THE YOUNGEST SON.

Otago Witness, Issue 1933, 7 December 1888, Page 30

THE YOUNGEST SON.

He died beyond the Darling's stream, afar from friends and home ; To sink beneath the burning drought, ah, wherefoie did he roam ? With none to close his dylug eyes of those who lov a him best, To hallow with a tear or flow'rhis place of nameless nsfci Alas ! it seems but yesterday ho bade ue all goodbye. The rpady tear upstarting in his brightly-beaming eyfl ; His face so full of life and hope, his form erecfc and tnll,Where is that youthful promise now ?-the grave has clatm'd it all 1 The voice of winning tone Is hush'd, the gen'rous heart is still, The dauntless heart that bore him up as he lay weak and Hl,— ,_„,, When cheerfully he told his chum, who watch'd W» couch beside, "Old fellow, I'll be better soon," then turnd him round and died 1 i Oh. hard it is to spare such hearts, so dauntlesSi i frank, and kind; And sorely will the lad be miss'd by those he leaves behind, Who rear'd him up from infancy, and saw tho boy Into a bright and etalwarfc youth, the tallest of their band! When lying on his dying bed, beyond the Darling'" Kind stranger forms around bis couch came flitting to and fro; " „ . A woman's pitying hands were there to tend him as She thought, perchance, " Poor lad, he has a mother far away ! " And bo he died !-he rests at peace within his distant Far trom the Boothing murmur of his own Moeraki'» WfIVC * Yet thn' his face ana form are hid beneath a stranger We "know that "it is well" with jhim-his soul Is with his God! — WYCH ELM. Moera&l, December 3.

Thk Happiness of Millions.— On what does the happiness of populations or individuals depeud? "» that inestimable blessing- health. Ought it nw then to be tho etudy ot every Colonist to van tain for bin self the best moans by wiiicb cow priceless boon, once attained, can be for ever pf Served ? The answer must be in the affirmativelarge number of Colonists in New Zetland are a«»^ that there la a medicine which not only ' *f dißOise but rapidly cures all maladies «»*"£,,„ there, and actually prolongs life. This. inwtojj. medicine is Freeman's Original and Genuine Cjwnj dyne, which cures and arrests, in thdytty » J 1 di stages, nil the diseases noticeable In New AjWJ Insist upon having "Freeman's 1 only. I™^, an Blephant.-Soid everywhere. Obtainable i«w all chemists and, storekeepers.'