The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-02

man, who had opened the door and came ou-
Immediately after her, don't stand and talk
with that girl. You'll catch your death
Here, III give her these, ard do you come
along. You'll have to walk fast to keep warm
this bitter morning.
He held out two three cent pieces. They /
alipped from his ckly.gIoved fingers, and
he left Anna to pick them up. Before she
had succeeded in doing so he was out Of sight,
with the lady pressed close to his side. Anra
ran to the nearest bakers and bought loaf OF
bread. You can't stay here to eat II, girl,
said the bakeress, and size reluctantly left the
weli-warmed shop, turned the corner in the
avenue. and sat down on a stoop e The bread
was hot, and after filing her mouth. she plang.
| ed both hands into the middle Of the smoking
loaf, and pressed it to her freezing bosom g
Come. Young woman, said q policeman, ta-,
king berby the shoulder. these are'ine tradge-
| dy airs. Don't you know you mustn't sit heref
| The wretched girl rose and tottered away,
completely overcome. Surely she had reach
| ed the depth of degradation-she had been
moved on by policeman:
| The gentleman and lady reappeared -
There's that girl hanging about here yet, An
| ns heard him say
OF father, replied the young lady, she IS
eating loaf of bread that she bought With
the change that you gaze her.
! Well let her go home and eat it properly,
then. She's not starving now, certainly, be
said.
| Homei
| The plate, glass door Of their house had on
| ly Just closed after them, when Anna espied
upon the pavement lady's watch, dropped,
doubtless, by the bright, rich girl who had
| just disappeared. She raised it and held it
for a momeu. in her hand. Within that small,
enameled thing was hid food, warmth, cloth
L sLalka hat har
gered upon it. aud her brain drew dizzy with
temptation. Let us not attempt to estimate
| that conflict, we who have never shivered
| homeless and hopeless outside of rich man e
door. Anna had taken step to restore the
watch, when ont hustled the tail gentleman.
| Here, police, police, my daughter has lost
her watch. stolen, think. likely, by a girl
uho-Oh here she is, behind this post.
| The watch was in ADna's hands. Very
! fortunate, said Mr.. Miller.
But how harde ned as well as adroit yeu
| d ust be, to steal from one xho stopped to give
you kind word at
Believe me-, implored Anna, did not
steal it. The lady dropped it.
| Nonsense l.. Il would have shiversd in a
Thousand pieces You'd do much better to
| confess it, 80
seen her sround, not quarter of an hour
ago, aud told her to be off. but she knowed
o. be merciful. shrieke Anna. wildly
I am innocent I can get no work l am
starving. 1 am perishing with cold You
win not even let nae warm myself by any Of
your fires e.
Nouesense, said Mr. Miller -.
Come along without any fuss, young wo-
man, said the officer.
Anna looked from.o harsh brow to an
other All light of hope went out of her
Il. har he.
and the officer half carried her to the station
house. She tainted awey when she arrived
there, and they laid her on one of those beds
which never got cold occupied as they are by
such a continual succession of dirty, noisome
outcasts. There she, the child of clergy
man. educated, refined, spent the day and
night along with the vicious. the debased, the
intoxicated. The next morning she was
marched into the police court with the crowd
of wretches.
What Is ur name, asked the magistrate.
She could not give the honorable name of
| her dead father. Mary Jones, blush for
the falsehood dying her cheeks
1t is astonishing what n number of Mary
Joneses we see here, said the judge. Well,
Mary, what have you to say TO this charge
found the watch on the sidewalk, sir, an
swered Anna, almost inaudibly.
Found it o that's the old story. -
Dut heI WOruS were cOrrODOFateO Dy TWO
boys, who had seen her take something from
the pavement, and Mr.. Miller declined to
prosecute the charge, 30 the conclusion Of the
judge was, you may go. It seemed matter
of Indifference to her. so utterly broken down
was she. They helped her to leave the court
and Mr., Miller followed her. Fastening upon
her wapface look of pity,l.e said. Ny poor
girl / should like to DO something for you
What is it that you want?
want to keep from losing the next world
as have lest this
Here, go to my house and ask for my
daughter, said he, giving her card.
Margaret, said Miss Miller to her chamber
| maid, after she had read the words on the
| card, and heard of some of Annals hardships,
couldn't you find room for this girl in some
| lodging house? There must be many such
houses for poor people. l think / dare say,
mem, returned Margaret, but I'm not used to
going about lem places, mem.
Haven't you sister who keeps house ask
ed the young lady, couldn't she take her for
little while
The chamber maid tossed her head. don't
| think she would, mem. She lives very re-
spectacle, does my sister.
I dent know what to do, ssid Miss Miller,
perplexed. ~
But when Anna next spoke her words were
wild and ineoherent. Her sufferings for the
past few days had been too much for her
mind and body, and she was now fairly deir-
ions.
When Mr.. Miller came home, he sent for q
carriage, and had her taken to q hsspital.-
There, two days after she died.-Peterssn's
M@gasine.
EE WOMAN Is the river, which is lost il
j, miss the sea. Man 10 the sea, which If ii
miss the river, is the sea still. -
~ PovxKfEs h the only dead which is
the heavier the more loved ones there are to
assist in carrying it.