Show A BROKEN MART hun A drw no ay iy york mother dies or of urh Grit fuler f 0 fr her bad boy yenip at to 10 lue t that at human depravity 1 is largely on the increase rvin A physician ician of my a day or two ago made roe me acquainted quI quain tinted ted with a peculiarly sad bad case in point he ire was just lak making out a it certificate of death of a woman who had expired that morning when I 1 dropped in at his office here is a case said he lie which involuntarily makes an advocate of the whipping post this woman literally died lied of what is ordinarily called a broken heart she was a it widow had bad a little money and a son of twenty two on an whom she doted the boy was sent to good schools but almost from infancy ephe up he showed every evidence of thorough badness at fourteen I 1 he n e be began an to steal and though frequently detected and punished shed he finished funi kept up the practice it t must have cost his mother thousands thousand of dollars to pay the people who had been victimized by him the value odthe of the goods stolen in order to save him from prison r ion finally he be committed abec a peculiarly u I 1 ia aggravated crime and was sent to prison tor for two years ilia his time expired on the day before christmas the poor mother had bad been seized with a heavy cold and of course took a EL fever for days before his arrival she spoke of nothing but her boy she had his picture near her and she silo scarcely spoke of anything but the near arrival of her darling on oil christ anas evo eve he arrived she heard hia his footstep and she became radiant the nurse in order not riot to be embarrassing barr assing at netho the meeting of ofin mother and EOD son left the room when elio sho heard the knock at the door half an hour later sho silo heard the eon son descending sc cen ding tho to stairs sho she entered the th room and there to her amazes amaze trient lay the poor woman stiff as if in a trance eyes wide open and glassy and breathing heavily restoratives Restora tives were applied and I 1 i waa was sum summoned moved she site finally revived v the tile first words she said were to ask the nurse to awk under her pillow to sec see whether which she had concealed there were untouched they were gone the poor woman wept in ili a manner to break brcak ones heart dont do anything to him silo pleaded when the farat paroxysm of grief r i c f was over her plea was too late pa t e holevar ho hol nevar vever the neighbors had sent for a police man and he lie had discovered tho the villain of a son in a neighboring saloon just receiving the change is out of a five dollar dellar bill which he 9 a had laid down to pay for a drink ho ile took tho the lad in custody and the balanc cof of the money was found in his pocket he ile was promptly cent sent back to prison the mother never recovered the shock ancher and her last moments were devoted to her boy they wanted to take ili his s picture away from her but she n never ever left it out of other her handa hands and she died with it on the pillow beside her |