The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-11
ssf1e True Tales.

Tie following incidents we're related AZ
the recent eonYention Of tie Eat. ". G.
T. L. he'd IN Philadelphia. b. Mrs.. J. K.
Barney, Superintendent of Prison and
jail work.
want % take you 70 one If tie chain
gang Of the south. I looked ont over the
gray phosphate, where hundreds Of men,
with Chains on their ankle locked 70 each
other, aere al work. and man stood aitA
a legeled musket oyer them. asked lin
what refoInatory influence we're touching
their liyes. Tie guard said; Why they
are desperate characters. asked him
what they did, and he said: .-Oh. they
wash their CLOTHES. they play cards. and we
would let them pray If they wanted to. but
they don't want To-. And did not
much wonder. spoke 10 one man by
permission II the superintendent lie
aid: do you try u do anything for the
families Of these men - told him We
did when VIC Could. '.OA, e said lie, IF
you can Do anything for my family, who
are III a little place out sixty miies-if you
can do that, / would not care IF was
burnt thousand times, This from a
man that had been assured was a man Of
no sensibility, said he: ''The man that
sold me liquor lives back there nov, he is
called respectable man and drives his
horses willie am here with these fellows.
His wife wears silks and diamonds. mine
takes in washing, biz children 20 t. school,
mine are starving and naked. Ny wife
went up To him one day aad begged and
pleaded with him that he would not sell
me any more liquor. and the children
begged. DO You suppose he stopped I?
No, lie told the woman to 90 home. and
said if She carried on that way he didn' t
wonder if did get drunk. He let Inc
have whisky and killed man, and am
here TO stay until | die and then 90 to
hell" That man IS licensed to sell liquor.
DO you think it right ? wonder if some
Of these men who license would not have
thought it worth while TO be partners in
the business with this man.
There came q woman to me with the
question: do you know where my boy
is - aud gave me little clew. For five
years she lad not looked into his face. and
She thought she had traced him under an a.
sumed name to such prison. and would !
find out for her located thar man in
such prison 10 stay there such time; and
then came letter asking me if would 90
to him, with the words. Couldn't you come
and see me and take mothers message 10
my boy? ?" Mothers. can you think whatmes-
sage you would have sent that boy? She
Was in an elegant home. sat down 10
beautiful table with her She LANDED me
picture aud told me to show II 70 him.
said, This is not your picture r. Yes.
she said, ''t!at is mine before be went ~
prison; and here, said she, handing me
another, Il, mine after had had five Year,
Of waiting for Charley vent with
those t"o pictures to the prison. ! called
at an inopportunc time: be wasin the dark
cell. The keeper said that he lad been
III there twcnty-four hours, bat IL answer
to my plcadings ! went down into that
dark cell, and The man announced a lady
as from his mother-but no reply said !,
"Let me step IN. and J did So There
was just single plank from one end to the
other and that was 40 the furniture, and
there the boy from Yale College sat said
/, Charley, ! am stranger to yoH but
have come from your mother, and shall I
have 10 90 back aud tell her that sou did
not want to hear from hcrs" Said lie.
Don't mention my mothers name here
Said he, y will do anything If you viii 60
AS he walked along the cell noticed that
he reeled Said !, .'What is the matter -
He said be hadn't eaten anything for
twenty-four hours They brought him
something, and sat down by him and