Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-12-22

looked accordingly at every opportunity
He certainly fed the children well, and
himself too. He knew that everything
depended upon his strength being kept
up. His sister sat on his knee to be fed
till she could feed herself, He was sor-
.ry to give it up, but he said she must learn
to behave So he smoothed her hair
and washed her face before dinner, and
showed her how to fold her hands while
he said grace He took as much pains
to train her to good manners at the table
as if he had been governess teaching a
little lady. While she remained a baby,
he 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, he silently made. new ar
rangements. He denied himself a hat,
which he much wanted, in order to buy
u considerable quantity of coarse, dark
calico, which, with his own hands he
made into curtain, and slung up across
a part of the room-thus shutting off
about third of it. Here he contriyed to
make up a little bed for his sister; and he
was not satisfied until she had basin and
iug, and piece of soap of her own
Here nobody but himself was to intrude
upon her without leave, and, indeed, he
made her to understand that he came only
to take care of her. 1t was not only that
Willy was not to see her undressed. A
neighbor or two now and then lifted the
latch without knocking. One of these
one day heard something from behind
! the curtain which made her call her hus-
band silently to listen and they always
afterwards treated Joel as if he were
man, and one whom they looked up to-
He was teaching the child her little prayer.
! The earnest, sweet, devout tones of the
boy, and the innocent, cheerful imitation
| by the little one, were beautiful to hear
the listeners said.
Tnor:.h so well taken care OF, she was
not to be pamperGd. There would have
been no kindness in thai. Very early.
indeed, she was taught in a merry sort OF
! way to put things in their places, and To
sweep the floor, and wash up the croeke-
ry. She was handy little thing, well
trained and dociIe One reward that Jo-
ell had for his management was that she
was early fit to go to chapel. This was
a great point; as he wishing to send Will
| ly regularly, but could not go till he could
| take his sister 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 now; and by the time the sister was
five years old, Willy became factory
boy; and his pay put the little girl to
school When she at seven, went to the
factory too, Joel's life was altogether an
easier one He always had maintained
them all from the day of his mothers
death. The time must have been good
work constant, and wages steady-or he
could not have done it. Now, when all
all three were earning, he put his sister
TO a sewing school two evenings IN the
week, and Saturday afternoons he and
Willy attended an evening school, as they
found they could afford it. He always
escorted the little girl wherever she had
to 70; into the factory, and home again
to The school door and home again-and
to the Sunday school; yet he was him
self remarkably punctual at work and at
worship. He was an humble, earnest,
docile pupil. himself, at the Sunday
school-auite unconscious that he was
more advanced than other boys in the
sublime science and practice OF duty
He felt that every body was kind to him;
but he was unaware that others felt it
an honor to be kind to him.
linger on these years, when he was
fine growing lad, in a state OF high con-
tent. I lnger, unwilling to proceed
But the end must come; it Is soon told
He was sixteen, | think, when he was
asked to become teacher in the Sunday
school, while not wholly ceasinS to be-
come 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 widely
known than before.
One day in the next year q tremendous
clatter and crash was heard IN she lacto-
ry where Joel worked. A dead silence
succeeded, and then several called out
that it was only an iron bar that had tai-
len down. This was true, but the IRON
bar had fallen on Joel's head, and he
was taken up dead.
Such a funeral as his is rarely seen.-
There is something that strikes on all
hearts in the spectacle of soldier tu-
ueral-the drum, the march of comradeS'
and the belt and cap laid on the CONN
But there was something more solehh
and more moving than all such observan-
ces in the funeral of this young soldier
who had so bravely filed his place IN the
conflict of life. There was the thread OF
comrades here, for the longest street was
filled from end to end. For relics, there
were his brother and sister, and for So
lemn dirge, the uncomfortable groans OF
the heart-stricken multitude.
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