The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-07-12
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A PATHETIC STORY.

Out in Elmwood cemeterv L. Oh
suburbs of Kansas City Die buried, il
a new made grave, the remains Of +;
once comely and artless young lady
No marble slab or monument stand,
above her resting place, and neyel
will. Only the weeds and grass o.
coming years will mark the spot. NJ
stranger carelessly passing by will cve'
know her name or whence she came
and her misfortunes and misdeed,
viii be forever yelled in secrecy. The
story OF 'Oslcr Joe and Annie Smith is
not more pathetic than the romano
of this young lady's life. She was
reared in one Of the wealthicst homes
in western Missouri and enjoyed in
early glrlhood those luXurles which
money alone can provide. In SOCIETY
she moved as a queen, honored by all.
No ball was given without her pres
ence. Everywhere she was a fayorite.
Young men OF rank sought her hand.
not for the gold that might some day
be hers, but for the overwhelming de-
light Of sharing in the sunshine of her
countenance. She possessed an ar
dent love for the stage, but was COM
PEELED to abandon all thought of en-
tering upon such a career because of
the furious dislike her mother cher
ished for the theater. BY reading
history and books of travel and art
she had formed a pronounced desire
to go abroad, but her father rebelled
against this idea and declared that
she was yet too young to leave the do
nestle shrine and babe her be con
tented with the many Injuries Of
their wealthy home. But this she
could not do. She had plead with her
father and mother in vain to have her
way. They had repulsed her at every
turn, not in unkindness nor in wrath,
but because they did not seem to
share in the disposition that charac-
tcrized her being.
One July night five years and more
ago she left home, and on the follow
ing morning there gathered in that
rich mans house which remains until
now, growing darker and denser
every time the name Of Jennie is
whispered. No trace .; .,ci could be
found. She tiuded the most search
i"c scrutiny OF every detective who
sought to find her out and restore her
to her anxious parents. Five years
passed and during that period she was
as one dead, for none knew whether
she had gone Or what her fate might
have been. The mother had fretted
herself almost into idiocy while think
ing Of her lost daughter and wrinkles
of care had distorted the fathers face. |
Under an assumed name Jennie had
Travelled thro' the southern and east.
ern States and visited most of the
large cities. How did she journey
from place to place without money
and alone in the world? All. it is the
same sad story, and the once fair
daughter Of a rich mans home was a
wrecked and ruined woman. Lustiul
men of wealth and station were now
her companions, and down, down she
descended into the oblivion of shame.
till her beauty left her, as the fra
GRANGE leaves a whitening flower. She
went back to Kansas City only a few
weeks since, and having nowhere else
to 60 she went to live in a namclesS
place on the north side. But sickness
came, and when she was told that in
a few more hours she must die, then,
in that last iitful season Of conscious
ness, she related the history of her
life and begged that her father and
mother be summoned to her bedside. |
1t was done, but when they gathered
around her she was dead. Thus end
ed the career Of Jennie.
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