The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-28
HARD LOT.
a Kansas Outfit Needs Look
ing After.
A Strange Story Related by Babe
Hunt

"Bab, Hunt vans to see you immediate
ly," said gentleman addressing a BAzoop
scribe.
what does she wish ?" asked the pencil
driver.
81 don't know. / was told to tell you,
and will go with you to her house If yon
wish i"
"All right" said The item gstherer, and
The two wended their way TO Babes, on
East Main street, VIII re the we'll known,
siren dwells. She was found in a some
what excited state of mind, and told TIE re-
porter a loi g story, the distance of which
IS enboditd in this article, but is told in
The reporters words in order that the read
ers may fully understand IL and its connec-
ton with characters who have heretofore
figured in print.
KANSAS OUTFIT.
A Jew DAYS since, a very hard Look
ing family, were linsrirg about
the depot claiming to be worrhv objects of
charity. The party consisted of a womsn,
a fifteen ye,r-old boy, q twelve-year-old
girl, ali in the most filthy cond ition i'm
aginable The woman who gave her name
as Burns claimed to bail from Kansas and
to be the widowed mo her of the balance OF
the outfit. They arrived IN Sedalia some
two We ks ago and
APPEALED To THE MAYOR
for help. He did not have it and referred
them to the home, but they were not sd-
mitted becauseof their filthy condition The
party then went shout begging, and the
met B be Hunt upon the railroad,
vk0f Ok kn
of Baba, everybody who knows Of her
knows that however fallen and lost in other
respects, Babes heart was never known to-
seal itself again sympathy for the suffer
ing in Whatever garb it presented itself.
More than once did she prove this last win
ter in a manner that reached the public,
and an hundred times in a quiet and unos-
tentA tiOus way.
BABE Is FALLEN WOMAN,
and a woman of the world. hence it is easy
for her to recogaizs like chsrac ers, and
hard for her to be deceived by ,hem.
Mrs. Burrs' appeals, therefore, did rot
fall upon a flint hear, nor upon ears that
could not guess the truth. Toe result was
that Babe soon learned thst her supplicant
had been driven from Kansas and her
property burned because OF her evil wsys,
But still, Babe did not care to refuse SYM
pathy. She took her to her home, gave
her food and gave Der money to rent a
house ard get work. She
also gave her good advice; told bee to
make her 10y 60 to work, her Oldest daugh-
ter to do the same. As for the youngest
Babe said,
TWILL CARE FOR IT
until it can get home leave it with me.
Babe took it, washed il clean, gave it new
clothes, and for the FIRST time in months il
81. pit upon bed. But Babe did not kuow
ali. She did not know the woman she had
succoi ed had already become the paramount
of o, gro. Last Sunday, however, the two
visited Babes premises, and the negro was
driven off by her with a sore head. And
last night il was learned be and the woman
hal secured quarters at a negro den. The
child was sent for and Babe gave it up, but
when she did 80 she knew 1t was
GOING INTO BAD HANDS
and she sent for a BAZoO repore r end told
him the whole story. 1t has been fully
corroborated by others ard all the facts
besides the above which were told him by
her are 10 his possession, and it is probable
these who are concerned will find 1t to
their interest to see no wrong befalls the
little ones, unless they desire to make
speedy reckoning. The matter is in the
hands of the police, rnd there is little doubt
they will soon sift it sufficiently 10 make
the guilty ones find it too warm in Scdalia
to be comfortable for them.
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