The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-11-05
MORE LETTERS.

Mr.. Scott submitted two letters Friday
as evidence. Mr.. SteIry objected to one
OF them.
The court took them to look over.
State withdrew objection aRd the let
ters we're read by Mr.. Scott, as follows:
AT HOME, July 81, 1885.
DEAR FATHER TO call YOU father
don't seem natural any more, as feel as
If something had come between us.
Pa, feel 80 bad; don't know what to
do. There is such awful stories out
about you-that you married q public
woman, and that there was Q man muir
dered at their house some time ago; and
that the night you came home there WAS
crowd, Tom Dick and Harry. come up
and brought beer and all got drunk and
don't know what all. The people are
talking about you awfully; it makes me
sick to hear 1t. Pa, don't mothers
dear face haunt you? / should think il
would, day and night. One who had
helped you to make what you
have, and sac worked hard, too, trying
every way to get along. l can re-
member how hard sne used to
work, and TO think you married
girl younger than your young
est daughterl Do you think abe would
do what my mother has done for you
not much! She has come to spend your
money, not to help you make more, and
push your children aside. On, pa, it al.
most kills me to think of her enjoying
what my dear mother killed herself for !;
for you know and so does everyone, that
1t was hard work and exposure that
killed her, and that she would have been
alive this dag if it hadn't been for that,
and don't see how you can forget it so
soon, for can't. Maybe you will think
| by this that ! am AFRAID I won't get
what was coming to me, but Pa, would
rather have seen you lose every cent you
had in the world then you could have
come and lived with me, and We could
all have been 50 happy: but as II is, /
feel as though l had lost my father, and
everything, think you might have
gwen me that house that you
said you bought for me so we
could live in town, but DOW
don't suppose l will get 1t, as she will
do all In her power to keep me from
having anything. have nothing to say
against you, whatever may think, a
you are my father still; but you mIghl
have told me the truth that dav you
came over TO Hoods after me. You
told me that you never intended TO mar.
~ as long as Lib WAS at home. I don't
see what your,object was unless IL be thsl
YOU didn't want me TO know about il
DO you ,hink that Was fetherlyY Nov
Pa. don't you think that yourself. fol
LIB and /, that 1t Is hsrd To give M
what orght TO be ours to q woman ".
don't know thing about, and ous tina
married you Just for your moneys AND
> now hard mother worked on The road :.
= help you get along. and how nanx
many days have l seen mother i,
that hot shanty Cooking for All thosl
men 90 the road, and how I u.s.,
10 think how bad abe looked. and vha
. pity il Was she had to be ont there ava
from her home aud leSdInR such har,
life Try this me Take her out on IN
road TO work ike mother did and "a
how long she would stay with Won; bu
NJ, she is to act the lady and keen he
hands white and have q Niger do h.
a work. 1t makes me feel as n dtdni
want 10 live, and, knowing this. do vo
A expect me 70 come home again. / couI
not stand 70 see her In nv mothersa lac,
l would just cry all the time I WAS Their
7 and that Is what would Rscer let h
: see me do, So l think had bettar rs
away. Pa, forgive me for saving II. br
/ hate her; from the bottom Of NV hea,
Ie hate her. Do you blame mep don
le see bow you can when Won th1nk nv
4, what have said But she viii raah
you believe right is wrong every Anne
could not talk TO you this vav for ~,
ing; 80 thought It beat 60 wrisa Hs-;
is don't Know Il or he wouldn't let ID
write what have -
DON'T soppose Lib feels Just Ike
90 about It, Tor she, not being marie