The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-05
4 LIFE HISTORY.

The night WAS cold and bleak. The norm
$500 whistled through the broad streets OIL me
present City. 1he hand OF time was on tne
Ihcur or IL Zen the reporter started to wend rs
fwAy home. On passing dismal LOOKING Hthe
lAllsy cry, as IL some one In distress, iel upon
'the ear.
Fastening 10 the scene from whence ne SOUND 9
3srocseded. there was found crouched 10 door
3wAy, about twenty yards from the main streetg
u young woman thinty clad. shs appeared
5alrfaost frozen. Beside her stood ms rmidon OF
ithe Law, who was trying 70 persuaae me g1fi 70
swo with him To the station house Tor sbelter.
4 The youne woman, evidently afraid thst the
soffioeY wouid incsrcerate her as common pris-
mar. wss determined 70 freeze TO death rather
than 90 with him.
HrDop made Il. appearance from beneath cloud,
castirp its beams upon the unfortunate out
Il prt scented 10 view the faoa OF young girl
hot more than nineteen 1t was q bright
but care and misfortune had ieIt m im-
Eaion there that years could never have made.
pair OF soft black eyer, peeping oat from be-
~, h.ayy siIken tye-lashes; raven locks, which
gracefully over slender shoulders, and . neat
i form, is the description OF This storys he
~. 10 say the least, the girl was pretty; her
FB6e OF manner and lady-like department
khuwed that although now wall, dependent
kporl IN unbeIeving world, she had, In by.gone
Bays. seen brighter visions OF future happiness:
10 freegs to death, or be thrown INTO ieioh cei
Rasrned her Only alternative. The first fate she
had Craysd "death, che cared not in how hid
Aous form 1T came so long 40 it placed her
kching heart ab rest. But go TO prison, ana be
Thrown INTO cell, oh, mo-" 1t was D pang she
kould not stand. death would be far more accept
kbe. and in DeseeehiBg manner she asked the
knieer 10 allow her TO n ay where she was.
This rearest he could not grant, 80 his in
1fructions were 10 arrest all Migrants found on
His beat after midnight: ,.,.-,,
10 removed from bis beat and properly cared Tor
kA withdraw.
I very little time was lost in determining where
nhe should be I ken and it was deeldt d to take
n one on the back streets; kind-hesrted cres.
kYre who nurses The poor when they are sick, and
lake no recompouse for her services.
i III was but few minutes after this idea wa"
kttIed upon, that the young woman was on her
&Ag to "Moth6r Kits"
1 ypa were fast getipR into The slums Of the city
Epr Won mnst know that Mother Kit lived in the
Hluu5sl. and as 1t wss evident that there was
MYSTERY connected vi b the heroine's downfall
Ahieh could be unrsveled oply by herself,
kOuld have TO be cleared up before her strang
HANDS ctuld do more for her.
flew kind words had the effect OF Inducing the
Mi 10 give Ter name, which was ------, "nd as
here was no crime attached to her unhappy
budiion shs hesitated not in giving sketch VI
~ pest history:
Ia am brida.r shs said, "of twelve months.
81 to tins lime | was married lived happy with
Nv pssents in Memphis, unt1 one day met the
~ loved. After knowing one another for some
Hma he asked father for my hand in marriage,
&1t wss refused Three nights after that l left my
Xthsrss house never TO return to IL ags1b; eloped
Rpf went to ST. Louis whore we were married,
Had then came to this city. My husband started
little store, and we we're living so happily TO-
&ather v hen God seemed to have willed that
HaonId be unished for my sobedience to my
4srents and sent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS our
Lille home and took from me the only support
Had ON this earth--my husband. | tried TO bear
H,v mjefortune brsveiy, but fa,e seemed agsinst
4ls. M one extended to me helping hand, even
Nv landlord VIII m my husband had always paid
fsomptIy came to me and told me In most
Incl manner tsat | would either have to pay
fm the last weeks rent or get out into the
fxeet, 1 was wi hout friend in this great
I ty and 30 had to become q wandersr in the
Hraets of New Orleans For thrse nights my
fsd has been mother earth, and my covering the
tsnupy of heaven snd as would cast my eyes
BACKWARD and behold the bright stars that
1fiakied 10 the armament, / would wonder II
lie OF them was the spirit OF nv husband look
IL down upon me and pittying my unhappy
1indtiun. and some times 1t seemed to me that
nmld see him with outstretched arms bfseech-
m me TO tarry not 1oug but hasten TO his side.
ffshe Journey was at al end. Here was old
Mother Kits house, and . rap at the door
Fought Che old lady TO open il. We entered snd
der expl ining our visit, and having the word OF
Mother Kit,s that the girl should have every
Hing to make her comfortable We Withdrew.
Tine. day alter veral weeks had elapsed,
iogher K,t was seen, and on the poor quito sst
Ling asked after, she dropped Der head and
Hid, "Bhe Is dead"
EN- potters Field an erring child doth lay.
Perhaps not wicked. only led astray:
h Nsspitah In memory Of the dead,
/ a single number marks her lowly bod"