Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1858-01-16

iom tne place
The keen, frosty air partially restored
her strength and Rachel proceeded with
her children ill she reached the thorough
fare leading through st. Margaret's church
yard towards the Almonry, when a faint
moan from Mary, whom she still carried
in her arms, arrested her steps. She
placed her hand under the thin faded
shawl which covered her the child was
cold as ice, and shivering, as If seized with
an ague e..
She is dying groaned the terror.st,ick-
en- pareht-'dying for the want of food =
The heart of her boy could endure no
more-it was breaking, The cup of mis-
cry and endurance had been filed to over.
flowing. His brain was op fre-tcars
could not quench it,
Take her home mother = he cried
take her homel never fear but 1 will
bring you food i! Mary shan't die I'll
beg-beg,' he added anything to save
herr
'Richatdl Richard do not leave me .
shriekcd his agonized parent. Let me
not lose both my children if you love your
mother, return--for PHYS sake re,urnp
The appeal came too late. Her son,
stung maddened beyond endurance by the
sufferings of those so dear to him, had bro.
ken from him Tie grasp, darted down the
'horoughfare, and was already beyond the
reach Of her voice.
Rachel clpng to the ratings of the
churchyard for support, till q, second moan
still fainter than the first cent a pang
through her maternal breast.
'She must not die in the streetln mur-
nured Rachel, 'Home-home if have
strength to reach it, ! ...
'Oh, God = she cried with q sudden
burst of anguish, protect my boyl Shield
him from crime; guard him against vices
and the hideous shares which in a thou
sand forms assail unfriended youth; or
take him. she added solemnly, take him
in Thy mercy
1t was a Christians prayer wrung from
amother's heart, uttered in faith, in agony
and tears; and angels bore it to the mercy
seat or. high.
Claspiug her perishing child yet closer
to her aching bosom, the drunkard's wife
hasteDed to her home. =. -.
AS Richard Hoffman rushed along tho
street, scarce knowing whittier he went,
and only intent on the one idea Of getting
by SOME means, food for his famished
mother and sister, be was hailed by Jack
Manders, an impsh acquain ance who lived
near richards home, and to whom he old
the desperate state in which he had left
those so dear to him. Jack listened with
much interest," and at once proposed to
Richard to help him to pick the pocket of
an old gentleman, who was staring into
window en- the opposite side of the street.
Richard refused with horror, although
Jack urged The necessity of at once getting
something to save the life Of his mother
and little Mary. Jack then undertook the
business alone, and just as he lad relieved
the old gentleman of his pocket-book, a
policemen sprang from the doorway to
arrest him; but Jack made good his escape
Net SO Richard, who was at once seized by
! The policeman as an accomplice of the es-
capped pickpocket. d, .. ...
4 am no thief, sir, cried Richard break
, ing from the strong grasp that held him
and throwing himself at the feet of
f the old gentleman, who had Just come .c
the spot, though poverty and hunger
tempted me to become one. My mothe
and sister are starving
, The future history and trials of this poo
boy will be given in the New York Ledge,
!. OF January le, which is for sale at all tn,
n bookstores and news offices.