The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-13
ALEXANDRIA, La. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1915


and have got to die, unless you have
i got q first-rate love story that / can
read instead.n
1 They then went away, but the next
Iday they came back, when no one
but the old druggist was in, and
bought the fatal dose Of morphine,
telling him it was for grandmother
/ Briagman, who frequently used the
drug as a medicine. Then, with the
poison in their pockets, they went
to the hotel and danced in the parlor
| Tor hours. Nettie went to her room
and prepared the white dress in
| which she wished to be buried, PIN
ming the pink sash neatly across the
left shoulder, and trimming The waist
/ witlhittle bows Of light blue ribbon.
Then she folded it carefully and laid
lit OH one side. Frances went to her
fathers house, which was closed
while her parents were at the sea-
side, and arranged in an orderly way
Iall hor little belongings. While do
ling so she found a banner which she
! had made, bearing in large letters
1 the words, Welcome Home This
she had been accustomed to wreathe
with flowers and hang it over the
| front doer whenever her parents re
turned from q journey. This time
| she thought it best not to have it in
the house, and she took it to a neigh
. Dor, explaining as she left it that. she
was not quite satisfied with its form,
and was coming the next day te
make it over, with the neighbors'
assistance. She said she would come
at an early hour, for her parents
would return in the ,morning, but al
the appointed time she was lying
almost dead by the side of the dying
Nettic. Together the girls had call.
ed upon many Of their friends, and
had hidden them farewell, but in :
way to excite no alarm, for it was SC
! gayly done that it passed for a piece
of clever acting. But the lettel
| which Frances wrote to her parents
bore no traces of such leYity. She
wrote:
BELcHEErowS,
August %, 1875.
Dearest Fathers md Notter-Thert
have been stories got up in the towr
{ about me which are not true, and so
}, being tired of life, | kill myself BY
! taking something. I have but few
words to say, and they are these:
thank you both very much for what
! you have done for me, which has
been more than T can ever repay.
| have tried to be a good and faithful
daughter to you both, but / have
Z failed q great many times. have
one or two requests to make, an6
j please have them carried out. They
/, are these: That Mr.. Best may offici
ate at my funeral, and that I and my
friend may be buried the same day
and the same hour from the Metho
dist Church. And let my bearers b
as follows: George T. Slaater, Franz
) n. Tenne, Herbert Cowles aud Kirl
Thurston. Oh, please let these re
i quests be carried out. May you ant
! father both be kept, and may W
meet in heaven, where we shall neve
part. Give my love to all relatives
1 and keep a big share in your hearts
/ I don't feel like anything any more
SO goodbye until we meet wher
{ there is no parting. ] will watcl
over you both constantly. Oh, good
Il bye. Your most loving daughter,
FRANCES BR1DGMAN.
: But Frances recovered, and undc
G her mothers care, will soon be wei
: so that the funeral services Whicl
the two friends had begged might b
4 held over their bodies was for Netti
$ only. The grief-burdened mothe
S had her daughters dying instruction
carried out fully. The Methods
e Church was crowded with mourners
and all passed before the pulpit, i
front Of which lay the girl, bedde
J. in flowers and dressed in the clothe
i which she had with her own hand
G prepared. The pall-bearers whor
she had selected were in attendanc,
s and the Rev. Mr.. Best, after speakin
d feelingly of Nettie's desire to lead
b Christian life, read this letter whic
she had written just before takin
/ the poison, to George slauter, liz
Il fayorite attendant, a boy Of seventee
|, years:
a AUGUsr 26, 1875.