Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-03


from giving homes Of comfort, on the
Pacific coast, to hundred poor fami-
lies. In December Of that year Mrs.
Shelby died, and the grave even that
covered the unfortunate mother out
from the sight Of the three orphans is
now unknown; and the step-father
having spent the remnant Of the estate
left to those children, deserted them,
leaving the three without friends, I'M
protected, and among strangers i'll
strange land. Their uncle was at the
time in the mines, and being successful
eventually visited San Francisco, and
after depositing his money for safe
keeping, started for Sacramento to sec
his late brothers. family, with the in
tention of taking the children with him
to Tennessee, when one Of those pecu-
liar fatalities occurred that proves truth
stranger than fiction. Ga his arrival
in Sacramento he was to!d that they
were all deaG-the mother and the
three children-yet no one could point
out the graves. Believing that he had
been correctly informed, he returned to
his eastern home with the sad tale Of
the fate Of his brother and his family.
The three little ones had forgotten
where the home Of their father had
been, only remembering it WAS some
where in Tennessee; and finding places
with some Open-hcartod families their
earlier years were passed as are those
who are doubly orphaned by being sep
irateGi from each other and from all
their kin, though each was kindly cared
for in their new homes. The step
father who had deserted them became
a resident of Los Angeles, where some
five years later he learned OF the death
of a grandfather Of the orphans, who
had left them heirs 10 about Sc, 000.
He then stepped to the front once more,
and undertook to obtain possession of
the children, intending to 90 back to
the States, and, as guardian, obtain
possession Of their property; but Mr.. ID.
Frink, with whom little Thomas had
found home, frustrated the scheme by
becoming himself guardian of his charge,
whom he hid away until Shelby aband-
oned the plans that he found would not
work; and when the late war broke out
he Joined the Confederate army, and
raising to the rank Of general was
finally killed in battle. Shelby had OBJ
tanned possession Of Daniel NJ. on the
occasion Of his attempt to become his
guardian, but again deserted him in
the streets of Sacramento when he
ceased TO be of pecuniary advantage.
Once more the ragged orphan, home
less, without friends or known kindred
iii the world, except the brother and
sister VINO We're waits like himself, was
forced to wrap that desOlGtiUn about
him that came with the thought that
he was "nobody's child" Russell Day.
now living near Woodland, learning
that d little boy had been abandoned in
the streets of Sacramento, opened his |
home and heart to the castaWay. AS
the years passed by, though he had |
found good home and parents of |
adoption, who treated him as though he |
was their own, there was All ever present |
onging to lift the Veil that shut out ali |
If himself except his name. Some |
where in the world he had relations;
where did they live? What were their
names? He knew that his parents had
,ome from Tennessee, and that was all.
Ia 1860, he started, at fifteen years of
lge, for himself, visited the mines in
Nevada, and falling to get work, not
,eing practical miner, returned to
California - working his passage BY
irving a mule team. In 1864 he en-
listed in Company 3, tth California IN
antry Volunteers, that soon after his |
enlistment was ordered on service in
Arizona. While they were crossing
he desert q recruit, coming iii an am
ulance, overlook the regiment, and
vas standing by q camp fire after the
had resumed its march.
CORPORAL Burns stepped up and re-
minded him that his place was in the
anks Of his company. The new in
antryman seemed astonished, looked
he corporal over as though he were an
1spector Of division, and then, in a
ind of doubtful way, remarked-''Wall,
y thunder, Wasn't Caroline Griffin
our mother 20 That was the maiden
anne Of the mother Of young Burns, 3
nd he remembered that fact when it
as recalled to him. The recruit stand
,g there having known her when a
Dung lady, had recognized her son
ON his resemblance to the woman
no was sleeping i'll an unknown grave
t Sacramento. The missing link had
cen found, and eventually thOse three,
Elom rough handed destiny had
,amed to select for its especial frown,