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

their only couch was the hard pine floor.
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 ex.
| 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 eliminate in
disease.
A day or two'S indisposition came and
! then the daughter was Mortified to observe
that her mother was the victim of y raging
fever, A physician who was called con
tirmed her worst fears and pronounced the
disease a 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'up0n the daughter
that her mothers life was fast ebbing way.
The parting at the bed ofdeath between
mother and daughter is said to have been
the most narrowing spectacle, termiEated
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 plaintive cry in
one room broke the stiffness of the other
wherein death reigned supreme.
The daughter bore her afiiction bravely.
To all appearance the little boy was as dear
to her as life itself "A week after its adj
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 melo-dramatic in
piHaptc laf0 ral, taI aud nd fr>r
Brow They were at once shown the
room of the young mother and apparently
were we'll acquainted 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
twaln--dfopped Il 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 resemblance into imagining
it is his" WHAT the nature OF the interview
subsequently WAS has not yet been divulgeG,
but judge OF the establishment of every one
in the ncighhorhood when it became known
that the ladies in departing had taken the
infant with them. Upon their arrival they
said they were from st. Paul, but as they
disappeared as mystcriously SIS they came
10 one except the mother will ever know
whether tie sanity city was their abiding
,placE or not. A few days after their de-
parture the mother whose offspring had
been so mysteriously spirited away receiv.
eel 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 u
youth appeared upon the scene who stated
that the lady who had euocumhed to the
fever was his mother, and that the hand
some mother of the babe wdR his sister.
His father, SO be said, had been living 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 the following facts from
one who knows all the particulars: Mrs.
Brown and daughter arrived in Morris
from Fittsburg, Penn, in September and
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-
manned 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: The daughter was en-
gagged to q man of respectable family; but
they love not wisely, and wishing to hide
her disgrace the mother and daughter came
to Minnesota, intending after the birth of
the child to return east, and their being no
barrier, the secret buried in their breasts,
the daughter would be married to her in
discreet lover. The infant was adopted by
chiflless mother.