Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-09-02

Aud, with . last weeping EN-

And, with q last weeping EN-
brace, he was off for prison, Will,
abe slipped quietly out of .h. csurt
and disappeared.
r But the Internal major pursued
the wife as rsmorselsssly as no had
the husband. Acting under his
secret orders, the gang stunned
bounded aud msl.rsased her. and
finally turned her out of the wretch
Five Points rooksry which she had
occupied with number of them.
She was without money and re-
putation, miserably sick, and the
weather was snowy aud cold.
Nevertheless. she made hard fight
for il, occupying any shelter she
could beg, day after day, and night
after night, and seeking cesselsssly,
persistently, 20 obtain honest en-.
ployment.
'But IL was all 10 vain. Sna had
no character, by w.y of recommen-
dation, TO start with, so the major
and his creatures gave her one. AT
every shop, store, factory or house
hold that shs applied to for work,
it was but to find that she had been
forestaled by information, securely
supplied, concerning her criminal
antecodents, which sffsctually set to
naught her claims aud applications.
AT last she was desperate, hope.
less, without friend and in this
pitiable plighs was found one even
ing orouching under one of the
high steps in the nsighborhood of
the Central Park, by a policeman,
who gruffly ordered her away. and
advised her to sex the nights
lodging at the Eoarest static
house.
Bat she gave no heed to his ad-
vice perhaps being half.orazsd
with her suffering-bUt, wrapping
hor baby still more tightly under
her poor, thin shawl, limped away
through tho fast,falling snow, AID
entered the park.
'Out 10 the Sow, under the bare
trees, in among tho leafess, russIing
| shrubs, away mp through the hill
ocks, did she wander 10 tho hrsless.
deserted park, which thon must
have seemed wilderness, indeed,
but more acceptable, more inviting
than the peop.od, bnt heartless
street, from which she f4rod, with
hunger in her body and departing
misery in her soul. No one could
interfere with her there, or hunt her
down, or hid her to move on, or
laugh at her, or teant her with her
past wickednsss aud present friend.
lessnoas.
Raster and faster fell the blind
ing snow, but it seemed to touch the
earth softly and tenderly, affording
her the covering and shelter that
humanity had refused. Is was Bit
ter cold, and she tore her shawl into
strips TO moro thoroughly cover 10
her child, while rendering her own
poor shoulders defencslosa 80 the
shiyering wind.
Then she huddlad closely against
rock 10 koep off the drift, and oud-
died up alb 1us the child as near as
she could creep. And thon. after
the storm had slackened, the moon
oame out and locked piiyingly on
the f0rlorn pair.
'Tho drift whirlsd faster and fas-
ter over them to complete its work;
and thou o. last poor Jenny, the
worlds forsaken wait, fell asleep
forever under the soft, white man
tic of the snow, which, like
Charity's, covsrs each year suoh
multitudes of sins.
The park policeman found her on
the following morning, at spot
about two hundred yards north of
the Seventh avenue entrance, frozsn
stiff, No stone ever marked her
grave, and a four line newspaper
paragraph, with side-heading,
unknown Woman Found Dead in
Central Park was tho only notice
taken Of her death.
The child was found still alive
and moving on the pulseless bosom
that would nourish it no more but
it also died on toe third day there
after from the effects of the expos.
IRE, and that was the last of them
'Scarcely q week af,er-this event,
Hsrndcn wss oct al liberty, and it
CHANGED ~ y was the fret &C.
quain:anoe DO mot upon his return
to the city. | should have men.
toned that | had known him from
his boyhood, had deplored bis evil
courses, rel oiced in his promised re-
form, and was now anxious that he
should not be tempted to 20 back
upon his good resolutions, while /
dreaded the effect that would be
produced upon aim by the news of
his wife's and baoy's pititul death,
of which / vas certain he was as
yet totally ignorant.
my own duties had taken me
away from the city during the
greater part OF his imprisonment, or
should certainly have endeavored
to in some measure boiriend the
poor creatures, the particulars of
whose miserable fate, al | have Just
described to you. | had only myself
learned q day or two before thus
meeting him al the depot upon his
return from prison.
las soon SIS Harnden stepped from
the train add saw me, be grasped
my hand and dragged me into
neighboring public house, where he
entered q private room.
You see me returned to the world
a changed maa, McArdle, and |
trust with come years of happiness
in store for me- he said, and / no
tioed that he was looking capitally,
with clear. manful light in his
dark eyes. 'But tell me quickly
where and how is JennyP
Il felt myself growing pale, and
could make no immediate answer.
Speak Jamie AMI tho ehild-
how arr they both, aud how ave
they both brought through it alpine
'peatcd, with growing disturbance.
Man alive! why do you .nrn your
face away p
Have you heard nothing OF them?'