North-West, The (Newspaper) - October 4, 1866, Freeport, Illinois OCTOBER DOLLARS a VOLUME 2NUMBER tho West I KOil TUB Ms our last moment my only loyo The moment of our parting Without me soar Death cometh as a That gives thoo liberty In Heaven receive And for to wait for mi Thou soon I my faithful thy until the dawn Of that blest day f BPO trust to theo an evil bo done at wheels arc I n n It the workhouse is tho forge wta and and tho tongue is only rpo Tt s rhm thoy n h ttS is no other come A LITERARY The Curse of often alluded yet very we have ycl nail Car tin Irish went to In tho county of where his watch was pilfered from his This no roused his ire that the people ID ing unexampled string Alas is rny I lost my watch in Don oral My Dublin rny chain arid Pilfered at once in May fire and brimstone never fall To fall in showers on May all tho loading fiends assail The thieving of As lightnings Hash across the So down to hell with the fate of at He that the curKO of May beef or lamb or He novor found in But garlic soup and Re still the food for And forward as the creeping Industry be at May Heaven a chosen On rotten May sun and To their lights on May every pestilential gale Blast that cursed spot catted May no sweet or quai Be heard in May and commonweal Despise and harass May every gazette and Sad tidings bring of Iay vengeance fall on head and From north to south of May profit and tardy Still damp the trade of May fame resound a dismal she lights on May Egypts plagues at once To thin the knaves at May frost aud and sleet and each joint in May wolves and bloodhounds and trail The cursed crew of May Oscar with his fiery flail To atoms thrash all May every fresh and May all from Belfast to curse and damn May neither flour nor Be found or known May want and woe each Joy That er was known iti May no one coffin want a That a rogue in May all the thieves who rob and The gallows moot In May all the sons of Blush at the thieves at May mischief big as a Norway the knaves of curses whole and by Pour with full force on May every transport wont to sail A convict bring from May every churn and milking pail Fall dry to staves May cold and hunger still The stagnant blood of May every hour new woes That hell reserves for May every chosen ill prevail Oer all the Imps of May th Inquisition straight The rapparees of May curses of Sodom now And sink to ashes May triumphant tail Completely manned from Oh may my couplet neyer fall To find now curse for And may grim Plutos Inner jail Forever groan AN OLD LADYS knew why the tiny woman who lived the great coal mine was called Aunt although every knew thu instant she came in sight why she was called for very small was not much larger than a child Mudre had o heart so largo that it could w not live in but came out through kind words from her lips and loving tides in her until it fell all about en her little person so she was all and when you looked at her you could not see anything and you was as any another person chanced to come and five or six feat of human growth beside her mite of and then you could not help exclaim What a little woman When you were on your way to visit Aunt saw the brownest little nutshell of a house in the standing close to the mouth of the great coal you that is a nut which ripened years on one of the giant grew to make the coal and it has been getting browner and browner every century since the trees forgot to and I know it must be very hard to And so you would go up to and put out in all its strength and give a knock on the place where the shell looked the thinnest and just when you were ex to hear a great cracking the door of shell would so gently before you were the kernel would be before and you would be drawn into the nut by a friendly hand and when the door was closed the nut would seem to be the suns had shone upon and the winds that had blown over the great trees on which it time somebody whispered that Mudge had made a great which she was keeping secret she had certainly found the fountain perpetual for there grew not a more on her loving face this year than the and the winters and left no The miners who went below always to say and for their coining up Aunt Mudge watched with a wistful that never shewed to ft was this that kept her miners coming up from the Her wistful look not he di verted at the magical and no inducement could tempt her to stay home even for one During the months of one an owner of the raine removed with his to a house midway between the village and the house of Little His name was Owen had two Paul and Ar boys just emerging from childhood inio that restless transition stute that furnishes io much material for Day after day the two boys about the lingering long at tha entrance to the and scarcely restrained from go ing prohibition and There were strange gases und mysterious gusts of dampness far hundreds of feet below the which made the miners give the lips at home farewells with strong impulses clinging in them born of the fear that they might be which caused Little Aunt tho black onod features they caino with something very like tears in her One morning it way hours after the last man hud disappeared within the shaft for the day door of her brown little saw Paul and Arthur manipulating m a suspicious manner tho apparatus at tho While she Paul sprang into the and before the old woman could reach the spot he had commenced tho Arthur acting as his 11 Hold hold Aunt ere her hand went out to arrest the unwinding of the but who had been watching long for just that there should bo no men to oppose at thu mouth of the no thought of being stopped by a and he unwound fast or and until a grasp fixed on his hand and the speed the if you will brothers At the words Arthur turned white with and fet leaving all hat fearful strain upon hands that could just but hold in the crank of the the rope was so old mint way and might at any second been used for Aunt seized with both hands and help quick Arthur caught if just in time it was Klip ping from her and the two gently less ened the motion bucket stood jumped m very anticipa ting a fine and surprise to the miners when he should suddenly drop into their midst but evenas the blue sky was shut his ho gasped with an emo tion very like When the rays of light disappeared one by he began to tremble and cling fast to the sides of the that was only large enough to hold It was per fect blackness in the and the air that rushed up as he felt himself to be rushing was not like the brave sweet air that he had breathed the blue it made him think of and the dark ness was so dense that he thought it was burying him alive he felt its weight driving down upon his In moment Vail would hare given to be safely out of the Suddenly he felt himself to be no longer go ing the motion had changed a circling that wouldhave made his brain dizzy but for the The rope was but he knew strand and the depths his own voice thundered back to The thought was whispered to May be Ar hold the crank nny and the fearful sequence came What if he lets go had never been in a posi tion of utter He had always had his own strong arms and feet to aid his eyes him whore he might and now he found all these gifts Of no matter of was nothing for him to do but to God shuts soul in thus at some point in with him that the feel after jf pily he may be It is iu or on the ocean amid billows and natures or in the earthquakes that the soul of man meets this point of utter dependence on its It times in small friendin whom wo trusted fails us or all pin crossed by or w watch the flutter that it is going unless the Giver of Life breathe anew upon our loved Paul Vails time for prayer and the cry forth for iny hold God we will have him said but her voice trembled and only her hands nerved themselves to tho whs quite a different Arthur drawing up the united strength could but just compass and then tho awful danger of tho ropes and the necessity for uniform or twice tho littlo womans eyes wandered down tho mountain but ho help steadily around the windlass wound the until there caino into view the part ed was giving way Have mercy ejaculated Littlo Aunt and bidding Arthur to hold sprang down close to tho open with arms stretched over the sho caught the rope below the parted Her hold was just to balance tho No mortal can tell how long tho boys nms clcs could have service in holding the or how long the brave little arms could have done duty over the shaft and there is no need to for God sent a strong that reached down beside the weak and another and Paul Vail was drawn up and once more he saw the blue that had seemed so precious to him when out from Arthur and Paul in their careless zeal to explore the availed themselves of an worn out that no miner would have thought of risking his life and the miners from the other side of mountain had arrived in time to save There had heard strange noises in tho earth that great groaning of that gave warning of danger to and the men were going down to clear the depths Aunt watched the and then invited Paul and Arthur into her lit tle She did not scold nor tell them what naughty boys they had but she told them si and this is the story that she told Twenty years ago last I ciime to live in this bit of a house by the great coal jo he near husband that I felt they in any great danger when I lost sight of them going down in the in morning but then you seel could have them bit longer the and then it was so pleasant to watch for them coin ing up at more little crumbs of news came from time to time all Sombody would bo coining up every little and I had many a chance to drop in the bucket little tin with a taste of something right off the or a bottle of hot when I saw rny or Rufus or Charles was a little weak and then to watch for the Thank or Thank that was always certain to come back the next I Wed living I would not have gone away to live in the est house in the and and boys abit of garden at the I see you laugh as the ground now but have covered up the spot and I am I could not boar to look at it after that time I am going to tell you Ft was seventeen years ago last May when the overseer of the mine carrib one night to talk tomy him out of the The moonlight and the And the all seemed so strange that they dazzled and I lot him go but a dream I had just frightened tny sleep and I went out and pat by the and watched all with tny ears close to opening it was all so and the great full mcon walked dow tho blue and the mountain caine up and the day began to break and then I My two out early as it digging jn to prise so I stole in at the front let them I was The littlo round it was soon ready four knives and on was just large enough for Well while the breakfast was waiting for boys came to inquire for their drill whet I had told them where he had they never stopped to but went and I followed them to the place where tW watched all Just then the were coining and said and Charts must not go down bin my two boys Wouldnt be kept and they me as heads went out of Baton called keep the and we will up to cat The the was Uken of the mine was about half a away the men who stood at the windlass were gone to and I could not to the signal might come at any there would be no one there Uso I but no sign came the sign inthe sky Heard house beyond the little garden where I I could not hear what ho said but when he was my ed soberer than Id ever Mm in my and he was always the of good Soft step behind as I sat not daring to take my it to who came is my Little Mudge doing said Johns Ive come for break and my husband stood leaning over me that 1 could never stopping wonder how ho corte to God pity if boys in instant he met men turning shaft just beyond the garden and dazzled us f was thing I tp run to 1 J t J I hand at the as mv brave soul went down out The she nal came fe All n 1 i M f and the two ntL o men could lift qui w thoughts to allf and the man to our Father that I ever He could laughing out his He was so much of it coming up in his soul that he couldnt help letting it ami it made me feel as if I was all done up in somehow and then the boys For a moment Aunt and Paul ventured to ask What did the want He wanted my husband to go down in the mine at and examine just as tho had goim below were strange and and tho damps were filling all the You see they opened the mine then on both sides of the and and wore hoping to gain mi open ing through flu and some thought of the bucket when they came but held with white gasping face we wound up fust as could j and them I knew back to me as they 1 husband f1 tried to it was the air rushing through that made my husband went IJo never told me till twas just see it was Sunday and nothing coax him to go down on Sundays me go to and when I woke the wits floating into the room like a great high and thorny right on the river of was kneeling on tho floor and saying his and f hoard the little clock on the kitchen shelf and I counted Just then cornea knock and John quito out and got Then ho and looked at mo and saw that I was wide and so he kissed me and and to cover up tho great wound that f had got You didnt tell us how your husband L thinking own escaped thinking of the boya There were terrible eruptions and down thero in tho deep arid this lamps of use to us at the air so thick and God alono knows way between the and the West were by some and low escaped death by John lie went away from me day by The last last I could Ond him no longer way ho left al an behind for me to Iw said Inr t shaft to watch for tho boys I saw the samo full walk the great and tho shadow of tho mountain canio it was all darkness bnt the sun said my littlo 1 I ing down tho mine to look at theyve found down Ill bo to cat breakfast with when up nvy been on my faco and Johna but it was not tho sunshine that shine it was ho saw iu and put him away with tho on it That night tho miners brought up from depth below southing thai they touched ttn derly carried with uncovered the little brown Tho little brown hut of a from tho mountain the little who had
