Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-04-30
Pathos of Everyday Life.

which does not come disappointment
and sorrow. In some natures this gen.
crates wide sympathy. Others it seems
to sour until they can think of no trouble
but their own.
Death is common visitor. The hearse
rolls along the street and there is hardly
aroused enough curiosity to prompt the
question as to who has passed away.
This is not always the case, for some
times death is so tragic that it appeals to
every observer. Only recently there ar
rived in this city an humble couple,
bringing with them their five children.
Within forty-eight hours four of these
children lay dead. Here was such grief
as words cannot portray. The people
were poor, among strangers; perhaps the
future had not looked especially bright
to them, and yet poverty does not change
parental love.
A day or two ago woman arrived from
Alaska to join her husband who had pre-
coded her. Together they had borne
the hardships of the far north and they
had planned pleasure trip. The woman
had expected the husband to greet her
at the wharf. Instead of his welcome
she was met by a messenger with the
news that death had claimed her hus.
band.
An officer in the Philippines, accom-
panied by his wife, left sons in San Fran.
cisco. These sons were fine young men
in whom the parents took pride. In the
islands the father died. The mother
started home with the body. but the bur
den was too much for her, worn with
long vigils, and while the ship was far at
sea she laid the burden down. Two OF
the three sons were ready to meet the
dead father and the stricken mother.
Two silent forms were all the ship
brought to them. Meantime the third
son had disappeared. Several weeks be-
fore he had vanished from his accustom-
ed place and there had been no trace of
him. 1t was this fact that made the err
rand of the other two sons doubly hard,
and perhaps it was mercy that their
story did not have to be told. ,
Thus the world, busy, selfish, bent on
gain, must pause now and then to think
of thosewho mourn.-Tacoma Ledger.
Representative Frank w. Cushmau
from this state, has won for himself
renown and made hit with all the
staid old legislators who are in the
arena at Washington city. In a
speech last week he attacked the
speaker in connection with the Cuban
reciprocity bill, and with wit, sarcasm
and iorcible English delivered one OF
the most remarkable and brilliant
speeches heard by that august body
in several moons. Closing his re-
marks with dramatic fervor he deliv-
cred the following eloquent effusion
Romantic history tells us that after
Robert Bruce, the Norman knight and
Scotland's king, won for himself immor-
tai glory, and fame for his countrymen
on the bloody field at Bannockburn, he
felt the weight of years and the weak
ness OF wars coming upon him, and he
desired to be buried in holy ground in
Jerusalem. Calling about him few of
his most faithful retainers and knights,
they set out on that last pilgrimage; but
weakened by age the old man died on
the journey. His companions opened
his breast and took therefrom his heart,
and placing it in golden casket, set on
toward Jerusalem to entomb it in holy
ground. On the plains of the desert
they were overtaken by the Saracens,
and when the hour came for the last
stand. those retainers rallied around the
oldest knight underneath the tattered
standard of the king, who, raising the
golden casket above his head, flung it
far out into the midst of the enemy and
said: Sons of Scotland, follow the heart
of Bruce And thus the killed chivalry
of Scotland followed the heart of Bruce
to the death. Let those in this hour turn
back who will. We will gather up the
sacred principles of our party in our
arms, with its unsullied banner, and way
ing it over our heads, take our stand in
the pass behind which lies the unguard-
ed interests and industries of the Ameri-
can republic"
The scene in the hall as Mr.. Cush-
man closed will be long remembered.
The applause was deafening and pro-
longed. The opposing Republicans OF
similar faith with him FASTENED to
his seat with outstretched hands.
Some OF the Democrats also came
over to extend congratulations, par
ticularly those who will not support
the bill.
Last week plucky steamboat cap.
tain sailed his vessel up the Columbia
past the famous Hellgate Pass and