The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-18
WHERE /
FOUND HER
By WILLIAM r. KING
Copyright. 1910 BY American PRESS
Association
b wILLIAM r. KINc


stantly being enacted ia ereaf iii,
And the ups and downs there arel
Walk along an Important thoronqhfsre
and suddenly YOU come upon wed.
ding party just entering or Just coming
out Of church Proceed i little far.
Their and you sec a crowd gathered
about en- auto. A child has been run
over and killed stin fnrthor you meet
starving mother with sichy babe
IN her arms. A nurse trundling child
dressed IN embroidered and lace gar
ments turns the peFambulator for fear
her charge will be contaminated.
One bright moonlight night / was
walking over bridge. The scene was
pleasing, and paused and leaned over
the rail 10 enjoy it. How ine it IS
remarked to myself. ito live IN a
cityl BY day there Is the excitement
Of people and vehicles passing aud re.
passing, the hum Of business and pleas
ure; By night myriads Of lights, with
occasionally the one great night lamp
Of heaven 20 illumine the whole"
Suddenly 70 my left down on the
water / heard a splash A moment
later human figure came to the sur
face and went down again. A boat
shot under an arch, and q man in It
dived and brought up woman. and the
two we're hauled into the boat A po-
lioeman ordered the boatman to pull
ashore. While they were doing SO
went TO where he was standing.
"What were you doingfr asked the
policeman Of the girl, who BY this time
showed signs Of life.
Il wanted to die. why didn't you
let me alonew
What's the matterT'
mo home, nothing to do to earn
living, tired and hcartsick"
well. you'll have to come along
with me to answer TO a charge Of sui
eide"
Policeman 1 said, twill you Let me
provide carriage2"
Il can call the patrol wagon"
An empty carriage was passing.
hailed It, and the policeman, the girl
and got in and were driven to the
police station.
must pause here In my story to tell
what l afterward learned Of the girls
history. Some twenty years before
one passing up one Of the fashionable
streets Of the city on a certain day and
hour would have seen a party emery
ing from a church A young bride and
groom were starting in life with every
prospect of happiness. The gro0m's
father was head Of a large business.
md the son had been made a junior
partner on the day Of his marriage.
A little girl was born to the couple,
and she was taken to church bundled
In embroidered aud lace garments. like
the child In the perambulator / have
referred to. that she might be baptized
Then in a handsome stone residence
there was a christening feast, with a
millionaire for godfather.
That was the year before the great
panic Of '73, when one morning It was
announced that great business house
had failed and down went the other
concerns like card houses. The father
and son Of this story fell with the rest, /
the father dying Of disappointment and /
wounded pride. The clothing Of the
baby girl from that moment began to
grow plain, then dingy. Her father
died, and her mother lived in want
The child grew to womanhood with no
remembrance Of her baby clothes
When her sun arose the sun Of her
family set Then her mother died |
The girl went from place to place
begging for situation, but nobody /
wanted her Then one night she stood /
on the bridge. The waters below said /
Come, / will give you rest
The morning after the attempted I
suicide went to the courtroom where
the good and the bad. the unfortune
and the unregenerate, were brought up
before magistrate In her turn the
girl was led in and placed in the dock.
She had no defense She simply said
that she had got discouraged, and,
passing over the bridge on her way to
her dingy room which she had been
notifed she must Leave on the morrow,
she had looked out on the brilliant
scene. then down on the water. and
she could not resist the call to oblivion
The downward slide in life though
ii had marrad, had not destroyed her
comeIiness There was evidence Of an
Inherited refinement both In person
and bearing.
Suddenly member of the police
court arose and said that There was q
young man present who would marry
the gsrl ii she were willing He was
produced. The girl looked at him, then
laRguidly gave her consent, What
could she do?
Judge ! said, rising, IF you VIII
send the girl to some home where she
win be protected win interest myself
Ia her"
The Judge asked the girl which plan
she would prefer. and she chose my
plan. She was sent to a home for IN
digent girls. and soon afterward
called upon the matron and got her
charges story as have given It here
looked up d few Of those who had
known her parents, but found there
was no one to lake an interest II her
Some were dead, some we're very poor,
and the children Of those who had kept
in touch with the upper stratum had no
use for the children OF those who had
gone down. What was to be done for
her / must do myself | followed the +
axarsnln az The Young man who had