The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1854-01-04

If i could only forget the past-ihe time
when ! was a Broadway merchant, aud
drank my bottle OF wine al dinner-when
llived in all the domestic felicity of hap
Ipy home, with a yirliious wife and two
sweet children, might forget that have
no home now-that | ain bid by my .un.
paid landlady lotske my brals away-lhat
| must clear oul this very, ,day-lha, | new
er can have another motIthlul in her house.
Oh! can I ever forget iha, have fallen so
low as 70 beg charity for my worse than
morherless children" O. i,' ~
"Then their mother is living! '
r1'I"l do not know. have no, seen her
for year. I have heard Of her not long
ago, hut she Is not fit 10 be mother 10
two such children. She left me, and her
two little girls, for a life Of drunkenness and
misery. She is worse than dead to them.
need not tell ycu what | am. II you
will take my children and take care Of
them, 1 will 60 and bring them directly.
| have nothing to give, but hope those
who have, will increase their charity
ehnuob In teen1 NV non, children (rom
starving y''nu7i '.ui'n'u gd. sa"H '.
u "Havc they no relation who would take
care of them p ''. '.'' .''..'."
a Relalionsl Yes, sir: among the rich
and The proud Of The City. !, TOO, am
proud, &c am degraded. can bear deg
radation, bhtlI cbuld not bear to think nv
children werc the paupers Of nv own
bro,her, or auy relative who wo,lld re.
mind them Of their degraded father, or
tell them, perhaps, as they met ragge,!
woman staggering through the Streets
!. ,ha, is yoIr mother" Never, 81, n ~,
err" ,l'7oqmi Isom aD'i 4rr ,isu1.
Dol" Well, well, bring them here You
need not ,eIl your name or tLeirs g. Onl,
promise me one thing r,ba, Won will ra
inrm yourself, or, at lead. ,rv IL dofi, "a
lha, YOU can once more he a father 4, ,on,
children" he- .nai r .7asW 1
,,"I I,in,end 10. or never seer ,hem, aoain
They never shall be named of a d,uHker
father, Tney neyerwill know ,heit moth
er..,SI,e tors not know where ,hey are
pevet. will know. Il will leave the Civ
to-day. | intend to get away from old as
soriaIes. and ont. of sight of ihe ever omen
places of termination that do nothing bu,
drag me down.Y s sa yrm nraoe' .
So he went away and broucht ,he ,w,
children. pressed them to his bosom, she,
Tears over them. called upon God ia bles,
them and those who took care Of them
said good.bye, and wen, avav with a lea,
in his eve.,anI a nravet in liz be,r, an,
.noihinr has heen heard ,r oim sirce,.
We became much Interested in ,ber,
Two half ORPHANS" and noticed them a.
the pels Of ,ho missionary family, in our
frequenl visits. At our last one we miss
ed Them from the family circle, and in,
ouired ,...r .,r.r.s.r. -.a..
Wha, has become olive will cal
Them Julia and Lizzie ~ ...p. ..,.
"Oh have YOU not been here since p
"Since what Have they gone away
Has the father been back ~ ,.....r'
mo, they are here, Blu, such Gil.
cumstance has happened. II is remarka.
BILE. Do Won remember talking TO mis-
eruble woman in lhe street one night MOI
lony aoo. whom Won ,houvb, disposed ia
reoen,ance.. and whom YOU directed tc
come here ?" .-.-,, y .F
Well miuh,. | do mass a word will
such occasionally, Oh. YES, [ rsmembe,
mw n middle aCed woman. who told me
long ,ale aboui her husband and children
and how she lused IN drink and her bus.
hand threatened IN leave her.,Ana ,hen bov
be drank, and ,bcn she rt,llowed him IN .
house where no man hhbbld ever 90 and
,ber i, a 6,o( p,r,tan Jssnera,;nn and
iealonsy rInnssJ ;n,o !, ca,ssr ,of y;ce onI
how afJer months Of such lirs her husband
turned her IN, oC ,oors. took her children
omnv,.ha,o shor eonldr No, COO ,Lom nov,
n, h.. .sons ,hsm.-..nd hnv ,he v;II,;r
whn h,L or,icsd Lsr away forsoot he,
and ,.c. her ~ hs ,nrnsd on, or ,b. hons,
Ybero ho had ,olen her n ho,rl and bor
She sunk "a q degree an low as n beu (o,
rnm' of .,he mos, abandoned rumsbol,
kaeners Of the CI,v. WIN yould gst mo-
Lrnnk IN exhihi, her as a .,model artist
in hack room to draw customers. TO ,hei,
nandemonium--a Mace licensed as "
model house for i accommodation o
Jewellers" And finally she said that sb,
had drunk ,ho yerv Grugs of the bitter cur
of sin. and if she eould only see her chill.
dren once more sb, would be williur /,
die-sbe Iid no, wisb, 10 live 10 disOrac,
lbem. bu, she could no, die lill she ha,
seen ,bem aoaing And then | told her II
reform, renee, sincerely. and ,rv 10 Ue
h,cL sooin n ina ,condi,ion of life sb,