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Show A DANCEROUS DEN. The Council Bluffs Nonpar iel publishes pub-lishes the story of a poor ruined girl who had been arrested by the marshal of that city. We quot9 from her statement: "I will be seventeen years of ago on the 9th day of next April;- was first induced to leave my home by a fortune teller named Mrs. Swartz, who lives on Eleventh street in Omaha, between be-tween Dodge and Douglas streets; I went to have my fortune told, and she prevailed on me to remain with her instead of returning to my mother; afterwards I learned that she com-: bined the business of procuress for UniwoB r.f ilLfumfl with that, nf i-onrl. ing the future, and that she had inveigled in-veigled me into her not for the pur ! poso of ruining me; I am confident that she has been instrumental in enticing en-ticing many others beside myself from the path of rectitude. When I learned the true character of the place I was ashamed to return homo, and therefore remained with her until un-til my mother came for me, which she did at the expiration of a week. I gladly consented to return home with her if she would forgive and forget the past. After going home I was very contented until the neighbors commenced to 'cast up' to me that I had been in a house of ill-fame; I bore their taunts as long as I could, and then resolved on flight. Where to go I did not know I thought only of escaping tho reproaches cast upon me." |