The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-28

away. When I told mother that she had
succeeded in driving me away from home
her reply was: What il you do. People
will say you went away once before.
You will be blamed. Noone else.
She knew by the world l would have been
blamed. But 1 trusted in God. Where
was hes
NOT TRAINED FOR sELF-sUPPoRT.
81 had never been trained for self-sup-
port. \ ears before when | had begged TO
be taught bookkeeping was opposed, say
ing l should never have TO work as long as
my brothers lived; SO for seven years l did
what | could find to do having no choice
in the matter, uncongeuial work,
all Of it, but l was paid rather
minded, for was at least
independent, but the all sorts and condi-
tlons of men that was necessarily thrown
with, the close contact with the seamY side
OF life, l who had been so seduously at
tended, so tenderly cared for and indulged
during my dear fathers life. 1t is a crime
for girl not to be taught a supporting pro-
fesslon. She needs 1t more than boy, and
yet she is neglected and the boy receives
every training. During these seven years
Allie frequently wrote me asking me 60
come home"
| RETURNED TO NURSE HER sIsTER-IN-LAw.
Finally, when Irene, the wife Of Allie. or
A. w. Force, was on her death-bed, the
sister listened to the eutreaties of her
| brother and returned home TO nurse her
| The illness of her sister-in-law is described
graphically, the writer detailing the rawlings
OF the dying woman, who accused her hus-
| band of being hypocrtte and villain cspa-
BILE of any cruelty.
A second time she began life with her
| family, taking embroidery. The old trouble
which she had gone out in the world seven
hot m aH aK,A -,
| bad temper and bad treatment Of her sis
| ters, with the mothers prejudice and the
! indifference OF her brothers, Increased She
| discontinued taking her meals with the
| family, eating in her room, or after the
others had left the table. One morning,
| however. she met Florence In the dining
| room and a quarrel ensued, because she
says, Florence demonstrated with her be-
cause she threw some crumbs out of the
window.
AGAIN THOUGHT OF LEAVING.
After this the thought of again going out
to make her own living came to her, but
she reflected. Remember that | have
twice essayed to do it--one in comparative
| youth and again later 1t is true that l
| seemed to succeed pretty well for an un-
! trained woman, but who will ever know
| how hard the struggle was, what despairing
| loneliness endured and often how evil was
the life around me. Many working woman
| will corroborate what | hint at in their
hearts. l. who had rarely ever heard an
OATH was surrounded by cursinR men and
women. l, who had been guarded so care
| fully, saw all the depths of vice. l was 40
| years old before | had ever bought ticket
, for a railroad journey. Could you expect
| helpless woman like that being plundered
| and imposed on? Then think how long one
has to wait for employment, even when
young. All vacancies, even the lowliest, have
hundreds, if not thousands of applicants
Think how many ydisappointments there are
and how long the waiting time is while the
purse grows thinner and thinner and the
necessity for WORK greater and greater.
have been through 1t all, though my pride
| has much of it, and now at 45 feeling in
brain and muscle the fearfully wearing re-
suit of the struggle, who wishes me? What
can I do' thought l might olothe myself
by my embroidery-but how ftful is the
| work.
ALLEGED ABUSE BY HER BROTHERS.
1.-THE night of the day In which Florence
and l had an outbreak Allie aud George
came into my room and heaped every fn-
suit that cowardly bullies and brutal men
| could heap upon woman. George, spring.
ing from his seat, shook his fist at me and
clinched his hands, saying: 'T'Il drive you
| out of the house, madam, I'll drive you out
of the house. I win say further that you
made q convenience Of my wifes illness to
get back into the home Was there ever
anything more dasterdly9 There was his
letter begging. me to tell him. If
l knew OF anything to help
Irene; Why, just at the close of
| her life, when, indeed, living was impos-
sible to her, did he become so solicitous of
her condition and 80 attentive to her wants
| she who had been neglected and bullied by
| him fOI years. Was it remorse? Then
there was his immediate reply to my propo-
sition to come home and nurse her. Re-
membering his grief during his visit to me
| in the summer and his earnest request for
me to come home led me 10 make the propo-
sition; and there was his invitation to come
| home, given not once, but number Of times
and yet had made a convenience of his
! wife's illness to get back home. Why did
| not leave the home2 Because l had re-
solved when / determined to accept Allies
| promise of projection and came home that
the women Of the family should never,
under any provocation, drive me from my
| home again. 1t was as much my home as
| theirs, and though Allie and George were
none the less culpable in their brutality and
cowardly bullying knew it was the women
of the family who had driven them to it.
for l had frequently heard both Florence
and Minnie urge mother to tell Allie and
! George of every evil thing that had been
said or done during the day"
THE FINAL PROvoCATIoN.
Another quarrel then occurred, evidently,
| only a few days before the tragedy, in
which the mother is accused Of having
wrongfully shielded Florence julia mad
dened beyond control. roughly pushed her
mother against table. Minnie would not
side with her and so was considered the
enemy also Of the unfortunate writer. Dur
! ing this state of affairs Julia called at
Highs dry goods store one day last week
and purchased some goods on her brothers
account Minnie, at the direction of her
! brother, called at that store and requested
that Julia be sold no more goods on credit.
| High & Co. at once sent q letter to Miss
Julia notifying her of this action by her
! brother.
At the bottom OF the manuscripts this let
ter is attached. Then the following closes
| the statement, which is signed In clear,
rather masculine hand: at is enough. I
have borne all / can bear. May God
ayenge-and for every insult aud mOrtifica-
tion which has been given me, heap a
| crushing weight of insult, modification and
| suffering, moral and physical, upon the
heads of those scoundrels, traitors and cow-
ards, G. H. and A. W. Force. ., my
! father, help your child"
a Revenue Cutter Sunk.