Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-08

light and older faces beamed with
softened pleasure, and lightly
CLEANED the blazes from the fire
that woman wandered on through
the darkened wind-swept wastes
laughter dying out on her ears
the lights of Alpena fading from
her eyes, even the hard words and
stern faces Of those who drove her
forth leaving but indistinct impress
sion upon her brain, so piercing was
the cold and so long aud dreary the
road stretching out before her. At
length the lights of another village
cleaned upon her eyes, but she fell
before she reached them. She was
young, and had been handsome, but
was sinner; and now the penalty
was laid upon on her with the dull
savagery that man reserves for err
ing woman alone. There are per-
sons who paint heaven for the god
ly but there was nothing short of
death for her. They found her
where she fell, frozen and dying,
and brought her in too late. Think
of her as she sank down, chilled to
the marrow, and despairing. You
would pity a dog dying such a
death, bat a woman, young, with
lines of her beauty still to be trac-
ed under her haggardness, as God
would trace the whiteness of lost
purity under the stains on her soul
stains that they tell US can be
washed away. Was her death
made bitterer by the thought that
it was to be upon the anniversary
eve of the time when angels sung
peace and good will among the
men on earth ? She cannot he re-
called to answer. The hardened men
who drove her out cannot undo
their deed but all who read her
fate to-day may make amends in
some form for inhumanity by pity
ing and helping one weighted soul
among the poor erring outcasts who
are dear 20 God"
It would seem from the above
that the Herald was in the habit of
counting sensation rather than com
mon sense, and to this end, rushes
at it with vengeance. But the
truth of the matter is more clearly
set forth in an item published in
the Pressure Isle Advance, of Dec.
3lst, which we here copy:
"Agnes Philips, probably better
known in Alpena and Cheboygan
than here, met with serious cat
astrophe last week on the State
road between here and Alpena. 1t
appears that she came from Alpena
on the stage, stopped over night in
Rogers, and started on foot next
morning for Alpena again. Three
days afterwards she was found on
the State road, about eighteen miles
from this place, in a helpless pre-
with both her feet badly
frozen. She was at once conveyed
TO Rogers City, where she is doing
as well as can be expected under
the circumstances She is under
the charge of Doctors O'Connor
aud Larke, who are hopeful of her
recovery. 1t was thought at first
that it would he necessary to am
putate both her feet, but in a med
ical consultation held by Doctors
Patterson and LarlIe, it
was decidey that amputation was
not necessary.
The above does not sound much
rs though the unfortunate party
referred TO had been driven out of
Alpena, or as if there were any
grounds for the Herald to hold up
its astonished (!) hands in holy hor-
ror at the terrible deed it pretends
10 portray. But the Detroit Even
ing News raps the Herald over the
Snuckles In manner justly deserv-
ng, in this style:
"The half-column of slushy SEN
.iment recently sent to the New
York Herald, about fallen woman
who was turned out Of Alpena, and
who froze to death soon after, lack
I'd the important element of truth.
She was not turned out of Alpena,
nor did she freeze to death. She
vent from that city in search of
employment, and froze her feet
Ter shoes being so tight that they
the free circulation of the
blood"
The fact Is, she left this city to
avoid arrest. But it is all over
1ow, and the unfortunate woman's
have ceased, as she died
m "Wednesday morning last.