The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-12
hands of the police for dissrderly con-

hands of the police for dissrderly con-
duct.
To make o brief story briefer, in
May. 1875, there remsiued Of the
$50, 900 only $500. DR.. Joseph COD
sidered the case philosophically, calm
ly sold the furniture, returned to
Cincinnati, installed his mistress in
more modest quarters aud hung out
his NJ. D. sign again. But in four
years he had lost his cunning. Rid
ing through all weather to a poorer
set of patients than of old did not
agree with his health. His energy
was gone. His pretracted sprees
grew more frequent and protracted.
Nina called for money in vain. Her
clothes followed her jewelry into the
pawnshop. One night, after . visit
to her Jewish friend of the money
loaned-on clothing proclivities, she
calmly told her physician that she
could have nothing more to do with
him. DR.. Joseph considered the mat
ter philosophicallv, calmly, and con-
sented. Nina went back to her old
companions in sin, and took up resi-
dence in the lower part of the city.
She prospered as wicked people do.
DR.. Joseph, still pursuing his profes-
sion spasmodically, fell lower than
ever. Having at last. at the conclu-
sion of long spree, sold all his Office
furniture and his extra clothing, and
spent all the money, experimental
with the charcoal mode of exit from
this worlds stage without being sue
cessful. Being arrested by the indig-
nant guardians of the peace for this
outrage upon the decorum of good
society, he wrote to Nina, from the
city jail, that he desired money
enough to pay his fine. The woman
sent it to him, clothed him, and gave
him enough to keep him until he
should get sober. But he could not
resume practice in Cincinnati. He
was too we'll known.
Mina's eyes having for some time
been fixed on Washington as a place
TO ply her shameless trade. she pro-
posed to her sister, another member
of the demi, monde. to come TO Wash
ington. The proposition was submit
ted to the doctor. with the suggestion
that he accompany them and open a
physicians Office here. He accepted
it with his never-tO-be-lost eguanimity,
and the trio thus entered this city.
The women soon rented a house IN the
Division and furnished it in the most
gaudy fashion but the doctor was
not as prompt. Washington was not
TO his liking. He was in the pride
of his life, but his energies were those
of man of 80. Nina then proposed
that he live at her house. He con.
senied and selected for himself back
attic room.
He never practiced medicine again,
but In the back room he slowly went
back to his books. He read much
and broadly of a great variety of liter
allure. During congressional session:
he was frequenter of the galleries
well-dressed, digni6ed and thoughtful
He had no companions. He made
occasional visits to neighboring cities
generally returning very nervous and
trembling and drunken. AIina's new
victims never knew of the old victim
existence. Indeed, even of tn,
many women who ut one time OF
another, have been inmates OF hel
house, only few ever saw him, ant
many never knew Of him at all. Dur.
ing one year &c never spoke to Nina
only sending to her occasionally fol-
money by the servant.
One day last week the servant went
to his room with his breakfast, anG
was unable to wake him. The door
was forced open, and on drawing
aside the curtains Of the window The
sunlie hit fell upon his dead face, coId,
quiet, philosophical, as of old. A
physician was quickly summoned, bu,
knowing little and caring less, and
being in. haste to reach a scientific
gathering, he hastily pronounced 8
cause of death in good Latin, and
hastily rode away, leaving the police
man in a state of confused ignorance
and awe. DR.. Joseph was buried or
Sunday in Baltimore. There were
two mourners, Nina and her sister
The room in which the man died wa.
pleasant, well furnished, and scatter
ed about were books and scrips Of
manuscript in q lean German hand
On the bed by his side. open, was
found a copy of Beasant's new novel
''Let Nothing You Dismay." Lei
nothing you dismay, God is just"
The policeman who told me this
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