The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-05-08
Jumping at a Conclusion.

An old lady came up TO the office We'd
nesday. She was worn and tired from
climbing the winding stairs, and she sank
almost breathless into the waste basket,
putting the poems and stories il contained
to the only press they will ever know
There was troubled, anxious look on her
face, a pair of green spectacles on her nose
aud general air of sorrow aud exhaustion
about her that appealed at once to our
tenderest feelings. The feelings answered
the appeal, and stepped respectfully for
ward. After the aged female recovered
her breath, she asked
lis there loryer's office in this build
in r.
We answered IN the affirmative, but
we're sorry to say that the legal gentleman
was out of town.
''Out Of town. eh Well, spose III
have I'd hnd some other loryer | KEN IN
town a purpose to have this thing fixed mp,
an amt agoin' back ontil | know
whether there IS any law an ekity IN this
country.
We ventured to remind the dame that
having was a losing business IN the eud,
and should be resorted To only IN the most
aggravated cases.
Aggregated cases :" she screeched, and
the manuscript in the basket ratified vlo-
lently. Young man, il is the most az
ere gated case YOU ever heard on. You
ken never know the anguish If a mott er $
heart when her only dorter goes astray an
folders arter false idols
Your daughter has had trouble then r
NO it's me what's havin' the trouble
but she's causln' IT she an that tarnal
sheep preacher"
All minister IN the case think
understand. Sach things are becoming
too common, alas too frequent. The
cloth il being brought into dIsrepute by
scoundrels who steal the livery Of heaven
to serve the devil in.' Poor. girl -
Pore nothin She 5 a brazen huzzy Ia
70 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-
| lions You must make allowance for tn,
fact that the tempter came to her in holy
| garO. imposing upon her confidence in the
assumed character Of spiritual adviser
silencing the voice Of her conscience with
cannIngly chosen Scrlptural quotations
! GU must not be severe on her
! " ell, ilduilrT NdS ~ heIlcnI gifi III
| lie KEN tOoiin around He KEN IL III,
house purity often, but didn't spos,
nothin' VAS wrong till week agu, whey
| Hammer told me- Then guy him a might
! blG piece of my mind
He denied 1t, of course Z
| mo, he didn't lie said he had did hi
dooty AS a Christian An his congrega
ton are al. tIckled over IT, an that's wha
makes me bile.
why. that is an aggravated case Ina
he should be guilty u such a thing. Is ba,
enough that he should call it the perform
ance OF duty, is worse; and that hi
col gregation should uphold HIM ia sucl
vile practices, is beyond be'ief
We'll IL So, an | want TO get a iorye
To 1880 a conjunction Or inJectment, Q
something to stop it,
Il fear there is no legal redress, unles
it Is matter Of very recent occurrence.
oil has passed the Legislature goyeruln
such cases, but it won't work back ward.
What Is in that bill : asked the 81,
lady, her face lighting up with nc'
hope
1T makes it obligatory upon the ma
10 either marry the woman. or support III
| Chi
What III shrleked the ~1mau, springin
up with a suduenuess that sent the baske
of unacknowledged genius halfway acros
the ruom ''Nou hArril headed Idiyot
My girI amt 10 such foul AS that W.
editors think you re mighty smart, al
you re allus s'posin things wusser'n the
are I've been life long Methodist. Al
I've tried To raise my dorter ID the sam
faith. but that tarnel Pisc ,palyun preache
has got her 70 gree To jIne his church
I'm her material garjeeu, an | amt agor
to low her to 90 it. Eli she can't gIt alon
with the same religion her mother got
she shan't have any. That's the whol
case, an there amt no marryin. nu
| s'portin', nur BeechcrIn in It.
From the way the old lady bumpe,
along down the stairs, We fear she Was IN
duly agitated.
We shall never jump at another coEclus
ION. no, not if it should lie within All ire
Of our nose, and pointed proofs wer
pressing against US on each side and he
hind. Missouri BruaSricker