New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-11
A Daughter Gone Astray

| AL Ola IaUy came up 10 inc once w 0Onoe
day. She was worn and tired from clint
ing the winding stairs, and she sank almos
breathless into the waste basket. putin,
the poems and stories it contained to tn
only press they will ever know. There wa
troubled. anxious look on her face, pai
OF green epectacles on her nose, and gen
eral air Of sorrow and exhaustion about hel
that appealed at once to our tenderest feel
iDgs. The feelings answered the appeal
and stepped respectfully forward. After
the aged female recovered her breath, she
asked:
'ls there loryer's office in this buldin' p
We answered in the atfir native, but were
sorry to say that the legal gentleman was
out of town.
| "Out of town, eh Well, spose I'll have
to find some other loryer. kem in town q
purpose to have this thing fixed up, an ]
amt goin' back ontil l know whether
there is any law an ekity in this country"
| we ventured to remind the dame that
having was losing business in the end,
and should be resOrted to only in the most
| aggravated cases.
| aggregated cases" she screeched, and
the manuscript in the basket ratified
| violently. young man, it is the most
| aggregated case you ever heerd on. You
| ken never know the anguish of a mothers
| heart when her only dorter goes astray
| dA lOIIcIe dTUeT ldlSo IuOlS.
Your daughter has had trouble, then"
"No, it's me what's havin' the trouble;
but she's causin' it-she an that tarnal
sheep-faced preacher"
"Ah. minister in the case. | think l
understand. Such things are becoming too
common, alas! too frequent. The cloth is
being brought into disrepute by scoundrels
who steal the livery Of heaven to serve the
devil in Poor girl
sspOOr Cho'c
go back on her mothers teachin'. Lord
knows I've allus tried to raise her right"
but you must consider, my good woman,
that your daughter had peculiar tempta.
tiOns. You must make allowance for the
TACT that the tempter came to her in holy
garb, imposing ON her confidence in the
assumed character of a spiritual adviser,
silencing the voice of her conscience with
cunningly chosen scriptural quotations,
You must not be severe on her."
swell, Hammer was 'bedient girl till he
KEN fOOlin' around. He KEN to the house
purity often, but didn't s'Dose nothin' was
wrong till a week ago, when Hammer tOle
me. Then guy him mighty big piece of
my mind"
"He denied it. of course ~
"NO, he didn't. lie said he had did his
are all tickled over it, an that's what 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 perfor-
nance OF duty is worse, and that his con-
gregatiOn should uphold him in such vile
practices, is beyond belief"
"Well, it's SO, an l want to get loryer
to $500 conjunction or ipjectment or
sOmethln' to stop it."
II Tear there is no legal redress, unless it
is a matter of very recent occurrence. A
bill has passed the Legislature governing
such cases, but it won't work backwards"
What is in that bill!" asked the old lady,
her face lighting up with new hope.
1t makes 1t obligatory upon the man to
either marry the woman or support the
Chi"
what shrieked the woman, sprinpinp
up with suddenness that sent the basket
OF unacknowledged genius half way across
the room. You barrel headed idiyot, NV
girl amt no such fool as that You editors
think you're mighty smart, and you're allus
s'posin things wusser'n they're. I've been
a life long Methodist and I've tiled to raise
my dorter IN the same faith, but that tarnal
,Piacopaiyun preacher has got her to gree
to jine his church. Pm her material parpeen
an amt agoin' to low her to do it, III
che can't get along with the same religion
her mothers got, she shant have anv.
That's the whole case, an there amt no
nur s'pOrtin', nur Beecherin' in
it,"
From the way the old lady bumped along
down the stairs, we fear she was undu]v
agitated.
We shall never Jump at another conclu.
slon-no. not if 1t should lie within an inch
Of our nose, and pointed proofs were press.
ng against US on each side and behind
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