The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-08-17

fact, except the evident responsibility
OF the gentleman and the earliness of
the hour, for respectable gentlemen are
not in the habit of walking along the
East River at 0 o'clock in the morning.
Three hours afterward this gentleman
was picked up from the water in the
dock, dead, and his photograph was
taken. Before the day passed detect
ives visited the ch%arnel-house. Mr..
Bull, a well known banker, at one time
the Secretary of the American Institute,
was missing; had any one bearing his
description been seen thercP The pho.
tograph OF the respectable choking
gentleman was shown them. It was
that OF the missing banker. 1t trans.
PRED on investigation that Mr.. Bull had
been spending the evening with some
friends, and had left them to take the
cars at Forty.second Street Depot he
lived out of town. The theory advanced
was That he had in some manner be.
come confused, lost his way, and, after
walking the streets in a dazed cond;.
ton, had unerringly walked into the
water.
THE ORPHANS LOSS.
ABOUT a year ago a gentleman left
his home on Staten Island to come nm
TO his business in the city. 1t was a
happy home, for two beautiful and af-
fectionate daughters consoled him for
the loss of the kind mother and loving
wife who had been called away from
life. lie was a prosperous merchant,
n want had never entered the door
way into which the beaming sun stream
cd so brightly. The day passed rs
merrily as the others had, but when
night came there was no father there.
The agonized daughters, nearly frantic.
with underlined fear, ran to their neigh.
bors, but no tidings of their missing
parent were to be had. Two long weeks
dragged on; detectives were EMPLOYED.
letters written, kilograms sent, but still
no tidings. Then, as a last resort, they
went to the Morgue. There were no
bodies on the cold, specter.like marble
no photograph of their father in
the gallery. Then somebody suggested
to the orphans that they should examine
MIR. Mason's album. They did so, and,
rs they were turning the leaves, the
eldest daughter gave a long, piteous '
that chilled the hearts of the
listeners, and fell in a swoon to the ,
loor. She had recognized the portrait :
Of her father. !
AFTER oNE YEAR. .
1t is not always, however, that the
oved are found in the gallery of death. $
there came to the Morgue one day the G
'ody of a man, Il laborer, who had =
'een crushed to death by the falling up {
N him OF a heavy box. A photograph b
vas taken and the body was buried. a
'ome time afterward a woman, evil p
emily drawn thither by curiosity, more Il
nan from any set purpose, wandered
nto the Morgue and looked carelessly at :,
he pictures upon the wall. Suddenly .,
er eyes distended, her face paled, She :.
lutched nervously at the thin shawl :,
nat was thrown loosely around her, u
burst into tears. Somebody stand .
lg by noticed her perturbation and p
the cause. She then explained, =,
voice choked with emotion, that :"
he portrait of the dead laborer was "'
lat of her husband. They had been y"
for over u year, and, during al
lat time, she had not seen him once ~
ow she was brought face to face with u :,
lie picture of his dead body. 81
THE WAGES OF SIN. e.,
AT almost any hour of the day there ~,
ay be found in the narrow limits of -,
e Morgue three or four-and, when y,
ere lisa subject" on the slabs larr-
number-loiterers drawn thither .
her through anxiety or morbid Curl WI
ity that draws the idle to such Il w
One day there happened to be w
lonS the throng, n bright. handsome -
oking young man, with the bloom of "
alth upon his cheek, and evidently i"'
Ssh from the country, the fact Being az
pressed in every lineament of his '"
.untcnancc that he was seeing the HE
of the metropolis. He, like .,
3 rest, looked at the pictures, when "
suddenly started, looked closer with th'
wondering, half-doubtful expression no
his countenance. Then he wiped lie
hands across his eyes, in which col
RS glistened, and went to the Super re'
endent's Office. lie came to make thc
concerning the portrait of a co
dark. haired girl that he had h,
n in the gallery. He was too late. Sal
e body had been put among those of del
unknown dead, and there was no tina
ans ct Distinguishing her resting dire
&C. Ihn the gri,f-strickcn brother var
l his story The portrait he had for
IL was that OF his sister,. Only Il few VIII
RS before she had been u bright, silk
lsome girl, honest and Industrious, san
=, with the curse of the working girl, wei
owe for iinery. One night she did of !
come home from the shop. 1t was of
old story, and the aged parents boy
he'd that they had seer their little dow
ggie dead in her coffin rather than ope
t she had died the living death she fash
!. Soon all trace of her was lost, she
they knew that she had been out
llowed up in the great vor- Il v
of metropolitan sin. The old folks dan
!, and the son went into the country Tha
on n farm where his sisters are
me should not lie known. He had won
lie to the city for a holiday, and that Gull
to the Morgue had shown him the
IRE of that once-loved sister, cold
lpath. with tho hard nru.l lipns ,f