The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-13
Recovering a Wait.

The desolstion brought upon COM
muntties by the yellow demon of the
South, Is not to be computed; individual
histories, however, present pictures from
which we can draw an idea of the misery
resulting from 1.-THE making OF orphans
aud widows, the breaking up Of families,
the sudden Staying OF protectors, the
ruthless sovering o. dearest ties \ per-
son might draw soul narrowing pictures
if every human being did not give, VOL
unfairly, the sympathy due suffering
Nearly every reader will recall the time,
SIX years ago, when this horrible fever
ragged nearly as fearluliy as it has this
yesr. At that time there lived, in a
pretty place in the vicinity OF Red river,
a family of five persons hu band, wife,
child and two servants, colored man
and his wife The gentleman, when the
scourge first broke out, suggested taking
his family North; bat. on celebrating
with his wife, who was In delicate health
at the time and disliked leaving home,
concluded, as they lived somewhat out
OF town, that they would be safe in re-
naming, if they kept aloof from al
inter course with an infectious atmosphere.
/ Vain hope One morning the husband
was unable to rise from mis- bed the wife,
frightened by his notwithstanding sui
feriDg, sent for aid the physician imme-
rND&@ep-d the case yellow fever,
and advised her to leave. and save hersea
and child, and he would do all that a
human being could do to save her now
delirious husband. Any woman can
guess her answer She could die with
MIN, but not desert him. But her child ?
Frantic with the necessity, she followed
the doctors advice and sent the nurse
with her three-yesr darling to barge
lying mile away on Red river, with
such Instructions and prayerful blessings
as only a mothers heart could utter
This barge was going freighted with
fleeing human beings, who would find
refuge in st Louis and nearer points OF
safety The colored woman knew where
the child would find q kind reception
from the friends of the afflicted mother
and, trusting to the hitherto~faithiul
servant, the sorely tried wife turned her
heart to the duties before her. BY night
she was alone with her husbands corpse.
The man servant had ded-with his wife,
probably. The next day the doctor
found her-not stricken with the fever,
but wild maniac, hugging to her breast
the dead mans head. He had her
removed TO an asylum, the estate taken
care of as soon as the terror in the csun-
try had somewhat abated, and then COM
municated with her friends and relatives
in Mobile and St. Louis. None had
heard of the nurse or child. Advertise
ments were inserted in dozen different
papers for the recovery of little Edith
D., but for three years all trace of
her was lost In the mean time the
poor, bereft widow was restored 10 rea-
son, and with a little fatherless babe
bonn two months after her double loss
pressed to determined heart, she trav,
eled from city to town and town to city
hunting for her other child. Every
place where coloreI people congregated
she haunted, every child she eagerly
scanned in passing, and who shall portray
that woman's hopes aud disappoir tment
during nearly three weary years of vain
seeking? But, at last, at last On the
street in New York she saw that woman
to whom she had intrusted her child.
With the clutch of an insanely>delighted
almost dying woman she held her arm.
My child, Ruth, where is my child ?"
With face blue and eyes like hunted
animal, the negro fell on her knees, un~
able to articulate a word.
"Only tell me shall see her again.
I'll forgive everything, ask nothing,
nothing. Oh, Ruth, for Gods sake, is
she well? Shall see her once more p
In ten minutes the poor mother held
to her breast the lost one, larger and
older, to be sure, but her darling, every
feature as if photographed from that
loved husbands face. The negress had
been kind to her, but the only explsna-
tion she could give was that they had,
somehow, been tempted to run away with
the money given her to see the child
safely at st. Louis. And she opposed
JEFF was ashamed cause he'd ruined
away, and sides we heard as how both
you done died, anyway"
AT a festival of lawyers and editors, a
lawyer gave a toast. The editor--he
always obeys the calls of the devil" An
editor responded: "The editor and the
devil is satisfied with the
copy of the former, but requires the orig
inal of the latter"
~ WISH you would not give me such I
short weight for my Money" said Gus
Toner to his grocer, who had an OUT
standing bill against him. "And I wish
you wouldn't give me such a long wait
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