The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-12

4 Good 1ndinG % Q Bad BGginnine
How . HAPPY Pesutter Won .
Lexington Girl

b Lexington Girl
This is arrange world.
Man propoasa. bat God dspeses. an
d women have their own vsy.
Il A BAzo0 reporter met newly mssssel
e man on Conducts F.fes train this morn
E, ing. There's nothing reuarkable about th'
= general run Of newly married men, for on
e looks about ~ sheePish - the other. Bu
= there are some circumstances connected viii
j. this newly married mans courtship tha
are rather out Of the usual run Of gate
swinging.
1 There is
srEP-NOrHER
at the bottom Of this story. There vas &
hanging in st. Louis. last week, and there
> vas ep-mother At the bottom Of that
At least wienes said 20, and o. he had had
three steP-mothers. he ought TO have known.
II se had bren on the jury that tried him,
our verdict would have been guilty Of too
much s,ep-mother." But to our story.
About the middle Of July last, when the
train arrived from the vest one morning, Q
middle aged gentleman escorting beauii.
full g'rl not more than sixteen got Cd 1t
the Garrison House and inquired wha.
time the cam on the Lexington branch
started out. There was that about the
couple which attracted immediate attention.
The gentlemans face wore hard aet de.
termined look, and the
GIRL WAS CRYING.
II an expression Of despair was ever pho
tosrsPhed upon young and beautiful face
1t vas upon hers. They we're we'll dressed
end evidently respectable. As they lef.
the platform for an uptown hotel. pas
aenser remarked that girl has . hard f,se."
The reporter inquired the reason. The
gentleman replied that abe had run OF
from the prosecutions Of . ssep-moihes,
and that her father has caught her and l.
taking Der home" This Vas sufficient to
stimulate inquiry and BAzo0 representa-
sive nom obtained the facts in the case. III
they are not romantic. they are Of nature
20 stir
TIE HEART TO PITY,
and awaken the sympathy for the m,sfor.
tunes Of . motherless girl.
About year previous Mr.. Fritz, Of
Lafayette county, married widow. Each |
Of them had daughter BY q former mar.
ri.ee. The girls were near the same aee-l
about 6fieen-snd Mis Frits was very
pretty. This circumstance poa-ibly from
the tirat excited the animo-ity Of the step
mother whO commenced towards the girl
course of the mo.t heartless and systematic
pen-ecution, 40 much so indeed that the
girl. life became burden and her condi.
tion intolerable. She frequently
APPEALED To HER FATHER.
but he vas deaf to her entreaties. At
last in aheer deapair she run away deter
mined to enter upon life Of shame or do
that would pa, . period 70 her
misery. Fortunately she fell among
friends. whose entreaties she was prevailed
On to listen to, and her father notified Of
her whereabouts, and be vent after her.
They took the train here for Lexinstou,
and Miss Fritz was again returned to the
[smily fold which had been only ninety
md nine, a Il we're, out Of foil roll call /.
Turing her absence.
But white-winsed peace had 6ed from her .
'eart and il Vas resolved to send Nis 9
Frits to visit some friends in
LEBANON, KENTUCKY. Iy
While a route on the Missouri Pacific
nth her father, young and enterprising 4
,eanut vendor saw Miss Fritz and struck Z
'p an acquaintance. which Progressed At ,
he rate Of thirty miles an hour. On their
'rrival in St. Louis the young man had
made such good Roadway in the timetable Z
4 her affections that he knew all Of her
'ntecedents, where she vas going and what d
or, etc. e
After this her memory fingered in his I
'ears. and during his trips back and forth I
'e would get into the car in which she hal q
ode, and sit in the seat In which che had q
at, and q
GAZE ARsrRAcrEDLY
4 his prize candy packages, while his mind il
rs busy in building imaginary castles Of &
uture happiness, in which xiss Frits occu- Z
lied very prominent part. In order 10 L
urther bis plans he went on the Ohio 4 b
r r. d
Our young Peanutter struck up CORES. .
'ondence with Miss Friiz, which worked q
cry successfully for . time. She had
'romised to be ''his'n" and he had promised o
o be ''hern." end in view Of this fact he IN .
ormed her that he would pay her wait in 8
Iebanon. About this time abe discovered a
hat their letters Rad been intercepted. and q
hat her father had been informed Of allthe
The parental saIvice to the b
irl's frien . in Lebanon was to The effect q
Eat If that peanutter vas discovered around I.
hat vicinity to o
Puf BULLET THR0C0H HIN. n
This would have ruined everything and e,
be Pesnutter. TOO. So he didn't 20 to Leb- o
non, but be "6xed thing" With such ~.
,arkable care and foreshoughs that On the s
9Th Of last month Min Fritz ran away z,
'om her friends in Lebanon and right q
luare into the arms Of our Young peanut Il
e in 81. Loum. And here l. IL
THE SEQUEL. In
Married, in s.. Louis, Jan. q, 1873, b. Il
'ev. GeorKe A. Lotion, w. II. Shipley, :,
'rmerly Of Baltimore. Nd, to Roaa, eldest
aughter of John Frits, Eaq., County A.
'ssor Of Lafayette, LexinGso1, No. u
The srOom VA q last July, and the bride :.
Is. He - . smart isdusarious youae