The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
HOW SHE WAS SAVED.
.roRY OF WEALTH, POVERTY
AND SUFFERING.
,,,Js Girl saved nom Crime-A
-, and True History OF
R,oken Family in Boston.

vr L.. He WAS a well k oE n
I'D very popular merchant of State
Coo, ard his office, during busi-
hours wss thronged WITH gen
nan who were always engaged in dis
,ioo IN 8 very animated manner the
,o,,, Of the hour-wh,ther it happened
d, .s me price Of gold, the notes on the
,.,gs, or the rise and fall of stocks.
vss not millionaire by any
-,.o. but he was considered quite
u..,,,v, ownirg msgnidcently fIrn-
;ss5 house on Beacon street, riding in
ri, own csrrisge, member Of two or
,,.ss p2pular clubs, and married to a
,,3y IS good as she was handsome
l. had just decided to send
ST, wife snd three children to
Europe with q party Cf friends who
ware going abroad for the benefit Of
thai, bes,b, when the great fire came,
S,ping everything OF value in the busi-
r.s. district and running good many
,s..7rs When hs hsd time TO collect
y, senses, 80 10 speak, be realized that be
Va. bsI Ikrupl; that he could not afford
., rvs snv longer in the house which lie
b.+r.ued his own, and 10 which be had
lived % harp ly so many yra-s. Every
sr,- tta! be hsd ever possessed had
basg swept away; and his books ,(whst
r,ca.ass treasures they would have
moved 10 be now were totally destroyed.
h record Of unpaid bills now; the
months aud years OF lsbor were thing
1.-The PISS. ysIue.ess and forgotten. Mr..
L sIssvs more or less despondent,
rev more and more SO daily until be
ys prost-std d with brain f.ver. His
Beacon street residence had been sold in
.1s meantime 10 satisfy small army of
,-s.i,ors. and Mrs. l.. acted ss nurse to
be-, ,IcS husband, besides performing
various household duties and looking
sae- Der three nIschievous children.
WIDOWS TRIALS.
The house they now occupied was sit.
gs.si IN one # the many narrow streets
Mlhs South Fad, snd was very cosey
Uncomfortable yelling. One morning
s TIE sun Was trying 10 peep through
ne win low hutters Iuto the Carkeued
ggk-'O0m, the SICK man lying on the bed
.ssb.y called mis- wife to him aud whIs-
ps,sd in her esg9r ear about some stocks
.,gbg been deposited with one Of his
trends. The wife was told to secure
,.s;s stocks after her husbands death,
81 tue money obtained by the sale of
item would be sufficient to keep herself
-. children for some time from actual
GA'ysaOn.
lie whispered more encouraging words
al then tarned over on his side and
.scsfllly died. For the next few months
l.sG her husbands death, Mrs. L., with
,.aa, difficulty, obtained any kind Of
employment The money realized by
%. .sls of the stocks WAS long since eX-
-sls.ed, and she had too much pride to
sgp.y to sny OF her former friends and
s.4siltsnCes for advice or assistsn Ce.
>.sg.t little sewI0g TO do occasional
u JI; the compensation WAS so small
.-l was hardly any object for her to
gl.laus working d. tniS particular
ranch Of industry About this time her
s.s:. daughter, Minna, eleven years
o., was suddenly taken sick with
EEla, fever aud died Brenda and Lot.
.s TIE ,yrmer eight and the latter ten
!ss;; old, were the only children the
?g' hs'i-w1rkj'g mother could call her
.sc. Brents, siw4ys siCkly, was the
&c. 20 CoD,r,,. some malignant disease
I'D u three months alter the decease of
EhJs, she, too. died But the mother
.rp.sinei not A smaller room than
hey lsd been IN the habit OF occupying
vn obtained, in which both mother ana
.a-y1;ar lived more like mice than real
;.nsn oelng' Mrs. l.. would like to
A7a sent L)Itie 10 school, but she could
~. DO this S. present, SIS she needle. her
home. She visited stores where
women are employed, but she invariably
,s-sTsd but one answer:
THERE'S so WORK
Sic did obtain work, but It was Ioon
widen! that II was quite an impossibility
. Der TO earn enough to buy bread for
-','e.i srd little daughter, let alone pay
.-S '2e reo. Of the room. L,tte, with
-s. oAiae. on one arm and her shabby
-'' s8lag.'- on the other, visited the
.A..-s beautiful houses IN the neighbor-
q 10 which she used to i've and beg
ss- ''9n door 10 door. While LOttie
y" nus engaged her mother would also
Der travels, vainly searching for
.-ro!nea. Tired, hungry, sick st
-.','r zoe poor woman really thought of
'-.a.ns suicide. But when she
'-'-S2. G.. the sad condition in which
.- '-g-.4 necessarily leave her only
ne tsllshed such an evil thought
'-.s.g Mrs l.. had some friends
s 10 New York City, and she deter
1 ~ 20 "''.e, asking if they would help
4 10 any way. Sns wrote the letter
4 Lever received reply. At this time
II "S 10 the hsbit OF retaining from
sgS1g errsnds almost empty
" On. her mother never com
Ole evening little Lottie came
.'"5 later than usual, and discover
mother crying, iInoceutIy asked
-. '-7 l.l So. Inc mother quickly
-1 Tears and began hummiDg q
..-a 4olgn, 10 tell the trstb. she would