Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-31

UATA hhEcit VIII hSfsg -" - ~
by the side Of an Atheist. The rVom Nss
The home Of a ppOr msb; the P''or 'nsn
looked ye.y souO~fuI, bni by his sds, 40
.. en-, stood bright nngsl.
sDon't know, Jake" SAIL the poor msn,
croueLing closer 10 the Little braE.Tt Il
cOals;-~but seems 10 me tbs worlds
mighty mean place"
sThe worlds good enough rs tn Peo
pie that's on IT, said the philosopher Jake.
-Weil, don't know, tell you,' SAID
the poor man; "hefe's this cold ~eather.
II lnsB amt got no work, jet sse how
i fyeezs, bin. Here Pm pInebed Up
With the cold, no oyeIeoat, no wSrin thick
clothes, aud ubsn | go out it Seems as Il
the wiDd owei me spite aLd Ut ~hls'Ied
through my boues 'esuse 1t knows It hu'ts.
Tl,en there's The earth you crack up -.
dou't yield me nothing, cuy them that
can pay, get the eorn snd tue P9tatoeA.-
If should ask anything Of It. It would
only give me a pawn stone 'eoidih' to
,cripter The nature that you talk shout
and CA tie great esceuse, aud all that, Is
mlphIy purity sometimes, If msn's got
ltnnv u enlOy il; but then it raj 5. halls
ltnuud.r,, and SHOWS. and nature likes to
I,iup down my cracks 10 the wall, aud
Imtle splt,zer thar it does on tue ground.
Nature don't give the coat to wear, and
t.ake NE = pair Of paDtalOons. No, Jake
| III give H.; | amt got ss much larnih a
YOU have. Lut III Le bln!ered If l don
there's a better place than this somev here
praps you're houest when you say there
no God, and natures our mother, an al
that, but il don't give a poor fellow an.
consolation when be amt got any brea'
and butter. That's 50! Nov, when
was a little felIer, | had good mother
I yes Jake, | had 50! l have known th
. time when she was that hungry she Ie'
; no and cried for herself and me too; an
tuen remember she jest down and prsye
a TO the Lord that be would send her son
bread, aud be sent it! He did so!
Don't believe il all yarn! Well,
!. guess if you'd gone hungry twenty tot
!. nouns, you'd believed that bread wa
8 bread, aud not yarn, when you got boil
: of it. Il tell YOU somebody brought a oa
i ket chuck full Of bread, and Knocked
!. our door and pushed it IN, aUd didn't s'
, nothing. Ttsn says my mother, says sh'
\ Bob don't forget TO pray; but l haven
minded her vuce," aud the rough ma
il drew closer to the smoking Goals and b
II. his face 10 his bands, while the bright a
in gel drew closer 10 him.
"No, it won't do for you to TAX to
rs that are WY, Jake, though | knows you
a a biz sight ceyeier than be. But 81
US something ouce that was worth more
me than oil you can say. Why, 1t v
a. my wife a dying. The poor thing!
ed hadn't cen alto setber kn'i 10 her, J"s
MS it wele my spreeing habits, You see'
10, regularly gwen over 10 the Oil one
he mighty poor, tell you. We'll, l &
he her the rough word mays the ume' ?,
. sopl. and made her te rs come iuto
Ike ewes often. But when she died she
al. SAID the loveIiest things Lout heaven,
Nv, forgive me every wicked thing Id did,
lch said she saw angels, and was going up
my her Father in glory, ani booked so hap
You may laugh al me, if You like Tor
the king on Ike baby, but that WASH
cat, shame, that dying bed"
uck "L,ook how God has taken care oil I
all Better say look how I've took care OF
na, self Better say, Bob, you've spent eno'
.sd money in dnnk, aud cigars, aud be't
and treating, and fouIing. to have a
dr. house over your head, and living v
the too -! there, that's the last oath
or ,ou'n hear out Of my head. all
yer goipg TO be dawn into believing
liter Sicked notious. cause | k"oW there
,uY G,d and mean to know Hun better
ou?' / do. There, feel warmer now, aud Il
ant; comfortable, aud I'm going ght owe
! ,Le preacher, what cswe when my
got Mary died; and Ill tell him | va"
i OF meet her tLere, aud ask him 20 SLOW
that tie way" -, -
uuld The dark angel covered his face
cad = his wing, and the bright angel SCARE
4 IA of ,,,,,, h 20 heaven,