New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-12
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What Is III Simply this
She has been and spent her xpenceo do unto others
Just a. she had been done unto DID oakes taste
,weeter Did ever beneyclence better enjoy herself than
Maggie did while thus distributing her rewards Whist
lesson Of self sacrifice The first sxpenceihe whole trea
sure Of this worlds Food peut promote the happiness Of
others This was hint 1t dull inteec, that could
not improve It The children further fed and bid to
come again tomorrow Ana this" said he the be
ginning Of our ragged beggar children school ths, has
proved such blessing to this neighborhood7
Maggie" said taking her by the hand and looking her
in the eye Maggie you have helped great deal to
day; VIII you again tomorrow =
The string was touched, and tears flowed When had
tear except tears Of anger filed those eyes before What
had touched tina, string Kind words
If you viii let me stay. wont go away. can earn to
sew can make these shirts"
"Yes YES and If you an here these children will come
and we viii have school every day"
And 20 Wild Maggie Wild Maggie no more she
wus tanned Her Ife had taken on a new phase To the
ouestops what would her father say' what would her MOTH
er say she replied What do they care what have they
ever csred Though they not always 50 bad a. they
now are.
No tbfv were not always bad they now are None
Of his class were always bad they now are once her
father was James Reagan respectable man. good car
penter and had good home Now where wss nc sunk
step by step from hotel to saloon from saloon to bar
room from barro grocery, from grocery to
cellar rum hole from good house filthy underground
den in Center He has but one more step take
one more underground hole to occupy
But such he may reform He did You have seen that
VIII you ask how You shall know.
Maggie became one of the household She was washed
and fed and clothed and how she worked and learnt eve
ryhing and how she listened at the temperance meetings
to what the pledge had done and how she wished her
mother would come and try-try leave of drinking and
become the good mother she when was little girl
For her father she had no hope For her mother she de
termiped 10 persevere When she sober she would
talk and cry and promise but the demon rum would over
come her and then she would her daughter and call
her all The vile names that the insane devil in her could IN
vent
And 50 it went on Maggie sl determined, still trying
The right time came at last One night Maggie was not at
the meeting BY and bye there was little STIR at the door
What is tho matter little girl is pulling woman, ai
uoat by force into the 1t is Maggie ana hef hoIhr
She has got her old ragged dress off, and looks que hea
one that Maggie has made foI her But she hides ner ae
She is ashamed to look those in the face she would have
once looked down upon woman is speaking women
can sneak upon temperance-just such woman as her
sir II not herself-s she awake. does she sleep and
drsaml If awake she hears her own story Inc s'oy Oh
woman with a drunken husband And she traces Ms iaAi
from afluence down beggy then her fall down. down
down down to cellar in Fsrlows Court there her nus
hand dies there upon pile Of straw and rags upon the
eoor in drunken Inconsistencies she gives birth 10
child-a living child by the side Of its dead father
what night-wha a scene but you have not seen The
worst Of it. The very heavens asthough angry at such az"
ul use of the gifts Of reason and the abuse of appetite
sen their frked messengers of fire to the eahless dan
corona than the Ere that man bottles up for his own damna
on and the water came down in torrents pouring into
that cave where the dead and living and new born were
living together and OVERLOOKED the floor and when felt Its
chill said she IL awaked ont of my drunken sleep ana
felt around me- to see could not see all was picn
darkness Nv child cried and then-then whole army oil
rats driven BIZ the rain driven by the water from the
floor came creeping to me Oh how their sunny Do
dies felt as thew over my face Then I;red to awaken
nv husband but be would not awake and IN my frenzy
struck and bit hirn-b q dead man-for his was the sleep
Of eternity Then summoned almost superhuman strength
and creeped m the stairs and into the court looked
mn the storm was gone thele smile in heaven
il WAS the smile of that murdered babe for when had
beeeed light and went back again to that dreadful
dreadful babitaton-why are human beings permitted to
live in such awful holeshes nobody any core Tor human
Hfe-what did see Mothers mohers-mohers thai sleep
on soft couches-hear me hear me-heGr oil the hensn
fruits the rum trade bearshe rats had devoured the e
blood of that child What next know not know thai
l
this pledge was saved--al may be saved
AM ALI Can I--can | be restored as you have
beep-can shake of this demon that has dragged me down
SO low that my own mother would not know me or know
| ing would spurn me. Can be saved
/ Iwss Maggie's mother.
Yes you you, was a thousand times worse lo0A d
me now. a.,
Yes mother. YOU Come" And she took her by the
hand and led her up the table put pen IN her hand
dropt upon her kneeslooked up to her mother mporns
ly-up to heaven prayerfuy lips quiVered-the tears
rolled down her checks" Now mother now.
Ts done She wrote her name in a fair hend-Mary
Reagan. - -.
She never fell She came TO live in the house with
Maggie Il cannot 70 back she said, to live with
your father, if ] would stand fast; and cannot think
after hearing that womans story, last night OF ever
drinking again. | know that woman | knew her when
che was girl one of the proudest and pretest My hu'
band has spent many dollar with hers in the bar room
Oh yes knew her well | did no, know her last night
I'm, when she told me who she was-thst she was Elsie
Wendal-then knew her-Oh could tel you such
sory-but not now No no. cannot live with your father
again. forI never will drink any mcre-never-neyer
Sc But what II father will take the pledge =
oh then should be happy woman AGAIN ba'
there is 10 hope"
Yes there is hope / shall watch him and mother
'c,A save him
uwss great promse-a great undertaking for youns
pirl to promise with an Il viii" When did u viii 10
woman mouth ever fan
That will was the strength OF her life was iof 'na' '"e
nov lived and labored Now she had hope-nOw twas
oet-Dow revived again New ne worked nl'n'n
for whole month then down be went If he happened %
90 n,o one Of his old hsunts or meet with some OF h Ole
COMPANIONS, who said Come jim, Pets take one drnA
/ - 4, ,-,,, 10 any hrrt'-but two follow the one