Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-03-15
"RUN zLoNs NOW"
Texas sirtlnes.

The evening was bitterly cold.
Two children-a Toy with a manly
Rare, and an expression OF matured
/, heoncern, as though some one had
, been dependent OH Him, and pale
| faced liteie giri--wandered around
| The streets of western city. They
had been left by an immigrant
} train, having fallen asleep in the
barn-like waiting-rOOm, and, amtng
the hurry, incident upon departare.
no one thought of them. They hfg-
/ ged the station-keeper to allow
them to remain by the fire, but he
\ discredited their story-declared
that they had not been, left by A
train; that they lived in the city,
and were only "hanging aroundo
to steal something, Everybody
hurried along. No one had kind
look for the waits. They went into
the warm corridor ora hotel, but a
man said: afast H .NFtf lft
p run along now. You don't
want TO be stopping here" lH
"Weiare nearly frozen, - the boy
replied, "and we want to get
waTm.n
"ChiIdren ought to be at home
such weather as this. Your mother
ought to know better than to send
yOg Ouf." asida .aH.terr1 .ffre..
"Our mother is dead, sir. She
died two weeks ago, and we came
away with people that are going
South, where it's warm, but the
train has left US, and the man
WON'T let US stay in the depot"
!, VERY good story, young fellow;
but run along home. Parents thar
would send their children out to
beg such weather as this, should be
punished. PM nff .Iasl. s. =.
I'VE are not begging"
Run along with you" and he
opened the door and they passed
out into the cutting wind. The
fierce blast seemed To blow. the
darkness close up to the lamps; the
tired teams seemed to blow the
chilling lnists from their nostrils;
and the heavy wagon wheels seem
ed to sink deep into the darkness
and pulverize the gloom.
The children went into drug
store. ~R
"Run along there, (" i.ts
They went into a restaurant, unl
'.Run along there"
They went into a saloon where
merry revelers sang wild songs, and
where the maudlin man dropped "a
tear in his glass. ot.r -.
"Run along there" said the bar
tender. This Is no place for chill
dren." -
"Let us warm ourselves ~ i'm.
plored the boy aud he repeated his
story. MA .as,,t Il. ..,f i-.... MOS
That's all very well, young man
but haven't seen you around the
streets begging, many time ?" f
''No, sir" ll lar HUI l.fra
81 think / have. III bet you
haven't taken no less than $40 home
to-day, Run along"
Again they were in the freezing
gloom. t5 aat H nl
"0h where will we wake in the
came from the saloon
and died on the cold air, as the boy
and his sister turned corner.
Don't cry, my little pet" .auB
"I'm so cold" .-I -.IIr
Yes but we may find some
place. Let us go back to the depot,
and may be we can get on train."
They wandered around in the
sleet. i n .af.rl .rls
"We are long time getting
there, SAID The girl.
ar believe we are lost" the
brother replied ''Let US turn in
lere," and they went into.a narrow
lileyi and crouehed down by "a
Ah, Mr.. Humanity, because you
nave been a few times deceived
Jeciuse you have sometimes shown
)ity, and afterward found that IL
vas ill-beslowed, you have harden-,
ID your heart.
All, Mr.. Churchman. whose knees
,ress the soft velvet at the time OF
prayer; you who see. suffering with
Try eyes, and read, with moisture,
he "simple annals of the p0Of,"'
cratch from your Bibles the heart
warming sentence, "Suffer little
hildren to come unto me''-scratch
out or you are a hypOcrite,
"IfI cOnld smell the dOg-wood
blossoms by the porch, L wOuldn'-
'e so cold,' said ghe little girl.
"It win be a long time before
hey bloom again, my petN go
"Will this cold weather kill the
rec ?'
"No, but it will be long time be-
ore summer comes"
"Can people in Heaven leok'
own and see people on the earth2"
"Yes, / think sO." .....,s.-f
81 wish they couldn't" r.
"Why pet?'
because II mama looks down
nd sees US, she wouldn't be happy
ny more" rt
He drew her closer TO him. The,
lights went out one by
ne. The sleet seemed to be con-
uering everything. The dog that
ad barked over on the hill was 81
.nt. "a t...s
A cherries, freezing morning
roke. BY an alley sat two rigid
rms. The boy was in his shirt