Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-03-11

I garment upon Its shivering body, was starv
| esl-looking babe, gnawing piece of giistle.
Thas was the children's infant s.h sis5er; 40 t,;.
world and the next Her sufferings had EN-
bittered her very soul. She had come to be-
"If there was Cod" she exclaimed, show
could he let us suffer so? What has that poor
babe done.' she passionately cried and point;
be be- left eff Ht to % sraRvsp ri What have these poor
!, children done that they should be driven to
BEGp Do you hear? to BEG
| he is a Christian: HE believes in God-in a
God that leaves him to DIE LIKE A DOG in this
miserable hole
ing to buy medicine for him. And the doctor
says he must die. He has prayed to live that
ne might t:.ke care of his children: but his
God WORT let him live. OH. no; he's wanted
in Heaven, / suppose and his wife ard chill
| dren are to be left to starve here on earth !'
/ Tho dying husband was Mortified by this
passionate, blasphemous outburst on the part
of his wife; and in feeble tones he begged her
to dcsist If she would not kill him outright
She placed her hands over her face and wept
Historically. When she had become calm
enough to listen, Mr.. Van Meter addressed
some soothing words to her. told her that God
had not deserted them; but had just sent him
thither to help her and her husband and her
children. and lift the burden of misery from
their hearts.
They were soon all mad, ,as comfortable as
possible, but the husband and babe both died
| in Il few days. Soon afterwards homes were
| found in Christian families for the two re-
manning children, and the widowed mother
| Several months afterwards Mr.. Van Meter
| was sent for to visit Il woman who was SAID to
he elying at the point of death; He went. and
on entering the room where she lay, the dying
woman feebly extended her hand to him and
said:
| as though could not die without sending for
you and telling you God blessed your visit to
us in the attic and made it the means of my
souls salvation. feel certain now that am
going to Join my husband and my babe, and
l know that God will take care of our chill
dren."
In few more hours that woman had gone
| to her eternal home; and she was the same
woman rho had so implously revied her hus-
bands faith in God but a few months before
The Inhabitants of other cities, and of the
| country at large must not imagine that they
have no personal interest IN these horrors.
The truth of the matter is that they really
have more at stake in these things than the
natives of New York City have.
The statistics of vice and crime show that
their ranks are more largely recruited from
the native families of this city. Young men
and young women are constantly coming
hitherfrom all parts of the land to seek their
fortunes, and too often they find them in n
felOn's cell or II castaway's grave:
The minions of vice and debauchery go forth
from this city to the utmost bounds of the I'm
ion, seeking whom they may lure into the
ways which lead to death. There are keepers
of houses of i'll fame in this city who have
schools, under assumed names-whether sent
there as decoys or to escape their mothers
shame We cannot tell but in any event, what
yirtuous mother would not shudder at the
thought of her daughters sharing the room
and bed of one of these children of sin and in
fanny? And yet, SO long as any mothers
daughter is neglected, no mothers daughter
is safe!
A faint notion of the result of all these things
may be conceive by considering the fact that
at the last investigation of this matter made
"a fp i Il
living in the Union at large, represented
among the abandoned women of this city
State and more are coming all the time. Not
day passes that the railroad trains do not
bear hither, from some part OF the land, fugi-
tive daughters, fleeing from homes which
shall know their no more forever.
While the reader is perusing these pages the
chances are that from some country cottage,
Southern home, there will be fleeing hther
some poor fugitive girl, in whose heart all
earthly hope has been quenched, and who be-
lieves that her only refuge is to be found in
the death laden hospitality which metropoli
tan vice is ever ready to offer to all comers.
Such girl was found not long ago by Mr..
sounded sin and misfortune nearly to their
lowest depths. 1t was bitter cold day. The
girl had no fire. She had no furniture, Her
bed was the remnant of q CASTOR mattress;
her bedding q piece of ragged carpet. She
had not even chair or stool She sat on an
old pail turned upside down. The only gar-
She was barefooted. On her lap she held her
babe, which was dying with the small poX.
She tried to cover her babe with the skirt of
her dress, and rocked back and forth with it,
and sung and cooed to it with that deathless
maternal devotion which annihilates all
thought of selfin true mothers heart.
That girl, less than sixteen months before,
had been the happy daughter of Il happy home
in a neighboring State. And yet there she sat.
on that cold winter day, in a desolation of
wretchedness only tc be equalled in bitterness
by that of the home from which she had fed
with him who had been false to the vows which
had lured her to destruction.
Sergeant Towns, of the Fourth Precinct
(Metropolican Police) not long since found
building known ''The Barracks Nos. 81
and 80 James street. She was from Darien
in the State of Connecticut. But a short time
before she one of the most beautiful and
attractive girls that ever promenaded the
fashionable side of Broadway, When found
description. She had come to New York to
earn her living by doing fine needlework. She
ended her days an outcast, and was buried by
the city in an OutcaSt'S grave.
The lesson which we would have these facts
enforce is, that it isuseless for fathers or moth
ers, in any part of the land, to attempt to shut
out the fact from their consciousness and their
and every family in the Union, is interested
in these terrible matters. Sons AS well as
daughters come from near and from far, and
are carr led over the precipice and swallowed
up in the m8elStrOm of metropolitan vice. and
ceaselessly feed the city prisons and the city
burial ground; and no one can say hose sons
or whose daughters will be or will not be the
future victims.