Maryport Advertiser - Friday, April 28, 1882 ___________________________________ AN AGED PAUPER'S STORY. It was shortly before Christmas than an aged woman requested that she be sent to the Philadelphia Almshouse as soon as she could from the resolution to become a pauper. Her story was a wondrous one. She was now 68 years old and poverty-stricken. Years ago she was beautiful, was the petted one of many men of renown, and her wealth was reckoned at a quarter of a million. Her name was Mrs. Emma THOMPSON, but she was better known as Emma JACOBS. She came to Philadelphia when only 16 years old, from Lancaster, running away from home to marry a young member of the Legislature. In this she was disappointed, for the heartless man deserted her in a house of low character, whither they had gone on reaching this city. However, she managed to thrive in her questionable mode of living, and through a legacy of $250,000 left to her by one of her admirers she made exceeding display, and acquired a national notoriety. Twenty-five years ago she married the Rev. Thomas THOMPSON, a well-known Baptist Clergyman. The acquaintance was a chance one, but the divine was so struck with her charms that he induced her to change her life, and become a clergyman's wife. They lived happily together for sixteen years. A life of open-handedness had drained the purse, and after the death of her husband Mrs. THOMPSON began to feel the pinching of poverty. In a short time she was without money, and at last she sought the almshouse. _______ Carol