The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-20
,ur sTOR1E OF WOMEN.

W
ms Charities.
From, tle Ne,c York sun.
-.lo, was left in Brooklyn with one
a va r,ttaucp While she vainly en-
c1I' ,l IN get something to do the money
de''. ot At las she had but enough left
wa f,,.o 70 New York and back to an
~ Wv an advertisement for governeSs she
~" fonnd in a morning paper She
l'' .,.,s.ed into the drawing room Of
WIS Nav York house. Everywhere were
We ~ wealth. Pres ntly she heard the
Sc swish of a silk dress. Then came
s,E+h , room handsome woman OF attrac-
i!IV" 'u..5o,,ca richly dressed. The applI a
to9 was accepted. lhen WIN our'V Oh
toue lace The poor woman said.
CON- Won do not KIN anything about
'ISs+orvation stared me in the face, and
you have rescued ne ..-.....;,.. l,..,,.o.,,
n ,.nrnan. Az last the lady of the house
SAT- aP,t YOU know othing about me. Frank
| +. telI me what you think OF me.
T6a widow looked keenly and answered:
~ trin, YOU are an adventures.
rso lady threw back her head and laughed
- Then she walked to the door and
raIed up the stairs:
cdnCnlonel Colonel! Come herew
T5an a tiuely-preserved, handsome man
.rterod The lady told him of her visitors
%-ankness, and they had another bout OF
laughing. ,-,u....;, ,roodh,,u +ho e,o,-
"a. NV, was Col. Blood The widow was en-
uei Idi az q qoverness for Mrs. Woodhulls
sa,rbter at $40 a week. She lived with
e%on, several wears. They were generous
. L rn1J-considerate. The widow was well cared
for and happy ~
fayorite pastimes was fortune Gellng with
nards This was not Mrs. Woodhull's gift,
G.+ BELONGED to the governeSs, who had
nanny knack in that way. At length
Sno+nCciaJ troubles came, and the household
Hnl h.oken ND. The widow went back to
prooklvn with her now respectable saw
nTs and in time married an Episcopal
cIsrgvlnar of Brooklyn, whose wife she
now IS ~,
Blood appeared ,-,-., /,
said Luck can't go any further that way.
Ihave remembered you gift Mt fortune
taITnr. Now, want you to try once more
and see what there is for me-"
Tins entreated, and in memory Of old
/ times. she consented:
you are going on a long Journey. 1t is
Inv water. but not to Europe 1t is
further. y
and | see YOU surrounded by gold-gold
everywhere
ne Coonel broke into laugh at the
irony Of the cards.
Put before YOU go you will receive
money Not a great deal, but money,
and it will come IN a government enVel-
ope
COL Blood protested against this excess of
generosity on the part of the cards, and
=, = bie yUs,- some time after a gentleman
presented himself
u am The brother of Col. Blood, he said.
ale left on the steamer yesterday, and he
charged me to come and tell you that he
had been made superintendent of gold
mine in Africa, which he had gone to take
charge Of Furthermore | was to tell YOU
that few weeks ago he received $1,000
hack paw from Washin7ton, which he
had not the laintest expectation of get
ting"
This lady is still living in Brooklyn, and
her strange gifts are well known to her
friends. but her husband very l aturally,
since he is a minister, objects to her making
use of them.
Before the Ohio river had run itself away
it was the custom to go from Cincinnati to
Pittsburg by steamboat 1t was journey
of some days, and people got very well &C
Pittsburg there was always rush TO catch
tue Eastern train. Among the travellers
was a lady who drove off among the first
After she was gone a gentleman, New
Yorker, picked up purse, which proved to
belong to her. He was very anxious to go
over with some gentlemen who had deter
mined TO make the journey East together.
B he felt he must restore the puTs
Against the remunStranceS of the Others,
who aiJ ba Jc t-air
carriage and chased from station to station,
and hotel to hotel, until he finally overlook
| the lady, who had discovered and was be
moaning her loss. Meanwhile he had lost
the train and as trains were not "a frequent
as they are now he was was obliged to lie
over until the next day
Years passed, and the war broke out.
Among the contractors for building army
bridges III Tennessee was this man. He had
partner, and they had trans erred their
whole equipment of wagons, mules, TIM
Der, and men he tr Nashville. At this point
his partner failed him, and blank ruin stared
him in the face. Determined to make bold
appeal, he won't to one of the city banks and
asked t r large loan of money, making
pam the necessity and its cause. AS he
talked a lady seated in the President S room
listened The bankers listened, but the re-
quest was preposterous. At this juncture
tbs lady stepped forward.
DO you remember" she asked, looming
up the Ohio river to Pittsburg in the year
-" mentioning the date.
Yes"
DO you remember a lady losing her
purse, and the efforts you made to restoreit
10 her"
"Nes."
We'll, l am that woman" And turning
TO her husband, who was the President Of
the bank, Il don't think you need hesitate
20 lend money to man who has proved
himself more than honest"
The money was lent. Said the hero of
the occasion, who told the story to the
writer:
Il made $1,000 by being enabled to
carry out that contract. And l couldn't
nave CARR it out but for that incident Of
years BEFORE
!, The story Of Mrs Elizabeth Thompson,
Ine philanthropist, to use term which here
reVerts to its original meaning, reads like
romance. She grew up among the stern
EiVaJlons Of the mountains OF Vermont
n ner great great-grandmother was Hannah
Justin, the heroine of the Merrimac, to
"nolh, some years ago, a monument was
erected on an island Of the river. Her
ldlher was grandson of one of the child
ien who escaped with their father to Haver-
M, leaving the mother, baby, and nurse,
Mary Netf, behind. Their subsequent es-
TglPe, bearing with them the scalps of ten