The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-23
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LETTER.

Whats got into the women?
said q friend to me the other day as
| stood gazing AT that marvellous
steeple on top Of the Tribune office
where sits the youthful successor Of
Horace Greeley, looking down upon
a naughty world. What do you
mean? | said. Why, havn't you OBJ
served, he said, that number of
women have suddenly disappeared OF
late and of whom no c.ue has been
discovered? and it suddenly occur.
red to me that l had 1t is some
wears since had occasion to refer
to this very subject but at that time
it was the disappearance ofmeu, and
it is not until you go TO the police
headquarters that you find out how
frequent the disapearances are.
1t seems to be q very terrible
thing to have man or woman sud-
denly blctted out Of existence. yet
a number Of such cases have
taken place within the past few
weeks. To refer to the past: A
gentleman well known on the Stock
Exchange started for home one day
Just after the adjournment Of the
Stock Board. He walked up Broad
way with friend as far as st
Paul's church. there he stopped and
conversed a few moments, then
crossed Broadway to 60 down Ful
ton street on his way to his home
in Brooklyn, and that was the last
that was ever seen or known of him
as far as this earth was concerned.
He was a man past middle age, Of
strictly temperate habits, of ample
fortune, with happy home, low
ing wife and affectionate children;
his business relations were of the
best, all his accounts were square,
his health was good, no signs of in
sanity were ever seen in any of his
family, and yet the man was utterly
blotted out from the face Of the
earth and has never been heard of
flom that day to this. A still more
remarkable case occurred in Brook
lvn in the case of well known ar
tist. He was sitting down in his
studio lust at evening, awaiting his
supper. He sat there in his
sDIoking cap, dressing gown and
slippers. A ring came at the door
bell; it was the news carrier with
the "Brooklyn Eagle.' His wife
asked him to 60 down to the door
for the paper; he went, and no NOR
tai eyes, as far as we know, have
ever seen him from that hour to the
present. The list is a long one,
and as long as it was confined ex-
clusively to men it was bad enough,
but now the case is altered, we have
not lost a man in a month that we
could not reasonably account for.
There was either woman missing
about the same lime or he had been
speculating in Wall street with
somebody else's money, or he was
short of is employers funds. But
there is not one Of the ladies who
has disappeared for the past few
weeks who was not of the highest
responsibility, and like Caesars
wife above suspicion. One ofthem,
an unmarried woman Of thirty, an
only daughter and one of the most
estimable ladies in Brooklyn--hon-
ored, respected and worthy of it
who had everything in this world
to make her happy, and she went
out of her home early the other
morning and has never been seen
since. Her parents have been al
most distracted for weeks past;
they have the sincerest sympathy
of the entire community; they feel
that it would be a rellefift they even
knew that she was dead.
Last week lady by the name OF
Hart disappeared and she has not
been heard from.
One of the saddest cases was the
mother of Little Kleina Lena that
used to play with Joe Emmet in
s.Fritz in Ireland" She was a
sweet, cunning little creature and
she died during the performance of
the piece. The child was the idol
of her mother and her death so
preyed upon her mother that her
reason fed and last week she wan
dered away from her home but was
fortunately discovered by friends
after an absence of several days.
Whenever she was left alone she
would get out little Kleina Lena's
little dresses and shoes and weep
over them by the hour, begging her
little lost one by cndearing names
to come back to her. At last her
reason failed and her ONLY desire
seemed to be to follow the little an