The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-20

belongs. w hy, said he, we got |
Z from Jour country. " Not a bitl
Of IT, sad [. Yes we got it from |
Massachusetts. " :" No. y0u fliti,sf, |
the people OF my country would not i
sleep with such an Internal concern, but |
would tear it down before they went
10 bed, and leave not one stone upon
lie contrasted this State
lnstitutiOn1 OF France with the Lu
iheran Home for the reformation OF
youthful Migrants in the same eoun
try, where the children have a home
made beautiful with trees and flowers
and singing birds and lessons of love
10 lnre them up TO industry and virtue.
Pllfe lecture was for the benefit of
the Woman's Home. By recent
movements connected with the
Woman's Christian Association,
boarding Ihouse for young, women,
whoge income is Insufficient to COM
maud genIeel homes, has been estab-
lished here. In this home they will
nave everything that a substantial and
refined home could have, and such
associations as viii keep them from
temptations. Although the lecture
was a paid one, the audience made a
voluntary Offering of more than a
thousand dollars beside
After Mr. Van Meter, Mr.. Cole,
the recently elected Republican
Mayor Of the city, introduced the
Hon. VIM. Il. Dodge, of New York
City, who male a brief but telling
talk. endorsing the work of Mr.. Van
Meter, ealogizing the work of the
ST. Louis women. and ending with a
hearty God bless YOU anap
Better than anything in the lecture
was the free and easy. talk that took
place around the speakers when the
audience was Nmissed, where stories
of successes followed each other. when
Mr.. V. said this is like men playing
cards when they pile zone on another,
growing stronger and stronger. One
told by Mr.. Dodge was this: A gen
tleman and lady IN the best of circum-
stances, and withal intelligent, visited
our New York House oil Refuge, and
both seemed Intensely Interested. At
last said the gentleman: All that |
am. or hope to be, | owe to this insti-
tuition 1t took me when 1 was re-
gardad reprobate, youth, and made
a good young man of me. | was train
ed here, and Cunning to his witc) this
i$the frsttiIne my young wife hears
lof the fact His wife was more over
come when she astounded her hus-
band BY saying. " Aud all that | am,
/ and All hope, my husband will find
in 10 as a low ng wi le and true woman,
owe. to this house, for although
/ never revealed it to him, here was |
cared for aud saved from a life OF
Il - 81
they piled it.op,Until full half hour
was passed away.
And This talking Of Reformatory
institutions puts me In mind OF the
WAY ] spent last Sunday afternoon. [
went With Mrs II, 4 Bible reader
and Industrial School teacher Of the
AmeFicaa and Foreign Church Union
tqa religions service in the prison on
chestnut aud Sixth Street. Ii was to
this ~ mon y the children of the
Walnut Street Chureh Sunday School
(God bless lhen0 gave $50 this last
Spring. And further, L may say, 1
had a talk with Mr.. v Of his visit to
the Sabbath Schools of Italy, where
this. S9eietyaiss proseeuting its work.
Said he to me. That Mr.. Cotton,
United States Consul to Venice, l
used TO dandle on my knee when he
was baby. He is taking a great
deal Of interest in the Sunday Schools
Of Italy. and when | saw him stand
lnE up belcre his large school in that
beautiful y eniee, and heard the voices
Of those, two hundred children singing
rs only Italians can sing, | could II t
rep gy;i had tolsit down. aud cry like
But Of the prison. If last Sunday
WISH specimen. there is no lack of
moral instruction. No less than
three companies came in "to do
good. Here 1 met three notable
prisoners. The German youth Max
Klihgier, who nearly a year ago killed
his uncle and attempted the life Of
his aunt. They arertying to free him
upon the ground of insanity. But he
bears no indications of this. but only
of low depravity. Here also [ had a
glance at Captain Donaldson. reeeutlv
Te-apprehended for killing q colored
boy last Summer. His young wife
a beautiful woman, and elegantly
dressed-had just.eome in to spend
the afternoon with him / could not
help thinking, Alas how pale. and
wan, and bleeding a heart under all
that outward beauty OutWardly how
brave and beautiful but how anxious
and funeral withinP'
And here let me episode upon what
stirred me almost TO openly rebuking
a kind lady who was ia the company
OF visitors. Thoughtless of the sancti-
ties OF that sad meeting of Captain ID
and his wife, she could go and sit by
/ the grating of their cell, and peer de.
iIberately III, again and again. as
! though they were beasts on show.
Where We're her womanly instincts?
And then / had another indigna-
ton. A Jealous old man volunteered
an earnest prayer, in the corridor in
the hearing. of all the inmates ADD
prayed prison, prison, prison. until T
telt like putting my hand on his
mouth and saying to him: For ritv'e
sake, stop.thatl These creatures &c,
thinking prison week In and week ont
and now do guide. their thoughts ~
something that viii lead them ont of
these blank walls to happier possibili
ties beyond. DOa't pray prison bnt
pray of Christ aud Heaven.
Here also met a man who aIIrad
the eorrldors, who told me he was =.
graduate OF an Eastern college M
heIst, think he said-was IN colIa@,
with Rev%sH. Ward Beecher Sill -.
Il never thought of being IN in,oato
ola PRISON, " Andwhy are You hore?"
am charged with forgery; [ defeat
ed my enemies on that, now AM r.
be tried for fraud aud conspiracy T
refused bail, and so am here. | hone
to get our next week on a cttl,fas
These sights are all sad. Lief tho
boys take lessons from such things
But my letter is three times as lono
az ! proposed to make it, alth0nSb :
have not touched on MANY ~