Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Made Her Happy. [ARTICLE]

Made Her Happy.

Meissner tells a pathetic anecdote of Heine which places him in the kindliest light: One day, when his end was very near, Meissner entered and found him dictating a letter to be sent to his mother. “What!” cried Meissner, “does the old lady who dwells by the Dammthor still live?” “Truly; though old and sick and feeble, still beats the warm mother heart for me.” “And do you often write to her?” “Regularly, every month.” “Ah,” cried Meissner, “how unhappy she must be to hear of your sorrow and sickness. ” “Oh, as to that,” returned Heine, “my mother believes me as well and sound as when I saw her last. She is aged and reads no papers, and the few old friends she sees are in like conditicn. I write to her often as cheerfully as possible and tell her of my life, and how happy I am. If she notices that only the signature is mine, the explanation is that I have pains in the' eyes which will soon pass off. And thus she is happy. For the rest, that a son should be so ill and wretched as I am, no mother would believe. ”