The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
A SAD CASE
A Nan Who Wanted to be q Muir.
ply and With the the Aurpbies
Stand.

The latest dodge Of the universal tramp
vas played on = lady in this city yesterday
in 4 say she disp,ses. Like all good WI.
men, she naturally takes great interest in
the Murphy movement. and never feel- "a
happy ~ when she aces her friends and
neishbors enrolling themselves in the cold
water brigade. Her very soul has teeu
musical with joy ewes since the agitation
begun, and her clear, pure voice ripples Gu,
on the summer air Of bright evenings in
every imagionable variety 81 temperance
songs. While thrilling one OF her sweetest
lays yesterday evening, a seedy,
NOE RE,.rN TRAMP
presented himself ut the door and in piie-
Gus accents asked for soncthiny tn eat.
The ladies good heart an, werei the appeal,
AMI she gave him hali-dozen sandwiches.
MADAM, you don't know how grateful
am. am tired and hungry, having
walked thirty miles to-day, for the sole
purpose Of berg at the Temperance meet
ing Tonight"
The ladies face glowed with Pleaiure.
"What, sir :" she exclaimed. "You have
walked thirty miles to he at the temper
ance meeting.
"Yes, madam. live in the Usage hills,
and am poor, heartb.oken drunkard.
Night before last ! went home crazed with
liquor. and beat nv wife and poor little
children. had often done il before; may
Gcd forgive me; but il was always under
the influence oil the demon, Alchahol.
When l awoke the next morning in my
poverty stricken howell, and saw The pale,
tear stained laces Of nv wife and little ones,
my heart sank within me xi,h
TERRIBLE RENOIsE.
swore I would be man from that hour
! told my vile OF my resolution, and she
babe me come to Se,lalia and Join the
Murphy movement. had no clothes-no
money -lenniless and hungry. set out on
loot, and here am. I shall take the
pledge tonight poor and ragged,
and go home Tomorrow feeling like a
king"
What woman's heart would not have
kindled with admiration at such q re-olu
lion. She invited him in, ransacked her
larder, and set before him splendid sup
per. Nice warm coffee, fresh rolls, and
slices Of delicious ham. She babe him eat !;
and he did. Then she went rummaging
HER HUSBANDS CLOTHES.
She produced hall worn suit, fresh and
clean, and babe her guest go into bed
room and put it On. He was little re-
Iuc.ant, bu, she insisted and with tears
streaming down his grateful face he COM
piled, and when he came out nice and clean,
she gave him
DOLLAR BILL
to pay his way back home to his happy
wife and children on the railroad train.
She promised to meet him at the temper
ance meeting and give him n cordial shake
OF the hand when he signed the pledge.
She went, but somehow her pro,ege failed
to put in an appearance. He must have
been kept away by the rain. She told her
husband about it, and that unsympa,hising
wretch Ihad the temerity TO
CALL HER A FOOL
He did, When she gave him description
Of the gentleman from the Usage hills, he
remembered that her visitor bore striking
resemblance to a dirty scamp who had been
loafing and stealing around town for
week.
Then the soul OF that woman collapsed.
She begins to think that this wicked world
il fuller OF mean men than she had ever
dreamed Of before. When she thinks Of
the suit Of clothes and the dollar bill, the
world appears to her full Of vanity and
vexation Of spirit.