The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-22


to dry up those bitter streams of misery and death
which have SO long flooded land with more
deadly poison than that of the Upas? We'are
members of the common brotherhood, and should
feel common interest. and indjyaduuI response
olty in this great reformation of our age. Do not
we, as sex, have to endure more in consequence
OF intemperance than our brothers? Which
frequently feels the pinching hand of want, and
suffers more from hunger and cold? Which pines
most Tor want OF sympathy! the stutifed, brutal
'zed husband or the heurt broken and forsaken
"fe. Let US follow yum bridal party, see the high
and noble brow ef him who soon expects to call the
beautiful and lovely being by his side ,r;f.. She
has been reared amidst the most refined society
her principles fixed on the firm basis of trph
and she believes those of her affiuHced are also:
He has carefully concealed from her that the g;nS
cup has charms for him. He has been lurad to
the enlicing cup, by those who should have been
The ones to warn him of the impending danger
which surrounds the goblet that holds the gIisten-
ing wine; yes the temptation has been set before
him at home, his parents partook of it as also did
their guests, and why should not he Can we
wonder an appetite was formed VIII ch demanded
qualification Far otherwise had it been with
Ata his bride, she had been carefully taught the
sin of lntemperance, her parents had nsilIed into
her mind the power of its bighting curse which
had spread itself like the Banyan Tree taking deep
and firm root throughout our country. And when
she found that her husband was addicted to This
Dad rorst, OF habits. oh how her heart bled. She
plead with him to desist, urged upon him the
caims of God and Humanity, pressed him to think
OF himself OF her. She portrayed in glowing e!o.
quence the degradation and despair he was bring.
ing upon himself; the lingering, torturing. agony
she would have to endure. But all had little ef-
fecf 1t was too. late unless the temptation was re-
move. his fate was doomed They remove to the
TAR est, toa city whore all are strangers in hopes
that when his convival friends who used to share
the sparkling poison could no longer meet m, he
could restrain his appetite, which now he feels he
cannot. A feeble ray of hope CLEANS througfiAt-
tia's breast. She leaves father, mother, brothers
and sisters all the friends of her youlh and Joyful
ly goes with her husband.
They enter their new home and every thing gees
on brightly. George manfully ressts the tempta-
ton, which every day surround him though he of
ten says he could not if placed in the circle where
he used to move.
-Four years past and a beautiful cherub boy
now b'esses their home. They receive news that
their parents are coming TO visit them. A sudden
burst OF joy escapes Attllas lips. but it soon chan
ges; for a sad foreboding of some impending evil
forces itself upon her. She seeks George, and ur-
ges him to resist the temptation which she knows
will be placed before him by his fathers example
and kindly but positively refuse to touch tasfe, or
handle and explain TO him his reasons for doing so.
They arrive; George asks his father to walk
with him through the beautiful Qleen City. He
enters fashionable saoon. calls for wine and
hands glass to his son. who declines Why
what's the matter? huve you gotlo be teetotaler,
what harm is there in drinking, now and then
glass of wine? George replies. he is afraid one
will bui prepare the way for another, and another
and then appetite be formed, which he cannot
resist. Come. away with your childishness.
really thought my son man, have always drank
and am more of druuknrd now than when
first began Thus saying he held the gliitering
! cup with tempting smiles to George, he drank--it
burned in his veins his appetite again aroused
and defied contest. His history is soon told lie
went from STEP TO step lower, and lower. in the
depths of infany: In six years from that fatal
draught they leave their elegant mansion for an
humble but comfortable building; then again
they leave that for a garrett in a poor dilapi-
dated house. Their furniture is seized and sold
by him who is numbering the once husband and
father of this family. AttiIla's bucks, her music
every Thing. that could be taken was bartered for
drink even The hard earned money to buy bread
for her children was stolen (lascjuily remembrrl
from her, and she in rags scarcely sufeeRt to eov-
ar her was forced to beg One long weary day
did she thus spend without receiving one penny or
any work with which to get bread FOR her starving
children and herself for she had tas,sd nothing for
foryeight hours, when after dark as she was re-.
turning to her children, she met her inhuman
husband descendig from their room his hands, gor-
ed with blood; the truth flashed upon her that hs
had done what he had of en- ihrearend. but what
she had never believed he would perfui M. Her
heart completely sunk within her and nothing but
The affection that mother alone can feel kept her
from falling Alone, with only the dim light of the
moon to guide her she entered their appartment,
and oh what sight. there lay her Youngest. her
darling child in the icy of death, its pale wan
features told plainly that it died OF hunger. The
next older lay bleeding corpse hefnre her, just
murdered by its father Father did say no,
surely he has forfeited ali claim to that endear-
ing name, who would thus cruelty murder an in
nocent child because driven madness by Rum
and finding no bread, whore he hnd long not oluy
neglected 10 furnish it, but had taken every thing
which the ro I'M afforded, with which to gratify his
beastly appetite. The oldest was yet alive though
scarcely able to stand from fright and exhaustion.
The mohers heart is wrought TO desperution.--
Who can describe the anguish Of that hour. She
Iays her two dead babes on the pile of straw which
boII No.
vsing eh Id by the hand they sally forth in The dark
ness of night. She enters unobserved a provision
sore and takesa loaf of bread the (othem delicious
morse is devoured with avdHy She drcides to
ga to her falhe,s as the only protection she can
find is under his roof. Here she is met with only
tauels and jeers druakard's ,cift, and law she