The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-05-04

| anu II that 10 not authority enough Tor
saying that Harry was nobody, should
like to know what is. Harry Hnchman
was nobody therefore-except on rent
and training days, and then he passed mus
ter as somebody till the landlord and the
militia officer were done with him, and
theE he sank back again into nonentily.
II is true, he was honest, frugal, and in
dustrious, but he was poor. 1t was a ter.
rlble crime on his party, and the world
made him feel that it was so; but he could
not help it, He had married early in life
what business had he to do so!-and
the necessary expenses of a rapidly in.
creasiDg family had bound him to his pov.
mouths gather around your poor mans
board. While the wealthy are miserable
for ant of an heir, the poor have an heir
for every sixpeuoe. Harry had more
heirs than sixpences. BY system Orig
id economy, however, by avoiding debt
in every shape, he had succeeded in
maintaining respectable appearance for
years; but sickness came at length, bring
ing other misfortunes in its train, and IN
few months afterwards he W as a ruined
man.
He struggled nobly to retrieve his af-
fars. but bis efforts were unavaihpg, Ev
cry day found him becoming more and
| lob lah hlv
tract ed, pressed heavily upon him, crush
ing his spirit and nnmblng his energies
with the petty stings that accompany pow
erty; the unjust suspicious Of impatient
creditors, and the sighting coldpess Of
summer friends. He had been elected
from the house which he had inhabited for
meet the last quarters rent, and he was
rapidly sticking into actual want, when
the prize in the lottery came, and raised
him a once to comparative afi0ence.
How fortunate!
we shall be happy at last, Near Mary
be exclaimed as he FASTENED homo to his
wife with the joyful intelligence. 'We
shall he happy al last. The tide has turns
ed, and fortune is before u.s.
And they were happy; for time, at
least. Comfort reiutnel to tas lately
wre tched home, and the bitter humiias
tons of poverty were replaced by the oh
sequious attentions SO Aatering to the
vanity of all human bipeds The discern
log public we're beginning to perceive
that there was something in the nobodies
after all. Society was putting on its
spectaces to look at the gold. :
Mary Hinchman was no heroine of ro-
nance; there was none of the poetry of
nature about her. She never stood shiv
ering on the back stoop-piazza We mean
looking unutterable nothiugs at the
moon, and sighing after imaginary world;
but she was a capital housewife, aud pro
vided excellent dinners. DO you suppose
it took The world Tong to make the dis
covery'
1t is wond erfni how numerous soon be-
came the friends of the Hinchmans; or,
rather, it would appear wonderful, were
il not an established fact that su0me r
friends and toadstools have an equal y
rapid growth. Yet we do the poor toad
stool wrong by the comparison, for 1t
will spring TO life in the damp dark cell
lar, while the other only exists in the full
blaze of the col oIden day, While the storm
was raging around him, Harry had sought
for them in vain-uot the toadstools, but
the friends-but in the sunshine that fol-
low ed they fourshed in abundance. They
were most sprofuse IN their offers of SER
vice, too; ave, and they we're sincere in
i their offers--some of them, at least-for,
through their interests, Harry obtained
a lucrative situation in moneyed ipsti
tuition. Where, matters not.
How fortunate.
when it exclaimed How fortunateP We
shall see presently.
A year passed away, and the prosperi.
ty of the Hncbmans still appeared to be
on the increase. The nobodies became
fashionable, and removed TO an elegant
mansion up town, with bath rooms and
gas fixtures, folding doors aud marble
msntepieces. Mrs. Tompkins began to
| visit her dear Mrs: Hinchman, while Mr..
| Jopes's nose turned less heayenward at
the sight Of our hero. He even had the
| coudescension to ask Harry to endorse
| note for him; not that he required 1t, oh
no! II was his ay of showing his esteem
for his friends, and he was beginning TO
look on Harry as his friend. Assnredly
| the Hinchmans were becoming somebod
| les.
As Harry had said, the tide had changed.
| He began to be noted as rising man.-
His attention TO business and unlirlne
industry, won for him the confidence o