Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-06-04
VoopaUlL AND CLATTIIN.

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The arrival Of The woodhull. CiaaiA SIS
Sasu in Nev York. accompanied BY thstr
Ensiieh husbands, Mr.. John Biddulph
Nar1in aud Sir Frederick Cooke, has
thrown 3 coed many people into their an
ecdofese.S Thee women, who left . very
uuser reputation behind them and have re-
turned With 8 notably good . from the
land OF their sdoplion, have awakened
many rsminisoences, IN the minds OF
lhose Who observed them twenty years
ago whom thsy we're such conspicuous Dc.
ufes In the public Wow.
The elder sister had then bssn separated
for some time from DR.. Woodruff. tho
husband whom she had been forced to
marry when barely Is years old. He had
iillod up the measure Of his sins against
his young wife by looking her into An
empty house in Broad street, where for
twenty -four hours she lay helpless and
alone with . newborn child beside her,
while he was OF ON Q ten.days debauch.
He staggered home at the end Of That time
and would have then found his wife and
baby dead but for the kindness OF strangers
in the adjoining house. who. hearing =
faint, continual Yapping on the wall
bstween. penetrated to the closed house
by way OF the cellar eratii g and rescued
the sick women
Tho younger sister, Tennie @. Claim,
was . pretty girl who knew enough to
take care OF herself" acc riding to . hoary
broker, who WAS doubtless 10 , position to
know. She VA an sitist of considerable
ability, and In those days painted . por.
trait Of Commodore Vanderbilt, which was
BY the way . very good likeness. The sit
ting took place q the old gentieman's
house. He was exceedingly fond Of the
bright, pretty little artist, with her short,
curly crop Of hair, her piqusnte face and
cbirpy, CHEEKY ways and would often Say:
Come here, you little sparrow, and
perch on my finger" Then when she ran
10 him, the tall old man would catch her
up and giving her . kiss send her back to
her easel. The commodore's wife was
often present, and che also liked Miss
Claim, Of whom she invariably said,
There Y no harm in tho child, OF that l
Inn sure!"
By and by. when the sisters we're edit
ing their paper, with the assistance OF
Colonel Blood, they took . house 90 q
street somewhere in the thirties. Next
door lived two elderly ladies, relatives Of
the late Dr.. Morgan, Of st. Thomas
church. They were the quientessence OF
high.bred responsibility and conserva-
tism, aud whom they learned who were
about to become their neighbors despair
settled darby upon their household. Their
impulse was to sell out and move. Az
time vent on, however, they found moth
iDg to complain of, and were in no way
disturbed. In the warm, late spring days,
looking through their bowed shutters into
the Woodruff back yard. they esptsd Z
hammock swung across the little grass
plot, to which, day after day, whenever
the weather waa ine, . miserable palsied
man wa tenderly led BY Victoria Wood
hull, then . tall, stately young woman.
She would prop him with pillows, covel
him With rugs, read aloud to him, and
even feed him, ~ he was too feeble to per-
form that once for himself.
Tho good ladies next door found theil
curiosity presently unbearsble, so they in
structed their servant, durlrg an area-dool
seance with the next door, to find ont who
the man was. In this way they learned
that the invalid was DR.. Woodruff. One
rainy night Mrs. Woodruff had como in
from down town drenched. The kitchen
Ore was the only one aiiRht in the house,
aud she went to the range to warm herself.
While there the basement bell rang
and . wretched, trembling man
begged for food. An impulse oil
pity led her to 60 forward to the poor
creature, in whom she at = 0 recognized
her husband. His troubles were at an END
from that instant. The injured wife PM
away the memory Of her wrongs, nursed
him AZ long ~ he lived, and gave him a
good send on" when be was dead.
Ever after IN speaking Of their neighbor,
these worthy danes said:
We can never believe anything bad Of
that woman after the saint-like way she
nursed that dreadful sinner Of . husband
Of her'a.n-Neag York World.