Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1904-05-05
Death Of Archie Scales

As announced last week w. N.
Scales was called to Danville Va.
by u telegram Monday announcing
the serious illness of their son,
Archibald Henderson Scales. He
left ON Wednesday last; and on
Saturday Hon. A. F. Parker re-
csived the distressing tidings that
the child had died that morning.
Mr.. Scales did not reach Danville
until Tuesday and it ia not yet
known whether the body will be
inferred there or brought here for
final interment by the side Of his
infant brother. X
"Out Of the snow, the snow
drops. Out OF death comes life."
AS the violet, under the ;nspira-
tion Of the w6rm sun Of SPRING
time rears its tiny form to welcome
and make glad all who come with
in the radius of it's gentle influ-
ence, and after blossoming and
blessing us with its benign pres
ence for awhile and is then taken
back by nature to itself, 80 came
Archie Scales to bless for too
brief existence the happy home Of
his devoted parents.
How tenderly these little ones
are loved not even the fond mother
knows, for they become 80
thoroughly part Of the life Of the
one who gives them birth, that
when torn from the maternal heart
they leave it so scared and broken,
that Time, the great healer of all
| wounds, is unable tv accom-.
plish more than salve the hurt,
without alleviating the pain of the
sorrowing mother watching by the
dead form of the loved one, and
waiting with helpless impatience
for the arrival of the absent father.
How utterly futile are words or ef
forts to still the throbbing
heart of the mother in this, the
hour Of her greatest affiiction, ant
in the solitude Of her lonely grief
The absent father has the warm
est sympathy Of the community
The sad news will pierce his hear
like an arrow from an unknown
and hidden foe. Baby and mothe
lead but one life, SO sensitive arr
they in their relations to eacl
other. But the father will mis-
the bright little face that used t.
greet him with laughing eyes ant
baby smiles, even before the tin.
lips could frame the words he long
ed to hear. So thoroughly do these
little ones become entwined around
the lives of the parents that q par
of life and home SENS to 60 ou
with, their feeble breath.
Probably in the aftertime th'
why and wherefore of the pain
and sorrows inflicted upon us in
transitory life may be explained to
US. 1t may be that we are to b.
purified by suffering, as gold is re-
fined by fire. All we know nov
lis, that the law Of nature inexor
able; that when the dread summons
com es it must be obeyed; and tina
come when it will, or to whom j
may, the departing one will leav'
regrets and tears and sorrow be
hind. Biut hope is left also
Hope does not die with the lovet
one. The shadow OF death, which
pursues all from the cradle to th'
gave, is in turn pursued by Hope
and when death takes a love'
one, Hope gently bids us remembe
that we are all children Of nature
and that nature is herself imorta
and cannot die.
In the Greek drama of "Ion'
the instinct of immortality is beau
tiful expressed by the. young Greel
who is about to cross the darl
river and enter the world beyond
His beloved Clemantha ask him j
they shall not meet gain. He re
plies: II have asked that dread
full question Of the eternal hills; Q
the clear streams that flow forever
of the stars that shine in the in
finite azure. But by the low
which kindles thy heart and man
ties through thy beautiful face,
feel that we shall meet again, Gle
mantha." This hope is as old a
man, is the universal hope of a
mankind, and when we shall all e1
perienced,the change called "deatt
who shall say that the sleepin
babe will not be restored to thos
from whom it was taken, and th
hope which has been planted j
levery human heart be- verified.