People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — A MODERN SAPPHO. [ARTICLE]

A MODERN SAPPHO.

She .Jumped From a Tall Cliff to End Her . ifo’s Woes. Some few days ago, writes an O iessa correspondent a young and pretty and elegantly attired girl of about 17 years of age, named Anna Popova, engaged a boatman at tho Gralfslti landing stage at Sebastopol to take her to the monastery at ln..ermann. On alighting at tho rocky stairway leading up to the monastery the girl gave the boatman a pourboire'of 10 copecks, promising to send out oy a servant the 80 cop 'cks for her fare. The boatman waited from 11 o’clock until noon, and was going ashore to inquire for his passenger, when she suddenly appear at upon the suinm't of tho towering rock above the monastery, making signs to the boatman below. O.i approaching n arer to the base of the cliff be was desir d to deliver a letter which tin* girl Hung down to him. At once divining h*r sale la I int ntion, the boatman ran into the monastery and raised an alarm. A number of monies immediately came out an l entra >d the girl lo di.se md from li r perilous position, wtnle one of their nu n >sr ascended the tortuous acclivity an 1 the unhappy girl sorang ft* »m the di/.zv height of over a hun ire Ife :t and was kil!e l instantly. It s state 1 that th i poor chiid was driv n io the dre id ul act t'v constant itl-trealenent ut. home, ller father was a c plain in the reserves.