The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-12-17

ne Joy duu comfort OF our nome.
lis so hard for us to be recon.
to his death. Yet we know
he is "asleep in Jesus"
Those little lips, so sweet to kiss.
Are closed forever now;
Those sparkling eyes, that shone SO
bright
Beneath that pearly brow,
little hear, hat b.as sc high
Free from all care ard gloom,
Are hidden o from those he loved
Beneath the silent tomb"
lie was a little sufferer three
and anxious weeks. Had
his lite been spared three days
longer he would have been one
year old. And it was the hap
plest year of our lives.
1t was the first time that he
was ever real sick, and while
was not expected by us,
we felt so anxious about him.
Our little darling had every
attention that love and money
could atford-but God saw fit to
take him, and we must learn to
say cit is well with my soul"
This is the first death we ever
had IN our immediate family,
and L was so unprepared for it.
| never thoughto of my baby leav-
ing me; | seemed to think that
he was mine for always. | never
knew the meaning of death /;
and, oh! it is so hard. l know
our baby has a more beautiful
home than this, and that he is in
better keeping than he was with
me. Yet our hearts are broken,
and our home SO sad and lonely.
Still L have something to live
and be thankful for yet. [ have
a dear, precious husband, tond
and devoted parents, and all the
loved ones "at home," with so
many kind friends to comfort
me. Indeed, I appreciate the
love and sympathy Of friends
more than ever.
While life is sweet to me. [
feel that death will not seem so
hard. | have something to die
tor. L have a sweet angel and
Heaven to die for, and l know
that il | miss Heaven will miss
1t all. Heaven is more bright
and sweet to me now than ever,
tor | have a sweet baby there.
This is a bright, beautiful
world, with so many things to
beautify and adorn it. Yet it is
a world of sin, sadness and sor-
rows. The world had always
seemed gay and bright to me.
The death of my little darling
Was nay first trouble. l had lost
an uncle and grandparents, but
the love OF my child and grand
parents being so different [ never
realized what death was.
Great changes can come to us
IN a very short time. AT the
birth OF our baby he had all OF
his grand parents and two great
grand-mothers, and now God
called Leslie with his great
grand mothers "Home. e." God
could not spare our baby to live
the ripe old age that these good
mothers lived. One was seventy
years of age at her death, and
the other was ninety-eight. Que
hes sleeping by my darling's
side at Evansville, the other is
resting in sweet peace at Aide,
Va. These deaths were sad to
me, but nothing to compare to
the loss of our baby.
AT the death of our baby we
had the comfort of having both
of our sainted mothers with us.
And may God spare them to us
to be q blessing and a comfort
to US through LIES rugged path
way. M precious mother
watched over my darling as she
would her own, and gave almost
every dose OF medicine And
was over i'm when the end
came.
May God send US comfort, and
tit and prepare Us to meet our
angel baby in that beautiful be-
DIR. Tinsley joins me in thank
ing the good people OF Scooba
for their extreme kindness to u.s..
We never wanted tor help or at
tention. We feel very grateful
to them and will ever remember
each OF them with loving kind
ness. And to the physicians
we thank them for their care
and kindness to our baby.
And NOM ~ all 4hA. ~