The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-06-11
RAVENNA. THURSDAY, JUNE Ii, 1857.

"You may have the whole lot for that"
answered the drunken man with a swine- like
erunt. y r.a, - q t-'' 'f..'1s ."r... a.,.E
ats a bargnin1 y SAID tic big man, "prO-
vidin' the mothers willing" - = n ~
"Indade. sir, it's not the one of'therl can
be had for money" was the quiet yet deter.
mined response OF the mothers hesrt. 7s'
How kindly he helped her off the cars
when,, at the break Of day, they came to
their journeys ead. ,a ~, ..a.st,..'
Thus all night, he had been attracting the
attention Of the waking ones in the cars -
But his Kindness and rough Uoliteness would
soon have been forgotten by the mass Of the
passengers, had he not stamped it upon our
memories with gold, i. .riE
al wonder who he is,,' and ''where did he
get on" "Whut an interesting character" !"
"Education would spoil him." "What
rich furs.' "Did you notice what splen.
did watch he carries" "He's some great
man incog," e. -, ,s-s.
Such were few of the queries that pass
from lip to lip. But there came no answer,
for he, who dlone could have answered, sat
crouched in his fur coat seeming unconscious
of all but his own deep thoughts. ~.-.i
"Chicago!" shouted the brakeman, and in
an instant all was confusion, apd our hero
was lost in the crowd. The next we saw Of
him, was at the baggage stand, looking up a
band box for sweet looking country girl,
who wal. going, 70 learn, the milIner's trade
in the city. As we passed to our carriage,
we discovered him again, holding an old
man by the hand, while he grusped the
shoulder Of the conductor of another train
with the dther, ,getting r,the deaf, gray hair.
ed sire, the right Information es to the; route
he should take to get to "his durter, who liz.
ed near Muscantine, Iowa. -.
"God bless him for his good deeds!" was
our earnest aspiration, as we -NAirled round
the corner. May his shadow never grow
less, or fhe gold in his pocket diminish, fol
in his. unqqmbered chdrities and mercies
dropped SO unostentatiously here and there
he is perhaps, doing more good in his day
and generation, than he. who donates BIZ
thousands to build charitable Institutions, t.
give honor to his own name. n.t
Oh, how much tbe wald peedsgreat heurt.
that are able to cortprehend little things
and yet how often it hippens that the learn
ed, the wise, and the rich, outgrow the every
day wants Of humanity, and feeling within
themselves the power to move nightly
pass by the humble duties that would max,
q thousand hearts leap for 'y2and push on
looking for some wrong to right. some grea
sorrow to be sooth - .:sor.e giant work to b.
accomplished; and failing to find the grea
work, live and die, incarceratcd in their owl
selfshness, and do nothing at all. ~, .as
This rough mans nature eeeSned the ma
ture of the little child. His quick eye saw
at glance; his great heart wormed, and hi
great hand executed his little works Of chari
ty-so small that one would have expected
to see. them slip between his giant finger
unaccomplished-yet they were aone:. Th
CANCEL over his right shoulder" will have
longer couhn to set down to his accoun
of deeds we'll done, than all the rest of tn
passengers o: that crowded car, on that long
tedious, stormy night, in January, 1866.