The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-09

Jug nolas Water-perhapS not ali water.
Another negro and his wife occupy anoth-
er corner; third sits in the window mo-
nopolising all the air astir. In another
corner, what do We see?
CA negro man, and stout, hearty,
rather good looking, young with woman.
"Not sleeping together?"
"No, not exactly that, there is no bed
in the room-nochair-no table-nonoth-
ing--but rags, and vermin, and degraded,
rum degraded, human ,beings-men and
women with just SUCH souls as animate the
highest and proudcst in the land"
"Who is the man?'
"Dat am Ring -nosed Bill"
els that his wife?" SID
well, don't know that. He calls her
his woman"
"And she lives with him as his wife
you all live here together in this room?"
sWen, we is got nowhere else to live.
Poor folks can't lib as rich ones do-hab
to pay rent--pretty hard to do that alone"
''How much rent for this room?"
''Seyenty-fve cents a week, ebery time
in advance" r-t-f a.
"Who is this msn?'
"They call me Sanky 10. 'Spose may
be my name is 10 Sanky. Don't know
rightly"
"What do you do for living?"
"Well, mighty hard to tell you dat, dat
am fact, massa. Picks up a job now and
then. Mighty hard times though-give
poor man lift, massa."
'Is that man and woman drunk?''
"Well, 'spose am little tossicated.'
GA little intoxicated! They are dead
drunk, lying perfectly unconscious, in
each others vomit upon the bare floor
The atmosphere of this room is enough
to breed contagion, and sicken the whole
neighborhood, and would, but that the
whole neighborhood is equally bad. Let
us hasten down to the open air of the court
it is but little better-all polution-all
that breathe, it, polluted. Yet, in the gate
of hell l once lived. Look at me, James,
you knew me then. Look at me now,
you don't know me. You knew me a
beast-you may know me man--you
may know yourself one. Sign this pa
per-there is power of magic in it-and
you shall go home with me. and see where
live now, and will clothe you and help
to sustain you in your sober life, just as
Thomas Elting did me, and with heaven s
blessings, we will make man of you. +"
"Too late! too late! not enough of the
frame left to rebuild
'It is never too late. Look at the piles
Of old brick, and tiles, and boards, and
joist, and rafters, and doors, and glass, OF
the pulled down houses. Are they was
ted? am mason, you are carpenter;
if we cannot put them back and build UP
the same old-fashioned edifce, we can
make a good, snug, comfortable house.
Come, sign the contract, and let us set
right about the job"
"Father, come, do, father!''
He turned and spoke few low words
to his wife, to which she replied:
eyes, will. Keep the pledge one
month and will go and live with you
die with you
"Then try it, father, come" And Mag
gle led him forward, just as she had done
/ her mother You have seen, shall see,
how heaven blessed her for her filial pi-
ETY.
81 used to write. 'Tis a long time since
[ did. Maggie, my hand trembles. HelT
me--guide the pen, I cannot see clearly
No wonder. There was a tear in each
eye. There were other tears when Mag
gle took him again by the hand and said
"Come, father, let us pray;;' and ther
all kneeled down together, and then Mr.
Nolan took him by the arm, and said
Come, James, let us 60 home"
Notyet. He had one more act to per
form. He shook his wife's hand, and said
"Good bye. [ shall keep it, Then he
looked wishfully at Maggie, as though he
wanted something, yet dare not ask it, fo7
fear he should be repulsed. Still the year
ming of nature was upon him. It was {
long time since he had felt as he now fel
it, but he was beginning to be new man
Maggie was his only child. Would sh'
ever cling those arms around his necl
again? She had shown herself this nigh
one of the blessed of the earth. She ha(
done, or induced him to do, what no othe
soul on earth could have done, and hov
his heart did yearn to clasp her in his arms
He stopped half way to the door, ant
looked upon her with fearful, loving
: thankful eyes. Itneeds no wires, no mag
net, no human contrivance, to convey tn
magnetism of the heart. She felt its pow
er, as it sprung from the lightning flash 9
loving eyes, and quick as that flash, sh
made one bound, one word, tFather!
! and her arms were around his neck, he
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