Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-05

A MOTHER sat 600 tho cleaning
~ rocking her babe. a tender
~ young mother with hor nrs'
child and there BE- nothing love-
ler In the whole Wide world @ was 90
tins home of The early days with acres
OF sagebrush around &c. The kettle
was singing ou the little htcheu stove.
in tuncful accompaniment tu th1f
young mothers soft lullaby. and fne
table was aet fOi supper StroHEs oI
red and yellow stiu fingered u th'
western ssy. and rising wind "dF
beginning Co moan down thu chimney.
The humming ana rocking ceased ana
the babe slept
BY and by sInug. thing happened
A little child entered OBJ" room. aud
stood by the young mothers knee. ana
very gently pullta at the folds of her
skirt, before sine could make her prose
ence known.
where did YOU come frome" asked
the young mother. u SOME surprise.
~ dis coined. uspci The child. And
while the room was getting very dark
yet could the shining face ana curia
and white dress ~ the strange little
visitor b. plainly seem
But what did you come for
~TO tell you somefng, to tell you
o. be dOod 10 youse baby"
'ro tell me 10 be good Co my baby
The child nodded.
But ann ] not good 90 my baby?'
The child nodded again, then raised
herself on her tip-toes and peogei long
and earnestly into the sleeping babes
face.
what 90 YOU mean?" growing un-
easy.
BE ca'fui. watch him. something may
happen. II you DON'T
oh what could happen nay bJby7"
asked this new mother BOO real alarm,
for here was n strange little presence
that was not 10 b. put by
Shadow over yousc baby"
"a shadow? What kind ~ "a sha-
dow? Tell me quick"
Baby came in October said the
child With startling clearncss
"YeF."
Born for SORROW" sum more clearly
Sorrow NV baby?
"Baby's papa came in October. TOO.
Yes. but what Of that?"
shadow ovcr him nrst-thcn over
baby Sorrow for you-watch both ~
them. The child began To- move to-
ward the door
But wait tell me- what IS the na-
ture Of the shadow Tell me that I
may know how 10 work against &C."
Wine, Wlne' wino," said this
strange chnd and was gone.
A little later when the young father
came home, d" found only the light
from the stove shedding weird rays
across the soft rag carpet of his snug
kitchen, and his wife. with tho child boo
rigid clasp. silently weeping
II was so strange, this homecoming
after the usual brightness. smiles and
cheer. that the man stood for mo-
ment as one dazed
What has happened Mary" he I'M
ally asked.
Il don't know, Tom" said the sob
bling little woman, unless T guess it
was dream. but ~ seemed go real
was awfully frightened ! must have
slept. for your step on the porch made
me conscious ~ the fact that ] was
crying
After Tom had banished the gloom
Of the room. by means OF lamp.
which he lost no time In finding he sat
down by Mary while she dried her tears
and repeated the strange words Of the
dream-child
what u % should am come true.
Tom she concluded with a final sob
Nonsense What had YOU been
reading Tom stopped 10 pick up a
book that hal evidently slipped from
Marys limp hand 10 the floor as she
dropped on TO sleep.
Just a little story about October's
unlucky children"
"Ah the whole Is explained. Mary.
Twas only an idle dream. after all
Come, forget g.. and let's have sup
per; I'm about starved"
The dream faded and the years went
by Prosperity eutered thar tiny pi-
onoer home, and one day a carriage
stopped at the gate. A man was car
rlcd into the house, and yes. Il was
Tom Ill? An. would that he had only
been III. Mary. the wife Wept bitterly
az she hurried her little boy OF away
10 his grandparents 20 spend the day.
That he might not see and know But
the child did see and know, more than
his mother suspected.
Papa's awful sick" he told his
grandfather
What seems To- be the matter Tom
my2" asked grandpa, did mother tell
you?"
No: mamma doesn't know: but
do ] heard the men saw be had
spree. Us that a very bad disease
grandpa"
yes. very bad. my boy" aud the
old man turne3 away from those iu-
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