Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-09-29

that it afforded not a shelter from The winds James
now became 10 his family he seemed as regardless
Of their lives of the household furniture, which nc
had nearly all destroyed by his violence. aud their only
c-ity night for the children climb into the lof
where his unsteady step could and his wife, with the
youngest child 10 fee TO the barn.
Mary Dufh fer herself poor, lone woman in the
world Sew, said she 20 herself will ever pity me- every
one vi" say we brought our all our iefinss uponourseves
ye. they would pity ifhey knew ALL for what
like live III constant fear OF lite, 10 see
poor children treated that they quake with fear when
they think their father is coming them;
bisted in youth; they would be happy even if they
he'd not any thing, If they were only kindly spoken TO- ana
worst of ALL husband, when remember what
he was, every eye that him loved him. poor
degraded the children him Il seems
as if my heart would break
The winter was now approaching; a dreary
those who have no household comforts, and it seemed to
this poor tina, her family must pesh but suddenly
formed the resolution make effort
en to go to the shopkeepcr ana engage MIN ho' % LEI hsf
husband have any more spirit 1t was strange work for
such woman, complain of her husoand she had long
tried TO hide HIM from every eye ana That sop was SAD
place for There stood those huge hogsheads.
filed with ma!enig draugts there, standing under
them the of kind glasses all around,
tbs gbbc;, the block, could pierce heart with more
agony than did tire sight Of these execuoncrs Of her
suffering bleeding family but the shop-keeper hu
being he have compassion. and will be-
friend me- said Mary, when he knows what suffer-
She told him had beg him let her
husband have spirit, tina; she sometimes
afraid her children would be killed, that every night
when M me from the SHOP he seemed TO have
and her children obliged of his
ways that cold, did know how TO sleep III
the barn with her s girl that she child and
keep that if husba nd could no:
spirit he would be kind AMI help them The tears
apron she stood her head down. pleading
o he only person who she believed could help her.
The shop keeper sod hee he her husband had
that when he first the shop
he thought likely ever he knew and eve
ry said there NOT promising young man in
likely the world and ne stood out
great whe butt was strange how the habit of drinking
gained upon him lately he the most troublesome
the shop. And why do you let him
us!' why family must live,' replied the
opke chose thai pay for goods must let have
they Must my family be destroyed, that your
family live;' said Mary Duil, in of bitter su
feng, will that stand in the day of reckon
ing p Il shant sell him much more said the shop-keepaF
hastily the noage wI be out tomorrow, and If ne doh
pay must qu' Mortgage said Mary, timdersruck
sound Yes said the shop-keepeT, 1T has been
mor,gaged these two years, and can't wait As if the
had she turned and swiftly
would have known long aso but nobody could ever speak
about her husband always feel bad, when
he, that done my shops bus folks Ive
he said as he s.l the door 1t vas hard snow storm,
bat this ooko,-h.arted needed il Tomorrow
though, She, all be into the open world. o, {
that the grave would hide me- and my poor children what
viii become of them, viii they follow their wretched faith
steps, better 10 have the blessed Light of this
world, ;han qiiench lis beams with hands,
As house, her envseing
few dying enbers; eldest James, ten ;;
ears Old was holding his little sister, child of year: she
he'd but they something the and "
viii never sleep here again. said she TO her
hidren sihe shopkeepcr father owes it 10 him.
hey cried and sobbed till the younges, boys fell a
leep their mother laid them iii their beds she did not at
smp hide them icannot s1ve them any longer sho't
II nOV desperate C
e girl in her arms, and james sat close by her Il
going, mo,her,' said he, when .
mother. fool !' said james. Yes IL
~ered his mother And where the crazy man IS that
creams az. .:--: p sE, chill -An shall! have /.
live with hcm! Yes answered his mother I'VE must :,
II live together; there is but ROOM And won't The
oys sspsc me asked James, 'Yes I'm afraid they will n
tell shat yoIr father drunkard, and
poor bay Cant live somewhere else > Ell
No, my child Mother, would father have been i,
pod man if it had not bsen for that shop" said James
es. child he always gooi before ho went there;
would every thing is that cruel shop
Is done il aAnd if father had never gone there, we in
,oud have had away from house, should we! m
nd they could mt have had moving coEr-held
nd tina, pretty woodlo TOO Our horse and wagon, that "
% shop folks every day: SHOULD ,hink would have
caouJh And there's that stand in their pc
I'D il makes when see brindle there all the he
,isk ev in the world good she is aud, seeing
mothers eyes nIlai with tears, Mother said he. ~
all he z.v man SOON and will take you, tn
ID we win 70 away and live hundred miles m
op viii and he viii be just as he used to in
WON'T we =
Threshold and, pushed the door, the oi
shop, and after getting his dam they VIC
his mortgage and if ne could not pay, he
seek other place live for they could wait
their threats Violent and being glad to a
that could pay longer, they thrust him APP
street, and shut the door upon him 1nIriased ,
dness az a ne weh' ros 70 mr'aN ms ven his
signal for his wrath, and saizns him by the collar ~
,here, hide again when come he dashed him he
inst the wall; ms wia sPans 10 save hee DARING boy;
the little from their sleep; and.
II the door into the Mary Pto
suddenly pushed her the ant
and bolted it, muering hr
that night, threatening that he
lid be tbs death them Piercing the cries OF all y
children James kept hold of his mother; she fell me
the Youngest her With almost supernatural exp
we'll she could her arms, fIIS
ths three to the barn. and, folding them
rushed the nearest neigh5or. and getting
blankets, spent long, cold dark night, listening o
he wang the suffering chdren, and laborns ven
1 if possible from death Ishs
morning an olcsr came ana 'ooS possession OF self
house a I'D ground James Dufh sill crying bitter .
but his poor wife she'd she gathered the
remaining articles left, with sick child in
arms little followed close by her side with rem
swelcd the other boys crying because there
no one them This sorowiu group wen, 10 8 y
Mary III, feeling of degradation.
the abode the refuse OF society The ara
entered soul In days the youngest
died the mother closed its visg
a ..SxecI bsosom.' she said, II cannot =
III this world of sor-ow. In few days -
er in, rested from all her trials. II TO
a monea, anguish whea she laid her cold hand
reads OF her little For them she would longer live
bear the drunkard's cuTse.-Bui The cup full .
OUT such sacrice-Tne doings of spirit shop could t'
h, c,,,nle,.d i, s,,h an issue the
who are responsible such terrible evils witnessed tic
cry village all our land. Yeegislators.
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