Smyrna times., 1891-02-04
A BEGGAR'S HISTORY.
THE QUEER TALE TOLD BY A FE.
MALE ORGAN GRINDER.

She Claims to Be a Descendant Of a Noble
11uss'"n Family-Her Descent in the So
oial Scale Due to a Romantic Attach.
ment-The Loss of Her Lover.
1he old woman who plays the hand-or-
eau at The corner of Ninth and Vine
SGreets has history according to tbe
Iuilaqelpn1a correspondent of the Chi.
cago Times: II was born, she said. s'on
S Sne 4th day of August, 1877, in Werinland
sweden and am now. you see. seventy.
Suree years of age. My name is Anna
HiFensOn; That is not my full name. but
70 enough and will do. Our family name
Rus.i ven khOwn IN Sweden, and also in
"u9SIa IN 1act, our family is Russian.
In the time of Catherine Our family
estates were of the largest held bv tbo
nODlIlty My mother was a direct
descendant o. the Vasa dynasty. 7 navar
1ne" her, as she died when was horn
1ou see mat on my mothers side am
u loyal lineage, and on my fathers aide
.uoscenaed from the prOudest of Rus
9Iah arlsCocracy. My father was a nroud
TIah' moro7e and stern In the extreme
Inc Inc soldiers In their summer camn at
Fls1y' whom he commanded. would often
e Oe HosSed by his orders for some trifIino
Offense. --'0 VI 'Aiins
l remember little of Wer,nland for
as enid my time was passed in the
5cno0I at Stockholm, and as a vouno
~ W. Ms at court more than anywhere
80 80 neh l was twenty years old we
were at our Stockholm Ome and dahl,
IN attendance at the palace. or at Drott-
ningho'm. l was the especial favorita
OF Fr!ncess Eugenie. 1 was cOnetantf,,
ner companion. Sle loved m and sno-e
= ~ me as think my mother would have
u"ne' mere was at court at that timea
man named Baron Phegren. Of hiOb
anA, puI as poor as a be gar, He had a
9on Odrl' captain in the navy. whom
nad met at court balls and recentione
Oar' anu l during that summer met ver,,
oICen. We walked and talked and rovvad
lcr until l found that loved him
TFlhcess Eugene said to me one dav.
An my Gear, t is love of Carl's will piys
= Sou GU trouble sOmN day l smiled at her
ouI lhought nothing of it. But one dav
Q, ,',i.,., -, UIillhEhoIm Clrl told me taat he
" Ouiu at once speak to NV fitbar
hated that but l said: Yes do ca and
he went away happy. Poor Carll don't
Know what passed betw., n him and nv,
lath'r, but on the mex; evening nv,
l"lh'I sent for me to come in the Ii5rarv
went there; he was Ia l. 90 d. stern
nan Ol IRON. so, so, my irlla Countess
4" laughed, YOU love Carl do von2
ven well, III soon stop that. and tben
ne hegan To tel me how poor C..rI wa
nat ne wanted simply my money. that
le was drinking man, bad man. OH
low Jhat night comes back to me
l never said word in answer. sim
nv SCood there trembling from head to
oot' Al length my father stopDad and
'"oridS rouidSSn nj and heavily upon my
OuIuer ne said. Go to your room Won
"@,I never marry Carl Phegren, never
- : !. lii'I me the mex day in the parGen. |
10 was aggard and pale. 'You kn0v1
II, ne said. and then, without waittr
Or an answer, he urged me to leave Swoe
e to 90 with him to America to bniId
III Tie home there in the land of tho
ee' would not. l could not. I re-
pecled my father. l did not want him
ours" me. Then Carl left m and
ever saw him again. A few days after
ara Iney found him on the beach at
aXholm dead, with bullet in his heart
9ey never knew whether be killed him.
'lf or was murdered.
l lived ON. l was alone that voc
IL One dav father told me I was to
AIRY lie had husband for me. Ire-
sea TO obey him; then, in his passion
struck me, and as I lay on the ground
I"0 nc WOulu XIII me as he did |
III III ne stopped as he said that and
left me alone. -"0e'
My father was murderer
left the house that night and
veden shortly afterward first I went
London and then came to this conn
y. saw notices about my strange
sappearance in the papers. but 7
inted only to die. went through your
oelllon as a nurse in the South Then
wandered fIOm one place to another
u descended still lower and lower in
3 me. OU
Lutte do the people who give me
ut for my poor organ music think that
ce was belle o: the old worlds No
ny; that l danced with Kings and
~ the blood of Vasa is running In