Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-17

by the boy, and the innocent cheerful iinita-
ton of the little one, were beautiful to hear,
the listeners said.
Though so we'll taken care Of she was
not to be pampered; there would have been
no kindness in that. Very early, indeed, she
was tnught, in merry sort of way, TO put
things in their places, and to sweep the floor,
and to'wash up the crockery. She was a
handy little thing, well trained and docile.--
One reward that Joel had for his manage
ment was, that she was early fit to go to
chapel. This was n great point; as he
choosing TO send Willy regularly, could not
90 till he could take the little girl with him.
She was never known to be restless and
Joel was quite proud Of her.
Willy was not neglected for the little girls
sake. In those days, children went earlier
to the factory, and worked longer than they
do now; and by the time the sister was five
years old, Willy became n factory boy, and
his pay put the little girl to school. When
she, at seven, went to the factory too, Joels
life was altogether an ensier one. lie al
ways had maintained them all, from the day
OF his mothers death. The times have been
good-work constant, and wages steady-or
he could not have done il. Now, when all
three were earning, he put his sister TO a
sewing-school for two evenings in the week,
aud tue Saturday afternoons; and he and
| Willy attended an evening school, as they
found they could afford it. lie always escort
ed the little girl wherever she had to GO
into the factory, and home again--to the
school door, and home again-and to the
Sunday School; yet he was himself remark
ably punctual at work and at worship. lie
was humble, earnest, docile pupil himself
at the Sunday School-qute unconscious
tia the was more advanced than other boys
in the sublime science and practice of duty.
lie felt that every body was very kind to
him; but he wns unaware that others felt it
an honor to be kind TO him.
linger on these years, when he was a fine
growing lad, in state of high content ]
linger, unwilling to proceed. But the end
must come, aud il is soon told. lie was six
teen, think, when he was asked to become
n teacher in the Sunday School. He tried,
and made capital teacher, and he won the
hearts Of the children while trying TO open
their minds. BY this he became more wide
ly known than before.
One day in the next year n tremendous
clntter and crash was heard in the factory
where Joel worked A dead silence sue
ceeded, aud then several called out that it
was only an iron bar that bad fallen down.
This was true but the iron bar had fallen |
'n JoePs head, and he was taken up dead
such funeral as his is rarely seen. There |
$ something that strikes on all hearts in the |
pectnce of soldiers fIneral-the drum,
he march of comrades, and the belt and
ap laid on the coffin. But there was some-
hug more solemn and more moving than
II such observances, in the funeral of this
oung soldier, who had so bravely filled his
lace in the conflict of life. There was the
'ead of comrades here, for the longest street
'as filled from end to end. For relicts, there
iee his brother and sister and for u solemn
rge, the uncomfortable groans OF heart
lricken multitude.