Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-06-13
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, june 13, 1860.


me the coal was in
Very well, said /, you may pay the boys
and handed him the necessary amo unit. Blu
now Katy followed him across tn 9 dining
room and looking over his shoul der reported
cabbage In, and waited for further orders
Let me pay him, too, mamma said Lew
"No, wish to see him. Katy, send hin
into the dining ROOM
Nov said [, as gave him the money,
Il wish you to tell me where you live, and il
your mother is sick and in distress, I will 90
see her.
'Yes'n,' said he, with the gloom coming
back TO hss face, as he began in istless way
to t-l<,-.ls where she lived.
L believed what you told me, said L, fix
ing my eye keenly upon him. for I had been
deceived too often to accept with full credul-
ity all that heard; DO you wish me to go
and see your motherP
Yes m, said he, after moments hesitation.
'bus you won't come
why do you think won't Gomez
Many ladies tell me SO, but they never
come. WANTED somebody to come to her at
first but its no USE
L know the place. said I, as his direction
PoAdlSo W aiS tULuOlt QOHu tSEaQE mouse
which L had often visited, 'and 1 will come
this afternoon or in the morning.
Yes, ma'am, said he bowling with
graceful motion of his ragged cap as he went
oC of the room.
Prompted by the boys distrust of me, L
set out on my usual afternoon walk soon after
dinner, and not more than two or three hours
had elapsed since he left me before l was as
aa1 ~. - fhn1 cfasr L
mothers room. A racking struck my ear as
knocked at the low door, which was opened
at once by the coal boy, who stood before me
with the SCOT washed from his face, and lis
ragged coat replaced by thoroughly clean
but well patched apron.
'Thereies no chair said he, half timidly,
he usbered me into the room; we have sold
the last onei
A few chips, evidently gathered from the
wood yards and slips. were burning on the
hearth, and on the bed, in one corner, lay the
sick mother, with a wretched looking little
girl nestled asleep beside her I went up to
eyes that were fixed upon me from the mo-
der my scrutiny, which continued with a
Sto"hS iSOeoSu uisiou AoH tho VI 1uiee Eiiu-
utes. So = 49, - ~
Sarah Harmon I exclaimed at length.
You know me then, she said turning her
face to the pillow. i knew that you would
come. He told me what you said, and felt
sure that you would come.'
Did you know who it was, Sarah? Have
you known that was living so near you'll
Yes. / have seen you in your yard last
when went By with my work to
the shops; Charlie said it was the cottage
with the roses-I knew the place.
And why have l not known that you were
You should have let me known
Il was better then,i said she, feebly, ssand
you never liked me very WE'LL
This was true-we had grown up in the
same village. the roofs where We were born
we're within a stones throw of one another,
but our natures were essentially different, and
as our tastes led us too seek different amuse-
ments and different associates, we grew far
ther apart. There had never been any en-
nifty. but there was little affection between
US; and when I knew she would marry the
weak unprincipled Charley Escott, simply
because he had musical name and grace
full carriage, liked her less than ever. She
was the child of good christian parents, but
doubtless they had erred much In the training
Of this their only child.
From the time of her marriage L had
known nothing of her. I had removed to
distant city, and she had followed her hus-
bands fortunes, or rather misfortunes, from
one wrethed home to another, until he was
laid in drunkard's grave, and she was left
with her frail children and her ruined health,
to the poverty and contempt of drundard's
family.
Il care nothing for myself she said, i
have borne every thing that human nature
can bear, 1 only wish that some one may
care for my Dor children when L have gone.
Poor little Charlie has done every thing for
me. He is good boy and will serve any
one well that will take him. But dear little
Jennie-I don't know what will become of
her'
Poor little Jennie indeed! The trials of
her mother and herself, had shattered both
mind and body, and she had lived through
the four sad years of her life just on the
verge of idiocy. But this her mother failed
to see, aud it was WELL for God bad made
for the child in HIS own home. We
made them both comfortable while they abode
on this side of the dark valley. But the
mother fingered only till the spring airs come.
aud before the summer was gone, Charlie
bowed himself again in grief that knew no
over Jenniels grave. The child
who had been SO sad spectacle to every one
elso. was all the world TO him, and very ten
derly had he nursed her through all the sum-
mer days, never believing that death had al
ready had his chains about he-.
Charlie Escot is now in the employ of an
excellent man, who believes that his duty to
those who serve him is not finished when he
paws them, and he appears to be growing
up as young man Of sterling principle. HIS
mothers last prayer was. that he might be
"A 20 loot at life more wisely than she