The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-22
A LBAR FROM IlEH,
A MAYNARD DAUGHTERS HEART.
LESS INGRATITUDE.
She Leaves Heartbroken Mother and
Enters Upon Life Of Shame
in Distant City.

is the saddest we have ever been
called upon to chronicle, and is one
that cannot but appeal to the heart
of every Christian woman in chris
tendon.
1t has many counterparts in life,
and there are young girls who have
been reared in Christian homes,
surrounded by every element and
attribute of God.loving parents,
who abandon homo, friends and the
golden prospect OF eternal life, to
lead life of shame.
We have case of this kind very
near us, and to spare the feelings OF
tho parents of tho misguided girl,
we willomit names.
In cosy little homo, that nestles
at the base of ono of West Virgin.
las picturesque mountains, there
has lived ono of the faircst flowers
that the sun ever shone upon.
From infancy this daughter of a
proud and honorable race has had
no wish ungratifiod, and in pay
mont for all their tenderness and
love, broken hearted mother sits
in that home and weeps daily and
nightly in silent anguish.
She has been left TO mourn in her
declining years by the daughter she
had nurturod from infancy and had
INDUCED to the utmost that the
bright, blooming girl might develop
and expand into noble and useful
womanhood.
Out into tho world of darkness
shc has taken the leap that has en-
quilted so many unfortunatcs in the
great mnlstrom of irroclaimable
shame and degradation.
Unmindful of thos aching void,
made moro torrible by far than if
death had robbed the mother OF
her child, sho has departed, leav
ing no trace of her whereabouts
behind.
AS tho serpent cropt into the par
disc of Eden, and despoiled tho
life of Eve, so did this monstrous
reptile croop into this girls homo,
and winding itself around the ton
drills of the heart, rob her life of
the peace that had beon tho bright
'oasis in her budding womanhood.
A tempting Mophistopholes, with
tongue of oily seductivoness, filled
her innocent mind with bright pic
lures of life behind tho scenes in
tho golden palaces of sin in dis
tant city.
Dazzled and blinded by tho vol
uptuous splendor, tho tempter
painted in vivid colors, she sighed
for tho unattninablc. Tho charms
of her homo life grew unbearable,
and her prosaic life became intol-
erablo, and she wanted to got away
from the monotonous, unchanging,
unrcalistic life and her environ
ments, and go out into tho great
world that had cast q reflection Of
its brilliancy over the towering
mountains down into her beautiful
paradise.
She had an elegant home, sur
rounded with every luxury and
pleasure that money and devoted
parents could find to indulge her
every wish, but an insatiato longing
for other scenes occupied her mind,
and like many othors, who discover
their errors when too late, she has
gono to join the great throng OF I'M
fortunates that drink at the toun-
tain of Letho.
In the great book of life there is
daily recorded many pathetic
stories of the unfortunates who fall
by the waysidc in the shifting
drama of life.
In the great motropolises of the
world itf falls to the lot of the chroni.
clor of human events to record thom
as he finds them presented to him
in their various phases, and it is
always with a feelings of pity that
he writes the closing chapter in tho
life of some poor creature who left
her innocent childhood's homo in
somo quiet hamlet, far removed
from tho strife of metropolitan life,
to be numbered among the Gun
fortunatos." There is no kind and
friendly hand to wipe the dow OF
death from tho brow OF the dying;
no friend to recognize in tho Ioath
some figure lying in the morgue,
tho beautiful girl that came to the
city fascinated by tho tinscl and
glaro that had cast around hor life
mesh woven by a devil incarnate.
Some day this girl may come