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Show DtSPONDf-NT AND UNHAPPY. A lertd Wife Attempt alrM ls Taking Tak-ing ttoriililne. Sr. Iit", Aug Mr Horenc. Walter James. young nu.rrie!, woman but 21 year of ae, vs ho arrived in M. Louis from her home in I'adurah. Ky , lal Sunday by rier, made a d. spert attempt at III! (Hive street, lo end lifts that, according to lo r storj, revealed re-vealed in a let'er left lo en plain Iter rash act. has been a most unhappy one. The letter. To tli Pad if k l hUrwUr.l: Aug -X. IMS) Now, fi i.-nd-and rri a-lives, a-lives, when I bade you a last good bj, I little did you Ihink that you would lead my obituary written by my own hpnd. I am not ex iled one bit I believe be-lieve there is a Ifome ia heaven for ni, tlioutfh I have lived a vtickrd and sinful sin-ful life, I know I procured thu rr. I prune under falw pr lem-es, and this I room the am lint I " (t"K to get the nest one lhat '. I mean 'beavnu I will b there this ia read. .No, friends, you thai k now tne, remember October l. le, when lleftthepleas.ini little white cottarf" that was my father farm liotisw ud my own home, and how I married that dsy. Hut since th'U my life hss been terror to rue l gave me bis hand, but he eould nl reach bis heart. l wo'ild have ifm ti roe lht. but it i I gone, atiother l d vs..u it- He could I not help it lil.iifi" bifii uot, dear friends I In. no evil feeling toward anyone in the world, and I do not think that anyone bat any evil feeling to at 4 1 me. , , ,, j (iood by little N'oa. good by, Maf-I Maf-I shall: g""l by. Iillie, K'd by. Hot. ' tert btllo l.mther . gd by Kood by, aiynd Irene, jr-Mwl by, Hon, d.f linn. K"odb). tt iltie ifo-t by. dar i IibjJ brolber I b.( when Hit t re4 i that tiiv trouble, ill s ended and J f ill ha crossed the stormy r.ver ! where J " shall met itif Trir will I I o more sorrowing there I bopst l ' rest in mother srtus, t uit her trr with but sister and hrtier. and I trust first of all that my infsnt mat di-4 at three dart obi wilf be pUcast ia t arras. I remember that one year aj on tha 2-M ol I sa towle a mother. I killed. I killed, I k.l.ed Ot bbs 0 Ibis reason. I had promised it to him audi knew that it would kill ro MJ give my husband m dear baby. I j have been trying t g t a chance to go ! and s if ever mee it died and t guea that I will to tonight. I rve it lanrt-aoutu lanrt-aoutu I only h.vl a little. Ob, if I only could h had enuusfh for u belh. to be gone together. Now d.m't grieve for aie nor shed a singb War, but one And if any of my rWativa or friends feet moved to ep. rematB-l-r thai it is iv din wi'h that they do uot grieve rW even wear tuourrtinrj for me lon t do that, there is no Us I got a place to work tbia uiortKStf at-- - - $12 a week at the house 2019 Pine street. Jly trunk will come there tomorrow or next day. I reckon my home is twonty miles north of Paducah. Send my trunk to Paduciiu. it will come to the - Union depot. Stop it there and Rend it " back to John Walters. Here is the key toitrn ihis table. For any information informa-tion about this hody send a telegram to John Walters, Paducah, Ky. My name is Florence Wallers. Since 1 took the tirst dose I have been down town to several stores and have walked around a great deal. Now I believe I will take another dose, as it is taking a little effect now. I feel a trine sleepy and a little thick-tongued, too, but 1 reckon it is just from excitement. I must not get scared, I am not dead yet. I just now told them to call mo early in the morning. My head has begun be-gun to swim a little. Good by, vain world, I am going home. Now please seal this letter and direct it to Paducah, Kv., to the Ballard & Tomson News otiice. They know my father. I leave the rest to you. VVell, mv dea friends, I have swallowed swal-lowed six large caosules full, good and full. I dou't feel it much yet. though 1 lliought just now that the end was near. Send a telegram to John Walter. It has been some little time since I took lint I don't feel it yet. This closes tho letter, hut on tho back of a receipt for $W, mado out on account ac-count of Messrs. James (ioririeu & Co., and signed by Dreyfuss & Weit, per S, Livingston, was tho following: I guess I had better go to bed. I never was happier in my life. 1 have made Peace with my God. I can hardly see-am see-am so sick at my stomach, too. Good by. At a late hour last night the woman had rallied slightly and the physicians were of the opinion that if she survived tho night there would bo a possibility of her ultimate recovery. At tho hospital, hos-pital, however, in her conscious moments, mo-ments, she averred that if she was saved this time sho would make another attempt at-tempt upon her lifo at the lirst opportunity. |