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1 irncs are hard. We know a poor family. Tiie huslrand and wife are industrious, they have six children, the oldest eight years of age, the youngest seven months. The children art* not half-clothed, the wife has not ft change (if dress, their liut is cold and cheerless, back away in the woods, the father does without a sinde luxurv: he shaveshoops for a living. He gets them enough to eat; eight mouths are willingly fed by one pair of lrnnds, but, oh, he cau not clothe his little ones. He is too proud to go on the ; he is poor; he is ignorant; he is scorned by the poor; but that sun-browned, hard-flsed laborer, that hoop-pole shaver of the barrens, is one of nature's heroes. Yes, there are noble hearts clad in rags, all around us. Despised ones of earth, nature’s true noblemen, Heaven will grant you your reward in presence of an assembled universe.The* Gmpt* omnpft is the* Hfcriirf* I
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Feb 14, 1877
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