The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-05
BEFORE THE FIRE.
A Pleasant Sketch of Love
Grown Old and
Gray.
HIGH LIFE CRIMINALIIY
Something Abont the Osborne
Casa Girls Sue
cess. D.

They sit together before the fire. They
are wrinkled and gray, and both are very
tired, writes Tom Hall in the Ledger. He
had not been successful in life. She has
not been happy. Fortune and death have
robbed them of everything that they held
dear, and have left them but the one thing
for which they do not care-life.
do you remember" he asks, "when
we were children together? We used to
play together every day, and | used to
carry your books to school and home
again. and you would save the greater
part of the sweets your mother gave you,
for me-"
Eyes, I remember" she "We
were very happy then.".
land do you remember" he continues,
"the day when we stood up together be-
fore the altar, you in vour white dress,
in nv broadcloth? Who would have
thought Their that l would not be sue
c~essful, and that you would not be happy
all your life? thought that with you by
my side I could conquer the world il 1t
were necessary"
Eyes, l remember she owe
were very happy them.
"the day we took our first child to De
baptized? We were very happy then.
and very proud. And we dreamed that
we would spend our old age in the loving
arms of our children, wealthy, honored
and loved"
Eyes, l remember" she W "We
were very happy then"
But now-now-." he says, y can
not go Oh, for there is a tear in. his eye
and a great lump in his throat.
"Now." she answers ,clasping his
withered hand lovingly in hers, Il am
life, although until but just nowI did n OF
realize it. l am very happy, bee ause
God, though He has taken everything
else from me, has left ME you."
A Criminal in High Lifo.
1t is noticeable that when Mrs. Gap
tain" Osborne, who stole the jewels of
her old friend, Mrs. Hargreaves, and. to
save herself, libeled that friend and CO M
mitted perjury to prove the libel, was
brought before the Bow Street Police
Court, in London, to answer for the per-
jury, 1.-THE sympathy Of nearly every one
present was with the prisoner ana her
husband" and even the injured woman.
Mrs. Hargreaves, stepped from the stand
after giving her testimony and showed
her kindly feeling to The culprit by Kiss
ing her in open court.
What all this appears to mean is that.
on account of Mrs. Osborne's rank in So
ciety, po'effort will be spared to save her
from the punishment she has earned by
theft, libel and lying. OF course. it is n
very sad case,p and presumably the two
last mentioned crimes were the natural
sequence of the first, committed to con-
ceal the first. But If a poor servant girl
were in her place how much of this
maudlin sentiment would be exhibited
for the purpose of softening her punish
ment or re- Chewing her altogether from il?
1t is we'll, at all times. that we should
let ENERGY season Justice" but as matter
of fact it is wrong to apply that beautiful
principle in one case and set it aside III
another, and it is particularly wrong to
treat a criminal of the parlor any differ
emily from the criminal of the kitchen:
except, perhaps. that the former should
be judged the more severely because of
the circumstances of her life that lift her
above the temptation that may be spread
tor the her.-Brooklpn Citizen.