Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-03-28

science. resolved that would eudeav.
or to draw from Manton the story of his
life. ! believed that, in eudeavoring to
show him his guilt, I would also. by
c'using him to see his need of pardon,
make him feel the truth of what [ had
told him about God | visited him fire.
qnently. and endeavored gradually to put
my plan into execution. He received me
always very coldly, and never failed to
repulse me in every effort 1 made to bring
the truth before him At last one morning
while we were sitting together in his cell,
he turned to me suddenly, said with sneer:
"'You thiuk it very strange that such
rough and ragged fellow as am, should
murder fine gentleman. But, man + he
cried, with sudden energy,'I am saint
compared with that 6nc gentleman. He
must have been born in hell.
"'Do not talk in that wav.' I ex.
claimed. Alas that you should have
thought So.
"I will tell you why I thought so,'
he said, excitedly. If you will listen
to me, will tell you of something blacker
and fouler than that devil you preach
about so wisely. When have told you
all, you can tell your people in your SER
mons that there are two devils iu hell now,
bat the greater one went there only short
while ago
"He rested his head on his hand, and
was silent for awhile. Then he began in
a low. singular voice: .
81 shall have to 90 back to the very
beginning to ma ke you understand Inc
thoroughly, If lweis to tell you every,
thing, it would take Longer time than
have to live; so will give you only a
part of my life. don't remember much
about my father and mother only recol-
lect that they used to get drunk, and fight
and beat me. When l was just olu enough
to take notice of things around me, both
of them disappeared, and 1 never knew
what became of them. After staying in
our.ctllar until hungry Iwent out into the
street; and there managed to get some
thing to eat. 1 lost my way, and never
got back to the cellar again. From that
time 1 lived in the street. Don't remem-
Der much about myself until l had grown
up, and then went to work as other boys
did. Soon learned to steal, and after
awhile became very smart at picking pock-
cts. The world was not very attractive
to me, and has never been since ;-never
met with Kindness III my childhood, but
was kicked about like young dog. Street
boys make no friends. People look upon
'hem as nuisances and pests; but, instead
of holding out hand to help them to be
better they kick them into worse condi.
tion than ever. One day was picking a
mans pocket, when 1 saw girl looking
at me. Took my hand out of the mans
pocket, and let him 60 on. The girl came
to me and said, I'm glad you didn't tax,
that handkerchief 'Wnyy Because
it would have been stealing, and it's wrong
to steal I couldn't get mad with that
child, so walked along by her, and list
ened to her as she talked to me. Found
that she was as poor as was, and with
out father or mother. She had to work
very hard to support herself Her name
was Lucie. and she lived in a garret il
in one of the suburbs of the city. Went
home with her, aud talked for long time
Before going away, she made me prom
ise no: to steal any more, and to try t
get some honest work. She was atou
}, my age, but older in character. On going
away / determined that I'd never stea
again, aud to this day have kept my res
olution. got work enough to supror
, me, and to enable me to help Luce to &c
along For long time she would let III
help her, but after awhile she yielded Il
me. Went to see her every evening, ant
always carried her the greater portion Q
my earnings for the day. She did no
have to work so hard, now that she hat
me to help her. Sometimes she made IN
20 to church with her, aud there heard
, man talk about somebody that he caile'
, God, and who Was kind to poor people
. aud who protected and loved them.
g didn't believe what the man said, tor ~
very hard time, and nobody had eve
loved or cared for me- Lucie believed II
: aud said it made her happy. We live
. in this way, for four years. Luce wa
I seventeen now, and very pretty. / ha
n grown to be large, stout boy for my az
!, and was abe to get along very well,
!. noticed young man, dressed very finely
v walking with Lucie. Did not like hi
v looks, and warned Lucie to have notbin
j. to do with him. She laughed, and tol
me he was very nice young man, an
that she was doing some sewing for hiu
n After a while noticed that Lucie had
It great many 6ue things that she couldn
afford to buy and knew at once that u
t, young man had gwen them to her II
il name was Mark Hale. knew that ii,
}. gentleman could have DO good motives
d paying such attentions to poor sewn
m girl. and determined to try to put SIC