The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-14

Cleveland, Ohio. was her next stop
ping place here she VAS known a:
Mad. Tonsnarde, teacher Of piano and
guitar, and instructor in vocal culture
She was finally forbidden to enter the
homes of several of her most wealthy
p ,trons, resulting from her escapades
with the male members Of the families;
here she met and became attached te
an expert counterfeiter for time she
lived as a queen might live; she was
valuable assistant in showing the
queer, and disposed of hundreds OF
dollars of the worthless stuff The AL.
thorities at last 'pired the gang. The
makers Of the queer scented danger and
suddenly turned up missing previous
to this the woman had quarreled with
her companion about a division of the
spoils and left her mark
IN THE SHAPE OF KNIFE CUT
across his cheek. Then began a race
for life, so far as she was concerned.
She jumped from town TO town. and
from city to city, remaining in each
place but short time. Finally she
turned her steps i'm the direction Of
Louisville, Ky. There she actually
bearded the lion in his den In rags,
almost shoeless, she wandered the
streets Of the city, where the detectives
were watching for her. Realizing the
danger she incurred she managed to
get possession of SINE funds, two
weeks later she was in this city billed
as a sero-c0mic calist at one of the
many dives OH South State street. One
night she and companions were arrest
ed and locked up. The next morning
they were fined for dis ,rderly c'n-
duct.
at was the first time in ali her
varied experience that she had been
an inmate of a prison cell, a.i the eff
feet WAS salutary. This woman. who
had been the companion Of thieves
and wretches OF all classes, who had
looked unmoved on scenes that would
bring the blush of modesty to the
cheek of statue If such thing were
possible, felt the disgrace of that
night Of pnfnement behind the bars
From that hour she besa: new eX-
istence. Leaving Chcago she went
TO Boston and worked az sewing siri
In large manufactorv. From the
drudgery of her life as sewing girl
she turned at last to the more con-
genial pursuit of correspondent in the
Office of an extensive insurance conf
pany. She travelled year abroad as
companion to the wife of her EN-
ployer. Returning to Boston she
came this city with letters of recomen-
dation to the head of the family with
in the circle of which she now moves.
unostentatiously, quietly. She has
closed the door of her past behind
her. Hos she not done we'll
Fitted by nature to be an ornament
to society, she occupies a place in keep
ing with the requirements. Place an
obstacle in her way and might she not
i'm a moment of desperation drift back
into the streets ain? The man who
falls rises again. If a woman errs may
she not also resume her former place
when experience has taught her they
who sew the wind. reap the whirlwind
and when she begins and lives life
that is blameless?
"Her name? Never mind it. 1t
would do you no good, and to give it to
the world i'm connection with what |
haYe told you would do her harm"
In our walk we had returned to the
place of our meeting. The subject of
the above eventful story was just en-
tering the carriage. 1t was an attract
i've face that met the writer's gaze,
lighted by pair of dark eyes. The
coachman gathered up the lines and
turned his horses heads southwark. La
few moments the coupe and its occu-
pants were out of sight. Is there life
that has not its hidden skeleton