The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-17

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them, It was empty, and 1t ached with Il
a strange perplexed grief, confused
question as to the purpose OF heT me-
which now seemed to her a snruhh
and withered thing.
She went to church on Easter morn
ing because her beautiful house was
intolerable to her, rather than because
she expected to find comfort Inc
masses of white flowers, with the sus'
gestiyeness Of their heavy fragrance
carried her back to the funerals OF tne
last year. The familiar words OF ING
service sounded like mockery to her
Let US keep the feast" Even So
IN Christ shall all be made allVe'
"Set YOUR affection on things ABOVE hoU
IN things on earth" One by one she
caught at the phrases, only 10 nhu
each was powerless to help her.
The hymn was no better:
Tho strife is DER. the battle done
The victory of life Is won
For her strife was just beginning,
and defeat instead of victory seemeu
her fate. She could not lit herSeii
4 ont ef her personal woe far enough
n 70 annly the words to anything Ou1
herself.
g She left the church, avoiding speech
q ,th onv one and with her heart like
ice IN her bosom, she took an elec'ii'
car toward her desolate nome
A half block before her house was
reached the car stopped with SUD
denness which startled the passengers.
Mrs, Farnham got of, thinking 'na.
che would walk the few remaiihhs
atens. hut she saw the motorman VIII
ed white face raising small boy ~
e. bis arms from under the fender Oh 'h'
III. cor The little fellow was UNCONSCIOUS
ond there was an ugly bEuise on III
Kos temnle and deep cut on MS nech ns
fore Mrs. Farnham realized what 81
te' was doing the child was carried 'n L..
'1a her house, and she was enlisted VIII
~ tbe doctors In a fight for his lie.
non ~ week the issue was doubtful
ms Consciousness fickered ana wa'e.e
d to hut would not come back Meanui
first Mrs Farnham had learned that u
en- Wv was nobody's child. He had SO
s,nce he was hardly more I'll
hohv He had lived wherever
could find a shelter ana hau 60.
u.Hs wbateyer he could get. Inc lao'
EENs home was something he had never
'ink- norierced. The grieving woman
made GOT her grief In her devotion 10 !
the so' ~ z,ho had been cast at her q
ills, tho strange decree Of what we
~: ~ accident. ,u 10
with Tno dow came when the boys ne
ceIa- oro,ids lifted and his childish euro
;lIles' ~ his surroundings uniooseu
pear .oneue To open to him the door
ION ION new life was the most ~oha ae.a. :.
aIion' iovs for his foster-mother A1tef
,ong silence 1t was as II ne haa =
SICK hoct from the dead. That ne Z
VIZ :" t,w and laugh and eat anu
u Us W ooomed like a proof of the po"e
$50 s'.o orer death, Somehow Mrs.
NNE ham came to believe tha' II ""s .,
ISAE q proof and that 1t was sen' ~
IN her desolation.
red by ort NJ the boys almost 1atai
Pills. sont there was wrought for hln
eve Dis miracle Of home and love, anu ~
spsa In .t,,nitv for an educated ana
20 Hearty poi'un'' - For the grleving W
feet rem mannood' anu ,ht NOW no
,ss, Maui the spTtngtime prouen' ~,
IS, Bad .ho lonely winter passed, by
nth, Coat lhe .to, "a not our way,
In in the way, "ni'n ,soce of new
} LIVER spoke Its OLD nlese"so
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