Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-04

The secret which at first had been care
guarded, became known to the other Occu-
pants of the house. Tue young and beau
| tiful girl was evidently about TO become a
mother. About two weeks before the cx-
pected confinement of the daughter, the
mother began to give tangible evidence of
the fact that the exposure and abstinence
from wholesome food to which she had
been subjected was about to culminate in
| disease.
A day or two'S indisposition came and
then the daughter was Mortified to observe
that her mother was the victim of raging
fever. A physician who was called con
tirmed her worst fears and pronounced the
disease II malignant case of typhoid fever.
All that medical skill and tender nursing
could DO was done, but without avail and
after the lapse of about eleven days the
dreadful truth dawned'upon the daughter
| that her mothers life was fast ebbing away.
The parting at the bed ofdeath between
mother and daughter is said TO have been
the most narrowing spectacle, termicated
| only by the withdrawal of the daughter,
who was obliged to yield to gentle force at
the hands of her friends.
We draw the veil over the succeeding
few hours. When the morning sun dawned
| upon the scene, an infants plaintivs cry in
one room broke the stiffness of the other
wherein death reigned supreme.
The daughter bore her affliction bravely.
TO all appearance the little boy was as dear
to her as life itself "A week after its ad
vent into this troublesome world, two
ladies. evidently blessed with good portion
Of this worlds goods, drove up to the house
wherein had occurred the melodramatic in
cidents before related and asked for Mrs.
Brow They were at once shown the
room of the young mother and apparently
We're we'll aCquslnted with her. Judging
by the tenor Of their remarks, the baby was
the subject of much Of their solicitude.
One. of the ladies-ths younger of the
twain-drOpped remark in. the presence
of a visitor which rather opened her eyes.
After the little Cherub had been cuddled
and petted to their hearts content, this
lady referred to said: BLESS me! how
much this little fellow resembles my hus-
band; my friends might be deceived by the
| almost perfect resem DlanCe into imagining
1t Is his" WHAT the nature o. the interview
| subsequently WAS has not yet been divugeG,
but judge OF the astoniShment of every one
in the neighhorhood when it became known
that the ladies in departing had taken the
infant with them. Upon their arriva! they
said they were from st. Paul, but as they
10 one except the mother will ever know
whether tie sanity city was their abiding
pacF or not A few days after their dc
partuTe the mother whose offspring had
been 50 mysteriousiy spirited away receiv.
cd an express package containing fifty dol
! lars. With the funds thus obtained she
liquidated all existing claims, and at the
expiration of another: week packed up her
trunks and departed, no one knew whittier.
1t should be stated, however, that q few
days subsequent to the birth of the child Il
youth appeared upon the scene who stated
that the lady who had euCcumhed to the
fever was his mother, and that the hand
some mother of the babe Was his sister.
His father, so he said, had been Iivieg for
some time in Morris, on the St Paul s.
Manitoba railroad, and he also vouchsafed
the information that his mother and father
had been separated for thirteen years.
Since the above was in type we have sue
! ceeded in cleaning tie following facts from
one who knows all the particulars Mrs.
| Brown and daughter arrived in Morris
took room at the Perkins House. After
resting day or so they left for Artichoke
Lake, Big Stone County, where her hus-
baud, DR.. Brown resides. The meeting
between husband and wife was very COOL
| he treating them as strangers and pretend
ing not to know them. However, they re-
mained with him for week and returned
to Morris intending 10 remain here if rooms
could be procured, but not being successful
they left for Minneapolis The inside his
tory is IS follows: Tie daughter was en-
gagged to man of respectable family; but
they love not wisely, and wishing to hide
her disgrace the mother and daughter came
to Minnesota, intending after tic birth of
tic child to return east, and thcir being TO
barrier, the secret buried in their breasts,
the daughter would be married to her in
discreet lover The infant was adopted by
a childless mother.