Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-09-29

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What then are You going TO do tonight? You
cannot sleep In the street; it is too cold
Won't you let me sleep
With your cousin Julana? 2
No, sir, not that; she is clean, and II wish
was Won't you let me sleep on the foora
GU shall have place to sleep tonight; ant
TOMORROW, II your mother is willing, you shall
come and live with cousin Juliana and be dressed
as she is, and learn to sew, and when YOU get biz
enough
Her mother will prostitute her, as she did her
older sister, to miserable old rlmp for ten dol
lars
Tom, Tom, what is that,'
The truth sir. Have ever told YOU lie since
have been in your house?
| Well, we'll, Tom take Madalina to the house
keeper, and give her some where to sleep to night
add tomorrow morning you shall 60 TO her moth
er, and see what she will do
Lord, SIT, must go tonight She will be O fl
with her hook and basket, pokiug in the cutters
alter rags before the stars go to bed The rag
plckers are early birds / have known them to
walk four or i've miles on a morning to get TO
their own walk
Own walk. What is that q
All the city is divided up among them Each
must keep 20 his own walk. If one should tres
pass upon another, he would get a wet cloth over
his mouth some night when he was asleep. and
nobody would ever know care how he died.
The coroner's jury would inquire into the mat.
ter
Coroner! fddlesticks beg your pardon, sir,
but did not mean to answer YOU in that way.
though did know that coroners iuries care ,be
least OF anybody how such fellows die The YER
dict would be accidental DEATH found dead died
OF visitation of Providence or if the murderers
got chance, wh;ca they might do easy enough
to chuck the body in the dock the verdict would
be found drowned, no matter if he had hole in
his head as big as my fist
They could not carry the body from this neigh
borhood 10 the river without being detected
Could mt theya How did Ringnosed Bill and
Snakey 10 carry Pedlar Jake from the Old Brew
cry to Peck slip and send him afoata q
What, dead I?
les, sir, they put too much opium in his rum
TO get him to sleep so they could rob him, and he
d'd not wake up and SO they walked him off,
Walked him off, how9
They stood him up and fastened one of their
legs to his on each side, that when they stepped
his feet Travelled too, and they along talk
ing TO him and cursing him for being SO drunk,
till they got to the dock
Where were the police. do they never notice
such things7'
Lord, no sir, they steps round the corner when
they sees drunken man coming, particularly if
he has one of his trends with him.
And do you think, Tom, that the ragpckers
would murder fellow creature who trespassed
as they call ii, upon their grounds, without COM
junction OF conscience? q
Conscience, Sir, what do they know about con,
scienceF 2 The Padre keeps their conscience
But the law. is there no law in this Christian
city''
Law, pshaw! what has your bo,k,law to do
with the rag pickers lawa
'Trre enough; or Father Confessors' either
lie next morning Tom made his report. At
first 1t was positive refusal She can make a
sixpence day and pick up enough to eat
Well then she shall pay you sixpence a day
She can soon learn to sew and earn more than
that Juliana does it every day
But she shall not stay ihere nights THEY'LL
make Protestant of her.
That was the sticking point says Tom =
: if she stays here, she cannot make - of her
there. The best could do was to let her 60 home
nights and come days. That is better than moth
ing. The poor little thing won't have to go beg
ging, and be burnt and kicked and vomited with
filthy tobacco cuds, and then whipped if she don't
bring home a sixpence every night for her mother
TO buy rum with. If she cannot earn il here at
first, Will. and we will get her away entirely, af
ter a while
Noble Tom. Glorious good boy What
heart? How long is II since thou vert of
them kicked and cufIed, and grovellng drunk in
gutiera Who thought thea that thy rags and
filth covered such heart7 Who knew of the
virtuous lessons given thee by pious mother, and
how IN after years of forgetfulness, sin wretched
ness, misery, that that good would vegetate and
bring forth such sweet flowers and good fruit. as
we are now tasting in these good deeds and kind
wordsa What if nine of the fallen whom we lift
up, fall back again, that stand who shall
refuse to lend helping hand Let US lift up the
lowly and make the naughty humble Why
should they do evil
Madalina- though still suffering from her bru-
tal treatment, was happy girl when she found
that she was not 10 be driven into the streets
But she could not understand why her mother
wanted her TO sleep al home. Tom could Too
young Pooh. before she was year older she
would be lost Too true. Before she had been
in the Home six months, she had learned TO read
write and work, and had grown much in stature
and fine looks We would have placed her in
some good family, but her mother would rot
consent. She still complained of her breast and
frequent turns of vomiting. She always felt
worse in the morning, because, she said that was
such dreadful place to sleep
Sometimes she did not come for few days =
her mother made her stay at home and sew. She
had learned TO work and her services were worth
more at that than begging.
One night she came in in great haste CRYING.
What is the matter, Madalinas