Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-05-28

frugal merchant, without much other capital
than his business, talents and good reputa-
ton: but these were infinitely better to him.
, than to huve become the heir of an immense
property, to encryatc his physical and intel
lectual powers. Success after success,
crowned his efforts, and he was All ailluent
man, ere he was an old one.
! The fortunes Of his wife's parents were
never recovered. The father died not many
years after the marriage Of Lucretia-leav-
ing his widow in state of absolute depen-
dence. Now, was the time to put the test,
the free professions OF the daughter. In the
buoyancy of our contenplatlons, we almost
see the preferred arm of iilial affection,
stretched to the relief Of the mother who
watched over her tender years. But alas it
was but profession. She had got up in the
world, and the lowliness of the mother was n
constant weight upon her pride. 1t was one
Of the coolest nights Of Winter, when the
wants of the unfortunate widow, drove her to
the rear door Of the splendid mansion, where
wealth and luxury crowned the board, at
which the daughter sat the presiding mistress.
1t was night Of mcrriment and gayety with
in. The rich and the great-the gay and the
beautiful, were there but there was no room
at the festive board, for destitute mother,
whose wants had brought her tlither. She
could not be admitted, for it was an unpro-
pitious moment for pride and vanity to recog-
nlze the lowliness of its origin. The mother
left the door of the unfeeling child-repaired
to her lowly dwelling and, in the phrensy of
her feelings, resolved to return there no
more,
Fortune is fckc goddess: she often
smiles only as the prelude to bitter frown.
" illustrated N n
which came over the fortunes of Lucretia's
husband. The tide had turned. Luck was
against him. His ascendant star waned, and
| filckered, and was finally dimmed away in
the distant horizon. Night and darkness
ushercd in the gaunt shadow of Poverty, with
his forbidding and gloomy retinue. Ever
unwelcome, he is doubly so within the pre-
cincts where wealth and luxury have held
triumphant court. Indeed, he was unwel-
come to Lucretia-ior in the sunshine of
prosperity, she had thought not that the
clouds Of adversely could ever burst their
buithened fury upon her towering head.
4 There had been another and far more plea
SAINT exhibition of the tickle goddess. The
devoted and lovely mother, had accepted in
marriage the hand OF a worthy and wealthy
merchant. She removed to distant part of
the country and found a happy home. But
with this new fortune-wth the smiles of
Providence upon her-her cup of comfort fill
led to overAowing-did she lose the feelings
of the mother? When her child-smitten
and wrecked upon the billows fmisfortune-
driven from the home Of luxury in absolute
want-without shelter or home, ne,-seeking
the abode of the mother whom she had driven
from her own floor, when she was rioting in
splendor and panoplied in weulth,-do we
hear that mother meeting her with disdan,
for her poverty and wretchedness No: the
unearihly feelings of the Mother, are there :
" Come, my child, and share with me the
bountiful givings of Heaven: let US forget
the past, and smile in the prospect of the flu
.turc."-l BOSTON paper.