The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-06-16
Jumping to Conclusions.

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An old lady came up to the Bruins
Wicker's office one day. She was worn
and tired from climbing the winding
stairs, and she sank almost breathlessI
into the waste basket, putting the poems
and stories it 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, and
Il general look of sorrow and exhaustion |
about her that appealed at once to our
tenderest feelings. The feelings an
swered the appeal and stepped respect
fully forward. After the aged female
had recovered her breath, She asked
us there a loryer's office in this bull
din'?n
We answered in the affirmative, but
were sorry to say that the legal gentle
man was out of town.
| Govt oftown, eh? Well, 1 s'pose I'll
have to find out some other loryer. l
KEN in town purpose to have this
thing fixed up, an ANITA going back
onsil | know whether there is any law
an ekeity 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 rat
j tied violently. "Young man, it is the
most aggregated case you ever heard
Of. You ken never know the anguish
Of a mothers heart when her only dor
ter goes astray am follers after false
: idols."s
i "Your daughter has had some trou-
BILE, ehl?'
"No, it's me what's havin' the .trou-
bier but she's a causin' it-she an that
tarnal sheep-faced preacher
"Ah! a minister in the case? think
understand. Such things are becom-
ing too cOmmon-alas! too frequent
The cloth is being brought into disre-
, pute by such scoundreis, who steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in.
Poor girl" r. a
t Poor nothin'! She'sa brazen huzzy
to go back on her mothers teachin'.-
Lord Knows Eve ailus tried to raise her
c right"
''But You must consider, my good wo.
: man, that your daughter had peculiar
d temptations. You must make allow.
o ance for the fact that the tempter came
to her in holy garb, imposing upon bel
!. confidence in the assumed character Of
Il spiritual adviser, slencing the voice
of her conscience with cunningly eho
sen scriptural quotations. You mus
not be severe on her,"
!, "Weli, Hammer was 'bedient girl til
he ken foolin' around. lie KEN to thu
Z house purity often, but I didn't s'pos
y nothin' was wrong till a week ago
= when Hal.ner told me. Then gu
IS him a mightybig piece of my mind.
q "He denied it, of course"
"No, he didn't. He said he had hi
a. duty as a christian. AM his congrega
.. ( ton are all tickled over it, an that
!, what makes me bile"
IL "Why, that is an aggravated case
THAT he should be guilty of such
thing is bad enough; that he shoul
d call it the performance of duty
q worse, and thathis congregation shout
uphold him i'll such vile practices is DC
IL yond belief"
IS "Well, it's so, an want to get a 10,
- yer to issoo conjunction or injectmef
- or somethin' to stop it," s
IT. II fear there is no legal redress, unle'
a it is Il matter of very recent occurrence
A aiH has passed the Legislature govern
n ing such cases, but it won't work hac!
ab ward" -,
~ ssWdat is in that bill!' asked the old il
ly, her face lighting up with new hop
IL 1T makes it obligatory upon the ma
" to either marry the woman or to suppo
he The Chi"
ofI 'sWhat y sllrielled the woman, sprin
W ing up With suddenness that seut tt
in basket of unacknDwledged genius liza
way across the room. "You barril-head'
idiyot! My girl amt no such fool as tina
ar You editors think you're mighty sma,
:, an yonre ailus s'posen things wnsseE
~ they are I've been a lifelong Methods
or aud I've tried to raise my dorter in t
same faith, but that 'tarnal 'Piscopaly1
ny preacher has got her to gree to jine |
he church. I'm her material garjecn, an all
agoin' to low her to do it. Eff she cal
get along With tile same religion her n
In theirs got, she sha'nt have any. Tia
!, the whole case, an there amt no MARI
ha in nur s'port,n', nur Beecherin' in it.
ar From the way the old lady bump
along down the stairs, we fear she was u
- duly agitated.
re- We shall never jump to another conc
son-no. not if it should lie within
rty inch of our nose, and pointed proofs W.
the pressing against us on each side and
hind.