Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-03-18

meant. suppose. fur bed and in another
lot ol old kettles and stove. This. a.
far az could see, C, instituted tie posses-
sions therein. Every thing betok en- ed want
and wretchedness.
asked
Yes. SIR
And where is your father?
had scarcely spnken-evsn before an
answer could he given, heavy clumsy step
Could be heard outside on the stairs, and
hoarse gruf voice singing some profane
song.
Its father whispered liitle Lambert,
Good heavens! could fellrw creature
be 50 degraded ? Even on the night of
his wife burial
coarse, drunken blnat, in the worst
state OF intoxication, saw, as he utntl ID
INTO the room and east his wild, hIeared
eyes upon me. His poor hey 81 Young.
apd 70 experience such misery. snch deg
radatlon, IN his only parent THAT TYR
ranfiy fnled. there cav IN a .u5:,n,eias. IA
the child cfouched from bis sigh. Aud
what the dead wife must have suffered
The very thought bid one thank God that
he had taken her Ia himself
With IN Osth the man dnmsnded nv
business. informed HIM "f the cream
stance IN which had found bis son. and
r"lHely requested that he would dea! mer-
cifully with him
That's my business, ard more Of your'n'
he grunted 'savagely
Aud IN defiance of me, or TO giut a hum
CRY and ferocious temper, he rolled toward
the child, seized him roughly, and com
menced beating him in the most brutal
manner. demonstrated, and sed 10
get the ctim t ON his clutches. with the
determination IT taking him fiom the
place As reached h Go II. the drunken
brute, with terrible curses on his lips,
ordered me away from the house. s.agger,
ed upon ue, AMI raised his huge fist to
strike me down. evaded the blow. hut
he. reeiIng from the force of the intention.
tell forward ,hinush the doorway. headl 10y
over the stairs. down, down into the dark
ness. head over heels, with frightful velucr-
ty, fell heavily at the bottom of the stairs.
snd ali was sill.
Greatly excited ard fearful Of the result
l rushed for the light, leaped down the
steps in nlmost Us quick a time az the
drunkard before ME, and bent over his
IoIy.
irIghtul snectacle. indeed Bruized
and bios dy. he lay with his back broken.
IL was his fate.
y intemperance ahcminasle feEd, un-
rHrnurab'e atu,er OF raturp must dam
nsbie arpetlsr, hcaGiug the crime list of
earth, how many hlre1Iny hearts curse
thee at this moment How many early
graves bear wituFs~ at the fntAI pnisut.
H." many homes oi = verify o. terror, ii
disgrace. hoarSely wh,suer 90 the newer of
the { ating temrter! I,w ma blnnd
spotted stains oii the page of history bear
tes'im ny against thee OF Surrcwiny
and a rsed wives and widows. helpless uud
lil.reat-d orphans? o. suicide-of mur
de,s. Til u>and~ # weeping, tortured
mortal cry OCT heior, Gods high Judge
inert seat for Arrangement
Another victim lay before me. Sick at
heart, had scarcely noticed the crowd OF
neigh 5ur~ who had bfru assembled by the
screams Of the chIid LamheIt
A physlc an was called, tut all in vain.
1t WAS goo late.
The dying man raised bis eyes for an
instant to hls much wrouged by, with an
exFreRsiou Of recognition, muttcred enc
srntenee-' uy poor wife and Ill wa.
over.
took the charge e the orphan. lie
has lived to be my best frIrnI: and, |
thrnk heaven, he has escaped the deadly
viper which ruined his home and murder
et his PARENTS