Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-07
SEARCH FOE 4 NIFE.
A Forgiving Husband Who Finds and For.
81 gives the Mother of His Children,

FOrgiving HUSBAND VINO flnOs ana FOr.
e gives the Mother of His Children.
pitiful tale. A story, as old as the ever
lasting hills, of won.an's infdeiity and man s
heartbroken dependency. Yesterday Officer
DsCorsey observed q man inqulring from house
to house along Minnesota street. The officer
approached and questioned him to the OBJ
ject of his search and inquiry. In most de-
jected and heartbroken voice the man reported
he was looking. for his wife, the
mother of his five children. The
officer thought the story had best be stated
at headquarters, SO conducted the man thither
Without hesitation, and in most pitiful man
ner, the man told his story. Ten months ago,
dren were modestly and comfortably at home
in Topeka, Kansas. He labored and furnished
the means, while the wife at home
swept the hearth and kept the
fire ahlaze against fathers coming
Unfortunately the happiness of the household
and mother. Father was obstinate, and mother
could not be appeased in her fit of anger. The
husband takes anxious care to explain that the
difference" taxed neither one with the faint of
sin or immortality. 1t was just such differ
ence or misunderstanding that neither{in their
hearts had forbearance to forgive. The father
left home, left his.wife and children in their
snug home, provided with comforts, and went
out in the world. Eight months ago he came
to Minneapolis; four months thereafter he came
to St. Paul. Here he has been employed in
George Lambs shop, at the corner of Jackson
and Eighth streets. During Ill these weary
months, though his heart has been warmed with
recollectiops of hon e, he has heard nothing
from home. He had written and sent money,
but no response until
March 1st, while he was in tho shop, little
urchin stepped up to the counter, extended a
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he wanted some meat.
Father recognized his child; the child called,
papa.
Questions were battered down upon the
youngster, who got the answer that 'mama
was here, here in St. Paul.
Brigham didn't wait to divest himself of his
shop clothes but clasp!ng the hand of his boy
he rushed off to find his wife.
He found his wife.
But the joy OF his heart was almost palsied
with despair, finding her as he did. She was
the madame of bagnio. The father was re-
4uaintance with his wife in the presence of
six wide-eyed, painted Jezebels, who smiled
mockery and leered at the agony of the hus-
band.
The wife had been resident of this city for
SIX months. When he left her in Topeka the
OF her husbands abandonment, she
her story with fearful contrition.
The husband overcome, dazed, amazed, yet had
1t not in his heart to condemn. He reached
forth his arms, the wife was clasped in his en-
brace. and the children hung around father
and mother-while the shameless women, six
in number, derided and laughed at the family
reunion.
Brigham says he has condoned her fault, he
has it not in his heart to condemn
her. Together he, wife and family,
will take up new present for
happy future, in which to forget the miser-
able past. When arrested, he was only seeking
his wife. She lives in small house to the rear
OF Minnesota street, and he was only asking
permission to traverse parkway to obtain
access to his wife, who still lives with the
signs of debauchery around her, and out Of
which the husband will soon lift her.
He has written to a brother in
kirksville, Missouri and 80 soon as he hears
and receives the needful the long separated
family will be reunited in love and forgive
ness This is the story of IA DOMESTIC tragedy
which, though happening to modest, hum BILE
people, carries with it none the less the bitter
ness and agony of despair. Facts are stronger
than felton, and so could it be said of this
narrative were it not bell we'd that the man,
who plaintively relates the narrowing tale, is a
little off, mentally.