The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1851-04-09

10 our excellent poor laws. and the excellent
stale of morals OF our poor, the effect Of those
excellent poor laws, these two minors COM
miued the great mistake Marriage -and
Ann Wilkins as was, and Ann Runl as is,
10 use the Padington pdtiOs, was at n little
more than the age OF fifteen, mother. Start
not This is an unexaggeruted fact! The
beautiful Cinderella, ere she was out of her
infancy, was fast sinking down into the sick
ly, and the dowdy, dirty mother of low life.
Then came tho parish medical attendance,
and The bcgrudged relief, and the obtained
gin, HhGn food itself was attainable; the
towering look, The heavier blow of the boy
husband. His lime was out and bis employ
mems precarinus. Wha, God intended Ann
to be, i, would be impiely TO presume, but
what she was what man made her--even
The evil one himself must have felt pity TO
behold. This was The dark, the dangerous
part of her life She looked al her waling
infant she saw it press The untitled, the fla
cid, milkless bosom and she wished il dead
How she lived through these three years Of
rags and wretchedness she never could tell
she was not ye, nineteen when her misery
seemed to have atIained its horrible climax
Her husband lay III in the last stage of q
rapid decline. Who the man was dying,
two parishes, each Of which was dispuling
who should not be encumbered with his bones
refused relief.
Things were ia this state when Ann, taxi
ing her child by The hand, proceeded through
lhe,crowds Of the we'll fed and the gay, tC
seek redrcss nj the bands Of the magistrate
against the inhumanity Of the Overseer
The day was bright and sUnny, she was
thrust hirher and lhIlher by better dressed
people, she saw shops overloaded with deli.
cate viands, her child cried for them; that
cry irIi,ated her, she was hefseif very very
hungry. Ye who have never bungered be
merclful in your condemnation! On tha, day,
at that moment, her heart h1rdened; she
who had through all misery never yet been
selfish. it now entered her soul. She said
to herself, Yes, he wrl die and she was
glad, 'and were | 20 quit this whimpering
brat, am not twenty; my beauty may re-
turn; can shift for myself we're | quit ot
him |, was diaboI cal thought. She was
in crowded 'horoughIare; she did not at
tempt to loose him; no, will never beliVe
il; am myselfa father; but she was care.
less, nhsrracted aud reckless. That nigh
she was widow aud chldless.
Then people were kind to her. The
overseers took blame to themselves; mag
nsnimous souls! They had Ito idea the cast
was one of exnemi,y However, they wen
pious folks; their pews at the parish churcI
were decorated with crimson curtains NOV
ing upon bright brass rods, consequently
they told the widow that God willed every
thing for the best, and bade her take com
fort, bat she could not; her little Alfred!
Whether the pailsh authorities were ver,
asslduous in their search after the lost ltd
pauper, we know not; was never found; hu
this we do know, when Mr.. Bloa,er, the over
seer, met Mr., Scrlmp, the vestry clerk an
attorney, that evening, in the we'll Furnishes
apartment of the master Of the workhcuse
they congratulated each other and the paris
over an excellent bottle Of port, at the ex
Ipense Of the said parish, at their good luc
in getting rid in one day, of two such en-
combrances as the father and son. God had
no doubt, taken them both; so they pro
noanced it 'God-send.
Let US pass rapidly over lhe next ffleeI
years Of AIMS life. The huusekeeper q
SIR Peter Rankles, middle aged bac heIor
heard of her story, go he took Ann on iria
as his housemaid Her beauty returned,
possible, with increasing splendor. Sir Pc
ter, after well satisfying himself with he
} looks, wished next to be satisfied with he
story. He then gave her his counienance
: because he liked her own so well; aflerward
an education; MS he said he intended her ,
succeed his housckeeper; he was his ow
3 steward. So she was taught dancing, music
, Ftench and Italian, in order the better I
be able 10 check the bakers and butchers
/ bills The old housekeepcT opened her eye
( she, however, opened them again in quie
satisfaction, upon being pensioned out of o
. flee in excellent style. People began
: surmise; Sir Peter grew angry, and talke
: of disin,erestedness. Now il was very we
known Tint everybody who knew Sir Pete
and everybody who knew Ann, did not var
the baronet TO marry the widow of the jou
s neyman baker, so they went the very be-
s way about effecting The match. They sal
that i, was improper and scandaous,' an
: they dared him to do it; he did it; only
:, prove il was neither scdndalous or mprope
!, Sir Peter had his reward; she made hi
t an excellent wife, and he made for her u
J. excellent will.
/, At the age of thirty-five behold Lady An
i. Rank les, Just clear of her first year OF wiz
j. owhood, resplendant in beauty, stepping il
e 10 her we'll appointed carriage, in order
! make one at o dinner party in Brunswic
Y, Square. Her hostess was also widow, Il
! relic, OF Colonel Canderson, OF the Homo
i able East India Company's service; ric
IS avaricious, fond Of play-past forty and n
J. very remarkable for personal charms. ST
IN was one of those of whose inimacv-it is Il
10 moral we wish to incucate-we should b.
d, ware. ri never forget my friends, md ne
d Ter forgive my enemies" was continually
Is her mouth, and, at last, the latter part in b
III heart. For The 6rsl clause Of her creed,
&c never knew that her friends wero very graf
s. ful; how she acted on The second will short
ID be shown. TO apply her aphorism to he
dlself, knew no one whose actions so mu,
II forgetfulness ought to have been wished,
ri of whomy as Christians, we should have mo
s. TO forgive.
I'd Let US now suppose Mrs. Colonel Cand'
al son 10 have filed her Two drawing 1901
t. with her evening party, in addition to h
a dinner guests; that she has left the task
Of making the "comlortable"--a word not J
I 4 4 -. IL.