The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-01-31
POOR MYRTLE LEE.
A COnfding Girls Ruin and
Degradation.
A Hopeless, Broken Invalid
Upon a Bed Of Slow
Death.
Riot, Revelry and Mirth Sur
rounded the Dying Out
cast,
Whose Lips, Once More as Of
YOre Learned to Move in
Prayer.
A Weary Heart Finds Peace
Beneath the Sod.

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Man may sin, and with a laueh wipr
The >in away, but 10 woman the inherit
ance OF sin j., tears and living death The
a-p of deceit AMI despair which each man
~, * to shelter his own family from, many
do not hesitate to iniplant in the bosom of
hi> neighbour, household. The boy must
low bis Wild oats before he IS deemed n
IEan, but the giri who garners the crop
although none the more guilty, i con
demued au Uu;cl~t. One hvCumtS the idoi
1T society; the other the piaythine II N
hour tor those. whose brutal instincts make
them more degraded in the sight oi heaven
,han she il rendered by reason of her
ne, >,itie>.
Vt the Twin Cottage Yesterday a poor
Ml.,.ai,n disi. Death to her va, ilde,d
"a welcome messenger. Born near irxing-
ton. Missouri, ia lS5I, the first seven
hen wears oi the Lille OF Katie Ttv!or
p1>-e.t away amid pleasant surroundings
amt happy m,m"rie, Her parents were
In comfortable II not aliiurnt circumstance
her wishes and her whini> were irvei,
-raiitietl. and lille wa> IL bright and Joy
ou, ami happy To- her 4, il i to the b,a,,-
ti!Ul ami ,pII&htlv daughter, who to-day
r, i,ice In the light AMI warmth oil y0ur
hearts and holmes. She was beautiful
educated, refined, AMI In just that meas
urr she Wa Pstted. cuGrtvd, praised and
spoiled. Sixteen YEATS came ana went
over her head like - many golden sun
beams, and then the tcmpter came The
vuung man with jhe wild oItS To- SOW en-
t,rtd the home, with the light oi heaven
III his eyes thar never appears tO woman
nut once. and = lie on tai, lips that wa-
dressed with the .wet tnesS 81 truth. Their.
followed the blight, the sorrow, the gloom
and darkness of despair and Matte Taylor
went out from her home, and the fraii
bark of lie Myrtle Lee. was launched up
On the world III sin, the playthlng al the
vile, the eibe oil tiod's degraded, and the
l,st of the worlds poor fools.
In that community. however, rs in most
others, the SORROW amt despair attached IL
but one The liar who had perlured hi,
soul To- work a confiding girls ruin-ti.e
thief who had robbed Il woman OF her
honor. a home of it, sunshine. and parents
of a child-the slan.ierer, who had Gas,
the stigma OF disgrace upon an homes,
name-the murderer who had taken the
honorable life away ir, III a trusting, con
fi,iing maiden the coward, who had tri-
umphed over the weak he should have
projected. and the sycophant. who sough,
living excuses for a crime in which be Sc
cre;lv reioiced, raising his head from
amid the ruin he hal wrought
fathers received him at their boards,
daughters sought his cOmpanionship
fellow. who had been imposed upon by 3
designing, degraded creature, and at the
worst had only sOwn his wild oats. That
man from out OF one of the neighboring
folds took unto himself a wife. and when
the life OF his victim, poor Myrtle Lee,
went out, he sat in his home surrounded
by every comfort; on his knee a lisping
bow, and on either hand daughter, each
Just turning into her teens. Does not his
conscience smite him as he reads these
lines? A. his eyes rest upon the fair young
forms near him does he not instinctively
count the months until they, too. shall
reach years Of maturity and dread the
coming of the youth, the nice Young man.
with crop Of wild oats to SOW?
Myrtle Lee was an outcast. Her steps
no longer lead her IN tine ways OF the pure,
but among the wicked of both sexes for
wears she reigned a queen. Beautiful OF
face and form, educated and refined, she
was at once the altar at which weak men
worshiped and the rock on which they
went To ruin. Mans inhumani,y had
crushed the heart out of her, and all that
was honest, trusting and confiding Law
buried i'm the shades where her girl life
had been wrecked; henccforth she lived
only TO blight and to destroy. Did men
plead. mothers weep and wives MOURN
She had drank the cup Of life to It's
mos, bitter dregs-why should not others
taste thereof, also? The man first and
then all the world had wronged her.
Should she not be revenged upon the
world? Poor fool The giddly life spun
out ut too great speed cracked under the
stress, and the queen of the demi monde
became 4 helpless, broken invalid, and for
months lay upon bed of slow death within
sound Of riot, revelry and mirth. where
sin held high carnival, but in which she
no longer had part or interest. Then was
the time for memory and for tears, and
out OF all came the light and the hope Of
a better lie. while the lips once more rs OF
wore learned To move in prayer, and the
wasted, bonv fingers sought the pages Of
the Book Of Eternal Life and therein
found that rest and hope that makes
peace eternal.
MYRTLE Lee is dead The wild oats of
one generation have been sown. Her pOr-
ton rests in the casket now rustIng in the
grave She might have been to-day
happy wife and mother had society al
WAYS meted out the same punishment TO
the tempter it does To the tempted. His
portion is still his conscience, and the
shadow Of the avenging Nemesis he must
ever dread will cross his threshold and scar
| his heart As he has scared the hearts and
blackened the lives of others. Who can
tell which has the greater punishment