Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-03-22

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! ly intoxicated. How many of them keep
themselves in a constant state of excite
ment with costly wine and brandy, and
/ yet pretend to despise the poor fellow who
! drinks Whlskey III a tavern and staggers
! home. All, Geraldine, if the golden veil
was lifted from before the temple of
wealth, poverty would stand amazed and
/ abhorrent at the licentiousness, falsehood,
/ lntemperance, Intrigue, and abomination
| which would be disclosed to lis view
" Well, Ellen, poverty has one able adj
/ vocate but you were not born of poor
parents, | know" said Geraldine.
" Indeed | was" replied Ellen earnest
ly, . my father was the son Of poor and
honest brlcklayer, and my mother was the
daughter of a soldiers widow, who brought
up three children, by selling in market the
products of garden which she cultivated
with her own hands. My father was
carpenter, and we never wanted in his life
time, but now my mother is sickly wild
ow, and has four boys younger than am,
and am only sixteen, and we find it hard
to get along, and keep the BOYS at school.
But mother says if we can support them
until they are educated. they will then be
able to support US. And when feel wea-
ry and dispirited, think of my young
brothers with their bright eyes and loving
hearts, and how they repay all my toll, by
their strict application, good behaviour and
grateful affection; and these thoughts bring
again the smile to my lips, and the vigor
to my hands. And then our evenings at
home are so happy. If our house is low
and small, and our supper has been coarse
and simple, we pass our evenings in read
ing, singing. playing, and instructive con-
/ versatlon. Oh, Miss Geraldine, it is very
sweet to work for those we love, who re-
pay US with love, and a right use of our
endeavors. And upon my soul, Miss Ger
aldlne, | would not exchange myself and
my lot for YOU and yours
:" believe YOU Ellen" said Geraldine
:" fou are beautiful, and am not YOU are
of use to the world, and am not YOU
are an object of worship to Your Young
brothers, mine despise and fear me YOU
have been educated Alright, while | have
been taught nonsense and false theories.
Oh, ! was right when / wished to be as
happy as YOU are
Now let US examine into the hcraldry
Of Miss Mum. Her fathers father was
the son of a butcher and apprenticed to q
saddler he became a violent party poll
tician, and was consequently not very nice
in his principles Of right and wrong. Ills
party succeeded, in consequence OF 4 bold
SANDER, originated and supported by him,
and he was rewarded with 4 fat office.
He lived close, saved his salary, speculaied
successfully, and left his son 100000.
Mrs. Munn's father commenced life as a
pedlar OF small wares, and by parsimony
and sharp bargaining, got 10 be merchant
OF some note, and sent his daughter to
boarding school, where she was accom-
plished, and finally succeeded in taking in
the wealthy Mr.. Mum. Yet she could sav
q" refined and intellectual pleasures as if
she had been descended from long race
of kings, in which case she would have
been no better than she then was. and GER
talnIy not so good as the mother of Ellen
Marsh.
Now we will, if YOU please, brush aside
twenty years, and return, and inspect the
conditions of the Munns and Marshes.
Old Mr.. Mum Is palsied, besOlted,
helpless old man. One of his sons is in
an insane asylum another is running the
career Of a successful gambler; The third is
merchant, steady, honest, but unsucccss-
full Mrs. Mum died of grief and vexa-
lion, on account OF the conduct and mis-
fortunes OF her husband and sons Ger
aIdIne was ensnared by fictitious Count
who, when he found she did not bring him
a ready fortune, iil-lreated and neglected
i her, until he forced her 10 leave him; and
now she is at home with her poor helpless
father, broken hearted, exceedingly
/ homely woman, but a sincere christian,
/ and a benetactor Of The poor.
/ Ellen Marsh married a son Of farmer,
handsome, intelligent, and honorable
/ young man, who Is now Senator in Con-
| gress. One of her brothers is in the House,
one is an independent farmer, and the
other a pious and much beloved clergy
| man, and a professor in a college. Mrs.
Marsh resides with her daughter, happy
IN quiet and honored old age, the object
of a grateful and worshipped love TO all
her children.
And SO it is. The despised Of yestcr-
day are the honored of to-day and the
nabobs of to-day may be servants to-mor-
row. OF all follles, the. assumption of
caste and aristocratic distinction, in this
country, are the most ludicrous and dcspi-
cable. There can be no real aristocracy
in land of equal rights, and may the day
never come when titles, and hereditary pre-
cedence, shall establish privileged class,
who may claim to be aristocrats.
+" Pa, can corn hear p
mo. child, of course not"
:" What's it got ears for, then .