Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1895 — Page 6

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BAB'S LETTER.

A PLAINTIVE TALE OF LIFE ON THE "OTHER" SIDE.

The Sad Life Story of a Comely Nine teen-Year-Old Wife- How She Chanced to Meet Her Worthies# Hunbitnd—The Irl»h Home

Song that Toaehed the Heart—Clubs and Picnic# that Tend to Make Men Ylciooa [Copyright, 1885,] It's pretty bard, when you are only 19 years of age, to stahd on the platform of a great station and see the train going out carrying on it a man whose name you bpar, whom you love dearly, but who can't wave "good-bye" to you, because his bands are held together by strong iron oufife. I stood beside a wo man like that the other day. Pretty, young, and knowing more of orime and wickedness than your girl of 19 could even imagine. But this was Peggy's story. I met her first when they were having an entertainment on the other side, with coffee, cakes and sandwiches for refreshments. I was helping deal out the coffee, and the demands for it were quiok and short. Suddenly I saw Charley waving his crutch at me, and so, leaving the coffee service in the oharge of a young man who very hospitably threatened to knook "smithereens out o' anny boy what gTts out o' line," I went to see why I was wanted.

Charley whispered that, way in the baok of the hall, there was a girl who was crying, and who hadn't come up to get anything to eat. This is always a surprise on the other side, for the

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR seems to need contaut attention in the Wiiy of filling. 1 was soon beside the girl, and found that she was pretty, with that strangely refined beauty that one sees often in an Irish girl. Her clothes were poor, but she was olean. Her black hair was smooth as possible, but out of the big, blue eyes came the great tear drops in quiok succession. After a little questioning I found out that she was crying because somebody had sung an Irish song that reminded her of home, and not only of home, but of the people over there who loved her, and believed she was as sweet and good as when she left them. The next day I went to see her. Her home here was represented by a small room in a tenement house, but it was home, for on the bed lay the most beautiful blue-eyed baby that ever cooed and laughed as if the world was going to be good to it and all was sunshine for it. I looked at Peggy's hand— there was no wedding ring on it. But I waited, for I had no more right to speak to her than I should have to upbraid a woman who lives in a palace, and who is just as human as poor Peggy.

As the days went by, I got her some sewing and gradually the story of Peggy and the baby was told to me. She had met "her man" at a dance given by the club to which he belonged—"The Sneakers," whose motto was, properly enough, "No matter what happens, sneak a good time." Their idea of a good time wouldn't be yours or mine. That night it consisted in fierce dancing, much drinking and a general sorimmage for a windup. Tommy Calligan was the president, and from the minute he saw Peggy he began to make love to her. She don't know how it all happened.

SHE KNEW SHE LOVED HIM VERY M&CH, and she knew that one night, when the "Sneakers" gave another dance she took her first drink of whisky, and then she oouldn't remember, until the woman with whom she boarded said some thing about knock-out drops.' For a little while she kept her situation, and then the day came when she was discharged and called all sorts of dreadful names. Tommy kept promising to make her an

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honest woman. The day was set again and again, but every time he spoke about it, if there happened to be one of the "Sneakers" around, he would be told he was a fool, and he was weak enough and vain enough to want to have a reputation in hia olub for toughness and for being "a all-round man, see?"

Fortunately for poor Peggy, she heard of the loving kindness of the best woman in the world—Sister Irene. She went to her, told her trouble, was taken in and oared for, for Sister Irene ia the living embodiment of the good Samaritan, The little baby waa born there, and, after two months, Peggy came down town again, bringing with her, God bless it! that blossom of a baby. And because of it, and beoause of all that Bister Irene had told me, she meant to try and live an honest life. After a good bit of trouble, I found out Tommy's address. I wrote a note and asked him to come and see me, and for that afternoon only, I borrowed the baby. Tommy Calligan is 22 years old, is strong and healthy, knows his trade, that of a plumber, and can always make a good living if he will work. He was a steady, wellbehaved boy, living with his mother and helping to support her, until he beoame acquainted with.one of the "Sneakers," and was asked to join the club. He thought this was a great thing that it made a man of him, and when he was elected president he got drunk for the first time in his life, and was taken to the polioe station for fighting. He drifted away from his mother, and the next bad thing on his life-book was his treatment of Peggy. Yet he wasn't bad all through. He was only vain and foolish, and thought that to be a man it was necessary to curse and to get drunk and to have a poor opinion oi women.

I took him to look at our pipes. As far as I knew, they were in good order, but being a plumber who understood his business, he quiokly discovered a leak. While he was busy fixing it, I came out

WITH THE BABY IN MT ARMS, 1 and, as will all babies do when they see a man, it stretohed out its tiny arms and cooed its desire to be taken by him. I handed it over, and, while he was a bit awkward, still an honest smile oame over his faoe, and he asked its name "Tommy," Baid I.

Again he smiled, squeezed it a bit tighter, and said, in a half shamed, half proud way, "That's my name, too, Miss."

Then I asked: "Who do you think it looks like?" And he answered: "I don't know, ma'am."

I said: "Oh, it is like its father." And he said: "Who is he, ma'am?" Very quietly, but very decidedly, I answered: "You are, Mr. Calligan."

And then I told him the story. I told him of Peggy's months of sorrow, of her hours of pain, of her determination to make her boy a good man and of her hard, hard work to earn the bread and butter. Then I asked him if he would not put a ring on her finger and make her proud of her child and his. Tommy Calligan cried, just as men of his stamp always do, but he promised, as far as he could, to right poor Peggy. And so, a few days after, in the beautiful chapel of Sister Irene's he made her his wife. And they both knelt before that loyely altar, given by a loving mother and draped with the bridal veil of a happy wife. Well, they took two rooms, and for a while Tommy worked at his trade. Peggy made a comfortable home for him and they were happy together. But soon his old, wicked companions hunted him up, and instead of staying at home in the evening and reading a newspaper to Peggy, he started in to go to the "Sneakers' Club," where he gambled and drank. One night Peggy went after him. He had been drinking hard, and when she begged him to oome home with her, he struck her. Poor Peggy crept back to her baby cm best she could, and found that the pain was not quite so bad when she had it in her arms, and that its smile excused Tommy's brutality.

Things went from bad to worse. PEGGY ALONE WAS THE BREAD EARNER Sometimes she didn't see Tommy for a week, and then one day, when he was home he took a bundle of sewing that belonged to her employer and pawned it which means in plain English, that be stole it, and stole it, not to help his wife, not to help his child, but that he might have a dollar to $o to the "Sneakers' picnic. After this Peggy came to me. What do you think she had done? She had pawned her wedding ring to get that bundle of clothes, that her child's father mightn't be branded a* a thief. After much thought we moved Peggy uptown, and for the space of one week Tommy behaved himself. Then he disappeared, and for three weeks nothing was heard of him. One day, a dirty, bad-looking boy came to see me. This waa his story, which he prefaced by a nod of his head, without removing his hat: "You'se is a fren' o' Tommy Calligan, ain't you? Well, I'm a Junior Sneaker, and he asked me to git this yere note to you, and tell how be was a-waitiu' far a answer, fell wld wimmin', says me frens and me, but jess de same I ain't de sort wot kloks & feller when he's in trouble. Yere'e yer letter, see?" When he finished, the fox terrier WM making friends with him, and I took the note and began to read it.

It wis on piece of dirty brown paper, written with ft bine pencil, and these were its contents: ••Dere Miss, I'm in trabble, the Sneakers waa took up fur stealin'. Fore G»w«i I never took nothtn', but I were drunk to deadnese an' so de cope hauled me in an' I em go in' to be aent up to Sing Sing. Please Mim, see Peggy an tei her and bring her to see me. Hoping this finds yo« well, I am ym're fren till deftth

TOMMY CAIAIOAN."

The bearer of thi* remarkable apistl# surprised Bandog by puilipg its tall, then growing conversational, he said to me, "Do you'se like purps?" I sal$ did.

With a scornful curl of his lip he remarked, "Den wby.4p^t.xonmbftT«» real purp, 'ptld of dls fyste?

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he can keep your best fren'a away from you." I remarked Incidentally that I liked to have my belt friends near nae, and he aald, "Ob,youse tlnk dat'a funny see? But youse get a bull purp and ye oan make money a-breedin'. If you will give me tree plunks—wot's plunks? Well, tree dollars if yer can't speak English. I'll buy you a bull purp wot's got a lower lip thftt yer oan hang yer jewelry on, see?" Although he gobbled up a pieoe of cake, and made a loud noise swallowing a oup of chocolate, the Junior 8neaker had a very low opinion of me, and departed on a sideways'trot, after he had given the dog a kick when he thought I wasn't looking.

Naturally Peggy and I went down to see Tommy. There he was, in a dirty filthy plaoe, whOre the yell* of drunk' ards and the ourses of the wicked made one shudder. Of course, nothing oould be found with the thieve^

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was known to be PROMINENT SNEAKER, and his fellow Sneakers thought it wes a great joke when they swore to a lie, and said that he helped them in their theft.

Now you know who it was that went on the train to Sing Sing. And what will six months of prison life do for him Will he oome out a better man? Who oan say At the worst he has only been a weak one, influenced by bad men, whose one idea is that that man tea fool who permits himself to be gentle, or loving, or even polite. We are going to give Tommy a ohance. When he comes out he will never get baok to New York. Peggy and the baby and this prodigal will start for the far West, and he Will have an opportunity. An opportunity to be an honest man, a steady man, and as his reoord isn't known, he will not be handicapped by it. But oh, the moral of his story! Don't you know what it is? As the train went out, there seemed blazoned on it in great big fiery letters —"Evil communications corrupt geod manners.'" ...

OI.TJBS THAT DEMORALIZE MEN. It is these miserable olubs, gotten up in the beginning for social purposes, that make thieves and murderers, and- until they have been cleared off the face of the earth, until the polioe of New York amount to something more than mere idlers and money-makers, they will remain training sohools for vice.^ They teach a man, first of all, to be tougjh ahd he is half way down the ladder ttl vice when he is that. They teaoh him that it is manly to treat a woman, not after, the fashion of brutes, for they are considerate of their females, but after the fashion of'wioked men. They teach themrlhat all the virtues are silly and childish, and that it is only brave to drink, and to curse and fight. That is what these clubs, with their picnics and their danbes and their meetings, are to the young working man.

Put them dbwn so they cannot rise again, and then there will be hope for the women and the children on the other side,'and a future worth thinking about for the men. True? Every word of it. So true that again and again I see a picture of the "Sneakers'" olub room, and then of Tommy oh his way to SingSing. d?he end is ceitain. Who of you is going to put out his hand and help his younger and more Ignorant brother to do that' whioh is right? Help him for your own sake, because, but for the graoe of God, that might be you help him for his sake, beoause the happiness of women and ohildren depend upon him. Help him for God's sake, as you hope to have mercy shown to you. And then, beoause I like to think that you and I are friends, help him for'the sake of her who signs her name to this little story of real life as BAB.

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That launching Episode.

It is no discredit to the American lino steamer St Paul that she cannot maktftime on hrnd.—-New York Telegram.

On second thought the St Paul was true to the apostolio text, "and none of these things moved rue. "—Philadelphia Press.

Minneapolis is not at all surprised that the St Paul showed herself a little behind time in getting launched.— Washington Star.

There is reason to believe the St Paul will go better in the water than on the ways.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

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