The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-02
OUT OF FuE DEPTHS.

OtI OF THE DEPTHS,
A YOHng Cyprian Shocked by the
Sad Facts OF Her Family history
Turns From the Error OF Her W0y
and Seeks the Seclusion of . Village
school.
The facts have been learned of sad and
seemingly improbable story, one of the
principal characters Of which has lived in
this city for the past two years The chan,
mel through which the information was OBJ
tanned is a young man well known to the
majority of the people of Dallas. Back in
one OF tina cities Of the east some Ave years
ago ss pure aud pretty maiden n ever
breAthed, loved handsome and wealthy
young man whom she had known from in
lSncy almost and whom she trusted rs t.
brother. But this trust became her ruin, rs
her lover had become contaminated by evil
associates and no longer possessed the
knightly gsllantry and the innocent, warm
love shat had so won upon her affections in
the years in which she was budding into
womsnhood. The DER true tale of loving not
wisely but too well was the result and she
suddenly and mystesiously left her home,
one of wealth and culture, and she was never
heard of by her relatives afterwards. She
never wrote to them, received any intelligence
from them OF attempted to
and for five wears, long
and dark aud criminal years, she has been
living beneath the surface of society, dead to
all tina! ever knew her in her pride and
hope. The moLhher was 80 affected by the
terrible fall and ensuing departure OF her
daughter that she filled grave from broken
hesrtedness and sorrow. The poor girl first
drifted into travelling company of third
rate artists and visited in the course of q sea-
son various towns and cities in this and 9TH
or states, appearing at one time on the boards
at Craddock's Opera House in this city. At
that time she was travelling as the wife of
| one Of the musicians of the
troupe This man at the close
| OF. the season obtained q permsnen position
in variety show in st. Louis ana there the
| girl followed him. Such arrangements do
not generally last long nor did this one, and
in few months she recognized the fact that
she WAS q ruined, moneyless and abandoned
woman in great city. With reckless de-
spslr she entered the notorious house of
Mollie Wilson, 900 Chestnut street, 81. I,ouis,
| and became one Of the most attractive but
reckless of the miserable inmates of that sink
| OF shame. n year or two since she was
brought south by drummer for Chicago
house, who also abandoned her after u time
and she settled down TO her old life in a
house of ill-repute in this city. Hero she
became acquainted with our informant, who
took y great interest in her from the first
meeting. All attempts on his paru,
however, to discover her name we've
fruitless, but she told him
the city Of her fsmily's residence. His curl
osity was 80 great that he set on foot invest.
cations which resulted in the disclosure OF
her memo and the ssd, sad story of her fami.
ly's aftor-history. He learned of the death
of her mother, and that the father engaging
in speculation in cotton futures had been
utterly ruined and had likewise gone down
to HE grave under the accumulated mibfor-
tunes Ola broken lite. Not three weeks
since, and just before tho Dallas boy was
made aware of these facts, the brother, sick
OF and disguised by the lamentabe facts of
his family history, deliberately opened an
| artery and died u few moments alterWard
alone in his room. The youpg man herr,
alter becoming acquainted with this mourn
ful history, boldly related to the conscience
stricken ard Mortified girl the distressing
incidents relative 10 her family and the like
of which she had never dreamed of. From
that hour her gayety left her and the next
| day she sent for the one who had 70 deeply
interested himself about her, and told him
she had determined upon changing her
mode of life, and enquired lift were posi-
bic for him 10 obtain her employment of
any kind by which she could obtain an hon
orable livelihood. Deeply moved by the
pathetic facts of her life, he began to inter.
est himself in her behalf, and on Tuesday las.
received Intelligence from one of the town
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, vN-e
several friends were located, n =, il
was possible TO give the girl employ It as
a school teacher in the Terrific i New
Mexico. She grs,ped at the OPP riunity
gladly, and day before yesterday lef, on the
north bound train with changed name,
changed purposes and letters OF introduc.
ton from her friend for the field of her new
labors and with the hope OF new life in
the heart. IL Is to be hoped that the old
purity and innocence OF youth may once
again enfold the heart and life Of the misled
nader and in new sphere open to her the
possibilities Of noble nature marred in is
beginnings. 1t is but one of the many of
the dark and moHrnful histories of the vic.
cious and the lost, but II has occurred within
our midst, and the light of that forgiveness
has fallen upon the poor victim which makes
sins though MS scarle. whittier than snow, and
II is to be hoped that those who read may
appreciate the moral that sdorns the tale,
snd silently Offer prayer for the new Mag,
dslen that hiss goue with so bitter an oxper-
ienco and so heavy a heart from our pros
enee.