Show FLOWERS FOR thu THE EDITOR thero there never was vas a bleaker day than the liy day oar home was riold old it bookel as it if the allies would never le la bright again aguin there was wa no music to listen to but tle the throb arob th of our desolate des olata I 1 hearts I 1 ha I 1 cried rn mi self salt sick was too a cli ck to cry by law wa vre had six mantl a to stay and redeem our property but mother sold I 1 no the home la no longer ours sod and wo will leave it to those aho tie bought it 11 we went out into the tha cold world tho doom oom of fato fata still flog irig in our oar ears going I 1 goias I agone gorie I 1 rather haa hadi partly built the homo home witt will ile ho bartus of his wages that mother had no well helped him hillo to hoard two yeorg mot a of health for fa her awl our home would have boon free but sickness come I 1 r dial its tho the old old story 1 I it ii ate every thing up in two years and wo we wr without tt achime N rented another house and moved jn in mother was but sho she was not old she sae vita vas undo forty and I 1 bad just turn ol 01 0 1 eighteen eu 0 0 bahto bad to do something to lie 1160 but we aldi ot know what vatala nd d tho the matter mailer together but evory every avenue labor seemed to ua be closed against us at toast we could see nothing that ne a 0 could turn cur c ur bands to and nothing ti othin but stani tiou stared flared ua its in the face sunday come ond wo A 0 concluded not to go eo to meeting ye wo would spend the day at homo home 11 vell all we changed our plaus glaub we would go to churik ch and then visit famelis grave ro fo wot ship god Is to flod find penco to the tha troubled hoail never did I 1 feet feel the benefits of we worship as I 1 I 1 did on oil that sabbath day pance flowed in my heart like a well of tutor ater springing up into everlasting life it was the first plad glad hour I 1 had felt since anc wo we had left our old home in the afternoon we ire visited fathers gravo grave not tar far from where father was vas burled buried was a now made inada brave A young girl was the grave with wild towers flowers she alio had gathered around tho the grave arave yard I 1 or a moment I 1 looked at her beautiful work taste and dasigo vaa as d aplaon ad la in every flower but the flowers were tome tame even to the eyes or ol tha i oun maid ob I 1 it I 1 bad torno some lille lilies and roses i mother wits was so loud fond ot oc there them glie ale exclaimed looking up to ray fric tocoi su lie fatoot aca of the abb chi child lid pleased 9 there amz neame tit As I 1 looked la in her bee oyes eyes it seemed as it if I 1 hat bat known lier ler for years instead of it being our first couie to my bouso tomorrow tomo row irow and I 1 will RI ala you some and lilies to put on your mothers grave I 1 said to my uen nein friend and told bar where I 1 lived oil thank you ap tho she said bald mother will bo be so glad I 1 they tai sa the iho dead dont don P t ludw tut mother knows she sha kissed rue me last might debt in my iny and told me to be uford girl analara and lam a going to to te good and grow up like mother I 1 had to lem lea a the child claid for her words A made we me weep next day the tha child came please flease I 1 want mant fifty cents worth of roses and lil it es cs I 1 gave her a bunch of the flowers flow I 1 all tl ti oae ese for it fifty aty cents cent i 11 she asked 1111 11 ll those for nothing I 1 answered 1 I 1 not monea 11 iben ibell I 1 cannot take your flowers flo quickly anew answered ered the proud little maid 1 the ilia flowers are tor for grave I 1 n list ray for them it I 1 took her money kitred tier her end she prom laed to come and see sea me again i looked at the money I 1 haj had to take irom from the brave girl so BO as not cot to offend her bar anda and a new his ht dawned upon pon nay my min d why aby not isal flowers for a living wo we had a half full of flowers mother and I 1 lovett loved flowers so will drunk with the tha thought of making looking a dollar for mother I 1 began clipping flo v v ers hoap heap piled on th the 0 table before me selecting a few of each kind I 1 tied them up in bui lobes mixing and blandine bland lne the iho colors until I 1 thought them an hour and my work was wag dond rutting the flowers carefully ina in a baskett I 1 went vent out on t into lo 10 to the alio street As A I 1 stepped from theodoor tho door into the street a cool whiff of irlam fined my fevered chieks tho the gentle briois seemed to sober mo me up and I 1 began to think on what I 1 was about to do what will my friends boy any when they soa see me ino peddling flowers floweret come coma now mole 0 bold bald I 1 it that aji navorro na we must it have cava food or starve you can starve baryo it if you have too much prida to make aa bonest oft livi rip a selling belling flowers fl but mother must live obo ho cannot and will not starve I 1 and down cown tb the a went calling callan at almost ever every y bo bouse use ton ten touty alvo fifty seventy alive yes one dollar all in li abrl ht shining silver andl I 1 had bad not nol been oferall hour on the my DIV heart beart was e g ad mother would aou id have Bonet hlas to oat eat tool tomorrow orrow 0 I 1 made it mistake I 1 been bean all ove over r town and only sold gold about halt half of my alwer I 1 could coald not sell aga for a wook week aid what was VM left would all bo withered tind and dea daal I 1 b i liliu time lul the flowers were viere row cow meat drink lo 10 us u I 1 bould not I 1 throw so do much money aray ty that was aln anav the ali food fond we vi ore re QI U but bai i 4 arv jair for I 1 loft left cue 1110 flowers to BIOW but I 1 had been bean working with only ne thought to get bet food for mother anil and in e I 1 went homo home put the money in mothers tana bond I 1 look I 1 said 1 here did aid you got get too the money I 1 slip site ask agli I 1 told her all mother was wise I 1 the clovi flowers ers will not kep keep us u long she said lotus lat us grow brow tnora infra plants 01 next day mother planted wore were plants and I 1 wont went to a town abi teiei 93 away sad and cold the root rest of my flowers mother and I 1 sold acid but our took sleek aaton than I 1 could oil ell we wa li lod led another tower flower girl sad in six alx lx babad to hire biro two iwo more and 50 0 o our business busl neos increased until in five alvo years year we wa bail half on aero of hot houses it wits grand mothers white turned beautiful as the flowers she wok wo k od ed amongst anil and I 1 became strong find and healthy cis CB tia a treet arob wo had ten hoods hand working forus for us and had bad bought all the rather father fad built and all our r b asinett asi nets cloase n g every d lay NY H u lead da a came to me it u m as so BO cruel mother married again it was for forsong our sake sado bollia Mol ll 11 she said but bat I 1 not see apa how it was tor for vay lay bake oke when the put another lovo love between ill s I 1 was waa two twenty n ty four then I 1 a s li when tie the loss loaa of acta a loya love was wan halt a alito life to me I 1 aki d known no thick but a enoth mothers ers love and bat can be more oon constant than a mothers love for her bor only child I 1 LIN was a burden that was almost too M mach sch for 0 no o mother t I 1 lid id to bo be the samo same bit bi t she could not cot bud la a year we were like tho the neighbors neighbor that lives across a deep stream we wa might talk together tut but we were wide wida anart came it was a wonder it did not come before I 1 lay lav powerless and un con cou cloua clous for kauv days day how bow long I 1 did not know when 11 1 awoke as n it if from a loni long sleep mother and hor her husband hatband was bending banding over rna me I 1 wei to push puah him blai away but my feeble arna arms were powerless power pow orless leia to move mora I 1 tried to sp ak but the power of if had been taken away la in my long lone sleep but if I 1 could tot not speak I 1 could bear hea rhear hear keener than I 1 bad ever done before Thelo the lowest wast whisper sounded loud to line ico thank Th anfe godl god I 1 she Is sate safe savi william you yoa witch awhile and nd I 1 will sleep my mo mother titer and she bhe laid lad down la in a cot not fr far from ray my bod bed I 1 bad looked at mother s husband many times but I 1 hod had ae neer er teen seen him before I 1 could not turn away eyes oy esrom from him it aslos sj was too auk to tottan tr taly h eidland texi V MU mutt T with AU an interest and chati th atI could coald behold in every fea feature tare I 1 certainly saw lie he was handsome and ho he tolf flit be good baled haled him with a keen un ing la bate ho liked had come between me and my mothers Bic ther love and the bugles angles would reboil rebell tit bt lime passed slowly on 00 I 1 una I 1 was still too sick to even sit lt up in bed day slid and they sat by toy nay couch ono one or OP the other WAS always thero there As AD on one slept the other v matched t aliat liat I 1 might be well nursed and ebery want supplied I 1 never cover ko knew OW until then bilat mila man could nurse burso and watch so well that their bands were so soft slid and their sympathies so heon when we bis band alf tod my bond hand from the his bis touch was so guatlo and tender when he was on the watch ills his eyes would never close and soon it came when my head bead must tie be lifted I 1 fantod bli bis bands to do it and when wheal I 1 was and ei cited I 1 wanted his hl restless eyes to be on the watch when the long ion struggle for life or death was waa over my bate bata had bad rone gone I 1 sat at by him att at abo table I 1 went to meeting with him we took long baias into the country I 1 never cover was happy except he be was near laug m oaths had passed and I 1 thought trouble would come no moro mare all was bright BS an Boot my bly hope was sure for I 1 had bad no fear we bad teen been away swum on the hills together be sod nil I 1 we forgot to return until night wua near and darkness it had bad caught us away from home we bed bad berried fast till I 1 was tired rut lay IDY cheeks were flushed I 1 was la ray room undress mother came tn in she did not seem oom angry ani and she spoke with studied calice is I 1 was at her words you cian can kill hill me quicker than this Moll ll I 1 would rather do die by one strong blow dlo die by inches like vale to in a me mot went lent I 1 go ders tood hor her meat ilog but I 1 was innocent of any aay wrong I 1 knew thore there won was no ii fulle la my heart nor cor had I 1 ever thought that mother had such jealous thoughts against me unprepared with an answer I 1 spoke without thought but it was bitter cruel words I 1 sd I 1 its tor for your mother I 1 keep the company of our bus ban band d I 1 the words stung her to the heart bho bhe but bast at into a good flood of tears and left the I 1 onto gathering up what clothing I 1 coull hastily put together I 1 left the house I 1 caught the midnight train and took a 9 ticket for a fai away town there I 1 knew I 1 was safe no one would know me there three days I 1 wondered tt 1 I ho he strange olty city three days day or of sed sad inamori to me I 1 counted up y beers of life twenty alz 2 aarn sni and ray my sorrow borrow and sad aad nesi was tto the most the few days ot oi pleasure was nothing to the yours years of we WOM and su ferine I 1 had endured down a street I 1 could seethe masts 0 djs I 1 knew the river wan trail not far away anay billat illat atio place for me I 1 to mj nel sell abid ud li I 1 v hlll ILL RO go i no an more I 1 auit ant have met fort ili rodent t an I 1 1 its wo we I 1 did rid hid I 1 kept kep ti if I 1 kiage boea beem in the r ver anil and all my earthly trouble would have bavo been fat bt an end and buy bay tt a bouquet madam madain 02 that the first words worda I 1 remember after I 1 ld bed made up nay my mind to alap into tre river 1 I linew know I 1 iliad boon asleep or dreaming to the ibe words broke me ino up I 1 11 I 1 had bail not teen la in bed but I 1 knew I 1 had been asleep or something but that sweet voice brought ie to tuy my bouses souses I 1 buy a bouquet mit ina ilai dose it I 1 how flow much I 1 I 1 asked X was wa now DOW wide awake I 1 saw baw tho the child had bad a bask t fud ot of flowers I 1 how mu h for t the be basket banket and I 1 ask the I 1 and giving her the money I 1 took tho baske bake ind was soon in street far am awa a from the river on a corder of the I 1 settled jovan 0 o my work rieu leu years I 1 bavo at on the same corner li I 1 abow more mora now than I 1 dad alil then sealla gafare Is t a good school few knows the lessons I 1 have euial like iho lover comes for flowers for hia biti 9 we etheart and abere Is in loy joy in lila looks look rha aldo comes for flowes flowe B to I 1 rut ut on an her husband s grave and there in loriol lori bortow ow a hir clr face doth both tell we too I 1 an am happy but no one dt knows the sorrow orrow I 1 carry la in my beart t it would be ba no good to to I 1 them the rough puth I 1 havo have travo ed ei they look only at the I 1 sell sod my as u blight as aa they but ohl ob how bow little they low know the sorrow that weighs weigh my weeping heart down as I 1 soll soil thiera the flowers from say my bir bright light colored basket |