The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-05-20

We all know how readily people are to
jump at the conclusion that preachers
are libertines.. We see this disposition
manifested in the Beecher case, and all
similar cases of accusation 1t is mostly
due to the debased character of men
generally.
The following is laughable illustra-
ton of this weakness:
From the Belleville Advocated
ANOTHER CLERGYMAN ACcUsED-A LAMB OF
THE FLOCK MIsLED.
An old lady came up to the office Wednesday.
She was worn and tired from climbing the
stairs, and she sank almost breathless into
chair. After the aged female had recovered
her breath, she asked:
sis there loryer's Office in this buildin'f'
We answered in the Affirmative, but were
sorry to say that the legal gentleman was out
of town.
"Out of town, Ell? Well, 'spose III have to
ind some other lawyer. KEN to town a pur-
pose to have this thing fixed up, and amt
goin' back until know whether there is any
| law an ekity in this country"
We ventured to remind the dame that lawing
was losing business in the end. and should be
( resorted to only in the most aggravated cases.
Aggregated casesl" she screeched. ''Young
man, it is the most aggregated case you ever
heard OF. You ken never know the anguish of
mothers heart when her only dorter goes
astray an follers after false idols"
"Your daughter has had trouble, them"
mo, 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 under
stand. Such things are becoming too common; !;
alas too frequent. The cloth is being brought
into disrepute by such scoundrels, who steal
l Al .
Poor grip
"Pore nothin'! She's brazen huzzy to 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 temptations.
| You must make allowance for the fact that the
tempter came to her in holy garb, imposing
upon her confidence in the assumed character
of spiritual adviser, silencing the voice of her
conscience with cunningly chosen scriptural
quotations. You must not be severe on her,
"Well, Hammer was a 'bedient girl till he KEN
foolin' around. He KEN to the house purity
often, but dtdn' 'spose nothin' was wrong till
a week ago, when Hammer told me. Then guv
him piece of my mind"
"He denied it, of course7"
mo, he didn't. He said he had done his
dooty as a Christian. An his congregation was
all tickled over it, an that's what makes me
bile"
"Why, that is an aggravated case. That he
should be guilty of such a thing is bad enough
that he should call 1t the performance of duty
is worse, and that his congregation should up
hold him in such vile practices is beyond be-
lief"
"Well, it's so, an want to get loryer to
ishoo conjunction or injection or somethin' to
stop it,"
'I fear 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 backward"
"what is in that bill?" asked the old lady
her face lighting up with new hope.
"It makes it obligatory upon the man tc
either marry the woman or support the Chi
eWhat!" shrielxed the woman, spripging uI
with suddenness that sent the chair half way
across the room. "You barril-headed idiyot
My girl amt no sech fool as thatI You editors
, think you're mighty smart, an you're alIus
s'posen things wussern they are. I've been g
lifelong Methodist, and I've tried to raise my
} dorter in the same faith, but that 'tarnaI Pts
copaIyun preacher has got her to gree to jine
his Church. I'm her material garjeen, an aim
along with the same religion her mothers got
she shan't have any. That's the whole case
an there amt no marryin', nnr s'portin', nu1
Beecherin' in it ~
From the way the old lady bumped along
down the stairs, we fear she was unduly agita-
ted,
no, not if it should lie within an inch of ou1
nose, and pointed proofs were pressing against
us on each side and behind.