Connecticut western news., 1901-02-28


known In the gates when he stitch
among the elders in the land; her chill
dren arise up and call her blessed her
husband also, and he praiseth her.
Many daughters have done virtuously,
but thou excellest them ALL" Then
after the Scripture lesson Is read let all
come up and before the casket Is closed
look for the last time at the scars Of
her earthly endurance. She never heard
the roll Of gun carriage or saw ban
ner hoisted upon parapet, but she has
In all the features of that dear old face
the marks of many a confilct-scars of
toll, scars of maternity, scars Of self
sacrifice, scars of bereavement. She is
a heroine whose name has never been
heard of ten miles from the old home
stead, but her name Is inscribed high
up among the enthroned immortals.
Martyrs In Humble Life.
People think they must look for mar
tyrs on battlefelds or go through his
tory to find burnings at the stake and
tortures on racks when there are mar
tyrs all about us. At this time In this
wearing themselves out In the public
service. In ten years they will not
have healthy nerve left in their body.
In committee rooms, In consultations
that involve the welfare of the nation,
under the weight of great responsible
ties, their vitality is being subtracted.
In almost every village of the country
4 ufo 10 nr
tional official.
1t is easy for some Washington cor
respondents, writing home to their city
d village newspapers. to misrepresent
our public men and represent them as
living in idleness and luxury, but l tell
you from my own observation that
many of the representatives in con-
gress and senators of the United States
and justices of the supreme court and
secretaries in presidential cabinets
work as hard, If not harder, than any
day laborer breaking cobblestones on a
New Jersey turnpike or a driver of
mules on a towpath for Pennsylvania
canalboat What with the solicitations
for appointments by constituents who
swarm around state and national capt.
tai, and the social exhaustions, and the
irritating Interruptions, and the unrea-
sonable demands of all kinds, high Of
fetal position is not a sinecure.
Unseen by Human Eyes.
The heroes and the heroines of any
war are not always at the front, are
not always epauleted, are not always
acquainted with military tactics, and
some of them would not know how to
present arms or ground arms or stack
arms. Some of them rendered their
service in hospitals, some by doing
harder work on the farm while the
breadwinner was at Gettysburg. We
all know the names of the distinguish
ed northern and southern women who
bound up the wounds of the battle
fields, but there were 10000 women
just as brave who never left the farm
house or cotton plantation and who
were so worn out In taking care of
their bereft homes that when the sol
der came home they had only strength
left to die. And the places where they
sleep the last sleep are not marked
Will So dS pldlh 0idO, "hAAO
those who suffered not half so much
are in sculptured mausoleum.
In all lands there are veterans of war
who may not have had their face scrap
ed with one bullet or their foot famed
by one bursting shell and who could
not roll up their sleeve and show you
one mark suggestive of battle, yet car
tn,
sures to disease along malarial swamps
or from many miles of marching, and
ever and anon they feel a twinge of
pain, each recurrence of which Is sharp
er or more lasting, until after awhile
they will be captured for the tomb by
disorders which started 20 or 30 or 40
years before. And their scars are all
unseen by human eyes. But those peo-
pie are as certainly the victims Of war
as though they had been blown up in
an undermined fortress or thrust
through with a cavalryman's lance.
What want to make out Is that there
are scars which are never counted ex'
cept as God counts them, and 1 want
to enlarge your sympathies.
Marks OF Jesus Christ.
There Is q woman who has suffered
domestic injustice Of which there is nc
cognizance. She says nothing about 1t
An inquisitor's machine of torture
could not wiring from her the story OF
domestic woe. Ever since the day OF
orange blossoms and long white vel
she has done her full duty and received
for 1t harshness and blame and neglect
The marriage ring, that was supposed
to be a sign of unending affection, has
turned out to be one link Of q chain o
horrible servitude. A wreath of nettl,
and nightshade of brightest form woult
have been a more accurate prophecy
There are those who find 1t hard to be
lieve that there is such place as hell
but you could go right out In any com
munSy and find more than one hell o
domestic torment. There Is no esca5
for that woman but the grave, an,
that, compared with the life she nov
lives, will be an arbor Of jasmine an,
Of the humming birds song poured In
to the ear of the honeysuckle. Scars
Ii there be none on the brow showing
where he struck her arriving hom
from midnight carousal, nevertheless
there are scars all up and down her in
jured and immortal soul which will b
remembered on the day when Their
shall leap forth for her Arrangement tn
live thunderbolts of an incensed God
When we see a veteran in any lam
who has lost limb in battle, our sym
pathies are stirred; but, oh, how man.
have In the domestic realm lost thei
life and yet are denied a pillow of dus
ON which to slumber! Better enlarg
your roll of martyrs; better adopt
new mode of counting human scarifics
tons. A broken bone is not half a
bad as a broken heart.
There are many who can in the sam
sense that Paul uttered 1t say, 81 bea
In my body the marks of the Lord Je
sus"-that is, for the sake of Christ an,
his cause they carry scars which kee
their indenture through all time an,
all eternity. Do you think that Pau
was accurate when he said that? l
you have studied his career, you hay