Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-21

character was everywhere ojsoerEiDle--
the very walls had an odor OF poverty. |
Wearily the woman with the miniature |
dragged herself up the stairs to the room
that had been hers. The door was
locked. The landlady stood iu the hall.
well, have you your rentf"
"Alas Nc but | will have plenty to.
morrow night"
Tomorrow hight you will have plenty,
will yoO You dirty hussy, do you sup
pose keep this house for fan Get out
AID dou't show up here again"
There was no uss OF demonstrating, |
There was nothing In the room OF hers
everyt i1g had been pawned. YEARLY |
she " NJ uut the way she had come
out into the ooldness and darkness. And |
as shs walked sue smiled, for was II not |
& lsdsoms ChfistInastids TO her Had |
she not seen and spoken to her child |
The electric lights hiekersd as brightly |
ou ths great avenues as they had while
she Tsi'sd tha crowds jpstled and pushed |
here and there, though thousands had |
gone hons Away from these sights |
town the side streets the poor soul |
wandered. Her steps were more aud |
more unsteady as she progressed, |
From time to time she would |
look at the picture aud smile, for she |
thought her dsriiDgs were with her. II |
is true one WAS dead and the other had |
turned from her, bu; she would see them |
soon she thought. Away down the
silent streets toward the North river she |
went, growing weaker as she walked.
The light Of pleasant homes beamed on |
her and sue saw through the uncurtained |
Sindows the figures OF men and women
and children clad in warm apparel aud |
uot hungry. On the great docks there
Sss nothing to stop her advance, but
policeman saw her and followed. Away
tO tue cad che went, where the dark
waters oil the river guTgled against the
Cnlkhesds. There she sat down aud,
bs.ug over weary and weak, fell into the
water. There was loud nallooing and
the rush Of men with lights followed, for
ship was lard by aud the men were
celebrating the Christmas season i'll their
own way.
This ia terrible night, woman, to
take a mau into the water" said the
policeman as, all dripping, he laid his
senseless burden on the boards.
ward in the hospital
A great room, with scores OF beds
plain, white walls, with now and again
scripture tex. on them. Patients cough
ing and patisnts moaning with pain. On
one cot was the woman with the portrait.
Il 81 eyes We're half open and she breathed
but family but she was conscious. Then
she reused a little and talked, and the
sweetness OF her voice, though but
feeble, attracted the attention Of the
ord ,rlies aud thsy listened. Presently
the doctor came and stood by the bedside
and looked at her.
"Sne cannot live, Jeffry," he said 10
the orderly, "She will die OF shock and
| starvation"
But, sir, she had 40 cents in her
pocket when she came in and could
have bought something to eat"
"Thst may be, but Sue has been slowly
starving for days and improperly clad,
and the want OF food aud exposure to the
weather has brought h down. The 40
cents would have done her but little
good, though if taken in hand IS hours
| ago she mik BIT have bsen saved.
"Shs Las talked very queer, sir, sinos
she came in not al all like most OF our
patlents.' -
"Did abe 30
That she did, indeed. She has some
thing on her mind about daughter
she talked good deal OF Nonsense, il
seemed to me, about horses and carriages
and servants, but from what can under
stand she must have at one tins been
well of-sccording to her own story, She
called Julie number of times aud told
somebody 10 tuck the robes carefully about
her, as she was not used to this cold
climate, and then she said, 'Oh he is
dead, he ia dead, and bsgsa to cry"
i Are you talking about me You are
the doctor, are you not, aud am in a
hospital, am | not 7" asked low voice
from the bed.
"Iss, s,madam, you are in the hospital, ,"
replied the Physician, with start "and
you must Keep very quiet indeed in order
to get well.
'Yas doctor; but am not going to gel
well, and want to tell you something
about myself before die, and want you
to send for my Julie, my daughter sh,
-jod in heaven don't know where tC
find her" Ard the low tones died ava,
in vail that almost frightened tn,
wRtehmsu in the hall into a dt, albeit h
is accustomed to such things. Then the,
gave her a soothing drsught, and sh
story, asking him tue while to keep th
/ appointment her daughter had made
. Shs was s. utherni woman, ale saii
aud before the var her psopls vers al
powerful in their section. At its clos
her hus band had gathered what llttl
fortune lie could and they went abroad
B1s'pess matters did not prosper, an
alter g while they came back TO Puilaiel
H..H l.aVt lNs +
; aud from that TO drinking. One day h
( was brought home dead. An aocideu
a had occurred on the river and he hs
. been mortally wounded, dying bafore h
4 rrached Lome. Brain fever sezsd be
4 AID she was i'll for many months ah
: thought lthe doctor and the nurse locke
teach other slgnifcsDtly) While sh
a waa ~ her little daush hter disappeared
e 7hs was IL years Of age, and that wa
b, Two years sso Sbs hunted for the gi
: Flt4out success, though sde was tol
that she had plunged hesdlong into iii
OF dissipation The mother came to Me-
Il l0rk. Her money was gone, aud SD
y lived on the prOGs-ds OF what she coui
j paws. Then she heard that di.sips.e
= women fr-queuted concert saloons Ut
a certain character, and night after nigi
= oHV "aN'uel ~ Euh uOOfe, D3lug loo poor
- clad to be allowed admttancs. She gre
e thinaer and psler and weaker, but Il
) hops OF finding her "Julie" buoysd Ia.
d up. Shs did not expect to be repulsst
she said, fer her daughter, though
Wayward child, lad never been u1kiu
y to her, and she had faith now that the
r was SONS good reason for ii. She did u
Ii pstieve that her child had gone a
r wong, All that could be explained ii
II NJ 1t day when the doctors saw her,
- Midnight
II The woman with the miniature ID
= silent OIL her cot smile was on h
Ia cyunteuaLoe AID the thin llps We
: parted slightly as If receiving the impre
of tbs baby face in the picture. TT
IA cold and hunger We're forgotten, Il
y misery Of her llle was over She W
i iead
1t "Yill you keep the appointmeL
ID 4 ctort asked the uurse.
ID "H3S Can | distinguish the girl fro
d hunjreds like herr ha answered
at EMORY'S LITTLE CATHARTIC is t
II best and pnly reliable liver Pill known, nev
al it7 with lie most obstinate uas5s purt
( vegetable, sugar-Coated, tastee-s harniie