The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-03

sses and se,p ss share 5 youT S hear, SoaE
wu'rc there no parting. Will watch over you both
Your most loving daughter. FRANCES BMpoNAN.
NrT1fEs FUNERAL.
But Frances recovered, and under her mot hers
care Will son ne we'll. 80 that the funeral ser
vices Whirn the two friends mad uclrcd MINT
be- nell over 10th their bodies were for Ncttie
only. 1hc grief burdencd motaor mad az her
dIurh'crs dying Instructions carried out fuly.
Tue Methodist Church was crowded win moufn-
Wi. n the girl nedded In tiOwer ana dressed
in the clothes which soo had with her own
hands pre-, AIRED. he pail bearers whom SHE
selected were IN attendance, hnd the heV. Mr.
best after speaking fecliuely Of NCtttc's desire
to lead Christian life, fcad this letter when
she had written, Just uelorc taking the poison,
to G., oree Siauter, her fdvOrito atteudant "A boy
Of seventeen ycais;
DEAREST Grorori ! will write you q lev lines to
l,l l.u know na, you are f1ni, inferred by me Tor
Hcwgc do tlis tgcausc am ur,d Of lfc and want
you ttii. ana whcn IN dead please ollber me nd
tlmk pine often. 1eorse love you, Think u this
down apon YOU ana keep you from harm. o, De good
vhen am gone. Tie ring that tssy n on ny anscr
~in NV coral rrgn,st tnen to give 10 yon That you
w,f s nd 20 ne s.d smy Fi y9G Tax and
u'' meet YOU IN Tue o'hcr word. ,,
viii not ci you have H. "' "'' 's i'' ''"' t'F
81, give ny billie TO you and please rad It aad t'ink
one o. bearers. Goud.ly aud God bless sud kecp
you I'LL meet In heaven Please SseP nv psssF,
Then the bearers took up their burden and
carried tue child-sucide to tue place that she
had selected 10y her fathers side, leaving her In
grave close by his, under the shade OF neigh
boring orchar the low sweeping br inches ~
whose apple trees overgrOw the fence when
marks the grayey rd's limits. 10 another OF her
friends, wilbur Nichols, NettIe wrote:
fmENn WILLIE viii write few words to you he.
10 YOU a. iemcuber NE by. Gooo.by, All We meet In
request YOU to one " the hcar,rs and pita 'i
&C. tgc' aud Harry. and KIRK. You four shall be- my
bear,rs' Goodbye goodbye. NErIIK BARNETT.
THEORIES.
II is hard To say what ed the girls to attempt
To take tier own lives, but II Is plain they did
not realize the sinfulness Of the act. Both Inc
rirls mad recently been attracted To- the service
OF the Methodist Church, though their previous
associations ad been with other sects when
Mr. and r.. Bridgm lett home for Biddefuri
Pool, ON the coast Of Maine, In July. they told
Frances that she must not go TO the Methodist
services. nor see Mr.. Best, the Methodist minis
ter but she oisOoeyed them, and went to ID
meeting in private house, where she listened
To the praying baud from Natick. Much inn
pressed 10y the earnestness OF the prayers which
she heard, she wrote To her parents, begging
that she might he allowed TO become regular
attendant at the church. They denied her re-
quest, and peremptofiy forbade her doing any
thing OF the kind. she continued. though, to
attend the prayer meetings and the sunday
school, but never formally asked to be admitted
to the church.
At the last meeting that she attended she
leaned over to Mrs. Best. the ministers wife,
aud asked whether she might not stand up ana
ask TO be baptized.
" II is as YOU feel, Frances" was the quiet re.
sOoose. You have been to dance. tnev tell
me. TINS week, and that was wrong. hut " your
conscience tells you that YOU are honestly stIiv-
Inc to i've sooer, Cbritian lie, then stand up
and be not afraid
Frances. however. did not take any part In
Z at meeting. though Nettic. a few evenings he-
4 re-. had IN de "A public request to be received
INTO the church. THIS awakening Of rel gtuu
caused Them perhaps to dread death less and
tie novels aud stories whoa thoy assiduuuSy
T. al throw q romantic halo around the dram. tie
de this they SOUGHT. Tnev had fed upon
rnmai ces. and h.d ltkened their lives 10 those
ui the unfortunate loNc-thwarted herunes II
whom they re. They were inclined To magnify
tie pIudeut restrictions which their friends put
upon them INTO ht artless imposition. Frances
had 10 burden To- bear heavier than the refusal
81 her parents to allow her TO he a Methodist,
and Netue had no troubles other than the mild
reproOf which her uncle administered 20 her for
taking evening walks with her young friends.
/ RAIN es and she had both been unusually free
tins summer, and Frances looked forward With
some apprehension TO her parents return.
Nettie was made anxious 10y her guardians dis
pleas ie, md the two poor lit lie girls could see
no easier way out Of their troubles than they
had seen tie heroines OF love stories SO success
fu'ly and interestingly take.