Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Far-Reaching Influence. [ARTICLE]

Far-Reaching Influence.

Kindness and sympathy are rarely wasted on the unfortunate, as the following touching story shows. A wealthy young lady, anxious to be of some use in the word, made a practice of taking flowers to women in prison. One day she encountered a particularly abandoned character, and replied to her torrent of profane abuse by handing her a white rose. As she turned away she heard one heart-breaking cry. and the voice that had breathed imprecation moaned over and over again the one word, “Mother! mother! mother!” The next week she came again. The jailer met her, saying, “That woman whom you saw last week is asking for you constantly; I never saw a woman so changed.” Soon the two were alone in the cell, and- the penitent, her head resting on the shoulder of her newfound friend, told with sobs her sad story. “ That white rose was just like one which grew by our door at home in Scotlahd, my mother’s favorite Cower. She was a good woman. My father’s character was stainless, but I broke their hegrte by my wloked ways, then drifted hpsAm erica, where I have lived a wicked life. Is it too late to mend?” And that is how. *; better' day dawaed for one erring soul. * : bo