Show INTERIOR OF A SOUL Notes From Private Diary of Aurora Hodge NO 1 FIRST ALL MY LIFE Unfortunata Woman Gives the Key to Her Character I I Whiled Away Many Tedious Hours in I the County Jail Writing Poetry Her Funeral Today Oct LI am 19 years old today and cannot think of n single act of goodness or unsLlltalmesK that I have done 1 mean C real downwright good or unselfish thins Its been No 1 first all my life These words occur In a little notebook note-book or diary kept l > y Aurora nudge and found after her death among her effects at the county Jai A thousand sermons could hot convey n more needful need-ful lesson After reading her confession one no longer wonders that the young woman found life a mockery and death her only refuge All the acts concerning Mrs Hodges life which have come to the public since the shot William X Ryan while camping camp-ing out with him near Murray tend to show that she did herself no injustice when she penned the above lines I they do no credit to her character they at least prove that she had a icmarkn bly strong and clear mind Not OUP woman or man either in t thousand can so pitilessly analyze her own nature and so frankly give the verdict Other comment written in the same O book Indicate that Mrs Ilodgo had as clear perceptions of others ns of hercolf She gives a keen analysis of the trails I and peculiarities cC some of her fellow prisoners Speaking in one place of the CrJttemon Home at Ojfden sac writes The president of this charity humbug was a lady alright enough to her equals but what was she to those beneath her As long as they bended the knee to her It was all very well but let them resent being termed as the dirt beneath her feeL Then my lady boss tightened the reins Her husband Is small perhaps that is tho reason she was bossy Written on a single loose heet probably prob-ably Just before she went to the hospital hospi-tal were the words Mr Emery Thank you very much for your kindness Occasionally he I little prisoner tried hrr hand at original poetry which If it Is not worth much as poetry at least shows that she was gifted with Imagination Imagi-nation and cherished aspirations whbh under other circumstances might have redeemed her from her baser sell Here Is I one attempt = MOONLIGHT OVER SALT IAKE Serene and still the stately splendor shows down thin desert waste unto mine eyes A subtle solace lo my sorrows sighs Those blessed beams that bid my heart repose Fair moon 1 perfect beauty ever shown Within thy gentle glamor ever lies The dearest charm that decks the sunless sun-less skies Nor heaven nor earth a boon more lovely love-ly knows Oh moon whose lambent wry so graces nl ht I Oh golden golden orb of holy light I know thy truth despite my living breath Yes strife thou art dead beyond the toll and Thy glory shlnos the lesson of all life The joy supiemo the splendid peace of death This is i another AD FINUM THE END Oh Mother Earth Upon thy lap they weary ones receiving And oer them silent as a dream thy srasy mantle weaving Fold softly In thy long embrace that heart so worn and broken And cool its pulse of lire beneath the shadows shad-ows old and oaken Shut out from her the bitter word and serpent hiss of acornlntTf Nor let the otorma of yesterday disturb her quiet morning This effort IB I entitled Prison Thoughts CaGed In 1 prison cell How sad yet true Doos the line heart bring former scenes to view Till driven the wrecked mind with bitter frenzy Maligns the Just decrees of man and heaven The grated bars nnd ironatjiddod door The cold bare walls and chilly pavement hoot 1001 Tho hammock table stool and pious book Forced back tho maddened thoughts to other days 11 When joyous youth was crowned with hOII rut days The following fugitive hines arc doubtless doubt-less more or less biographical I have bet a rover ever since f child Two months at this place one day that Sometimes the Host sometimes oer tho Western wild Its been homo to me wherever I hung my t Still you will find my life has been Except these few months pastAs past-As free from worry as from sin Just a Dimple careless rover to the last Under the tills Dictionary occur there quotations Greater love has no man than he who gives up his life for n friend Another poem without title follows Lest night dear as 1 lay aluoplng Something Into the room came creeping Then you came to the side of my bed And laid your lingers on my forehead I started wnkc and stared at you Your dark eyes gleamed as they used to do For n mlnuto there you stood An if you were made of wood Then you said very softly Como Roy at once with me I rose to follow you glided to the door I awoke then a dream and nothing more Thin other place cannot be so bad Since you = can como here I So hold your Iorais lad I i And I will ba with you there i This note was probably Jotted down while the author was being annoyed by visitors I wish I had some snowballs then there would be some fun with these very ctiriouls people The note book I with Mrn Hodges other belongings were shipped last night to her brother in Iowa AH that Is 1 mortal of the unhappy girl will be aid to rest in I Olivet cemetery this morning The funeral Is to be held at 1030 from Evanss undertaking parlors I Nor lot the stormn of yesterday Disturb her quiet morning |