When he was about eight
lard times came on. Watson
.I get employment in his line of
and after time he seemed dis
a. and it was not long before he
,.0 uueh of his time at the village
snow, Spaulding, that idleness
lies people off the track. He
sing and soon lost all interest
ii was not long before he ran
TN all he had laid by. Mrs.
as done all she could to make
comfortable. Jimmie is quick
u his mother has kept him at
the boys have nearly teased
Vt him. He is a considerate
mother aud does all he can at
think there is enough in that
Ike noble man.
me thing in Watson favor:
aB does not make him unkind
'y. it makes him silly. Hard
sef- aX.ety have impaired his wife's
.elF mach indeed. My wife was
del last evening and was sur
md her 50 feeble.
N"a >paulding, one word more l
t t0a eo believe that there are better
as ore for Mrs. Watson. | think
". Ht be long before Watson will
le himself and the scales will fall
ol Dos yes.
taNua if Mrs. Watson should die to-
-s-i nc asst words might be what Jose
l14 apoleon's first wife, were, that
10y oae $ cheeks. Well, Spaulding, if you
+ 4e 'ea5y We will move towards home
IA~se neighbors have passed the meri-
-Al oi lie. They are wealthy men, and
''- u Item are professed followers of
VI Master With Mr.. Morse, the seed
>8u On good ground of which the
peaks in his beautiful allegorical
~o#-uu of the sower who went forth
"o. Mn Morse has beautiful home,
4' '4eag wife; a lovely daughter here,
la9lAer on the other side, who
sia, zoo the loved ones to join her
-aue."
Sngdom of heaven is set up in
'-.l'r and it enables them to make the
'ta rlla the rule of their lives. They
ing about the sweet now' as
as The sweet by and BY" God