LAMENTATION AND WOE.

Western Star, Issue 51, 31 October 1874, Page 3

LAMENTATION AND WOE.

The following touching lament for a deceased wife 1 from a disconsolate editor of a Missouri paper, appear? in the columns of that journal:

Thus nu wife d»ed. No' more will those loving hand* pull off my boots, nor part my back hair as only a wife can! No mo e will those willing feet replenish the coal hod, or waterpail! No more will she aoiae amid the tempestuous storms of winter and hie away to the fire without die’ urbiag the shuubrrs of the-man who doted on her so artlessly! ! Her memory is embalmed upon my heaut of hearts! I wanted to embalm her body, but found T could ainbalm her memory cheaper. I procured of HU Mulgett, a neighbour of mine, a very pretty gravestone. His wife was, consumptive* and ho kept it on hand several years in anticipation of her death. But she rallied last spring, and his hopes were blasted. Never shall I forgefc the poor man’s arief when I asked him to part ; with it. “ Take it Skinner;’- he; hoarsely- whispered, ‘‘and may you- never know what it is tp nave your soul disappointed as mine has been and he burst into a flood of tears,:/ Hi* spirit was indeed utterly broken. ,1 had the following very touching epitaph engrarf d upon that tombstone: —-‘Lo the memory of Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq., gentlemanly editor of the ‘ Trombone.’ Terras, three, dollars a year—invariably in advance." A kind mother and an exemplary wife. Ofli e over Coleman’s. OT.oeeg r .JUß. two flights of stairs. "Knock hard. We shall miss ihes mother, we shall miss thee! Job printing. Job printing iollcited." Thus, Uke Kachael weeping for her child ryn, did my lacerated tpmb cry out injjagohy. “But one ray of light penetrated the despair of my soul; the, undertaker took his piy in job printing, and the sexton owed -ne a little account I should nob have gotten any other way. Why should wo pine at the toy*t jrious ways of Providence ?