Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-23

\ hclp. He went to the factory The next NOR
ming. as usual, after washing ard dressing the
children, AID gestilAga breakfast Of bread aud
/ milk with them j here WAS no fire. and he
put every knife, and other dangerous thing.
! on high shelf, and gave them some tribes
/ to play with: and promised 70 come and play
with them nc dinner time Aud he did play
He played heartily with tie l;ttlc ore. and,
as ii be enjoyed it. every day at the noon
hour Many a merry laugh The neigilhors
1 heard from that room when the three elid
rcn were together; and the laugh was often
1 Joel's
How he learned to manage and especially
to cook. nobody knew; aud ieconld himself
have told little more than TINT lie waited to
sec how people did it. and looked, according
( ", at every opportunity He certainly fed
the children wcll, and himself too. He knew
that every thug depcl-ded op his strength
being kept mp. His sister. sat on his kuee
to be fed, till she could feed herself He
was sorry to give it up; but lesaid she must
| learn to behave So be snlooted her lar,
and washed her face before dinner. and show
ed her how to fold her hands while lie said
grace. He took as much pans to train her
to good manners at table, as if tio bad been
goycrness, teaching a little lady While she
remained a baby, she slept in the middle Of
the bed, between the two, that she might
| have room, and not be disturbed; and when
she ceased to be baby, be silently made new
arrangements He denied himself a lat.
which, he much wanted, il order to buy a
considerable quantity Of dark calico, which
with bis own hands he made into d curtain,
and slung up across part Of the room thus
shutting off about third of IT, Here be
contrived to nuke up a littls bed for his sis
/ ter; and he was not satisfied til she had a
basin and jug and a piece Of soap Of her own
Here nobody but himself was U intrude upon
/ her without Leave aud Indeed he always
made her understand that he came only to
take care of her. 1t was not only that Willy
was not to see her updressed. A ncighbor
or two now and then lifted the latch without
knocking. One ofthesc one day heard some.
thing from behind the curtain, which made
her call her husband and silently lis
ten; and they always afterpard treated Joel
as if he were man and one whom they look
ed up to lie was teaching the child her
| little prayer. The earnest, sweet devout tones
I by the boy, and the ianocent cheerful imita
ton of the little one were Beautiful to hear,
the listeners said.
Though so well taken care Of she was not
to be pampcred; there would have been no
kindness in that. Very early, indeed. she
was fought in a merry sort of way. to put
things in their places, and 70 sweep the floor,
and to wash up the crockeFy. She was a
handy little thing, well traiued and docile -
One reward that Joel had FOR bis manage
ment was. that she Was ca.ly fit to 60 to
chapel This was the grest point; as he,
choosing to send Why regularly, could not
90 till he could take the little girl with him
She was never known to be rcstlcss--an
Joel was quite proud Of her.
Willy was not neglected for the little girls
sake In those days, children went earlie
to the factory, and worked longer than they
do now, and, by the time the sister was FIVE
years old, Willy became factory boy; aud
his pay put the little girl to school. When
she, at seven, went to the factory, too, Joel
life was altogcather an easier one. He al
| ways had mnintaiaed them all, from the dav
OF his mothers death The times must have
been good--work constant, and wages steady
! or he could not have done 1t Now when
all three were earning. he put his sister to a
sewing school for two evenings in the week,
and the Saturday afternoons and he and Willy
attended an evening school as they found they
could afford it, He always escorted the lit
tie gicl wherever she had to 90; into the fac
tory and home again-and to the Sunday
school, yet he was remarkably puuctual at
work and worship He was humble. earnest,
docile pupil himself, at sunday school quite
unconcious that he was more advanced than
any other boy in the sublime science and
practice Of duty. He felt that every body
was very kind to him; bat lie was unaware
that others felt it an honor TO be kind to
him.
lingcr on these years. when he was fine
1 growing lad in state Of high content J
linger unwilling to proceed But the end
must come, and it is soon told lie was six
teen, think, when he was asked toboeome
a teacher, in the Sunday school, willie moi
wholly ceasing to be scholar. He tried
and made a 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, tremendous
clatter and crash was heard in the factory
where Joel worked. A dead silence succeed ;
ed, and then several called ont that it was
only an iron bar that had fallen down. This
was true but the iron bad had fallen on Jo-
els head, aud he was taken up dead.
Such funeral as his is rarely seen. There
is something that strikes on all hearts IN the
spectacle of soldiers fpneral--thc drum
the march Of comrades, and the belt and cap
laid on the coffin. But there was something
more solemn and more moving than all such
observations in the funeral Of this young sol
der, who had 50 bravely filed his place inthe
conflict Of life There was the tread ofeom-
rades here, for ,he longest street was filed
from end to end. For relics, there We're his
brother and sister; and for a SOLEMN dirge,
the uncomfortable groans of a heart-stricken
multitude,
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GOOD ADVICE.
A humorous writer advises thus -;