Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-05-28

starved to work. She had given the last NOR
sci TO her children, and mother-like had gone
| without herself
sWell,' said she, Il will 20 to Mr.. Grinders
and will tell him all about Il, may be his heart
will be Touched 80 fixing her sick child she
| started for his store. Her head throbbed, her
eyes burned, her step faltered; she was almost
ready to fall as she stepped into Mr.. Grinders
store.
Well said he, Pm glad to see you here
| had given you out. I'm in need OF q little
loose change Just now, to pay off my paper
account--what you owe me will just about do
it,
Poor woman you can better imagine her
feelings than can describe them. 1t was a
blow under which her exhausted frame could
not stand she swooned and fell.
'Ah,' said Grinder, drunk as liye--that
accounts for your poverty Sosaying, he was
about to send for police, when an old man
who looked as if he had seen better days, said
perhaps she was sick.
sShe Is not drunk, said temperate young
man, as he raised her from the floor, and or
dered some cold water to be thrown in her
face; which done, she soon came too.
sPshaw,' said Grinder, all pretence.'
'Well, Mrs. Port, said he, let's settle be-
fore you faint again2'
sSir,' said the woman, / am not drunk, nor
have pretended to anything not real. The
sad news have to tell you, and the repulse
am to meet, with other things as bad, makes
, my tevered head giddy. am sorry to say
sir, that l, have not all ofthe money to pay you
!, for the things bought here the other day.
My child was sick, and l did not get thos'
shirts done as / expected; and now it will b.
some time before l can bring you the remain
t. der Of the money-here is one dollar, ever
ii cent in this world l have got. l am almos
starved and so are my children. oh wha
Il, shall / do if you will not let me have some
thing to go upon until l can get the rest {
Mrs. staryer's shirts doEe.'
"a What said Grinder, let you have mol
n, when you have so completely disappointed n
this time 2 No, not | so II you have no mo
money for me, you had as well to leave.'
Slowly and nervousy she went back to h
hut. As she entered the door, everythii
turned green before her eyes, and falling {
her bed her mind wandered back in dolirio
state to her infant days when she was the p
Of fondling father and mother.
,9' Late at night as the Waterman passed |
~, the door OF Mrs. Port, he heard the muffle
~ moan Of some one within. He stopped, al
y could distinctly hear the heavy breathings
u some one Within He knocked at the doc
ho but no one answered him he knocked agal
' nr but nought could he hear but the same 10
'ei half-stihed moan. He then tried the bolt.
I, the door opened, and he went in holding Ii
~ lamp in his hand. Oh what sight did tn
a light OF his lamp flash before his eyes. I'll
y infant in the cradle was dead, cold and sti
u The children lay scattered over the fio
-, sleeping, whilst the poor woman--the grea
=" est object OF misery of all, lay stretched upt
:, the bed. She was out of her head with
u raging fever, and could hardly be reused fro
her terpor, and when she was, she would c.
~, oh my poor baby-my sick chid-my star
~, ing Children and would SAY something indi
tinctly about Mrs. Starver, and Mr.. Grinde
- and then fall back into deep stupor.
If The watehman went to procure some med
- cal aid, but ere he returned with the Doctc
al her spirit had winged its aight from Garth
al heaven. The next day tho sleeping moth
20 and her little babe were both placed in o
~ collin and borne away to their long home
Nv the cemetery. happy looking smile seem
ny to play around the cold lips OF the poor "
,ie man. The last wave of sorrow that swell
,na her breast had lulled into quiet calm, a
~" 80 the features which were so dreadtuly agitat
~, the day before, now looked like the unrufil
~. face of the sea after storm.
ny Her children were sent to the Orphans !
Inc sylum where they were taken care of.
IS what a pleasing thought it is to the pic
~, hearts Of all such poor oppressed and hum
u christians, that there is day coming wi
,ont even-handed Justice will be meeted out to
S So,t How many measured signs and bottled tie
l ~. will be produced as testimony against tn
1ou who wrung the ono and extracted the other
-. How many analogous cases to the one gi
nut above arc there in this very enlightened Q
!, Ss The rich and proud have always oppres
'i ln the poor and humble, making them pay n
w for their goods, and giving thom less for
went labor.
!. ~ Toll on, poor oppressed ones, God is :
" u u. friend. Let your hearts lean on his arm,
an. your affections twine round his promise
1uu Y our misery ia all known IN pis,, -ssss is
time he viii aYenge your injuries.
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