The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-01-11
NEUTRAL In POLITICS :

'Io oHlS odfTleT between the tlre and her
sleeping babes, she drags them out and nm
to the window. Will she throw them down
upon the pavement below, rs the only hone
ofsaving their lives, for the fire is ia rly IN
the stars and rafting at the door behind
her! II it enters all is lost. The window
Is opened, and the little boy fr.s-he is
the darIing-Poised upon the 81, in the
bewIIdsred amazemcnt If hafawakinp
consciousness.
"Oh mother, don't throw me outl 7
will be n good boy, mother. never will
tear my jacket again. Indeed | coulJ
not helpit 1t was big Lov that pulIed
me. Oh mother mother. don't. prav
don't F'
lie screams with fear, as he l.angs con-
vu'siveIy upon His mothers neck, and
looks down upon the gathering crowd.
crying, throw him out, throw him out we
VIII catch him. And hundred hands
are "utStrctched, n hundred noble hearts
would PROSTATE themselves upon the pave
ment to save, TO break the fall of bcrror
boy whom they would have kicked out of
their path the day before. How moth.
er appeals to her fellow men to save her
child. She had oft appealed before, bu,
then the house WAS not on fire; the fire
was in his fathers mouth, and that thew
needed not. No bells rung to call the
engines with copious streams Of water to
pnt 1t out-thcy are ringing now. And
now see the out>iretched hands, each
ready to risk its own life to save that Of a
child.
" Let him go! Throw him out! You
will all burn up in five minutes more
lh's Old woo!cn house burns like tin.
der y ...
She look behind her; the fans is send
ing serpent tongue. uader the door
Her dress upon chair is en- fire--now
the bed, They must jump, naked too,
down among those men, or die,
Hold or hold on! WAY there
give way tllare. .fiunalf men! Lively
now!
Oh! that was n sight for that mother
and her two children. A ladder compa-
ny thundcrcd down the street with the
cry OF, Way there" for thay have
caught he sight Of woman and children
in distress; and oh how they do press
forward, shouting, Way there; lively
nowl Hold on, we will save you."-
Low quick, after they reach the spot, a
ladder is loosened and Oft the carriaoc
with one end on the ground and the 9th.
or up" lP, mp with her nowm and
so they do. Before it has found rost-
mg place, man, active as a cat, is half
way up. Now he is ut the top: how
hurrah! how the shouts rend the air. for
boy in one arm and the girl in the other,
and tell the mother to follow. She hesi-
tates. What fora The noble fireman
sees at a glance, stops moment pulls
of his coat and throws it to her. Down
they go; now they are safe. Safe with
life--not thing else on earth but her
Two atLerless children, her only covering
q iiremap's coat, Where is her husband
nowf Whero ho will never see them u.
gain for while his attendant slept he tore
the bandages from his wound, and then
slept himself, sleep that one vsice alone
can awaken. Judge him not harsh!y.
he was the victim, not the criminal. lie
IS now dead; tread lightly uron his
grave.
Look to his wife and children. It is
they who need your sympathy. Raised
IN the worst school on earth--the streets ,
OF this city, some Of the life scenes of
which l am to depic'. The boy has al. !
ready learned to " prig," and, so he sa ar. ,
ed the proceeds with his father-that
father, or rather the monster who made
hlm a devil, would encourage the boy to &,
Se thief What could the mother do :,
10 counteract such deIeterious inhuencel
All day she must stand at her corner. SELL
ing fruit, pea nuts, and candy, to make
bread to fesd her else starving offspring,
and to keep her husband out off the pris-
on or aIms.bouse.
The mother weeps, for the first time in
ong years. Long, long. had she steeIed !
her heart against such Indulgence; its ,
pent up hsataiBs burst now. Not fos !
grief; no, they were tears, such a. she !
he'd when that girl was born. How she /
RED, and thanked God, and pressed the !
band Of the firOman and thanked him (or
'aving bef shildrsss lives, dearer to her
ban all berlousehold goods.
How little he thought Of the noble act !
lie almost repulsed her and her graft.
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