The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-07-27
5 @c 3. SATURDAY MORN JULY ~, 1872.
ansyered the baker. 81 shall go With
you to see your mother"

you to see your mother"
Joe was very glad when the baker. in
closed his solitary cold baud in his large
Sarm one; and when the child said he
must stop and Inquire at the coal.ih he'd
about coach, his friend only laughed and
astonishcd him by the rapidity and the
magnitude of his purchases-hot soup
and meat from cookshop, tea, sugar,
three large candles, and hundred Of
coal, and all for Joe's mother AT last
the child burst into tears.
"What is the matter now, little, snow
boy 2" inquired the baker.
Nothing, sir only mother will have
all l-she wants without my helpl'
""No, my child it is all through you
that she will receive this little help from
an cid friend. If you had not practiced
self-help. and loved your mother, you
would not have enlisted my sympathy
and had my heIpp'
"Mother was afraid Of the snow"
said little Joe, but / told her it cam
for good"
"Did you ever hear this. little snow
boy" inquired the baker" THAT all
things work together for good to those
who love the Lord p"
Eyes, sir mother has said it, though
she's so dull at times. This is the house
but think you are too broad across the
shoulders to get up the top stairs" For
an,instant the baker doubted and looked
inquiringiy at the child could it be
that he had made Up story about his
mother. But Joe added, "You can get
up sideways, sir, us the landlady does
when she comes for rent"
/ think we all know By this time what
kind heart the baker had, and cen be.
lieve that he felt very sad when he saw
the once pretty and bright village girl Q
faded wornout woman
"Joe should not have brought you
here, MIR. Glascote," she said, drawing o
tErcadbare blanket around her. "I dc
Lot want to iutrude my poverty on any
one" $500
"Mother,R Interrupted Joe, "the gen.
tleman's very kind, bu. we have money
OF our own, mother. / earned tenpeuce
half-penny rs a snow-boy did not tell
you the snow came for good z"
God sends poverty as we'll as riches
observed her visitor, s'and five knew
all, one is often rs great & blessing as
the other; your life fell among hard
lines, but that will make you the hap
pier, perhaps, BY and by. At nil events
among all your trials" (thc baker laid
his hand on Joe's head as he spoke) "he
gave an angel to your bosom"
That's true" said the widow "bul
see how greatly even my poor child has
been maimed and afflicted"
Losing my arm" exclaimed little
Joe. "Why, mother, that's blessing
III have the one-armed boy for my
doo,' said one lady, and she gave me two
pence, and when the other lads said the
would do it quicker, she repeated, 'Sio "
and sure a great biz navy, who a,
first pushed Inc off the pavement, when
he saw | had but one arm, pattcd me on
the back till | shook again, and said !
was a brave little man, and he would let
ne sweep where liked he spoke as il
the street belonged to him. Mother
my half arm gets me smiles and kind
words and friends; | was right abou,
the snow, mother; | was right about
the snow ~
It's wonderful what good may be
done by a little thought, and a little
time we'll laid out.
rhn k::.-i -, ~ fr..;;7,;; -. 20 a..
Boyd's farm, aud in very few days at
EFterward the iarrcr's widowed sister aud
hei iiteic ooe were Uehcath the sheltCl
OF his roof. Mary's mother had been
dead two years, aud Mr.. Boyd's sister is
considered even by Tom to be n comior,
in the house; und J.oc-cven now Joe
can do with his ono arm what Tom with
his too, am sorry TO say, is never Ike.
ly to accomplishing can write his un.
cle's letters, and cast up his unclcs bills
and what is better, he is bright and
cheerful and grateful. His uncle says
the little 'snow-boy' could find etraw
berries in bed OF nettles
The copjunctiyo mood-t thought Of
matrimony.
What g,ows bigger tho moro vou