Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-05-26

many good ones; none however, pleasant to the
ear of Becky. But when in some few days the
child young face bes an to look up gratefully
into her own. the thought struck Becky that the
great oil painting over the library fire place, was
portrait of the judges mother, and that her chris
tian name had been Alice. ''And mi ght it not
be beautiful, sag Becky to herself, elf she should
turn out to be a good child, and come up TO such
grand things az to mend the dear masters shirt,
or cook him an oneet as brown as do? Might
it not he beautiful to hear that name he loves so
well called softly up and down the housed" so
giving her own questions affirmative answer.
Becky called the child Alice.
To say that years teaching OF sin was
absolved all at once would be an injustice to my
great teacher, nature. But peculauons from clo-
SETS and drawers, and jars. grew less and less be-
fore the continual mini stratlon OF good: the me-
mory OF vice faded like shadow In the broaden
ing sun; and Alice, the unknown spawn OF the
beggaT lodging house, became a favorte with
old Joe, took and thrived by honest Becky tea
chlngs, and even at last becoming noticed by Mr..
Rednot, drew upon his learning many ways.
Years passed on and Alice was seventeen: ne
yer had the Judge seen her; never heard of her.
lie had lived f1rty ears in that house, yet never
trod his own kit'hen floor Becky grew feeble;
and the stern old man at last noticing it, rung
her up one night into the library. He spoke
kindly, placed her chair, and said she must nave
help Beckys heart Ialtered-tae cecret OF years
was on her tongue
81 was afraid you would be angry, but have
long been obliged to Eave'--
'Whom!"
Gone who can cook your omclel beautifully;
set a Inll on your shirt, and almost place your
room as we'll as do--Ace.
The old man locke d up at that picture: his heart
grew merciful at that name. He rung again the
bell: he said word or tHo, and Alice the bud
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ty streets that society brushes, and that he in his
great wisdom disowned all regeneration for, save
the eaows, stood before him in her beauty and
her usefulness. The magIsrs te said .ioht--'NO-
bier is il to teach good to crime than tread II
u ader foot" The heart of the poor servant had
solved the great enigma OF social wrong and So
cial progress in a more practical way than the
wisdom of the scholar and the juige--for tea ch
but ignorance and we evil diminish That night
the old man smiled less upon those books, he took
them down; he read them; and Alice from that
hour fitted round him in her humble useful Gu-
ties, and surpas sed poor Becky, because she had
been better taught. Becky soon after this fell i'll,
and on her dying bed told the old man of that
theft; how the pity of her heart had made her
save--and Alice was the Fruit She, sir, who is
so very good, and waits so gently on YOU. Be
good TO her-be good to her.
/ willard ake-a lesson from you, Becky,
that shall make not only the law but my own
heart BETTER
Those great books of the great juriet are no
longe. smiled upon. The retired Judge viii be.
queath his great veal h to put their spirit into
action; and with Alice in her humble duties fitting
round him. devses plans for the better bearing
out the great progress questions OF reiormatory
law? and no longer ending his chain Of e,hic
causatlves by the RaloWs, sets his band to these
great prlnciples--that crime is ignorance, and
that to save and lead this ignorance towards good
is a service tina approXimates the human actor
towards his divine creator