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Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

NDt gputbef / Spenbbors. Otter
5OrlpoenOe ital SuititSminiiteriet babe
bifaloet, at Der oprettes ct npt Npotbet
/ SuenobOrs paa en- 8labs, iOm nars
mere approberes al Minliteriet.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

n,n,ro-Gipsiosbanen. Otter
rr,rs Qebat bspilsebe 3snss
|. oommunebenprelie forleSsn meo
10 Stemmer 100000 Sir. til
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Ja~rNfirlu. Bergen, 50te Sanaar.
H'''aa iraitiot SOrbfialu bar fun
ct'o iaarcI Der / Spen Tom inbe
I''S'Hs Girsous slitsn 81. libt pper
zen Sbieruation Der | 8pen pps
w ElOen til 1887. &pItelien be-
'RSi' nsO 8ientusne Gpt iom at tun'
eIaG sIterinl8t Of en- lansparis
Of Iette @ienItanbe.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Npt Ifticielfab. Sliemsuer Gar

Ngt Ifticfclfab. Sliemsuer Carl
Yetsrisns Sabriier paa 2ansbDuei er
bisie Gage fisbt al Gttieis.ifabet Spers
sabens Sabeipoeri % Sbenie Ollie
msle i Sbenie. 8esse 5abriter oil
fremtiois blipe breune unber ct al ct
mt GftieielItab, buis Sfiier | en- NOR
ssremtib pil blipe uobubte / Sbenie %
Gipbenbaun.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

ulBftestilfrlbe. Walermsfter gebs
renoien bleD nplis ilemt forbrGnbt i
Sooluno Src,. iaa ban ienere er afs
saaet peb 9soen paa spsebuiet i 9ss
aumflpiter.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Slbebranb. Iabenran, 1Sbe San.
Snat neobranote 8 9aoer os Ssbuiet
ueo Serresaaroen Stenoetsaaro / Seer.
beoen al Sabesleu. &ssteren inoes
brGnote % liselebes ~ Soin. Zen
gorise gei9tnins reobeoes.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

S1Tl'OIln pcb Sintertib. ube
SsrHes, grlanbet inbtraf iorrise
|'eas ben SieIoenbeo, at ct alpprlist
[@''n's'r Gil uuer gsnen. Iaa
|'a'''H IIO0 2puet neb % iplintrebe
|'afaH8sn, Der itOo pua en- Ssi, $50
I S70sobpaninsen.
I'p'l''0sIen af @aarbens 8eboere
~ 7a'00st5 beoUpeoe, os 2ufttrpttet
! 40 lir9't, at &uberne / ilere 8ins
w IErRugtes inb.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Cben5e SOincIaateri FAR | 9larets

Sob mootaset $4,000 Soin, buorpau
cr tieut $4,000 Str. llobpttet oil efter
Iittert Gorlpoenbe blipe 10 PCT. til
Qttiunarerne FAINT poerlisere til 2cue'
ranoererne rs Gre pr. leperet Gpin.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
gas hpiere 2anbbrussfoIe. Stsr

WNH UVItle ~
Stebelen at 8eiatninsen paa Gas 9anos
bruas5fole bar peO unoeriSsslie p'it
ia at bore imittet at 2ubertulois.
Sele Sipiet er beianst meo em'tte.
Gor at iaa emitten iuloitenSis uorpo'
bet, pil bet piitnot bliue nsopenbtst at
ueoIlaate iamtlise im,ttebe 9pr, SIsln'
ficsre 5isiet 20 u~nItafie np Seiatn'ns'
iii beune 5oranitaltnins uotrGpes
boa stVrtbiusets Samtptte, bpOrfOr
ben lille oil bliue ip9rfiat, fer ben CT
bsIuttet ai Sturtbinset.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Mgrar' gepGgelien. ellen, lite
Sebruar. s Glerpeus .9anbboforenins
bOlot Or. Bang icas 6ureoras. Otter
en- 3el 3isfusii On pebtOs ben pGisnts
Zig al @aarbbru9ere b~eitaaenbe 5Ur.
iamling &eiUluttOn ont, at Wielems
rlsslupen bgr Opbaoes. foroi ben bar
uirtet til Sfabe for bet norite Soros
brus, ii9r peb at ben fprbinorer Npts
ten af 2anbbrusstolb | Glminoelisbeo b.
FAINT ioroi Der ialfalo life MI fan paa,
ulies nusen anben SOrm for b.ns 5or.
npelie. Der iifrer mob iauban Stabe.
~pirtning. Wtooerat geifDtteliestoIo
maa M beitemt trapes iOr ~2anobrus8s
p~rOoufter unotasen Sprn, rettet ~iaaoel
mob Suerise ium mob uOlanbet. 5Or
Sp9 til 9rpsseribrus a~nbefales en-
lempeIis 9iiferentialtOIo iats.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Gicnbomsialg. Ranbers. 30te San.
4ruprietar Ssnoersaarb bar iolst
8trtebulm, 13 9snoer Sarttorn, | Dit
Spsn til 5~uruulter 81. 8eterien, Girls
borg, for 93,25O &r. geiatnins %
Snpentar meoislaer. Spertaselien
Ter Itrar.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

efp,'at. - Oct b.'i,nOt5iFrss for etagt oa Bsns
n.r. OF mtn sI;so. euiiru sart gip,iat afgt, U,o Iss,u
ben SOts Gan. 1876 81. 4 Gitm. ,itsr0 ct 5pg,l,i, al II
Bda,. Dun bar fsot poa gaarb.n Deousmotu, Ros
/ 5latugool, ben 25o, Roo. 1925, o. ~,ft,rLabsr ia 4
Ssun,r os 8 Dstr., al, poru,. fem 5,srab,r 1ab.,
rnso mtg. TAB Os tit: forgIsHtms Be Gormauiustas Cro,
lem bIsp tall pe6 gaar.n.
gposr S~atsrtmTsH Ffpsirt.
Sisbtaus. Clayton Co., Soua.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

6o,I. - Oct 5sileuotsisrss tupsO for SEast oa
Bsuu,r, at min far, puftru o3 Dor ,lis,s, gaoosr
aun, Tearis pot aist. D.e DsOsH ben 252t 3aruar
1896 eitr Fun 3 Dasts G7attsts. pun oar fsst Often
SauoHss / GraHs.SaI. gOrs:, ben alb, Husut 1916,
SprHus 6osL.
Cite Esorssal. 6aEDSr 25orsoat.
Eulutb, Wtiun.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

8eneral Soen gasrrbera, ben i
StodbOlm / bsi Grab pupuIRre Opers
tommanoant, iplote fprleoen fit 74os
aar, @snsralen er i~remosles peo iulO
8iogr.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Seu e~leftrilfe geInsuiua | Hau

oers. &anbers, 2Soe Sanuar. 8ps
raaoet bar iaites peotaset en- &eiOlus
tion Der faitIlaar, at &ummnnens elets
triite 2~psitation ital bore fnrois til
Gfteraaret 1897.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Stor Gienoomsbanbel. Stert %
SsnOiren bar fOlst 100000 auuorut
Nlen oeo "Siooli til 8 M9ub fra @ss
berg, Smoerbo ps 8arbe for 80, 900
ar.: 10000 8r. betales tpntant.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

e. aicaaub ftriOer lite
a. han ielu bare iast. 8sstst
h, n M gpg al BAN itulOs Dars
IT,. gol oerior pGre utorrett.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
w aar gamne[ er Snoebor

k,s..o' aar 8ammel er Snssbors
E~,,' '1a''er etUser | etub. Sun
E,,., VII lite Sunuar 1891 paa
h, VraH paa Suberpen. Sun
- eHie iiOen 1866. Nu er
k D., ,%%ss'"s9enoe Us uanOsIsp. Spr
h, n, n0'' 0Ieo bun paa fin @eburtss
h :. ".S'a'sret iummen meo en- 9ats
h.. N'''erOatier Os 3atterpatters
|st, ". " 's'Tes eDn. 9aa 8iaebet
S''iaa iamlet 5 aeS.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

-,,,toriurn ps auranitalt efter
Sn,tbooe yuatantes al ct Bar
'..I,,t aerbeoen al 2iasbams
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Srnfnet. Sfrebberlarlins Grit
Nisien fra Surup er brutnet paa gans
tells Gam.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Go0SfdIo.

fsss'aIosammsIosIiss ~Hbonnsntsrs Want,
Tier opiaess GRATIS. BOG tau pt lite ate
Diaos Tor Dc aImInosItas LANCE a%sfHssIisr,
Der iaa eoot fan irsmisrss priuat baaos til
prafsr. PabcsS % SIaetninssr. Roe gsrs.
oa AnnttIoeiier AZ mere sno %aimtnosIis
esnses. naa betaIsA 6 Gents pr. etnis. 81
iornsfattsr. at @nbosr, iom inoisnoss . sos
'aissanmsisslisr. iaisr stsis siniss % rsttss
fa etrsitsr.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

SraHo | @eIOre. Den 27be San.
FInINNas OeO 9s5ibeu ppitoo 8ranb
b SaarNsn 9uubers i gelore. gn
E3rIns, bpori 9aape, Stalb % SIPS.
F5EsnSts. Otter Surlpoenoe inbes
|'HSts en- Girls % nusle SSns. Wan
Ffs, Of 8ranosn er bepirfet peo en-
tmt,
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

|5orbtNrst glagaF ngeuGr. SGrIs'
(tr y. Gduu Ueo 9ariens Saabens
Fyaains FAR , oisie 9ase iaaet 9a'
! Yaa en- bstDOslis Sorbeorins al
| uoIj8ere upiuuoue MasaiinriHe.
/ rqe Mu9aiinsspar er | lin Sons
|4hlpn entlere snb ipr.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
9 II III art.

Set banffe Statsbubset piier en-
Suot9st af 674 % en- ubsift Of &C
WtiQipner 3r.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Selobrgaup. 5orpa9ter g. 8bis
liplen % Suitru paa Npbsl Mart bar
ferret beres Gglpbrpqup.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
%5nlOmegtiger.

Gsipurne %5ulOmastiger. Gano.
q. Suuien CT blepen 5nlb mastis
9giu8eO 2arien / 6lettefioro.
rs. jur. G. 81. @ielsoluIti hos Obs
It aRbersM Obu / 3rifiania %
Nd. iar. &. 3atObien hos SOrenfri'
2tesl paa Toteu.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Yluoielig Sch. Ralermeiter So
tumien ai gitre Iablins Tom iorleben
siteu / M~srtuinsen bjem fra en- Eur
til &irfebp. Otter SiemfOmiten. me.
oens ban fab Os brat en- &Op 9be msb
en- anoen Maler, ialbt ban neb al Stu.
len os par bsb, rant Of ct Sierte flag.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
SpnoeriDuauo.

SlDlps. Gaarbmanb g. Ssrsens
lens Gienppm / 9opbolbt er nsbs
br9nbt.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

10000 Offers er Der fanset /
9lmiiOroen / ben fsrite Suluoel al De-
cember Mdaueb.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

|. 7eSe FriUes: Man sr per
90 9onnslien al ct aftieielitao
.,,.ri, al Ell Irjuatbant.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Spcrige.

llpIala l%lniperFtct. Iii 8rofes.
ior | 8atboIo9i peO llnjoeritet / Ups
iala bar &onsen uonaput Or. meo.
s. @. Gunob,re.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

, Wars 9nbiIanrr. sarsr T. =.
sTisnOalen ieirsDe fOrleoen fit
w., enbitrum iOm aarer Os i'm
.,;,, TpoIclsods.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

\ sym I Nanneitab. Spm ct iiel.
~ s''lRI0e paa bisie 8anter ian
''s' ct Der er feet fertile SpOr
"~ ~Sl'rn-eiter Sporene at bpm.
IT,. "'aol0rn, - Der bar pasieret
'n $abberuoiaters Gienbpm i
1, .''a0 % Inn nUsle iaa etribt fra
-, y'o' Sniebpsuinser. Den er
e'r,. "oF0''9 Setnins mob Surbalen.
'''''e Oar lat eiter uonrst.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
SposiaIb. gehprersn Of etraion.

Seosialb. geitprersn Of etraion.
italternss Jalesuoials, Snspalb gue,
er a%fsaaet peo 2goen ben 26oc Sanuar.
San aniattes iom gsfitent hos 9uat.
buIets &esuitabsfsrer i December
1872, blep unoerinipettgr oeb 9uat.
bulet 1878 % har inbebait fin iioite
Stluins iioen 1890. aiosoe, Der ioa.
leOes bar p9ret / straIanitalternes
2leneIte | % gar, bar meo iieloen
Ellgttroifab % Sumpittisbeosiulobeb
uofgrt lin @iernius ps paa @runo al
lin Glifuaroisbeo parst atminoelia az
bObt inoen fin girtetreos.
- G%aarobruser Senrit Mpseib er
afsaaet peo 9poen.
San os Saptein aroe bar be, Der
tsrit frembOlbt &rapet ON Sernbane
til S%etersoalen.
- @rosierer W. O. WpnIen /
S%taoanser er bsS, SO Oar. Sun par
oitere 8alsmano % Reolem Of &pms
muneitpret.
- Sfibsferer. z. s. Snritisn
grepif er bso sc gar. San brep i
Here Iar betpoeliat stibsreoeri.
Sperlase peo ct. Slais Dab O.
Sietri6iOn er afsaaet peo 3poen eiter
ct fort Spseleie / en- gloer al SO gar.
Den Iiosbe bar alminbelis astet %
afbolot inoen lit 9iitritt. San baobe
Ell flor Eraris ps panbt operalt peb fit
~elitperoise S9ien mango 9enner.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

". Wortenien & Co., 40 g.
ainsie ctr, Chicago, Su., ial8er
Jrl.8iustter pua ale 2tnjer til biltsIts
8ltier.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

o,rgmono / Sfaate er al
J brit,ttet Serreosfas isrsr
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

&pmmnneoalg. 9bronobiem, Site
Sannar. @eo Suppleantualset ibas
paa ct Reblem al Sormanofnbet pau
Sruno af 8antoiretter 8omboffs 5ras
uar paa S~tortbiuset, ppitiaer Ssire
insen i9rlis 8anoibat, men atcepterer
ben al 8enitre iiior peo famine 9lnlebs
ming palste Irfiteft Sulbers.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
81 E..

R,ousbal G. 5ioislano er
Fts. s;rfeinnser peo Suslanp.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Gilialae cucr tincic-

SmeosiHop % NlaitRUertte0, 3Ox7O
700 mieo en- I%ibplHIUq lsxiO ZOO. mso
3ompmn'tIue, 8rstsgbPu' for ,J,ru o,
2riVbdHliHcr % ale aHbre 5laas NeoIaber'
lom tnoes : en- igyiis Ridsics 5boy. chi.
9cS eucr bortIetgs meO eler uorr TaIinsri
o. Hteolta.er. Tor HRrmerc rBlnsr,ra
lttio III Y. 81. Ciion, Tccorlh 90ul. 23rt
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

s Sol / Saliusoal er Der bannet
en- 2unobOiurenins. Der allerebe bar
punoet aoittais GilIutnins. Ser er
me9en Snteresie for 9anobuuaieuet
oerpppe.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Nnfcs. -ROrit QOttOr suites, ooO
Vocation. Ytnu heu0enOsr fla III
.Aecora5"4 ofen"s Reoaltlou uaOcr Rr .
Jet "Im9gft".
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Sonoerbprg ganf.

sonoerbOrg ganf. 5lensbor9.
Site Sanuar. 9ioligere SrOturiit i
ben faaerebe SsnosrbOrs Saut 1bies.
fen er ibas peo fsrite Straffetammer
frifieuot for 8ebraseri. S~tatsabpos
faten buuoe forslaaet ct Gars Sensiel.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
SAT- o m.
tttialaS eatr tiaeie.

StlalgS.-Gu itsrre Gteroom ,
Aecor1b: 7 yotttE g]a1riuqgbus mso
~ SGreiler, Stab meO HUM for "a 1cit,
% = Nigr, 9oot belrllrHoc % itlet for
phlInee. AIt I coo Gr0cU. SrlaeB paa
9ooe StI'aaI. ON oaHoel tan Re uosu 2 3
9taaneosr. GrpcoIttoueu nr0tcr. 2Ibg
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

Hn'fes. -GH GlsU Ueo Qut6er Sol,
~ Ie9e pnltcr at iaa orbeioe for Boaroer
alenHem Saartcrmtnen. grveOtioner an,
ulicr. oir5
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
streo openIor eulpuru. Ct ,tyrre

INV UVtHTUl Vt NUIEt
Streo Git forleoen uper en- Of Solpprns
spre 8aaroe. Sten os Serb rni,bs
uo. Sfloe auretteoss life, ioet Strebet
pas Isreoe be i Narbeoen p1renoe
@daroe o9 git iorbi bisie uoen at
ramme no9en al benz.
5 Sinoaas git Der osiaa uplis ct
iuart Streo. SeIer life Der tog bet
Solt eaer Suie meo iia.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21
Gleftricitetsugrf / geraell.

GleftrieitetspGrf / gergeu. 8ers
gen, 30te Sauuar. 5Ormano 1tabst ueos
latte isaar' en- &Omite, blauot bpis
WteSlemmer er 8orsermeiteren %
"Opens Sroisrer, til at uoreoe Gpsrgss
rtnalet ON Gnles al @Iettricitetsu9rf
fOr &Ommunens &esnins us i 5ilfal.
be irsmtomme meo Gurllas berOm /
Here Nlternatioer.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

S7nifcs. NttlfctlCr Buites. .9en
bar 70 6drme. en- pa1 40 o. en- p1a 50
Serss. ION ieg gu'ier at irlQr, o. lea ul
td8e D2elt'llgr Tor croel ener att al Beta.
lti4eH. 81. YtOsl or, Gau Claire. Hrs.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

M%abenraa. 8unotmaser &aiiers
Sus paa Stursabe er fOrleben blepen
iOlst til 8isbmano Natban for II, 1000
Mart.
- Sfolelarer @alsntin bar iplst fit
gus TT 2smmermefter R~atbieien.
Decorah-posten., 1896-02-21

oOIuc II you have any rare American or foreign
UUlVS coins or paper money issued before 1873
-keept them and send two stamps for Illus
tfated Circular No. 20. Fortune for somebody.
NUMLSMATIC A Boston Mas. Coin Dept d. p
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

knees contemplatively and said. somewhat
to herself, Baby, If you were very sick
would not pray for you to get WELL"
Then she laughed quite merrily, touched
the baby's dimples and set it down again.
"Whose is it? It's the child of rescue
girl. The rescue girl is upstairs. You see
this house has several functions. There is
the shelter downstairs. There all appli-
cants come. The rescue girls are sent up
to the top floor, where they may be by
themselves. We charge them nothing. We
are only too glad to have them come here.
Then the second floor is devoted to the
care of girls who come to the City in
search of work and want cheap and safe
lodging-house. That girl who passed
through here just now is such one.
"The rescue department is sort of pro-
going to the Rescue Home at Beulah.
Oftentlmes great harm has come from
sending girls there who were really not
sincere in their wish to reform. Return
ing to their former life, they have led
away those who otherwise would have
stood firm. They profess a desire to re-
form for their own ends, some of them.
and the ends are sometimes very evil.
They have been known to 60 to Beulah,
gain ar entrance in the regular wav for
the purpose alone OF inducing the girls
there to return to their old life. Lieuten-
ant - had a case. two cases, of such
imposition. She found them in Portland /;
two pretty young girls who gave every
sign of repentance, and their rescue was
reported about as something calculated to
place two very bright diamonds in Lieu
tenant IS crown" And here the faint
glimmer of a smile came out of the brown
depths of Sergeant Carson's steady eyes
and even touched her lips.
.The girls wanted to be removed from
temptation-to get away from their asso-
Citations for time and be surrounded by
better influences. That meant Beulah, for
we have no other place for these girls on
the coast. Transportation was secured for
them, and in company of the lieutenant
herself they came down and were placed
in the home. Three days they ate, drank
and slept comfortably there, and then, in
company with two other girls whom they
had influenced. they took up lodgings on
the lower end of Ellis street. think il
WAS. Their only purpose in seeking oul
aid was to get from Portland-where they
had gone broke-to San Francisco. But
| it was the loss of the other two, who really
intended to get away from that life, that
| hurt US.
ITO prevent that sort of thing we have
set apart the rooms upstairs for the early
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

had got seated and services were about
to begin when there was a sound OF a
heavy fall at the door. l thought
somebody was throwing bricks, and
ran out. There lay Old Kate at the
foot of the stone steps insensible. She
had staggered along after the flag and
drum, but was unable to get down the
steps. / took the limp body in my arms
and carried it down into the room. What
q sight it was! 1t was raining in the street
and her clothes were wet and bedraggled.
Her hair had not been combed since she
left the prison and there was an ugly cut
on her forehead that was bleeding in a
water and held her over it while bathed
her face. Presently she came to and |
talked to her reassuringly. The cut and
the bleeding and the dirt and chill
and sickness that she must have felt were
entirely ordinary to Kate. 1t was the
other, the touch Of kindness, that to other,
better conditioned people would have
come as a matter of course In her condi-
ton, that caught Kate. She looked up at
me curiously now and then as l talked
and bathed her forehead, and after a bit
she threw back her hair from her face and
said:
"I believe you care for me-
"'Of course l do l said.
"' Do you really care what becomes of
me?'
Certainly do
"'But what could become of the likes
of me? What could do-what could you
do with mel?
"Ah! there was the rub. This shelter
had not been more than thought OF at that
time. But said: i am going to put you
on your feet-make woman of you, if you
will let me-
"She did not talk any more, but re-
manned entirely docile as though willing
to at least wait and see how the miracle
might be worked. 1 bound up her head,
gave her a comfortable place on the
benches and then went up to the street
into the air to think.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

must not lose sight of Kate, so I took her
with me. She was full of anxieties and
knew that she would have given the re-
demption I promised for one drink OF
liquor. But 1 talked to her and tried to
divert her thoughts until along in the
afternoon, when l saw her nerves were
giving way. l took her into drugstore
Later she said she wanted to get some
thing from the room she had been stop
ping at, and / said, Very well, Kate, ]
will wait here at the foot of the stairs
"'Ah! you are going to trust me alone,
then, she said.
"sWhy not?' I said. Haven't you
promised you will come with me?
"'Yes, ard I would rather die than de-
ceive you she SAID.
That is the end of the story. Old
Kate is now an honest, sober woman"
But Sergeant Carson went right along.
1.-THE doors here are open all the time,
but we have not room for the entire popu.
lace and we have to discriminate some
times. Our aim is to afford a shelter to
those seeking shelter-who may at the
time they turn to us be in need of friend
and not to set up place where the
utterly indifferent drunk may come to
sober up, get a meal and return at night
to their haunts. Our charge is 10 cents fol
a
breakfast. But to most who come here
the bath is a horror against which the
comfort of all the rest will scarcely balance.
1--WE have to be very careful with their
clothes and all that, as we have no fumi-
eating facilities as they have at the mems
shelter We also require them to do a
little work about the place before they
leave in the morning-cean up their own
room for instance. That done and breakfast
eaten they drift away.
Just then little black-eyed merry.
faced two-year.old on hands and knee:
crawled down the hall. The sergeant
stopped talking to watch its. progress. A:
it came over the threshold 1t stopped te
survey the situation, and then went in
dustriously toward the sergeant, sat dowr
and rendered to her the piece of cracker il
held.
The sergeant leaned forward, elbows
upon her knees and looked at the little
thing.
at is q GIRL" she said, and paused Ions
enough to allow that statement to stanG
distinctly by itself. Then:
"To think of the hard knocks that lie il
wait for this wee thing"
The baby made another smiling tende
of the bit of cracker, and the sergean
picked the child up and held it on he
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should drive the wagon to the Morgue OF
out to the Hall. In fact l believe they did
take it to the Morgue.
"And it was largely the fault of he1
parents" she said. "Oh, the responsibility
that mothers have. I want to get her 8
position as companion to some wealthy
person, for she is not fit for work like
some OF the others. Oh. yes, she reads
beautifully and plays like a cultivated wO
man. And yet at IA she had given hel
parents so much anxiety that they sen,
her out here. Think of that as rem edy
Her parents live in Philadelphia. They
wanted to get her away from the influence
OF some man anj there were willing rala
tives here.
"She is not child now, of course
but is still young. When they
brought her to at the hospital we took
her to the home and she seemed quite con.
tented for awhile. But as her health re-
turned she became restless and ftfuI. She
told me something of her story, but it was
the common one in her case. Absolute
willfulness, gathered. was the chief cause
She had no notion of restraint. A sug
gestion OF it on the part of the relatives tc
whom she came threw her into transport:
OF passion. Then there came a man and
he was thoroughly bad. She used to sing
song that somehow seemed peculiarly
applicable. She must have felt the song
for I have seldom heard anything thai
touched me so as her singing of tive have
our piano, you know, and she played the
accompaniment. l recall only one verse
of it:
Like young bird Just left by its mother,
Its earliest pinions to try,
Round the nest will still lingering hover,
Till its trembling wings can fly.
"I have seen all the girls go to bed crying
after hearing that song. But, recovered by
our treatment from the sudden despond-
ency that carried her body to the door oi
the Morgue she became the most cheerful
of all our girls. 1 trembled a little at the
sign. She had way, too, of looking out
of the western window that did not like.
Zone day man in a buggy-drunk and
swearing-drove down the road past the
home. Just in front of the gate his horse
became fractions and the man more and
more profane. He struck the horse and
it made lunge side ways and the man fell
out.
81 ran into the road as a passer- by
caught the horse. With a crushed hat
and torn clothes, and bleeding from cut
on the face, the driver climbed back into
the buggy took the reins, struck the horse
and drove wildly away.
''The girl am telling you of saw the in
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"She was on the Barbary Coast and was
a soldier attached to the corps at the Sal
vation Dive on Kearny street. l met her
often on the street, and, ah she was
disreputable Kate-filthy in her person
and her language. You know we have
regular visitors to the jails and prisons. |
was assigned to the branch County Jail,
and there L met Kate on a better footing
than l ever had before. She was sober
and could understand what 1 said. l sat
with and talked to her. 1 said: Kate. bear
this in mind l am your friend. There is
Of your life in this place. When you get
out this time come to me. l want TO help
you; | am your friend
''She said she would but / was sure she
wouldn't. There was that little incredu-
lous glimmer III the eye that speaks Of
unbelief. | did not leave her at that, but
every time l visited the prison | talked to
her, for she seemed at least well pleased at
, my attention. Her time expired and she
went back to Barbary Coast. Where
would she go? What can they do? Their
old habits and associations are strong
upon them. Set down in the streets by
the prison van, they know they are marked.
There is the prison look about them, and
they turn, with hardened, hopeless faces,
back to their haunts and into hiding until,
as l said emboldened by whisky, to take
their chances with the police again.
Kate had forgotten all about me, I am
sure, until this period returned to her.
People criticize our methods. Well, never
mind that. We were holding our services
on the street, corner of Pine and Kearny,
a week or so after that, and were about to
take up our march to the meeting hall
down in the basement, you know, called
the Dive. The bass drum had been struck
TO give US the step, when the captain, as
he tells me, was impelled as though some
one had whispered TO him, to ask me to
sing. He stopped the march and l sang
alone 4 Know That My Redeemer
Liveth.'
''At that moment old Kate stag