The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-16

ana mother t. at doubly orphaned
"We will, we will" said Ellen. awe
Will make lim hsppy, and keep him so,
as far as lice In our power. Were our
Frank left as he is left, hope and trust
that he would find O home In come
happy, hopeful, human heart, or hearts
| pure and true, with q gentle firnness
that would efiectuolly withhold him
from the paths Of evil"
Frank understood something of theiI
conversation, and he said:
lis there something in that naughty
letter, full of sorrow that made my ps
and ma cry. about G little boy"
"Yes. child" replied the mother, "theI
is something about little boy with no
father and mother"
He wound his arms shout his mothers
iieck, and said: 20, do get him, ma.
Coax him to come. Tell him that + will
give all my playthings to him--sled,
whee!barrow and rocking-horse aud
wagon. want little brother go much.
Frank Smith hiss two little brothers to
play with him, and I have to play by
myself-have no little brother"
I'VE will make an effort TO get him to
come," aaid his mother. :sWe viii write
to the gorrowing friends, and tell them
of our desire to adopt the child, and if
we receive favorable reply, we will 70
and bring him home with u.s."
The letter was dispatched by the first
mail, in which Thomas Williams stated
the fact that he and his wife wished to
adopt and rear, as their own, the orphan
child of their departed brother and sister,
and they hoped for speedy aud favors-
Ole ahDwer. They soon received the fol-
lowing reply:
"DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER AND
SISTER-Your. favor is at hand, and the
request therein written has been duly
considered, and every reason for and
against granting such request has been
duly weighed, and allow me to say that
/ could not possibly bring myself to the
point of parting with the child. shall
retain him, not only because of the, re.
quest of my Bainted sister, that should
raise the child as my own, but because of
my great love for the child. His mother
was my only. sister, and as the child is
very beautiful, and very precocious, you
can we'll believe that can love him very
much, aud that it would be very bitter
thing to me- to part with him. If it is
possible for the love of mother for her
child to grow up in the heart of another
than mother, surely love this child,
left in my care, with that love. cannot
give him up to any other person or per-
sons. I cannot even bear to think of
such thing as possible.
Respectfully, JANE B. SMITH"
was, as che had said, the sister of the
nhsIdyo r,nfhnp Ghn v-,npkhx,
man, that Thomas Williams and wife
had henrd annkan of. sometimes by mu-
tual friends, but had never seen. And
Thomas Williams said: 81 must make
another effort to get the child" And
which was the following:
and write again to cay that you must
give up the child of my dead brother. :!
cannot allow you to retain him. could
you in manner that you will doubtless
kgt enc. That is .lis: Woman a=s L,
nowise calculated to rear and educate
boys. They almost invariably ruin them
city. Boys. as they grow up, need ilFm,
ottOuk Autl0 W k0i0O tnCh DEoJ LnC pit
falls set fo- them at the threshold of life
active life-the life of man."
Ee die not know how CALLING end bit
zee syas s:io sentence 20 i1ad penRed, to
meet the eye and strike the heart of that
woman. Very clever pee pie, sometimes,
in their self-will, are guilty of cruelty,
and do not realize the fact. Thomas
Williams did not know that Jane Smith,
with her religious faith and truth, could
and did love the hapless child, as he
never could, with all his ooasted intel
iect. And he seemed to have forgotten
what he had asserted few weeks pre7i-
Gus, in his sorrow, that love is all man
needs to make him blest, and happy, and
he had yet to learn rnur love is ali man
needs to make him truly wise, good and
great.
He did not know that love is all
potent, almost omnipotent, and can do
almost anything every thing; and that
because Of her earnest love for the child,
she was far better calculated to guide
him into the straight and narrow way
that leads to all good, in time and eter-
nifty, than ne, with his boasted strength
of mind,s his calm, clear head, could
possibly be. He did not realize the fac,
that he, gentleman, with wife and
con, Lad written an insult, q bitter taunt,
for guileless, gentle, lonely woman to
read. He had written as he thought,
and as most men think. Most men think
that sons must have fathers, and ie bereft
Of their own fathers some other should
take the place and exercise the authority
OF such, and assume the responsibility
And if yor. man is found in jail
'penitentiaTy. III swinging from galloT5,
the blame is always laidrpon his mother,
if he has mother. She was indulgent
she was weak, che was violent tempered
she was criminal, or she was something
that she should not have been. That iE
what the world always says. Have moi
fathers sore influence over their soma
too2 Is 1t not just possible that fatheI
might make mistake in the training OF
his son, that would result unfavorably
In truth, have known the authority
exercised by father to have an evil In.
huence over the son.
Jane Smith's eyes burned as she read
that letter, aud her heart beat thick and
fast, and her lip curled scornfully. ~
am q woman, am l Z" she said mocking.
ly ave- Z 7 s::. ;c:::.; =-:, sca AZ wa
linnis is o man, and strong, stern, selfish
man, that cannot have the coveted privi.
lege of hardening that delicate and lovely
boy into o man of the world, hard
hearted, calculating, selfish man, thai
would sell his own mother, had be one
Mt q good price. Up, and awake, Jane
Smith. The Master has given You :
work to do; and you will not shrink 10.
falter, but you will perform that work,tt