Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-24

tege would present itself to view. If,
on inquiry, he was not informed that
every house had it's own separate cause
of mourning. He would have found,
too, that not lie than six hundred in
terments day were the average num-
Der for the seven or eight graveyards
and cemeteries remaining Enclosed in
the neighborhood. Trooping on from
early morning till late at night, hearse
and mute, and plume, in stately pro-
cession; cofins put through Gao win
dows, the relatives sitting face to face
with the corpse between them, or de-
Gently boxed dnder foot of the mourn
ers in patent vehicle, or humbly borne
on mems shoulders to the last abode.
Such is but faint picture of the hor-
rors of the time.
Then, it was that there sprung up in
the breast of this stricken woman, this
earnest hearted child of Nature, love
for her kind which the pen of the readi-
est writer, inditing the very best of
matter, could not in volume adequate
ly describe. She was here, there,
everywhere, where her help might be
needed. She had, stored in her
memory, some traditionary theories of
treatment of the fell disease, which, in
many cases, actually proved efficacious.
But in any and every instance her
labors were of love, and her mission
was of mercy. It was in one of her
visits, this time to crowded tenement,
that she received shock which
few could have borne. In the
last stage of collapse lay a
CHASTITY figure upon miserable couch.
The world and its affairs were little to
him now, for he was about to try the
grand experiment of the future. It was
more than bodily pain that distorted
the features of this poor wretch, for
guilt hung heavily on his brow, and re-
morse had left her gripping fingers there.
Blinkey. whose observation nothing es-
capped, few to his bedside, and seemed
for moment. while she scanned the
traces of the wound across the face
which her own hand had made, as if in
tent on finishing the work which dis
ease had begun,-for the man was her
husbands murderer! Her throes were
fearful to see; but, when the vital spark,
which fingered as if only to receive the
eliminating condemnation of her pres
ence, had taken its flight, Blinkey knelt
in tears, and prayed God to forgive the
poor soul. as she now forgave him
With the disappearance of the
scourge, Blinkey left London to seek,
in change of scene, some relief from the
trials she had there undergone. But
she would not abandon the care cf the
sufferer. Through the influence of q
leading physician, to whose considera-
ton her noble work throughout the
reign OF the epidemic had strongly
recommended her, comfortable home
was provided for her at Penzance, in
Cornwall, a favorite resort for consump-
tive patients. Her she was presented
with boat, in which, during her hours
of relief from actual attendance on the
sick, she greatly loved to seek exercise
and recreation. Alas, the fatal gift
In q most courageous effort to save a
sailing party who had been upset In a
squall, she lost her life, though not
until she had achieved the preservation
of those for whom the risk had been
encountered. A fitting monument
marks the spot where she now gently
reposes; and flowers, planted and nour-
ished by grateful hands, send forth
their offerings of incense to hermemory.