Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03

Father 10 heaven. God bless the child = added
the stranger, in a choking voice, %, that the
father, for whom she has come on this touching
erraud, were present now I! If there were any
thing Of manhood yet left in his nature, this would
awaken Il from palsied Sleep
Papa o., papa = row cried the child stretching
forth her hands. In the next moment che was
clinging to the breast Of her father, who, with bis
arms clasped tightly around her, stood weeping
and m~ingiing his tears with those now raining
from the little ones eyes.
What an oppressive stiffness pervaded the
room jerks stood subdued and bewilieied; his
state Of mental confusion scarcely enabling him to
comprehend the full import Of the scene the
stranger looked on wonderingly yet deeply afec-
ted. Quietly and with moist eyes, The two or
three drinking customers, who had been l~ounging
in the bar, went stealthily out; and the landlord,
the stranger, and the father and bis child, were
left the only inmates of the room.
Come, Lizzie, dear! THE is no place for u.s.
said Leslie, breaking the deep silence. Wen go
home.'
And the unhappy inebriats took his child by
the hand, and led her towards the door. But the
little one held back.
III Qupt, wait, II eaiu, NJ Dusu I pTouiieeu
yet. O, | wish he would promisep
Promise her. in heavens name!' said the
stranger.
Promise said Leslie. in q stern and solemn
voice, as he turned and fixed his eyes on the land
lord.
I'll do promise, I keep it = returned the land
lord, in a threatening tone, as be returned the
gaze of Leslie.
Then for Gods sake, promise p exclaimed Les
lie, in a half despairine voice, promise and Pm
SAFER
Be it SO May | be cursed, If ever l sell you
a drop of drink at this bar, while l am landlord of
angry emphasis.
God be thanked y murmured the poor drum
kard, as he led his child away. God be thanked
there is hope for me yet
Hardly had the mother of Lizzie missed her
child, ere she entered, leading her father by the
hand.
%, mother y she exclaimed, with a joy-litcoun.
tenance, and in a voice of exhultation, Mr.
jerks has promised
Promised what p Hope sprang up in her hear,
on wild and A~utteriog wing her face flushed, and
then grew deadly pale. She sat painting for ar
answer.
That he would never sell me another glass OIL
liquor said be- husband.
A pair of thin white hands were clasped quick.
ly together, au asben face was turned upwards,
fearless eyes looked their thankfulness to heaven.
There is yet hope, Ellen said Leslie.
Hope. hope! And O.. Edward, you have said
the word. .s-f- f.s...
Hope. through our child. Innocence has pre-.
vailed over vice and cruelty. She came to the
strong. evil, passionate man, and in her weakness,
and innocence prevailed over him. God made
her fearless and eloquent ft3
A year afterwards a stranger came again tina
way, and stopped at the Stag and Hounds. A
before, jerks was behind bis we'll filed bar an
=, drinking customer s came and went in numbers
= jerks did not recog ize him until be called 70
water, and drank q full tum5 bier of the pure liqui'
With a hearty zest. Then he knew him, bu
feigned to be ignorant OF his identity. The stran
ger made no reference to the scene he had witness
ed there a twel7emon,h before, but fingered il
the bar most of the day closely observing ever,
one who cane there to drink. Leslie was no
among the number. sa'.
What has become Of the man and the little gir
that l saw here, at my las. visit to Milanville
said the stranger speaking at last to jerks.
Gone to the Devil, for all I care was the land
: lords rude answer, as be turned of from his ques
' tioner.
For all you care no doubt said the stranger t
himself. Men often speak their real thoughts i
a passion 3
DO you see that little white cottage away o
there, just at the edge of the wood? Two ia
=, poplars stand in 'front.' s
Thus spoke to the stranger one who had hear
= him address the landlord.
Il do. What Of ii p he answered.
THE man you asked for lives there
u Indeed !!
J And what is more, if be keeps on as he has b
gun, the cottage will be all his own in anoth
year. jerks. here, doesn't feel any good bloc
n for him. as you may we'll believe. A poor man
prosperity is regarded as SO much loss 20 biz
Leslie is a good mechanic-one of the best
Milanyille. He can earn twelve dollars q wee
year in and year out. Two hundred dollars
IN has already paid on his cottage and as be
'g that much richer, jerks thinks himself so mu
the poorer for all this surplus and more, t
ne would have gone into his till, il Leslie had o
ke quit Drinking
Aha l see well, did Leslie, as you call hi
e. ever try to get drink here, since tie landlO
ry promised never to let him have another drink 2
H. Twice, to my knowledge
q And he refused him p
in Yes. II you remember, he said, in his ang'
may 1 be cursed. it l sell him another Drop
'ar Il remember it very WE'LL
eat That saved poor Leslie. jerks is suporstitic
wn in some things. lie wanted to get his Gust
ler again-fOr IT'S worth haVing-and he was actua
,ht handing him tho bottle one day, when | saw
to and reminded him OF his seleimprecation.
~hesitated, looked frightened. withdrew the bot
10 from the counter, and then with curses. drove L
lie from his bar room. threatening, at the sal
're time, to horsewhip him if be ever set a foot o,
his threshold again
ed Poor druDkafds! unused the stranger as
az 81 Tie ma a go. II 4. 49, -.-