The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1843-02-18

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and when you may do So rs ssB
I 'Buti may be shipwrecketi --' esci
] Z will provide scains, loss from Ina,
cause. Yon tmnsi lake +, tames. You
/ are my only oro'hers could nevee an
s%ef IL 10 my conscience. ifi were 10 al.
low YOU tn go away without providing as
amply as can for your well being. have
enough and more slian enough left for my.
SELF .ssf.fs go 20 --.-.t. "a
| Thus urged James received the money
and an hpfne after left the ra,ernai nansion
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| Years rolled on Hairy married, had
fac family Of children growing up around
him, and all was going On prosperously;
when his easy disposition his unwilling.
ness 10 say, no! led him into series of
e'nhafrass nenls which ledd TO The brink
OF rnin. In consequehre Of becoming Sc
ruriiy for irien1 who was engaged in ex.
rens've commercial speculation, he was
compelled 10 sell his fms estate which he
had inheri,etl from his uncle, and take shell.
! Ter for bis lamily aud himself in the home
stead oi HE lashtr; now far advanced in life
| The decased of the old man, soon after
| this even, once more raised him To com
pelence, BY giving him a second Inheritance
James having been passed over in he Enal
disposition pfhis fa,her's property.
Things how wen, On prospetously 70,
many wears, aud Harry had passed the
middle period Of life, when, being engaged
one day IN overseeing the woikmen on
his iarn,he was surprised by sudden show
er, and taking shel,er under tree, he was
| struck blind and ,edaced to ptetha.urs de.
! tcrepilude by lightning AT forty he had
fortunes ended not herr. A succession Of
rad crops soon run him deeply in debt, and
| he found himself! once more obliged 10 sci
his farm in order TO satisfy his credi.
tors. A kind letter which ne had received
some moaths before from Jamss, deter min
ed him TO join his brother in America. and
try with the few hundred 10 him, to
relieve his fortune In that distan, land.
He accordingly embarked for Philadel
phia, with his wife and the two youngest
chialeni but his fortune still pursued him
The ship was wrecked on the coast of New
Jersey, and although the crew and passen.
gers were saved,the trunk which contained
his money was lost, and he found himself
on strange shore in completely des,i.
tute condition.
Fortunately his good spirits rever de
serted him. Although blind and destitute
his courage and forlituds were undated
He found shelter for himself and family in
the house of kind hearted farmer, and
among the few effects which were saved
from the wreck was enc trunk which con-
tanned the same violin on which he had
been accustomed to play in the happy days
Of his youth. When il was brought 10 him
he grasped il cheerGully, and exclaimed
with this may yet be enabled TO find way
10 my brolher's residence without being
; dependen, on the hand Of charity Hi
performance on the instrument was, in fact
so skill(nl, that the villagers, won by ii
swee! tones, and their sympathy for hi
: misfortunes, go, up a little concert, which
gave HIM money enough TO commence hi
Journey towards the interior of Pennsyl
yana, where he hoped to find his brother
II And so he travelled on from town TO town
Il poor blind fiddler, pi!Iied and relieve
" indeed, but still very poor and destitut'
- knowing no, in lhe morng where he shoul
D, lay his head at night and as full Of anxiet
re as he as of affection for suffering family
ID When he arrived a. the town from whic
ir James's lasl letter was dated, he learne
y 10 his dismay. that his brother had sold h
I'd property there and emigrated 10 The ives
or No one could tell in wha. part Of the cou
lir Try he had settled, but he had expressed
intsntion 70 buy farm in Illinois sSo,