The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-01

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Everybody knows that il w,s
| Charles Dickens, reporter. who ,c..ia
,hLaiIrS Dickens, novelist and thut
Nii,eh ne wrote bis wonderful .ketrhn.
ol London "chtrartors he WINS for tLa
most part simply breathing thu brenih
OF me INTO creatures Of his NV. ..,,,,.,
Renee. But even the father of H..
"Arl'ul Lodger" probably never mn,
more striking Illustration ofthr snv,
o'lSpS iRyorile maxim, that truth j,
stranger than fiction, than the Times
man Yesterday when he heard ,be
story OF this advertisement from tGe
personal column Of the Ledger.
II the lady who LEFT female chilli f.,
board with n family 10y the nnma NJ
Ross living on Second street. hal,w
Carpenter and taken from tbeura =,
Iamlly by the name OF SNYDER. In
me year 1856, viii call or address I3o5
NORTH Fifth street, they will henr
something to their advantage.
mo reporter 'ound the advertiser an
aiiahle lady of middle age, and when
he inquired the meaning of so sipynl,r
an advertisement she responded win
courteous alaurity: "F0rty wears no."
a lady calling herself Mrs. Alhrrger
LETT a female Child with Mrs. Ross. a
woman keeping boarding house on
second street in this city. The child
which she called Susan, She renra,
scented to be the offspring of secret
marriage that she dared not aciuowI.
edge for fear of mourning the wrath of
her parents, who were aristocratic End
wealthy. Mrs, Alberger also STATE,
that the child had originally been len
with Mrs. Snyder, who kept bpard.
ing house in the heighborhood bnt
had been removed ON account of nj.
treatment. Mrs Ross accented the
charge, and the chil's board was sent
round regularly until she was II well.
grown girl of eighteen, when II sud.
denly ceased. The girl having deypl.
0ped into II woman was naturally auy-
iouS to learn something more about
herself and her antecedenls than what
Mrs Ross could tell her, hunted nm
Mrs. Sayder This woman evidently
knew more than she was willing to al. |
vulge, She gave contradictory an
swers to Susan's questions, stat
ing at one time that she had
been boru while her mother
was boarding there, and afterwarl That
she had been left there when a few
weeks old. The only further informa-
ton she would give was that Susan's
father had died shortly after her birth;
that her mother was remarked: had
been deserted by her second husband, !
who went Off to California;; had given
birth to son, aud had subsequently, |
died in extreme poverty, and that SUI |
san had a sister Hannah, who had
been left in the same mysterious man !
ner at another boarding house in the |
city but where she wouldn't or couldn't
tell Mrs Albcrger's maiden name,
and her name by her second marriage
Mrs Ross did not know. With this |
information Miss Alberger was forced |
to remain c0ntented, and, Mrs. Ross |
dying soon after, the secret, whatever |
it WAS, probably died with her. For n
long while, Susan having married In
the meanwhile and removed to SYRIA
cuse, n Y, gave up all hopes of learn
ing anything further about her
origin. A few days ago, however, her
husband having removed to Phila- |
delphia, she determined to make q
last effort, and advertised in n mora
ing paper To this course she was in.
luced by n curious dream, which she
had twice, of gentleman in fine
clothes, who came up to her in the !
street and asked her if her name was
not Albarger, and if her parents were
not unknown to her. Both times she
twoke Immediately after answering.
Az II result Of the advertising she
heard from her sister Hannah, who
was married and living in German
own. But, instead of throwing any |
light upon the subject, Hannah's story |
Jnly shrouded it in additional mystery.
She was five years older than her sis.
Ter, and only knew like herself, that
when an infant she had been left by Il
lady giving the same name. Albarger,
with clearinghouse keeper, who was !
as ignorant of anything further ms Mrs.
Ross herself. | was that infant, and
IT was my sister Hannah which that
advertisement after forty years, made
known to me.