Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-11-23
Whole No.. 2O45
A Woman OF Wlles.

About seven years ago young lady
bearing the euphonious name OF Mad
anne Evangelne Trenihdi appeared In
the religious circles of Philadelphia
asking for sympathy, Aid of any
grosser sort would have seemed an In
suit to u being or 10 woes 80 refined
She was descendant Of one OF tho
oldest families Of English gentry. She
had offended them by marriage with II
dissolutc Italian Marquis, who had
died and left her pennileSs and home
less with one child, now boy fisk,
But aid Of the grosser sort in the way
Of invitations, costly gifts and money.
was urged upon her, which she ac'
ccpted in on innocent, childish way
She was nothing but q grown.up child,
Gray old financiers, Presbyterian
doctors Of divinity, the Sons of st,
George, Episcopalian bishops, were in
turn her friends and guardians. No
body looked very cautiously into her
antcccdents. Her brown hair curlcd in
delicate rings about so sensitive face,
her eyes were SO soft and appealing,
her voice, low as Cordelia's, struck
such u pathetic minor, that nobody
cared TO look behind them.
Presently it was noticed, however,
that one society and clique OF humans
tarians after another dropped the
tcnder.cycd Evangelinc or thrust her
on into other hands. She began to
simmer and shift her character be-
fore the eyes Of the good Philadelph-
ians like Protean artistic on the bur-
lcsquc stage. Now she had just been
forgiven by her naughty relatives and
inherited an Elizabethan mansion in
Kent, with 100000 per annum, and
went about taking leave of her kind
friends with crapc-bordered kerchief to
her eyes. In few days later she ap.
pcared on the platform beside Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, the accredited
correspondent Of n we'll known Lon.
don journal. Que week she was ar
rested on charge of theft, and the
next she was escorted by guard of
eminent congressman to the elevated
dcis in the Centennial grounds and
seated beside the President and the
Emperor of Brazil while the Exposi-
sion was opened. She next appeared
in Washington as the guest of COM
mittee of Senators and foreign diplo-
matists and read in public at their in
stance study of the Life of Sumner.
A few weeks later she was again ii.
custody for stealing, and contrived to al
most strangle herself with veil
knotted tightly around her throat
Madame Trenifdi then disappeared
from Philadelphia, and Mabel Carter
entered missionary meeting in Pitts
burgh, walked shyly up to the pulpit,
caught venerable old clergyman by
both hands, and claimed recognition as
fellow-worker with him years before
for the souls of the heather in Shang-
hal. He rubbed his spectacleS, did
recognize her, and the devout Mabel
was handed tenderly around from one
pious old lady to another as religious
prodigy during that winter. Again
the police interfered and the sanity
missionary vanished to reappear as
ministering angel in Plevna and thro'
the TurcO-Russian war, back to Eng
land as second Florence Nightingale,
and now, as our readers have seen,
doubtless, ,sentencedas Wilberforce, ,alias
Jones, after trial which attracted at
tention throughout all England, to nine
months hard labor in jail IN. Y.
Tribune.