The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-06-06


80 uncared for, SO apparently God-for-
saken, could not help asking myself
where is the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children? They spent over one
thousand dollars to drag Little Corlnne the
actress from the stage, child VINO sang
a little song and danced little dance, anu
who had every luxury and every care, VINO
kept her carriage and horses and had her
own private nurse, who lived at the pes1
hotels and went clad in purple ana me
linen; and yet, so fearful were these good
gentlemen that her health and her morals
would suffer that they wanted to take the
child from the care of its mother. Have
they no word for these miserable waits who
sell the Telegram, the Herald, the Ne'os
and other morning and evening papers.
Often, as bend my step homeward in the
small hours (for your city newspaper man
is night hawk I hear those children cry
ing their papers down by the ferries, or OPP
posite the Bridge, for they dare not 80
home till the last paper is sold. This wild
street life is bad enough for boys, the
temptation to crime is stronger than one
can conceive; bat, if bad for them, what
must it be for little girls cast at six and
seven years of age on the wicked streets OF
this great city. Here is field for mission
airy endeavor, and a harvest ripe for the
sickle. Special missions are open IN dlt-
ferent partS of the CITY, devoted to part1cu-
lar ends; one looks out for the convict just
released from prison-walls and tries to give
him chance to make an honest living;
another labors among fallen women, ana
seeks to win back from a life OF shame
those whom the priest and the Levite pass
bv. Who will look after these children!
They are entirely of foreign parentage; their
fathers and mothers have placed them on
the road to ruin, and the State must be
their father and mother.
It is wonderful the different ways re-
sorted to to get a living without labor. !
have known one old woman on Fulton
street, for sixteen years. She just wants
one cent to cross the ferry; she has dying
child on the other side, she has one cent and
only wants one more. She has been trying
to raise that cent to my personal knowledge
for sixteen years, and 1 personally, in the
meantime, have given her enough to pay
her passage to China; but she has never got
to the other side of the ferry yet. One old
colored woman made a good living for
many years, taking up collections for "our
church," she was not particular about sub
scriptions-all was fish that came to her
net, from yard of calico to a boiled ham.
On one occasion met the old lady in a
wholesale liquor store-What was doing
there? we'll, II was trying to get the pro-
prietor to abandon his business and join
the Sons Of Temperance. The old lady
was somewhat exhausted after a hard days
work, and the proprietor asked her if she
would take some refreshment, and she said
that she did not mind trying little as a
medicine, After putting herself on the out
side Of wholesome reviver, she presented
her subscription book for the upbuilding OF
Zion's African NJ. E. Church. The pro.
prietor grave!y and carefully scanned the
list, and said Auntie, l have not got an,
money, but I'll give you bottle of whis
Y key" ''Lor' bress you, honey" the ole
lady replied, "dat ii do jes as we'll, ane
suah as yer BON I'll glib it to de minister
A favorite racket is, on a stormy night, TO
woman with little baby in her arms t.
ring the bell and say that she has been pu
out of her home for non-payment of rent
and she has no shelter for herself or he
baby from the storm. 1t is not in flesh ans
blood to withstand such an appea! as tina
and it is not till the same woman with tn
same baby appears for the seventeenth
time on the same kind of stormy night tina
it suddenly occurs to you that there is
colored gentleman in the woodpile.
A rice little bit Of romance was brough
to a head this week, in Brooklyn. On
night, about four weeks ago, the passen
gers in street car were startled by seeing
an old gentleman suddenly Jump at
young man who sat beside q very beautl
full young lady, and rain shower Of blow
on his devoted head. The young mai
dashed for the door and ran like fright
! ened deer or ten mile racer; the youni
} woman went after him, making excellen
time considering that she was not in racing
costume, and the old gentleman, VIII
stepped on banana peel, was disgracefull,
distanced. He picked himself up, however
and after getting scraped, took fresl
start for the Broadway ferry. In tn
: ferry-hou he overlook the fugitives AM
7 pitched in again. A second time tn
young man started off, followed by tn
. young woman crying "police! police! pc
9 lice." A policeman who happened to b
: accidentally on his beat, saw the flying fu
$ gitive, put out his foot, tripped him u
g and carried him of to the police Office; tt
t young woman declared that she was onl
i hailooing for fun, and the young man wa
e discharged with broken nose. The OF
: gent told the people III the ferry-house the
the lady was his daughter, and that she ia
9 been led from the straight and marrow pat
by the scoundrel whom he had just knocke
, out, who was the proprietor of fashion
N able shoe store, and worse still, marie
man.
Chapter the second. poor woman
: Brooklyn, who had been living alone f
seventeen years in the most wretched po'
erty read the account in the next morn.n 6
paper, and putting this and that togethe
she thought the old gent who had figured
the boxing match Of the night befol
:, might possibly be an acquaintance Of her
:. She hunted him up the next day and foul
:. him living in clover, with a good-lookir
wife to whom he had been married for ov'
twelve years. The old lady went down in