Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-04


nobody seems willing TO give ten cents 10.
day, although they are very fine, and cost mi
as much as some have got twelve and a
half for"
"How many boxes have you I"
GIVE, ma'am."
"They are very fine, sure enough" sale
The lady, STOPPING down and examining them
" and well worth ten cents. III take item
"Thanky, ma'am. ! was afraid ! SHOULD
have to take them home" said the woman
her heart bounding up lightly.
The lady rnng the bell, for it was at he
door that the tired strawberry.woman hat
stopped to rest herself. While she was wait
ing for the door to be opened, the lady tool
from her purse the money for the strawber
fies, and handing it to the woman, said
"Here is your money. Shall | tell the
servant to bring you out a glass of cool wa
ter! You are hot and tired
"lf you please, ma'am," said the woman
with a grateful look.
The water was sent out by the servant,
who was 10 receive the strawberries, and the
tired woman drank it eagerly. It's refresh.
ing GOODNESS flowed through every vein, and
when she took up her t,ay to return home,
both heart and step were lighter.
The lady, whose benevolent feelings had
prompted her to the performance of this little
act of kindness, could not help remembering
the woman's grateful lock. She had not
done much-not more than it was every
ones duty to do; but the recollection of even
that was pleasant, far more pleasant than
could have been Mrs. Mier's seif-gratnlations
at having saved ten cents on her purchase of
five boxes of strawberries, Notwithstanding
the assurance of the poor woman who vended
them, that. at the reduced rate, her profit on
The whole would only be two cents and a.
half.
After dinner Mrs. Mier went ont and spent
thirty dollars in purchasing iewelry for her
eldest daughter, a young lady not yet eigh-
teen years of age. That evening, at the tea
table, the Strawberries were highly commend
ed as being the largest and most delicious in
flavor OF any they had yet had in reply TO
which Mrs. Mier stated, with an air of pecu-
liar satisfaction, that she had got them for
eight cents a box, when they were worth al
least len cents.
1.-The. woman asked me ten cents she
said, "but | offered her eight and She took
While the family Of Mrs. Mier were en-
loylhg tlelr pleasant repast, the strawberry
sat at a small table. around which
gathered three young children. the old
'st but SIX years of age. She had started
IN the morning with thirty boxes of
'irawbeTrles, for which she was to pay seven
md a-half cents a box. If all had brought
he ten cents a box, she would have made
twenty-five cents but sdch was not the case.
tlcl ladies' had beaten her down in her price
had chartered with her for the few pennies of
rofts 10 which her hard labor entitled her
nd actually robbed her of the meagre pit
ince she strove TO earn former children. In
tead OF realizing the small sum Of seventy
We cents, she had cleared only fortv-fye
ents. With this she bought a little Indian
zeal and molasses for her own and her chill
ren's supper and breakfast.
AS she sat with her children, eatinr the
food she was able to provide for them,
nd thought Of what had occurred during the
ay, a feeling of bitterness toward her kind
anne over her; but the remembrance of the
md words, and the glass of cool water, so
Imeinliy and thoughtfully rendered to her,
vas like Ieaven in the waters of Marah.-
Ter heart softcned, and with tears stealino to
er eyes, she glanced upward, and asked a
Iesslng on her who had remembered that,
longh poor, she was still human.
ECONOMY is a good thing, and should be
ractlsed by all. but it should show itself in
ourselves, not in depressing others.
re see persons spending dollar after dollar
one hour, and in the next trying TO
I'VE a live penny piece Off of a wood-sawyer,
oal-heaver. or market-woman. Such things
'e dIsgraceful, if not dishonest.