New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-03

crucisiipe deaih.
So II was ,ha. suffering came down on that
vomsns he I'd. II was little at first, and abe bore
Il b,aveiy bu. it fell steadily, steadily, till it be-
came erzine and her brain was literally crushed
with the torture. Yet the family could not realize
this.
Then the daughter ,ckened beneath her burden
Of cares. She len the school, and came home to be
a fte,h sorrow for Der poor mother. She was
rretty gentle girl Of seventeen FASTING away With
a pulus nsry disease, surerinduced BY hard labor
ard prvs,iou. OF ce urse the father greH more ard
more melancholy.
Ore dsy a nan csed at the house stating thai he
VS.. a pbyscisr, srd a member Of the Board OF
Heath. cent 70 make inquiries about the young girls
condition. After tor.uripg the invalid with mpert'-
uep, questions he In sttsd upon making sn indecent
examination, Which 50 wrought upon her siready
shattered nerves that he left her in confirmed de-
prn;on and delirum This was The last drop failing
on the brain of the poor mother and her insanity as
.uned so sis type ss to arrest the st'eaton of sU
Mother end daughter were both taken to the Luu.'c
As,lum on Blaskwel's leland. l saw them few
DAYS after The girl complained OF no p.in, though
unable TO rise from the bed but constantly benz auei
her yiskeduess and the eternal punfhment to
which she vas doomed.
"You are not bad girl said lady who had be-
frendee them in their need
"Oh am bad, abe responded, looking up, most
implorngly; never did soy thing good in my ue.'
Why, yes - said the lady, soshipgly, you have
done a great many things. Don't you know how
well you tsught, in our Industrial School-and how
much the children sli liked you That was good"
Yes, and what did | do /. forl she replied, in
an earnest despair. alt wssnt to do good ea.
thinking all the rkls Of the rloney-jHH the money
We'll, tina, was good. They needed the money at
home; you gave 1t to them when you might have
kept it yourself Was no. that good ;"
"No, il wssn't. | didn't care anything abou.
them Just did 1t because wanted to; and wasn't
sick, but went home, and sat there ali day, and
made mother wait upon me when she had so much 10
do-and / didn't care. I am not sick now, and
hsv'nt bit OF pain but ju.t lie here because
will"
But you are SICK, very sick, if you are not in
pain; and then no one can look in Jour face, and
feel that you are a bad girl
"Ye., know" che replied. quickly; it's just
like an applo-very beautiful outside but rotten all
through. Sometimes wish ras insane for theo 1t
wouldn't be true that am 20 wicked and that shall
hay to suffer so much"
"But think, my child, you are insane on this
point; ret on any other"
"Oh no Oh Gear moaned the poor girl "you
think 80; but no ons but God can read the heart"
AT the suggestion that ID could forgive, she an
swered, No, he can't forgive l committed sni
enough before was three years Old to make it im-
po,sible for ne ever to be forgiven"
"wby what did you do"
"Iused to muss in the food when mother told me
net. and knew better all the time; but didn't
core And tie just so now. | don't want to be any
better, and that's just the trouble about it."
Itwas useless to talk with her. She seemed re-
ional about everything else; but on this point she
wcs fixed. From her baby hood she had been taught
that child Of three years might commit sn enough
TO merit eternal punishment and in her present
state ber own guilt msgnied till il seemed too great
10 be forgiven. II was terrible dsspair-one tn II
made the soul heavy to witness it; and We Joined in
TIE feeling of thankfuness that il only insanity
Tie mother was far more wild and Eighty: but
there was method even in her madness she felt that
she doing great work for others, by moving
about restlessy, and continually uDpianing the
sleeves Of her dress and that it Der solemn duty
to firth this wcrk; bu, tina, good coming fro L
il and she would finally be happy.
why, said she, isn't il going to benefit our seI y
"Obl certainly" we said.
81 thought co. che replied, with eager delight
" else don't think I could have gone any further;
but thought zee should be beneited-romea roald
&C."
Had this thought found its way to her heart when
.be toiliIg to earn scsnty subsistence for her
dependent family, making shirts for a shilling, or
teaching for a pGluy hundied dollars a year, in q
GeAer0.nt- school and had it fingered through all
Ter Cling sith the ruling motive OF her
he-thst rigid, orthodox sense of du,y-when every
thing else he'd gone when she had forgotten her
fIiercs ard was lot sure even of her identity
doubling whether abe among the living OF tbs
dead twas strange end passing sad. few days
after when saw them again the mother was more
at rest; bu, the hectic was burning brightly on the
daughters cheek. She could not eat; and, a. my
kindly good bye at parting, che repeated phrase
she had used before " On it is good bye to you,
bui II amt to ne. There is nothing good TO me"
The father and younger children hsve now separ-
ated and gone to different friends in the country;
The mother may yet recover; but her child mus,
step soon, and awaken to learn that ID forgive
Ard this is the frui, of to and wasting
toll that could Lot buy food enough for all thoe be-
loved ones from its ptisble wages Nature WIS mex
cradle. She never forgves. When her laws are
broken, her children always suffer.
ASTOINETrE L BROWN.
cheering 70 be able ths this School has since
rs,d the VI its ether Teachers the strength
81 the above facts