Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-11-04
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MARY WALKERS FATE,
Touching Story ola Down.East
Girl Who Was Too Anx-
ious to We'd.
Lured TO The Arms Of u Old scamp
bylasIa, rim os,iaIJ JAdverItse-
mcnt and ~ False PhetO-
She Dies Of Disgust, Ty-
.Spheid .FevesC Ana Cal
rrra Broken Heart.

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,'A-Startlirg stquel ton mutrimpniala ad-
vertiSenent his just been maze public
ifthis city. ftappearsthoi aweli known
judge, resid,ngdt Ottawa. Kan, some
time since, advertised in an Eastern pa.
rer for wifel The advertisement was
answered by a girl by the name Of Mary
Walker residing somewhere in Maine.
The judge is an old man, and when pho
tosraphs were exchanged be sent the lgirl
a shadow ola younger aud better looking
man than himself. Correspondence was
kept up until finally the judge wrote to
the girl that he was suck. and requested
her TO come GU aud attend him till health
was restored, and be would marcy her.
The too con6ding girl consented, and
after long journey, founl herself at the
depot at Ottawa, a weak. helpless girl,
far from home and friends and among
strangers She was met by her afhauced,
the judge, but imagine her surprise,
when. instead Of a handsome young man
she beheld au ug,y. shutting old person.
The girls young dream. the alluring
pictures Of oung manho'd and bright
home in tho far West, we're disspated at
once. A horrid nightmare seemed to
rest upon her, The wealth the judge
pretended to have was. nowhere to be
seen, and, Instead of going to a mansion
of ease aud comfort, She was introduced
to the apartments of a poor and uppre
tentious dwelling. A marriage was soon
consummated, but the poor girls nature
revolted at the nuptial bed aud she would
not becpme wife to the wiuter wed old
man. The day following the girl, not
knowing what to do, applied fora divorce.
This was granted, and having spent all
her money, she asked for needle work
among the good ladies of Ottawa. In
this way she supported herself for several
weeks. The .daug ghters and relatives Of
the judge looked kindly upon her aud
advised her to wed the judge and live
with him. But the girls bright dreams
and her love for the shadow thejudge had
sent her came up before her to constantly
say "No!' to their repeated solicitations.
She brooded over her disappointments
and sorrows until her mind undoubtedly
wandered, and in her loneliness and sad
ness she hastily pocked a travelling satchel
and slipped away from Ottawa. Having
no money she started to walk to Law,
renee. Poor girl, how different her
entrance and her exit, the former full of
hupe the later full Of dread disappoint>
ment: the former full OF enticing visions,
the latter 'ull Of iurics. driving her on
and on until rest would be found in the
silence of death. The distance from Or
tawa to Lawrence is about 2S miles, and
Mary Walker could not walk it IN one
day. Night coming on, she rested at u
deserted cabin on the road, seeking shelter
in lonely spot on the prairies, far from
/ the habifauons Of men and away IRON the
stupid sympathy of strangers.
, If the girls reason had not entirely left
her; il she was clpable of reasoning and
| feeling those alarms which conscious and
timid women always feel, even in their
own quiet and secure homes at night,
what must have been her feelings as she
crouched from view in that lonly cabin On
the black aud aessolated prair;e? Think
of it ye mothers and wives who cherish
your loved ones around the hearth.Stcne
of your dear delightful homes
Mary Walker entered Lawrence uneon'
scious. probably Of what she was doing.
She had walked all the way from Ottawa
she had rested over night in desolate
place she mus; have been tired footsore,
and hungry: II appears that she wander
/ ed about the streets all day or until the
middle of the afternoon. when she rung
the bell at the residence of one. of Our
Christian families. When the door was
opened, ~ -
Please, do you want any sewing done
hcrci'' was the simple inquiry Of the de-
,anged girl. On being answered that No
sewing was required. Mary asked:
Can I step into room a moment to
arrange my dress!" ,,-.r p : a,
The good lady Of the house shaved the
po girl into a bedroom and returned to
her 7arlor. The girl did not return for
sometime, and the lady seu,, her little
daughter 70 know the ressen. Imagiue
the child's surprise to fad the s;r1Rge
girl with aighigown' on, in bed, white as q
carved statue. The child hurried down
stairs ana told the stating siOFy to hOr