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We meet to-night to 1 onor him
Wlu> slumbers by tiie Western sea—
Whose honest- fame will not grow dim,
Whose grand career will always be
A guiding star, whope fadeless light
Forever fair will shiue on high,
To show with -splendor to our sight
How man can live and man can d ! e.
Born in a lonely We-tern wild.
And cradled in a cabin floor,
, Ilfi labored, when a little child,
To keep the gaunt wolf from the door;
With helpful hands lie loved to toil,
He worked with youthful might, and
main,
lie felled the trees, he dug the soil,
His widowed mother to maintain.
Wlmt visions must liis soul have sem,
What dreams of glory and delight,
When ’neath the silver stars serene,
He walked th*. tow-path through the
night.
Wlmt grand hopes must iiave helped
him on
When in his garrctl-room lie bent
O’er tasks till evening hours were gone
Anil early morning hours were spent !
He struggled on till youth was past ;
He lived unknown to worldly fame ;
He won strong friends whose lore will
last ;
He worked for wisdom, and it came.
’Mid pinching poverty and pain
His bright career was well begun ;
He aided others to obtain
Tiie knowledge lie hail nobly won.
When thro’ the shuddering Southern air
Men heard tiie boom of Sumter’s guns,
When flashed the tidings everywhere ;
‘‘Colombia calls her noblest sons?”
lie left bis dear young wife and child,
Mis peaceful books the sword to wield,
His happy home, to face the wild
And an fuj .terrors of the fiyld ;
No terror filled his fearless soui;
He dealt his loemen blow for blow ;
He never lost his self control
Or turned Ids back upon tiie foe.
He won his way to worthy fame ;
His form was foremost in the fray ;
A grateful nation learned his name
On Uhickamauga’s dreadful day.
He rose in honor by his worth.
Nor grew to greatness by a crime ;
Ilis fame sliuli shine through all the
eai t!i,
A landmark in the way of time.
His good name made the envious writhe;
The., sought to .nil his fair renown—
Like needs before the tarmrr’s scythe
Their slanders all were smitten down.
To nobler heights his manhood rose,
All eyes to him with hope were turn’d;
lie won tiie homage of id? fois,
Wlio wisdom from their tailing learn
ed.
Men said : “No structure long can stand
That rests upon a grievous wrong ;
Garfield will reunite the land,
And make the Union firm and strong!”
He fell, the soldier, chieftain, man !
A million eyes with tears were dint ;
Through al! the world a shudder ran ;
All hearts with love were turned to
him;
How calm, how patient, braye and
grand
The soul within his stricken form ;
A stillness fell upon tiie.land
As comes a lull amid a storm!
Slow ebbed bis useful life away;
The Christian chief to al! was dear;
We watched and waited, day by day,
With feebler hope, with anxious fear;
How brave the battle ‘or his life,
To all mankind he seemed a friend;
How sweet the fond anil faithful wife,
Who watched with courage to the end.
He died ! The laud was draped with woe
And all the world was filled with
gloom ;
Men marched with music sad ami slow,
And bore him to an honored tomb :
Tiier pawed along the crowded pave';
The autumn rain fell on tho soil,
His dust to Mother Earth they gave ;
ilis glorious soul they left with Goa.
Bright as the splendor of the dawn
His name is known in every clime ;
Ilis manhood will go gleaming on
Down the eternal groove of time !
He met with courage, every wrong ;
He bore his pain with Christian grace;
lie lived a victim to the throng
That haunts the Presidential place.
Beside the Western sea he lies ;
His face has vanished from our
And millions yet. unknown shall rise
To eloquently speak bis praise !
To him the world its lovo will give,
Will turu with an admiring eye ;
Ilis life lias taught us how to live,
His death lias shown us how to die !
MOTHER.
Youth’s Companion.
“Where are you going lias eve
ning, Kate *' 1
“To the Tcmerance meeting. I
promised to play for the Society
to-night. You won't mind, will
you ?”
‘‘Be home, early,- dear.”
“Yes. but don’t worry if I
should ba detained. Johnny will
lake care ol me. Can you have
a little hot chocolate ready for
me when I got homo?”
And when evening came the
bright face . and cheerful voice
were gone.
“Every where but here,” sighed
•lie weary mot her, as site I tinted
up (he tight, and seated herself
10 her long evening's work.
“I didn’t dreant of this,*’ she
mused, “when I made plans, with
Katie’s little baby face looking
into . mine. ’She will be’ such
<?bmpaiiy lor me,’ i said, ‘when
she grows up;' and now I seem
:o he nothing hut a convenience.
“Night alter night I sit by my
self. It is either lecture, or par
iv, or concert, or company, when
lam expected to exert myself
and wait upon her and John. It
is hard lo he forced fo admit, but
I think my child cares for every
body but me. And I cannot tell
her (hat. I mink she neglects me.
Ifshe cannot see for herself, I
must suffer on.” Her eyes
moistened. “Ii seems to me 1
have been ui dflsli,” she said.
■’ l know 1 have tried to be.”
There was a knock at (lie door.
A neighbor came in, one of those
women who, though not gener
ally disliked, contrive to keep on
a good looting with their neigh
bors through Hlieer force of per*
sistence. Her name was Grace,
though not a particle of that
quality so often found in the
humblest of women, appeared in
her sneecli, manners or garments.
“I was sure 1 should find you
alone,’ she said. “Kate is out ?”
“Yes; she lias gone lo tiie
temp-trance meeting. She is
very useful there.”
“Hum!” said Mrs. Grace, her
keen eyes reading (he pale, pa
tient face. “Kale seems to be
a great favorite everywhere, but
I should (kink you'd want her al
home more. Aren't you lone
some evenings: I shouldn’t know
what to do without my Liza.”
Kate's mother almost smiled
unvolunlariiy. Lza was a very
homely girl, without ambition
and almost without spirit. She
was Kate's senior by nearly
twenty years; yet there was
something pathetic in the care
and love she showed lor her
mother.
“Yes, I think Kate is a favor
ite,” she made reply. “Nothing
in the way ol amusement seems
lo go without her help. 1 want
her to enjoy herself while siie
can, (rouble always comes soon
enough.”
• Most likely- it will if she mar
ries Johnny • Palmer,” ventured
Mrs. Grace.
“Why, what do you mean?
What about Johnny,” asked the
woman, with nervous interest.
“O, notliing—only he Deglects
his mother as much as—
“ Katie neglects me, you would
say,” exclaimed Mrs. ILivnor,
witli a touch of anger. “You
may be cure, Mrs. Grace, that my
child hasn't the least thought
that she is neglecting me—and
she isn’t, she added, with a moth
ers sell-abnegation. *‘i can't ex
pect to keep her, so young and
so full of life, honsed day and
night with an old woman like
me”
“Old!"’ laughed Mrs. Grace.
Why, Kale is seventeen, and you
are only twenty years her sen
ior. You ought this moment to
be almost as youthful and fresh
looking as she is.
“Goodness. You old I” she
went on, when Mrs. Reynor fail
ed to reply. “Why, I'm in my
sixty-first year, and I can enjoy
my share of the world's good
yet. The trouble is, you’ve lor
gotten yourself and have made
your whole life bend to her pref
erences and inclinations. Thai’s
the reason she never thinks of
your pleasure or convenience.
Kate is a good girl, I’m sure, but
people are talking. Mrs. Raynor,
especially since Jo died.”
Jo was Mr. Raynor. Ho had
been dead now nearly three
years.
“What are people saying?”
asked Mrs. Raynor, her blue eves
full of lightning.
“Well, they speak of your be
ing left alone so mneh. \ T on
used to be the life of the place.”
T don’t care about going enf.
Its my own fault.”
“That’s what I reply. At least
that’* what I fell them you say.
I’s almost always • the way; the
same old story over and over
with parents and children. You
bring up y out children with pains
• aktig and care, only to have
them laugh at. your old-fashion
“ft ways and leave you, with
hardly a regret, on the first op
portunity.”
“Don’t!” exclaimed Mrs. Ray
nor, in a pained voice, trying lo
keep back her I ears. It seemed
like the echo of iier own sad
words.
Meanwhile Kale sat at the lit
tle organ in the brightly lighted
hall, anil played and sang, and
looked very handsome and very
happy. She thought she was do
ing her duty, and the girl really
desired to do some good in the
world.
She belonged fo the Dorcas
Society, that inet once a week to
sew for the poor, and to the Mite
Society and other kindred associ
ations. Siie taught in Sunday
School, was a member of the lit
erary club, and she often said she
had scarcely a moment to call her
own.
A stranger was speaking. It
was a man freshly caught in the
temperance net, and lie flounder
ed and blundered until it was a
positive pain to look al and listen
to him.
Belle Lockwood, who sat next
to Kate, whispered something in
her car that made her laugh, and
hen she caught the eye ot Bessy
Birch. Bessy shook her head,and
Kale looked at tier music, and
then back at Bessy again.
For a long time she gazed,
growing more thoughtful every
moment. Earlier m the evening
she had overheard someone sav ;
“Did you ever see a happier
looking wom a u than Bessy's
mother? Or a voange r? One
would lake them lor sisters.' 5
Somehow the words hail ling
ered in Kate’s mind, and now
site turned and looked at Bessy’s
mother. There she sat serene and
smiling, every now and then
nodding to Bessy, as something
was said or done that met with
her approval.
Yes, she was looking as young,
almost, as Bessy hersell. And as
Kate watched her. she remem
bered that they seemed always
to take delight in each other.
Almost everywhere, they were
together.
“Mamma is ray bean.” How
often she hud heard Bessy say
that 1 t*ome way her own moth
er’s sad. pale face forced itself
before her.
“If mother only locked like
that,” she sighed : “if mother
would only be bright and stir
ring and go about with me !’’
And then it occurred to her
that she had never really’ thought
ot that before. She had prefer
red Johnny—‘the clitffsy lad that
she cared no more for than any
other friend, only that she liked
to show her power over him.
It was not quite honorable.
She felt herself blush. If Johnny
were to ask her to-morrow, she
could trot marry him. llow much
nobler and better Bessy was act
ing!
And there was poof mother all
alone. Nobody to speak to, even
ing after evening, seldom going
out, except to church and so
much prettier than Mrs. Birch !
Why, yes, prettier and younger
looking ! If only she had some
, incentive, site would be a mother
to be proud of.
“llow selfish 1 have been," she
thought, with a sigh.
“Kate ! are vo u dreaming *
YOL. Ytl. NO. 14.
Didn't you hear them give out
the hymn f’
It was Johnny who spoke, and
Kale almost resented his atten
tion. He found the pface,-openeef
the music,- hovered about her,-
tilt the girl’s cheeks b u r n e and
again—everybody was looking al
them.
“Johnny, I’m going home with
Bessy,” she said, at the close fitf
the evening. ‘ You take some'
one else to-night.”
Johnny stepped aside like one'
stunned,conscious that sottiethitig
had offended the girl—be could
not tell what—and Kate walked
home on the other side of Bessy’?
mother; for tlrev passed Kate'?
house.
“Doesn’t Mrs. Raynor ever get
out F’ asked Mrs. Birch, uncon
scious of the sting in the Ques
tion.- “It seems its if she would
enjoy the=e meetings. You See'
Bessy Won't go any Where without
•mother,” and so we enjoy alt the
good things tog&lhef.”
With these words stfuftding inf
her eafs, Kate reached home and
went in. It had seemed rather
odd to be without Johnny, but
site respected herself more when
she thought of his commonplace?
even silly remarks, and his often
recurring laugh.
Her mother had etidently been
asleep, and it smote the girl’a
newly awakened conscience tat
meet irer weary, sad smile. “1
never thought how lonesome you
would be,” she said,- with a kiss
-o tender that it thrilled she ach
ing heart;
“O —well—Mrs. Grace Was here
a little while,” said her mother.
"Deliver me from her society?”
laughed Kate. “Nobody escapes
her merciless tongue.”
“I didn’t expect you so soon or
I’d have had a liifle chocolale.-
Did—who came home with you ?”
"Bessy and her beau,” said
Kate, demurely.
"Bessy and Who?” asked her
mother. “I didn't know any
young man waited upon Bessy.’*
“Ah, you don’t know every
thing’ Bessy has the nicest bead
you ever saw—perfectly devoted
to her, and I'm going to have
just such anothor. I have done
with Jotniny."
“Well,you sfsfcmisfr rtie,” said
Mrs. Kay nor, “1 didn’t know as I
should ever be corions again.
llow long has it been? I never
saw her with anybody baft her
mother."
“And that’s just bat i mean ?’
said Kate, her eyes dancing.
“Mother, I’ve been asleep this
long, long while, and I’ve just
waked up to realize what I’ve
been dreaming about, and lot
feel sorry for it. Do \ou know
that I am ashamed of myself, be
cause I hate neglected and for
gotten you. You are eteV
much younger add ptettief
than Bessy’s mother, and if
you will accept the office,- I will
have you instead of Johnny,'
hereafter for at companion. I’ve’
waked up to realize that nobody
does, or ever will,- love me k*
mother does.”
“O my dear child I” exclaimed
her mother, with a half-sob, tak
ing her in her arms, “this repays
me for all the past. I have some
times—not often—felt a little
neglected and lonesome sine#
your father died ,' and to-uight I
was thinking what plans 1 used
to make against the time you
should be my companion as well
as my daughter. Aud when I
have seen Bessy aud her mot her—
“ Well, no matter, 1 shall never
feel, never think, that again, for
the good Father has grauted my
prayer and given my darling back
to me.”
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