Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-07-21
HIS POOR MOTHER has GOT
THE WORST OF 1T.
ny MRS. MARY A DEM on.

ou u uuIh evening Wnen 0Fi&xllng ram
fell, two men in their working day clnlhss
were passing down narrow street. They
I were converting in low but animated tones,
not noticingthat stranger was 10 near
proximity 10 them.
AYE" exclaimed one OF them, with q
half subdued sigh, but his poor motherhas
got the worst OF it,
Now there was great denl Of meaning
in that little sentence, much more than
reached the ear; add the very manner.
half pathetic, half reproachful, in which it
was spoken, was calculated TO wuken the
curiosity as we'll ns the sympathy Of a pass
er.by. 3ts
The words ring even yet in our ears,
and brings to our mind sunny.faced child,
who smote his nothess heart daily from the
time he was old enough to.speak Shelor.
giving soul, called il lhoughtlessuess, and
passed II by as one. would ON inGrnity for
which there is no help. She thought there
wus not such another us that blue eyed boy
in the world; and so utterly engrossed wns
she in he r love for him, that she Tore with bis
unkindness, esteeming it rather soiace
than otherwise, if she might only keep
him in her humble home aio close by her
side. His passions grew with indulgence;
for that mother was such an one, TINT when
she chastised her child for willful disobsdi.
ence, she was willing 10 go on her knees
the next moment and crave his pardon for
every blow.
The consequence mny be imagined; he
grew up utterly incorrigible, joined com.
pany Of sailors, followed the sens Tor few
years, was pest wherever he went on nc>
count Of his wre,ched temper, mu'inied,
and was hung ut the yard'arm ba.ore he
was Nv wenty>tiye ears oil age.
His connections were good and vide
spread; lovely wife, who had been but
few years married to him, bowed her ke,d.
never again TO hold il up with honest pfide;a
his little child bore the Stigma Of his crime;
his only and nmiable brother blushed for
his name, but his poor mother had the
worst Of it.
She could remember the angel babe;
she could never forget the sinless smile, the
cherub face that first blessed her sight with
its beauty; she it was who taught him the
first lisping ~oId, held his chubby hahd.
and guided his doubling footsteps; her
bosom was his first, holiest shrine; il
playmate wounded him, the sight of the
fresh blood sent the warm current OF her
own, like cold WIVES upon her henrt-and
oh! To know that he had been hoisted at the
yard>arm with rope around his blackened
lhroot,-io feel that and still liye-That
horrible agony 10 endured She bad wePt
over him when the exhausted sleep oi
sickness bore the semblance Of death, aud
shuddered AT the thought Of a coffin or a
tomb;-now the underswell OF the Wild
waters tossed his dlshonored corpse troln
deep to deep, till the desolying element
should mar and wash AWAY every Trace OF
beauty and humanity. Yes, s,his.poor moth
er had indeed the worst Of it, ~
And now when We read in the records OF
crime that are daily thrust upon the. o9sor-
yer of events, Of some young, ambitious
being, who had been led lo break the law
Of his country, who had putthc false stamp
upon the false metal, who has robbed the
drawer of his employer TO avail himself OF
expensive pleasures, we cnni Of 0ui MINK
of the observation that hends this article
'Ab! his poor mother had the worst Of H.
We never think upon woman sitting
in some obscure chamber, and long after
the midnight bell has tJlled the central
hour OF darkness, toiling away upon patch.
ed.up garments, adding here and there
sample of faded cloth, and tremblngly
waiting The approach Of her ine5riate child,
bul we feel to tnurmur, MS we see him IN
fancy shouting at the tavern bar-'Alas!
his poor mother has the worst OF IT,
we never behold parting, even, where
the cherished child leaves the firm land Tor
perilous life upon the ocean, and see
standing around the brothers, the sisters,
friends, companions, and in tho midst OF all
bowed down fearful parent, but we inyol.
untarlly exclained-'That poor mother
has the worst Of IL!
A few days since a lady called at our
office; q woman upon whose brow time had
begun to press his whitening fingers; and
after speaking with US for time, she re.
marked to us that her daughter would leave
her that afternoon, to rej,in her husband
in distant land;. and her lip quivered, the
tears rushed 10 her eyes. aad her bosom
heaved with her suppressed emoiion--
hat simple Announcement, "''u 'o .',s'Sses
manner told world Of love, ana inose
tears few though they were, world OF
grief. How could | forbear thinking
fTha, Door mother has tho worst oil II.
And thus i, is in every lime Of sorrow,
when the heart is heavy, and the heod
bowed down; when poverty and misery vie
with each other in crushing the child OF
,,,;srortune. in every dereljction from DUTY
that involves the mistaken pnrticipator in
fresh and more perplexing difficulties, In
the endurance Of every punishment sent BY
Heaven or men, upon the guilty offender.
especially in the dark hours Of death, and
by the open grave where the unconscious
child of her affection, lies, ready TO be
placed in his last earthly home, We may
saw with feeling and with trulh-'His poor
mother has the worst Of it, aft sie1