The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-05
Dead from Homes1okness.

n Slmple anu touching story Is that
OF the young Swiss peasant girl, Pau
line Fuchs, who died recently; and 1t
would be an fdyl, but that the ideals
of the books have In them neither sor-
row nor death. At noon tho oity
"dead wagon" brought her body to
tho Morgue, and In lifting it out the
cover slipped from the rough pine box
The face revealed was q pleasant one,
handsome still, but If ever beautiful,
70 40 longer. A brief inquest showed
nothing except that she was found
dead In her bed, and that, according
to the testimony Of her cousin Maria,
she died Of longing for her home In
Swiss mountains.
The little story which tho girl. like
all girls, kept concealed in her own
heart Is so simple that 1t Is almost COM
would certainly become
commonplace had it not an ending so
sad. She lived with the family Of a
distant relative, all crowded together
intwo little rooms over shop. After
oily two weeks Of America she died.
She was born near the town OF Ein-
seidelo. Her father was a simple pea
SAINT, whose mind was bound up in his
country and his religion, and this girl
was his only child. She was spoiled
and petted, having everything her
own way until she was eightson years
old, when she met a young man nam
ed Henry BAumgartner who though
only mechanic appeared prince to
the peasant girl. OF course, she loved
him, and also, as q matter Of course,
her father would not let her marry
him, for the Fuchs family had always
been Catholics, and Baumgartner was
hereto. In spite Of the prohfbttl.n II
she set her heart on marriage, and last
March had perfected her plans to elope
With her lover, but on the very day set
her father found her out and thwarted
her. She was closely watched after
this, and the young man was forbia-
den tho house. Pauline plned and was
sullen.
She alarmed her father by threaten
Ing to run away to America, whe1 e
Mary Fuchs, her cousin and friend,
had came few months before The
threat was constantly repeated, until
at last, when two months ago her faith
er's cousin, his wife and six children,
made up their minds to come to New
York, he told her to with them. She
was unwilling to leave home, but too
proud to stay, so, taking her little
stock of clothing and her dead mo-
theirs cruciflx, she started Oh her long
journey across the seas.
At Havre they took storage passage
on the steamer Canada arriving in
Castle Garden three weeks ago; re-
naming there few days they came
to st. Louis, where Nary Fuchs and
her brother had been living since
April. Mary is 1sxen haired aud rosy
checked. She wss overjoyed to meet
her friend Pauline, who seemed equal
ly pleased to sec her, and who was for
the first week cheerful. Then she be-
gan to long for Switzerland, and the
color loft her check. Mary was her
room mate, both sleeping together on
a"pall et' made IN the floor in the
room, and to her she conf1Ied her de-
sire to return. Il will die here'' she
said simply. Wien another member
of tho family askel the cause of her
changed demeanr, she replied ssSIy
heart hurts me.'
This was all sh. eyer said on the
subject until she grew so sick that
they begged her to 60 to bed. She
would not, persl4lng still that there
was nothing tho natter. In the even
Ing she says to D aria Fuchs, her cous-
In: III want to g back to Einseidelo;
must 20 back, TOR I can not live
here"
She went to sleep on the floor, and
at 3 o'clock the following morning her
cousin heard hcrmoanIng. When they
went to her, sic persisted that she
was not 81 'ck, and so they left her.
The next morning when Mary awoke
the girl had beer dead for an hour.
Tho policeman told the coroner, who,
as they were too poor to give the un-
fortunate girl decent burial, ordered
the body carried to the Morgue.
''She died Of homes,ckness, because
she was out Of sight OF the noun
tains," insists her cousin.
WILL the world ever come to an end,
or Will an pnd rOmn t0 tho uorl1o