The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-06-06
Taken Care or.
let charity begin at home,
But not stay there forever.

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She was very sick; so sick that life
and hope seemed TO drift away togeth
er, and so poor that there were no in
ducements for her to live, and as she
lay there day after day with little
wailing babe on her arm, and only a
stranger to bring her bite or sup, she
wondered why she could not die and SO
be out of her misery She had no past
to regret or to look upon with pleasure.
She had no future to promise her health.
All she was conscious of was dull ach-
ing of all the forces of life and weary
endeavor TO get help for her perishing
baby, the only thing she had in the
world TO love since her husband had
died in the hospital q few weeks previ-
Gus. They had always been poor but
never sick and destitute before.
But some good people, however, had
the case under consideration and were
going to do something for her as soon
as it could be determined whether she
belonged to the city or county poor.
There were some ladies who met once a
month in brocades and velvet, and
talked of her as a ''person," and won
dered If she were deserving, and finally
they decided to help her by taking her
baby from her and sending it to found
ling asylum until she could get well
and support it. They thought as Mr..
Dombey did, she might get well easily
enough If she would just make an effort.
A committee of two went in carriage
TO the house where she lived, and CROP
ing their way past the washerwoman's
room and the house-cleaner's room they
went carefully up the lettering stairs
and found her door and opened it.
/ don't think either of the ladies
would have sacrificed q diamond ring
to make her comfortable, but they
would have begged for her up one side
of the street and down the other and
told her what 70 do with the money now
she had it, and sent her a shoulder
shawl and some unbleached cotton, and
their sensitive hearts were troubled by
the squalor of the place and the pala
pinched features of the woman lying an
the miserable bed, but they rallied to
their work.
"The society for helping the helpless
has considered your case,n said the
spokeswoman, sand have decided to
assist you. We will take your baby and
see that it is provided for at the or
phan's retreat, until you are able to do
something. The ladies have been very
kind in interesting themselves" z
Strangely enough she did not rise up
to thank them, she only turned away
her head with mortal WEAKNESS.
"And we viii take the child with us
in our carriage-it will be great relief
to you" ..ElE-
The mother moved one pale hand and
turned the corner of the sheet from the
baby's face.
Z "You cannot have her." she said,
family, f'she is with the angels in Para
disel" .aEEsE.s- 90
They were greatly surprised when
they saw the small sweet-face of the
dead child that had escaped into Heaven
and was under the patronage of a
greater power than theirs, and it began
to dawn upon them that what was to
be done for the mother had better be
done quickly.
But there was nothing to do. Yes
terday there crept along st. Aubin
street hearse with nota single carriage
following, and in the rough pine-coffin
were the two-the babe on the bosom
of its motherl .-
o changed o wondrous changed
Burst are the prison bars
This moment there so low,
So agonized, and now
Beyond the starsi
-Detroit Post and Tribune.