Green Bay Republican (Newspaper) - June 4, 1842, Green Bay, Wisconsin J Ji THIS THE LAWS AND OF TBE UNITED STATES ARE BY AUTHORITY HENRY O SHOLES PUBLISHER GREEN BAY W T SATURDAY JUNE 4 1842 VOLUME 1 NO 36 TERMS OP THE Green Bay Republican The Green Bay is published every Saturday nt Dollart and fifty per if paid in advance if not three will be charged after tlie first six months One per square lines or for the first insertion and for every subsequent insertion cents ad- per square Those seat u in regard to time be published until forbid imd charged accordingly Merchants advertising by will be charged 00 and each not permitted to occupy over hulf a column at any one time Professional cards will be published nt the rate of per annum subscriptions received a less term than six mouths and no paper will be until all arrearages are paid be optional with ths publisher On business communications addressed to the Editor must be TOST otherwise they will receive no attention The Drunkard's Wife AX TRUE The grey morning was already in when a miserable wretch turned in- her from her troubled sleep and she half I ber that he is tnd it is the started up m bed the hectic lire ing along her cheek and a wild fitful light shooting into her sunken There was a faint shadowy smile ing up her face but it was as cold as moonlight upon snow The sight might have moved a bosom but what can penetrate the sear and hardened heart of drunkenness The man be- sides was in a passion to u uuu u inous door groped through a narrow entry and paused at the entrance of the room within That degraded being had ones been a Wealthy man respected by his neighbors surrounded by friends But alas the social glass had first lured him to indulgence aud then to inebriety until lie was now a common drunkard The noise of his footsteps had been heard within for the creaking door Avas timidly opened and a pale emaciated about nine old stepped out a the landing and asked in mingled and dread Is that you father 1 Yes wet to the skin curse said Blast it said the wretch as he reeled into the room this the way you receive me after being out all day in the rain to get something for your brat und you Come don't go to ing I but as his wife uttered a cry at his brutality and fell back senseless on the bed he seemed to awa- ken to a partial sense of his condition he reeled a step or two forward put his hand np to his forehead stared wildly around and then gazing almost ly upon her continued what's the ills wile my a corpse him but a low voice from the other side of the bed answered and its tones ed as they spoke It was the voice of his son who had stolen in and was sobbing violently as he to raise her head in his little arms He had been for weeks her only nurse and had long since learned to act for himself He bathed her temples he chafed her hands he invoked her wildly to awake said the man and he was sobered at once he continued in a tone of horror that chilled the blood and advancing to the bedside with eyes starting from their sockets he 1 1 1 HIV iL Alt leman why amt you abed and asleep llis hcr brow rivO i v i i i- i ou brat The little fellow shrunk back at this salutation but still though ing with fear he did not quit his station lefore the door What arc you standing there ig said the wretch It's bad to have a sick wife grumbling j U day without having you kept up at light to chime in in morning Get then oh my I have murdered Emily Emily you arc not dead say so oh speak and forgive your repentant husband V and kneeling by the bedside he chafed hcr white thin bund watering it with his hot tours as he sobbed her names Their efforts at length partially re- stored her and the first thing she saw upon reviving was her husband weeping by hcr side and calling her It was the first time he had clone so for years It stirred old memories in her rmd thn the way by which his parent would have to enter ilie room I you LU t said uio man with an oath breaking into a fury give me the lamp and go to bed or i li break every bone in your body father talk so said the little fellow bursting into tears you'll wake mother she's been worse all day and hasn't had any sleep till and as the man made an to j 0 bed you imp Do you The little fellow did not answer fear to have deprived him of speech lint still on to the with an imploring ne stood in j sious of years long Who was in their youthful days before ruin had her once noble husband and wuen ail was joyous and origin as her own bosom Wo shame ty desertion his brutal language was j forgotten and she only thought of him as the lover ot her youth Oh that ment of She faintly threw hcr arms around his neck and sobbed there j for very joy Can vou forgive me I have snatch the candle the boy losing all sonal fears in anxiety for his sick mother stood firmly across the drunkard's path and said mustn't go in What does the brat broke out the inebriate angrily this comes of leaving you to wait on your mother till you learn to be as obstinate as a mule Will you disobey Take that you and raising his hand he struck the little sickly being to the floor kicked aside his body aud strode into the dilapidated room Tt i for J J L home of such a vagabond as he The walls were low covered with smoke j and with a hundred cracks The hn d once been white but was now of the greasy of age The ceiling had lost most of the and the rain soaking through dripped with a monotonous tick upon the floor A few broken chairs a cracked and a three-legged table on a rimless cnn were in different parts of the room the most striking spectacle was directly be- fore the gambler On a rickety bed lay the wife of his bosom the once rich and j beautiful Emily who through poverty shame and sickness had still clung to the lover of her youth Oh woman thy constancy the world not shake aor shame nor misery subdue after friend had deserted that ruined man indignity after indignity been a brute a how can you forgive me 1 I have sinned as never mail sinned before aud against such an angel as you Oh God annihilate me for my guilt said the dying woman in a tone so sweet and low that it floated through that chamber like the whisper of a disembodied spirit I forgive you arid may God forgive you too but oh do not embitter this last moment by such an impious j The man only sobbed in reply but his I frame shook with the tempest of agony I within him at last continued ing woman I have long wished for this moment that I might say something to you about our little God forgive me for my wrongs to murmured the repentant man I have much to say and I have but little time to say it in I feel that I shall never see another sun A violent fit of coughing interrupted hcr Oh must not will not sinking frame you'll live to save your repentant husband you will The tears gushed into her eyes but she only shook her head She laid her wan hand on his and continued feebly and day for many a long year have I prayed for this hour and never even in the darkest have ed it would for I have felt that within me which whispered that as all only thing for I would care to live She paused and struggled to subdue her feelings will you promise me I will as there is a Maker over me I sobbed the man and the frail bed against which ae leaned shook with his emotion And you Henry you will obey your father and be a good boy as you love your mother you sobbed the little fellow flinging himself wild on his mother's neck but mother dear mother what shall I do without you don't This is too murmured the ing woman drawing her child feebly to hcr Father give me strength to en- dure For a few minutes all was still and nothing broke the silence but the sobs of the father and the boy and the low tick of the rain dripping through upon the floor The child was me 10 move tie to feel that giving way to his grief pained his mother and gently ing himself from her he hushed his sobs and leaning on the bed gazed iously in her face Her eyes were ed but her lips moved as if in prayer Henry where are you faintly ed the dying mother The boy answered in a low ful voice Henry she said in a louder tone and then after a second added poor babe he doesn't hear me The little fellow looked up amazed Ho knew not yet how the senses ally fail the dying he was perplexed the tears coursed down his cheek and his throat choked so that he could not speak But he placed his hand in his mother's and pressed it Come nearer my the candle wants snuffing there lay your face down by mine Henry love I can't see has the the The bewildered boy gazed wildly in- to his mother's face but knew not what to say He only pressed her hand again Oh murmured the dying man her voice growing fainter and er this is j The child felt a quick electric shiver HI the Ilium lie UUu 1 t i i i dead upon the pillow He knew it all at once He gave one shriek and fell senseless across Her body That shriek aroused the drunkard Starting up from his knees he gazed wildly on the could not en- dure look of that si ill sainted face lie covered his face with his hands and burst into an agony of tears Long years have passed since then and that man more a useful ber of the fearful price at which his reformation was purchased when the wretched at that it may lie by and canker and the rust thereof be a witness against him while the poor cry unto the Lord for lack of what he hoards in darkness Still the miser exercises a species of and wicked indeed but self-denial arid that is a thing not voluntarily sub- mitted to by many Such characters do cross my path aud I gaze after them and marvel but the number is fearfully great of those who come within the Ts it a of Wat be's you Did you never see tousan dollar A man of your appearance ued the merchant in astonishment with a thousand dollar I could have None of your swearin here if you please but give me mine change dat I may be off to mine farm again meaning of the text and whose love of to your A thousand money though they hoard it not is a prolific root of evil sprouting forth on all sides lar Who are you? If I may be so bold Who be's I Why don't you know I see a child with a penny your own neighbors man? My name in his hand or pocket carelessly glance j is Fritz Van poor man mit no more as one tonsand acres of landt and dis in my pocket dat at the half-naked figure and wan tenance of another child crying for bread while he retains his penny in the cherished prospect of the cake or toy shop where he hopes to barter it for some superfluous indulgence I behold ino genii 01 in a very evil tree When I see a purchaser striving to beat down the humble dealer who haps consents to be robbed rather than lose a customer I find the tree in what Often have I witnessed a scene that crimsons my cheek with the blush of shame and in- Some poor industrious tures offering for sale a few baskets or some other little work of ingenuity the pale face and gaunt figure bearing ness how important tho trifle at which the article is priced must be to the seller while the buyer who would not miss thrice the sum stands chaffering and beating down the disputed vender un- til she carries off the article at half its value and glories in her disgraceful bargain This docs not always result from the love of money for I have seen the pence so unfeelingly withheld from an artisan carelessly flung within a few minutes afterwards to some sturdy vagrant who made his appeal to the questionable charity of the donor A scene in a stage coach I can never for- get We were waiting for the moment of starting when a poor woman dently in the last of consumption oilmen bume nnu me lor if you'll change it and let me begone I'll dank you Chonge Lord sir where should I get money of a morning to change a Den vat shall I do You won't drust me nor you won't change my tousand dollar Trust Mr Van I will to the amount of a thousand dollars if you didn't suppose I was afraid to trust you said the merchant growing very complaisant Haw haw roared the man as loud as he could laugh you to haul in your horns a little does Strange wat wonders a shmall tousand dollar will work in a good So you'll drust me now Certainly certainly sir No I'll be if you so be I can livid silver enough in mine pocket to pay you As he said this the Dutchman hauled out an old stocking full paid for the goods and giving another hearty haw haw tiaw at the astonishment and sudden change of opinion of the merchant de- parted sae One passengers commenced JL In a lecture recently delivered by MAFFITT the following beautiful apostrophe to water was The strength of give me only the pale water nature brews in flip of Money One of several things that are too hard for and which I cannot by any means comprehend is the passion thus designated in Scripture with the awful character that it is root of all evil I can readily that money as a means of curing other gratifications may be ted almost beyond bounds He who has a full purse may cast his eyes over every stall in and select whatever pleases them He may command all that tends to fulfil the desires of the flesh and of the in its worst sense of their corrupt vings he may take a nobler range and minister out of his substance to the poral necessities of his poorer or he may ascend vet higher ana Hie love ot sustaining mm scatter the bread of life in the way of famishing souls That the possession of money therefore should appear to men of all characters a desirable good as fur as to render a cautionary tion needful even to the holiest of God's people is natural enough But there is a form sometimes taken by this loving principle that equally amazes and disgusts me when found among those who profess more than nominal creature until she emptied her whole to be far beneath the prime cost of the fruit and as while replacing his origin alembics of her crested mountains Give me when I would assail with strained nerves and tue outlay of uones and sinews some amount of opposition reared full store into his lap with a despairing look and impassable in my me lor what J who had tilled a basket only that pure flow which followed the for such outcasts well knew stroke of the Prophet's me that gush cool and clear that bubbled before in the desert weighty purse lie braged over his cap- i Give me only that fluid which trickles ital I could scarcely refrain down tho bright sides of our own telling him that by withholding into rills in the the little profit on her stock he had left that almost dying woman destitute of the means of replenishing it and had perhaps wrested the morsel from the lips of a starving family the love of money taking this shape slays many j a victim among the honest driving many more to crime and irretrievable The Thousand Bellar KilS Away back in tho State of New York lives a Dutch farmer well to do in the world who always keens u thousand dollar With this in his pocket and a shabby coat on his back he prides himself in playing tricks with strangers such country merchants as have recently commenced business -in the neighborhood and arc not with his ces As an instance of this kind he wont woody uplands then rolls into broad beautiful transparent in- to lakes the mirrors to reflect all that is dark or soft or deep in the firmament above Give me these tal cool fever allaying waves in health or sickness when the thirst of the last fever should assail my me these waters untutored and free until that moment when I shall drink the waters of eternal Beautiful is the love of a sister the kiss that hath no guile and no the touch is purity and peace satisfaction to the heart fever to tlic pulse Beautiful is love of a bister il js moonlight on our has light but no heat it is of heaven and sheds its peace upon tlic MAKING A saiA an impudent wag to a conceited fop I lately to a new merchant with his j beautiful creature who wishes I clothes all in his toes out ins slices ins nut any u 10 crown aud his beard a fortnight old anil with my appearance I suppose ordered a few dollars worth of goods The merchant stared at him but as had been heaped upon him and had deserted you and I had not so in edly year by year he had fallen lower the end you would nt last come back to while in oil cases it is un- in the sink of infamy and still through your early feelings would it hnd speakably contemptible and revolting every mishap that sainted woman had come sooner some happiness then might to common sense I mean the passion clung to he was the father of have been mine again in this but for hoarding money her boy the husband of her youth It God's will be lam weak I feel When a person li was a hard task for her to perform but I am failing fast your acquaintance U IO struck with iny appearance I chP much so She thinks there was no hazard in laying out the j you'd make a capital playmate for her articles for him none of which were to j POODLE DOG be cut he executed the command When the goods were ready the more chant stared more to hear his customer ask him to charge them Charge exclaimed tlic man of we're not in xox IN WEBSTER be taken with a ing main crank in poetry machines A most melodious word Henr ive me your out nyl nil deserted him should she too leave him had borne but ture could endure no more Health had from hcr checks aud her were dim and sunken She was m the last stage of consumption but it was not that which was killing was dying person lays by a sum any intention of spending it and fn t nro boy silently placed it in usefulness to other individuals is it ean it be of more value to him than an equal quantity of the dust that lies upon the surface or of pebbles that slitter in the is the re- God is title of him who lays up much i for many years in order Uko thc habit of charging our goods to every when well pronounced We keep a sharp look out for crooked it won't lie still body -A stick so i The little slie kissed it and then placing it within her husband's Here is our child oar only born when I nm gone ho will have to take care of him but you uid above as you ui Won't you charge cm to you I thank you You FASHIONS ron have a better coat on your back to ex- Abstinence fiom spirituous Den if you won't chaise said i hours nnd the Dutchman with great proper I must dry and pny for down if MI be I not throw lar from his pocket extended n vour of heart The noise made by her husband awoke keep love cherish him us yon value a promise to a dying his nil to eat drink and be merry iv lace ami a ill vou m is oai r tnf depths of mud of the of the clear men inou will tie well Thou maybe safely That dollar there blows a gale
