Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-25

| her heart 10 uueT q single WOrO.
One day she was alarmed by a message
from Ralph that he had been arrested, while
at his work, for debt, by his landlord, who
was going to throw him in Jail. They now
owed him over twenty dollars. The idea of
her husband being thrown into a Jail was ter
rible to poor Mrs. Igor. She asked a kind
neighbor 10 take care of her children for her.
and then putting on her bonnet, she almost
flew 10 the magistrates office. There was
Ralph, with an officer by his side, ready 10
remove him TO prison.
"You shan'ttake my husband TO Jail, )" she
said, wildly, " hen she saw the real aspect of
things, clinging fast hold of Ralph. "No-
body shall take him to JAIL
d" am sorry, my good woman said the
magistrate, "to do so, but it can't be helped.
The debt must be paid, or your husband will
have 10 go to jail. ] have no discretion in
the matter. Can you find means 10 pay the
debt! il not. perhaps you had better 90 and
see your landlord you may prevail on him
TO wait a little longer for his money, and not
send your husband to iail.'
Eyes, Sally, do 90 and see him." said
Ralph 81 am sure he will relent when he
secs YOU"
Mrs. Lyon let 90 the arm Of her husband,
and darling from the office, ran at full speed
to the house of their landlord.
"Oh, sir!" she exclaimed, "you cannot,
you will not send my husband 10 %jail.''
81 both can and will" was the grulr reply.
"A man who drinks up his earnings as he
does, and then, when quarter-day comes, can't
pay his rent, deserves TO 80 to Jail"
"But, ,ir, consider"
"Don't talk TO me, woman! If you have
the money for the rent, l will take it, and let
your husband go free; if not, the quicker you
leave here the better"
1t was vain, she saw, TO strive with the
hard-hearted man, whose face was like iron.
Hurriedly leaving his house, she fastened
back to the Office, but her husband was not
there. In her absence he had been removed
to prison. When Mrs. Lyon fully under
stood this, she made no remark, but turned
from the magistrate and walked home with a
firm step. The weakness of the woman was
giving way TO the quickening energies of The
wife, whose husband was in prison, and could
not be released except by her efforts. On
entering her house, she went TO her drawers,
and took therefrom a silk dress, but little
worn, a mothers present when she was mar
ried a good shawl, which she had bought
from her own earnings when a happy maiden,
a few articles of jewelry, that had not been
worn for years, most of Them presents from
Ralph before they had stood at the bridal al
tar, and sundry other things, that could best
be dispensed with. These she took TO a pawn
brokers, and obtained an advance of fifteen
dollars. She had two dollars in the house,
which made seventeen; the balance of the re-
CURED sum she borrowed from two or three
of her ~neighbors, and then hurried of 10 OBJ
tain her husbands release.
For a time, the rigid proceedings Of the
landlord proved a useful lesson to Ralph Ly-
on. He worked more steadily, and was ra-
Their more careful Of his earnings. But this
did not last a great while. Appetite, long
INDUCED, was strong; and he soon returned
to his old habits.
The shock the Imprisonment Of her hus-
band produced, awoke Mrs. Lyon to the ne
cessily of doing something to increase their
income. All III 1.-THE brought home each week
was scarcely sufficient TO buy food and it
was clear that there would be nothing with
which 10 pay rent when the next quarter-day
came round, unless it should be The product
of her W exertions. Plain sewing was OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Lyon, and an additional labor
Of three or four hours in the twenty-lour add
ed 10 her already over-tasked body. Instead
of feeling rebuked at this, the besotted hus-
band only perceived in it a license for him TO
uoO iio Wv u MINI ilSSiJf a'h Aiith
ing his poor wife's condition really worse
than it was before.
Things, instead of getting better, grew
worse, year after year. The rent Mrs. Lyon
managed always to pay; for the fear Of see
ing her husband carried off TO Jail was ever
before her eyes, stimulating her TO constant
e%xertion; but down, down, down they went
steadily and surely, and the light of hope fa-
I,I JaiIx, o,J .rro,- l;,,n,or ,pJ J;r,r,nr &c
! fore the eyes of the much enduring wife and
mother. Amid all, her patience was wonder
full. She never spoke angrily 10 Ralph, but
strove, rather, always to appear cheerful be-
fore him. If he was disposed to talk, she
would talk with him, and humor his mood of
mind if he was gloomy and silent, she would
intrude nothing upon him calculated to fret
his temper; If he complained, she tried to
soothe him. But it availed nothing. The
!, man was in a charmed circle, and every I'M
pulse tended to throw him into the centre
where ruin awaited him.
At last even the few dollars she had receiv-
: ed every week from her husbands earnings,
ceased TO come into her hands. The wretch
: ed man worked little over half his time, and
: drank up all that he made. Even the amount
- Of food that the entire product OF Mrs. LYONS
labor would procure, was barely sufficient to
: satisfy the hunger Of her family. The clothes
. of her children soon began to hang in tatters
; about them her own garments were faded
q worn, and patched; and every thing about
= The house that had not been sold TO pay rent
was in a dilapidated condition. Still, there
i had been no uukind word, not even a emon
:, STRANGE from the much-enduring wife.
n Matters at last reached a climax. Poo
l. Mrs. Lyon had not been able to get any thin!
v to do for a week, and all supplies of food, ex
J. cept a little meal, were exhausted. An anx
If ious day had closed, and at night-fall the mo
Their made some hasty-pudding for the chill
le dren, which was eaten with a little milk
1t This consumed her entire store. She hal
It. four children; the two Oldest she put to bed
but kept the two youngest, one five years old
h and the other three, up with her. She move
ID about with a irmer step than usual, and he
liz. $3.50 LII 20 4