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Many years ago, I read a story that went the rounds of the newspapers that deeply impressed me. A little Madison boy, nine years of age, an orphan from his earliest infancy, was adopted by a farmer named Marquette, from a foundling home in Milwaukee. Some time after his establishment in his new family, the little boy had occasion to observe some very bad conduct on the part of the farmer’s wife and thought it his duty to inform the husband. But the woman denied the charge so vehemently that the farmer was convinced that his wife had been calumniated. The wife then insisted that the boy should be whipped till he retracted what he had said; the husband, taking a whip, suspended the child from a beam in the room and whipped him for nearly two hours, with so much barbarity that the blood streamed on the ground. At last he stopped and asked the child if he still persisted in what he had said. “Father,” said he, “I have told the truth, and I cannot retract by telling a lie.” Trampling underfoot every better feeling, the cruel woman again i

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