Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-18
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Observation-Disclosures !

Poverty--Temptation---Victoryl
@. l.. Brace, Secretary of the Now Yorl,
Children's Aid Society writes to the New
York Post, the following touching account
ot the struggles. of young girl with want,
ana misery, and temptation in the great
wilderness, New York
Some two years ago q young English
girl, OF perhaps fifteen years, with refined
manners, and pretty, though pale face, pre-
scnted herself at our Office and ncrvously
asked for some place in family in the coun
try.
She told the usual story of poverty, and
we only observed that her hands were very
thin aud honey, and her checks hollow
and that on being assigned to an cxcellen,
home by Mr.. Marcy, her eyes filled with
sudden tears of tllankfulncss. Sometime
was given her to cat. which she received
quietly, and on the next day went to the
place.
Lately on revisit to the city we learned
the particulars of her history She had
been in England in good circumstances. as
her manner and language showed; had
come over after the death of her father
and on the wasting of his property, to seek
hcr fortune, as do so many others, in AM
erica She sought at once to enter some
trade, and to earn living for herself; but
without friends, and with the crowded COM
petition OF the city, she could find no open
lug. In the same way at the intelligence
onces, after waiting for many days, she
discovered no chance for herself.
Each day hermeans were being exhausted,
and she was Mt length forced to pawn ali
the ornaments and relies of better times
She w; reduced finally to living in small
attic room OF tenement house, SLEEPING
on some straw in one corner. Hour after hour
through the weary day her little feet were
traversing the streets, as she followed nd
NcrtlscmeDts and looked for chance TO
work.
At last she reached the point in which
every available means had been sacrificed
every penny spent, and hunger stared her
IN the face. She describes her feelings
then most touchingly. One day she could
get through quite comfortably without
anything TO eat the second, she crouched
herself in her bed "And do YOU know,
sir, what found best to stop the hunger !?
Why, L drank water, and there / prayed,
and somehow always felt better and strong
ger after itT
The third day, when it seemed as if she
could not hold out much longer, she would
go fQintly down stairs to woman she KIN CIV
In one of the lower rooms, and this woman
would offer her something to cat, which
she would take carclessly, no one ever sus
pecting that the poor creature was being
saved from starvation.
In this mode Of life she grew so weak
she could scarcely walk, and as thin, she
says, as any skeleton She was attacked,
too, with terrible headaches, and some days
she is sure, she was dclrious, for she now
remembers how she seemed sometimes to
see angels and spirits in the little room
bringing her food.
Once or twice she determined to bec.
though she felt as if she would rasher dj!
and she went into a store, and said. gasp.
ingly. "She was hungry" The people
were very kind, and sat her in a chair, and
gave her food, and once, she reeollects, a
tea cup of tea.
Then she lay on her heap ofstraw, think
ing of the dear old English home, and the
comforts there, the mother, and the days
that were gone, she would sometimes saw
w p"e nave uoHe 10 deserve this!
Why shonld God pick me ont to make me
suffer so Why should | be so deserted ?"
One day she had gone down into the
lower room, and sat there weak and des-
pairing, when gentleman entered whom
she described as very grand and wealthy
Jin his appearance. He spoke to her kind
ly: said he watched her go in and out, and
that shS 'nust be in misfortune; that he
had so much admired her-yes, and loved
her! She answered, gasping with weak
ness. "Why do you come here to insult
me because am poor?"
Then, az she describes it; he replied
That he did not mean to insult her. that
he truly loved her; and in various phrases
ne offered to her tolive in asplendd home |
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