Daily Republican., 1879-04-11
DRIVEN FROM HONE.

San FrAneisc dies in Poverty II
this Ciiy-The old story: Diasipa
tiOn, Crtnsa and . Fathers Angel
Tho UnfaIterlnE Love OF . sisseI
The Memory that Flowers Hiring
About a year ago there came to thil
city q young man, pale, emaciated
whose mesgre frame, clad in raiment
indicative Of poverty, having be-r
seized upon by the Unsuitable enemy
to msnkind-consumptiOn. He took
lodging at the Mechanics Eating House,
kept by Mrs. Cassandra McClees, cor
ner Of Front and Shipley streets. Ills
address was pleasing, and the infu-
snce and impressions that he created
we're ~ those coming from q man who
had been schOoled in associations born
Of higher sphere Of social existence.
Although evidently very poor, he ex.
hibitea Independence of character, that
coming - 1t did under such circumstan-
ces was particularly noticeable.
He paid his way and never asked
avors Of any one. He was vsnder Of
. peculiar kind Of laundry blne, which
as the labels evidenced was Of his own
make. It was in selling this prepare
ton, in connection with what little he
could make by soliciting purchasers for
shromOs and prints, that earned him
that Deggarly pittancs which enabled
him to keep up with the obligations
which physical necessity imposes. Who
he was and where he came. from were
questions, although often piled, never
answered. There was something bear
ing upon his mind, a secret which he
guarded with sealous care. He came
and went, and paid his bills with q
regularity that was oOmmendabls.
Matters continued this way up u
within period OF three months back.
The man tell i'll. Alone, in q strange
place and perfectly helpless, among
strangers, q situation that must raise in
every breast all the sympathies ofwhich
nature is capable Of. So it was in this
instance. When tho stranger fell i'll
those with whom he had associated
and lived, manifested a christian
tenderness, and through the energies OF
Mrs. NcClees, his condition was made
as comfortable as limited crcum-
stances would permit. this evidence
of regard from strangers, the young
mans heart was touched, and as he
rapidly grew worse, he revealed to his
kind hearted land lady mis- history. 1t
was this: Reared il: ::luxmy, and AN only
son of fond parents he had been petted
and INDUCED.
Joining with reckless companions he
had become dissipated. Again and
again he had been demonstrated with,
and again under the tender p'eadings,
If fond mother, he had promised to
-eforn. Being Of a nature susceptible
10 tie allurements thrown out by the
noe 'ashiopabls follies of sin, these
promises were only made TO be broken.
Reckless dissipation soon led to more
serious iEdiscretion; until at last, under
he influence Of depraved and unnat-
lral impul.s he committed deed
which, because Of the jealous care that
he took to coaceal its enOrmity, must
have been commission highly ofen-
,ivs to the father. As result of this
action he was driven from home. Com
PEELED to sever himself from the fond
OF loving mother, and the
warm pure kisses of darling sisters he
vent out into the world.
He had been well educated, being
with the French, German
md Spanish languages and having a
of all that goes to make a
mind Of more than ordinary ability,
he might have done we'll. But alas
'or him drink was his ruling passion!
Beyond the restraining influences of a
mothers love he gave license to his ap-
petite and he fell lower and lover He
worked for a season in printing Office,
but through some means or other he
lost his situation, and he was thrown
upon the world entirely destitute. Be-
ng sharp witted he possessed himself
II numerous receipts, clipped from
;rade journals. The most available OF
hese he utilized by procuring the com
pounds and prepared the prescription
or sale. This was how he managed;
md it was while engaged in selling
hese that he happened to come to Will
ningtsn. His name he said was Al
red Montpelier, and that his father
ived in San Francisco, and that he
vas cashier Of the Changers Bank Of
and wished his father to be
lotited Of his sickness and that he
wanted to come home to die.'
Acting on this request Mrs. McClees,
ware of the prOverbial kind hearted
ess of Francis Vincent, relate the
cung mans story and secured Mr.. VS.
Mr.. Vincent at once tele
raphed to Mr.. Montpelier that his son
Ias dangerously i'll. A telegram was re-
eived in Wilmington instructing Mr..
'incent to "comfort the sick" A letter
oon followed from the father express
ng regret at learning of the illness Of
he son, and hoped for his speedy re-
overy; but in the same letter was the
aragraph bearing the news that the
oy must not come home, that it would
o an impossibility for the father to re-
sivs him.
Almost Immediately following this
ams package bearing a couple Of cab ,
ret sized photographs, one the picture
his dead mother as she laid in the !,
'fin, and the other picture of his
70 sisters, now grown to BIZ beautiful
oung girls. The reception of these by l
le stricken man was something pain, !
il to see. OF the death of his mother
b know nothing. From the inscription
pom the back Of the card he learned |
lat she had died ten years ago-just
lortly after he had left home, died Of
broken heart. The picture had been q
ken especially for him, to bs sent to 4