The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-19
A SAD STORY


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"When lovely woman Atoops 70 folly,
Aud learns too late that men hrt~ay;
What cisxrms sooth her mela caoiy,
What arts can drive the grief away"
Alas! ask the cold. remorseless waves
that roll over the skeletons of the suicides
that lie beneath them; ask the letiered
tablets in the silent cities Of the dead, that
mark the last resting place Of those whom
the earth has covered in charity or 20 ye
10 the houses from whence the brightness
has forever faded. AMI where ahame and
grief AID despair forever sit enthrooed.
Yes, il Is
THE OLD, OLD STORY"
of woman's weakness and mans per6dy.
But il il attended with more than ordinary
circumstances Of infamy. wrong and dis.
grace. We give the story n It comes to us.
from good authority, supervising the names
of the parties not to shield thuse Who are
suilty-but for the sake Of the innocent
who are connected BY the ties Of kinship.
The facts, ~ reported. are - follows:
In Peitis county there lived . family
comfortably we'll oG in this worlds goods
They owned . farm, stock, ETC., and the
MAN AND WIFE
had sons and daughters Who had nearly
reached the yean of maturity. In thi,
family was . crssed sister of the wife, and
it is alleged that the husband, taking ad'
vantage Of her imbecility, seduced her
This crime soon became manifest from
natural causes, and the birth Of an iIlegiti
mate child was the result. This, Of course
broke up the peace Of the household. and n,
younger portion Of it left the di-g-aced pa
rental roof. A separation between man and
wife eneued, and he left the country for tn,
far west. The mother remained, with tn,
sister %
CRUELTY BEfRAYED.
and these lone women lived and suffered 10
gether.
Among those who left the house was |.
daughter, Just budding into vomanhood
She sought employment and home in tn,
IN the vicinity Of some lead mines in an ad
joining county .outh Of this. Here = new
life opened to her, and blesaed with you'll.
comeline~ and IN amiable deposition, sh'
quickly made friends - we'll ~ admirers
Among the latter Was one-vho soon achiev
cd her preference, and her young hear
throbbed joyously At his football, and he
bright eyes grew more brilliant when the.
rested upon his presence. His words Of en-
dearment to her were %
MUSIC PROM THE sPHEREs,
his protestatiOns were - truthful oracles
and his vows were No bonds that linked he
happiness to the sacred ties of . eloriou
wifehood. She lavished upon him tn
wealth Of her affection. she built unto her
self and idol of clay, and clothed It With Al
ideality that Vas a sublime a Jove.
But that tongue Was falee; that heart sh
conceived to be % pure AMI true, Was Sin
sodden with infamy; those cleaning eye
whose brilIiance she prized, burned with
the 6res of foul lust, and were N deadly =
those Of basilisk; and the idol Of her wor
ship was
HEARTLEss VILLAIN.
II is enough. He won her love. He vorke'
her ruin. And he cast her Of.
So there was another lone woman WHIT
came with shame and sadness to the unhap
py home. Kind hearts received her an
made her welcome. for who can feel TO
crushed hopes and hearts ~ those Who hav
borne the Cross Of Affection? Yes, the,
made her welcome, and here this trinity q
sorrow lived, and wept and suffered together
The sged mother thought Of he Who Va
afar off-of he who vas the father O
her children-of he with whom she hs'
sailed 40 long over the stormy sea Of liz
only to be wrecked and stranded almost i
sight of
THE HAvEx OF ETERNAL PEAcE
The crssed sister thought-alas! ~hst
Did there, in that disordered mind, peoples
With weird and fanciful imagining., eve
come the sense Of the great wrong she hat
suffered! Perhaps 60: but If there did sh
concealed it, for the came ray Of reaso'
must have ehown her that there we're othe
victims Of her besrayeT's per6dy whose eros
vas far more weighty than her own. AM
the daughter! upon whose brow Va
staulped the zeal Of eternal shame, an
whose heart. once 20 pure and spotlesa, no,
calcined TO dead ashes in
THE cRCCIBLE OF AGONY,
sat listles and dejecsed. With the legacy O
her lovers fsithlesness on her bosom. Sb
had entrea:ed and implored fCr the only nc
Of PREPARATION he could make in vain, for he
betrayer added the caP-sheaf to his imam.
by Informing her that he va q marie,
man. It was enough. She turned silentl!
away and returned 70 her home, leaving tn,
punishment with Him whoss vengeance
will surely repay.
But the light Of her life has gone out, ant
With it all that made that life worth III,
living. Months ago she took 70 her room
from which she refuses to emerge, and
srrs THEKe In SOLITUDE,
living only in the memories Vi the once hap
py past and praying for the coming ol
Death, that will bring to her the rest and
peace this earth denies.
She will wear no clothing. and her pen
ancs j. done in her bare feet She in indii
fereut to all that affects her health and com
fort, and l. dead TO ill around her. Eve,
the prayers and entreaties Of her heart
broken mother fail to excite the slighies
regard, and the kind admouitions o
sympathizing friends i received in apathet
ic silence.
And 40 the poor mother struggles On. He
burden at times she feels u greater than Oh