Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-02-11

, stIttt liiC ts4A vi a S'-
bore away 10 his hillion-peopled
realm the form Of Alice Hewlett.
| Death was the end desired aud
laudanum in quantity was the
means To the end.
That evening at the Ferris Grand
Onera House Miss Hewlett, OF
Charleston. Mo, sat among her
scIlool-mates and clapped her hands
time and again. Daring the inter
missions her conversation was full
of brilliant wit and repartee and to
all she appeared perfectly happy
perhaps she was, in the knowledge
that she would soon bid adieu 70 all
her girlish troubles and school girl
perplexities. At 1880 O'Clock the
column of blue-dressed girls had
reached Hardin college and Miss
Ford, one of the teachers, stopped to
chat with Miss Hewlett in the hall.
She was in gay spirits and Miss
Ford marked it.
GIRLGsH DEVOTION.
At Is minutes to II o'clock Miss
| Hewlett and her roommate, pretty
Kitty Bates, were preparing to re-
tire; when suddenly the electric
lights in the room went out. 1t found
Miss Bates reading a chapter in her
Bible. As she read she saw Miss
Hewlett take a bottle, step to the
wash-stand. and drink from the
vial. She thought nothing CT it as
she knew Miss Hewlett had a bottle
of medicine given her by her moth
er. Miss Bates was reading when
Miss Hewlett turned and said:
"Don't read but a verse, Kitty, Let
US get to sleep" "No, I'm going
to read a chapter" and getting
matches, she held one after another
until the fame would touch her
fingers, and read by the dim light
afforded until the chapter was finish
ed. As she read the chapter, the
last chapter in the life of her friend
was being acted out. Both fell
asleep, Miss Bates in the deep sleep
of exhaustion that follows a day OF
study and an evening of amuse-
ment; Miss Hewlett in the heavy
slumber which follows the admins
tration of opium poison.
A scant half hour later Miss Birtie
Moss and her roommate, in an adj
joining room, were awakened by
labored breathing from their neigh
bors' room. They feared that al
was not right and went to investi,
gate. They could not arouse, with
the aid of Miss Bates, the girl who
was evidently in pain. The effect
had been sudden. They aroused the
g~overness, who hurried to Mrs.
Williams, wife of Prof. W. H. vii
liams, who sent off post haste fol
DR.. ". r. Rodes, who arrived al
u 80 and did all he could to arouse
the girl. Quickly following came
DR.. Landon Rodes and DIR. I. J
Basket. Miss How!ett's stomach
was emptied of its contents anc
every effort at resuscitation wa:
tired without avail. She was KEEP
l alive until 6:55 O'Clock in the morn
J ing, when her heart ceased TO heat
A LETTER TO HER MOTHER.
While the physicians, professors
and teachers were trying to find al
empty bottle from which they coul(
determine the exact nature of tn
| poison, a sealed letter addressed t.
Miss Howlett's mother, at Charles
ton, Mo-, on the line of the Irol
Mountain road, was found.
In their anxiety to learn some
thing to enlighten their efforts, tn
letter was opened and read. n,
cause for her act was given, bu
only enough to give a clue. Thi
clue the authorities at Hardin woul,
l not divulge without the parents
consent, which can not be obtaine.
+, at present. The father, who is
well-to-do business man, was motif
ed and arrived last night.
fl During this time some one foun
V a three-ounce bottle in the lowe
b drawer of the wash-stand. 1t ha
only a few drops in it, and thes
were of laudanum, The label bon
: a statement to that effect. One {
the girls glanced at the open page
the letter and read aloud the fir.
: sentence: "No doubt you will
:. surprised to learn / an now al
preaching my end" This was tc
much for their overstrained nerve
and several turned away with sob
while the letter fell to the foo
Professor Yaneey placed it in h
pocket, 1t is learned that anoth,
fragment runs thus:
81 told you when I came back
Of school after the holidays that yt
wonld never see me again. I mea
what | said. I have sent to n
ID sweetheart all of his letters al
trinkets. When | told you that "
al Laughed at me, but now you see
It. was in earnest. Be good to the re
1t of the children and my older 81
as ter Send SOMETHING IF n,;no