Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — A Five-Act Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Five-Act Tragedy.

BY REV. DR. TALMAGE.

Act the first: A young man starting off from home; parents and sisters weepiug to have him go.Wagon rising over the hill. Farewell’kiss fiuug back King the bell and let the curtain fall. Act the second: The marriage altar. Music on the organ. Long white veil tracing through the aisle. Prayer and congratulation, exclamations f “How well she looks!” Ring the bell and let the curtain fall. Act the third: A woman w iting for staggering steps. Old garments stuck injthe broken window panes. Marks of hardship on her face. The biting of nails of bloodless fing?i-8. Neglect, cruelty and despair. Ring the bell and let the curtain drop. Act the fourth: Three gr ves in a dark place—grave of the child that died for lack of medicine, grave of a wife who died of a broken heart, grave of the man that died with dissipation. Ring the bell and let the curtain diop. Act thefi th:vA destroyedsov.l’s eternity. No light. No hope,— I close my eyes to this last act of the tragedy. Quick! qu ; ck! Ring the bell ai d let the curtain drop. After a lingering illness Miss Rosa B. Makeever died at tho residence of'her mother, Mrs. W. 8. Coen, on Saturday last. Rev. M. ft. Paradis conducted funeral services iu the M. E. church, Sunday. A large conoourse followed the remains to Weston cemeten .