Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-05
Inmpipr 10 UoncluuIona.

wicker's Office one day. She was worn
and tired from climbing the winding
stairs, and she sank almost breathless
into the waste basket, putting the poems
and stories it contained to the only press
they will ever know. There was a
troubled, anxious look on her face, a
pair OF green spectacles on her nose,
and a general air Of sorrow and exhaus-
ton about her that appealed at once to
our tenderest feelings The feelings
answered the appeal and stepped re-
spectfully forward After the aged fe.
male recovered her breath, she asked:
Is there loryers Office in this
buildin p
We answered in the affirmative, but
we're sorry to say that the legal gentle
man was out of town.
"0ut of town, ehP We'll, ] s'pose I'll
have to find out some other loryer l
KEN in town purpose to have this thing
fixed up, an | amt going back ontil l
know whether there is any law an ekeity
in this country"
We ventured to remind the dame that
lswing was losing business in the end,
and should be resorted to only in tie
most aggravated cases.
Aggregated casesl" she screeched,
and the manuscript in the basket ratified
violently. Young man, it is the most
aggregated case you ever heard Of. You
ken never know the anguish Of mother s
heart when her only dorter goes astray
an follers after false idols"
your daughter has had trouble then2'
mo, it's me what's havin' the trouble;
but she's causin it-she an that tarnal
sheep-faeed preacher" F"
Ahl minister in the case2 / think
| understand. Such things are becom-
ing too common-alss, too frequent
The cloth is being brought into disre-
pute by such scoundrels, who steal the
livery Of heaven to serve the devil in.
Poor girl.
Pore nothin'l She's brazen huzzy
to 90 back on her mothers teachin'
Lord knows I've allus tried 10 raise her
right"
But you must consider, my good wo.
man, that your daughter had peculiar
temptations, You must make allowance
for the fact that the tempter came to her
in holy garb, imposing upon her conf
dence in the assumed character of o
spiritual adviser, silsncine the voice of
her conscience with cunningly chosen
Scriptural quotatious. You must not be
severe on her." tgt
Well, Hammer was 'obedient girl
till he ken foolin around. He KEN to
the house purity often, but | didn't s'pose
nothin' was wrong till week ago, wher
Hammer tole me. Then / guy him a
mighty big piece Of my mind. "
He denied it, of course2'
No. he didn't He said he had his
dooty as a Christian. An his eongrega-
tion are all tickled over it, and that s
waat makes me bile.
why, that is an aggravated case.
That he should be guilty of such thing
is bad enough; that he should call it the
performance Of duty is worse, and that
his congregation should uphold him in
such vile practices is beyond belief"
well, it's 30, an | want to get lor-
yer to issoo conjunction or injectment
| or sOmetnln 10 stop IL.
Il fear there is no legal redress, un.
less 1t is matter of very recent occur
renee. A bill has passed the Legisla-
ture governing such cases, but it won't
work backward"
What is in that bill2" asked the old
lady, her face lighting up with new
hope. ht,ti
1T makes it obligatory upon the man
to either marry the woman or srpport
the chi-" 3 if
What~ shrieked the woman, spring.
ing up with suddenness that sent the
BASKET of unacknowledged genius halt
way across the room. "You barril-
headed idyot My girl amt no such fool
as thatl You editors think you're mighty
smart, an you're allus sposen things
wusser'n n they are. I've been lifelong
Methodist, and I've tried to raise my
dorter in the same faith, out that 'tarnal
Piscpalyun preacher has got her to gree
to jine, his church. I'm her material gar
jeeD, an amt agoin' to low her to doit.
IF she can't get along with the same re.
ligion her mothers got, she shan't have
any. That's the whole case, an there
amt no marryin' nur sporten' nur
Beecherin' in it.
From the way the old lady bumped