The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30
A SAD CASE.
Left Alone Among Strangers with
Three Children to Care
For.

III you want to see real case OF destltu
ton and one that appeals to every heart
that can feel for the misfortunes OF deServ-
ing people, 60 to the corner of the Pacific
track and Washington avenue" said citi-
zen to a reporter yesterday. Acting on the
hint the scribe visited the locality named
and found a little shanty at the rear of
Mike Carroll's lot, abutting upon the rail.
road track, climbing the bank and enter
ing the yard the reporter knocked at the
door. which was soon opened by young
woman, who, though not bad looking, wore
that hsggard look so peculiar to the hard
worked and Ill card Tor bodies of those
unfortunates whom circumstances, misfor-
tune, fate or some other cause seems to have
doomed to drudgery or shame and who
hercica!ly choose drudgery.
"Does Mrs. Cochrane live herep inquired
the scribe.
s'She does" replied the lady, "will you
come in?"
Acting upon the invitation the reporter
found himself in a small room Of perhaps
lOx12, in which a dilspidated cock stove
upon which was cooking pan Of meat,
dispensed moderate glow of warmth as
compared with the outer atmosphere. In
one corner was a dilapidated bedstesd
or rather the remains OF what had ouce
ben a bedstesd, on which reposed
straw tick and q blanket. Near it sat a
broken lounge with few worn quilts, and
In another corner stood a bsrrel upon which
a toard answered as a table to held = ham
of fresh pork and few household utensils.
Near the stove was a wash tub containing
some washing.
THE INMATES,
In addition TO the young woman who
had admitted the pencil shower, consisted
of q lady of perhaps % years Of sge, girl
of about Z, boy of some three summers
and baby in its mothers arms, probably
eighteen months old. The mother, Mrs.
Cochraue, is, or would be under mere ia.
vorable circumstances, rsther handsome
woman. She is petite and delicate and
seems to have seen better days She said
to the reporter that she came to Sedalis
about two yesrs ago with her husbsnd
from JASPER county. Shortly after their
arrival here her husband was taken i'll and
died last March was a year ago.
LEFT ALONE.
Among strangers she had hard time &c
maintain herself and children, bst had
done so by taking in washing, until bel
own health failed her, and since then she
has been in need of food and clothing, and
so destitute indeed was she that she feared
starvation would be the end. A few day.
since, however, Rev. ii. r Miller, OF the
East Sedalia Methodist church, heard OF hel
condition and sent her a load of wood
at the same time telling the mayor OF hel
condition. Last week.
Mr.. HICKMAN HAD VISITED HER,
and il was to him she was indebted for the
clothes her children had on, the straw tick
the blanket, and the ham of meat and some
groceries, but when these supplies wen
gone she did not know where she would &c
further help. She had not applied TO th'
city, because she was afraid her children
would be taken from her, and she could no
part with them.
She stated that both she and her HUSBAND
were members of the Christian church, blu
poverty had placed it beyond her power 4
attend becsuse she had no clothes to wear
"What do you pay for the rent OF thi
placer" asked the reporter.
myself and this lady pay "a per month
She takes in washing, and / help her ali
can" said Mrs. Cochrane
Her case is one that bears every evidenc