Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-01

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At the end of the year we received a
letter sealed in black. 1t announced
the death of Mays husband. He had
been instantly killed by fall from his
horse.
Adele smiled even while she wept;
but felt neither pleasure or pain. Why
was it that the widowhOod of the wO
man | had so passionately loved moved
me so little? and why had Adele smiled?
longed to ask her, but dared not.
Singularly enough, in the month of
May, our little girl was born. Some
thing like happiness stole into my
heart as l took the tiny thing into my
arms, and bent to kiss the white face
on the pillow. Life now held new zest
/ for me. Day by day I watched my lit
tie daughters growth, while peace and
/ content took up their abiding place
within me.
l don't know just when they fled,
nor when the discovery was made
which sent them from me-the discov-
cry that my wife was diving. White
and an, she lay on her pillows, letting
| life slip from her aim st as though she
were glad to let it go-almost as though
she would not stretch out her hand to
hold it back.
She had insisted We should call the
baby May, and had consented.
"YOu must rouse her to take an in
terest in living" the doctor said. "She
is beyond my skill"
This, when I had gone to him for
the truth.
That evening, sat down close be-
side her, and laid my hand on hers.
"Adele," [ questioned, tare you I'M
happy, that you want to leave baby and
me?"
She looked down as [ spoke at the
little face on her breast, with a moth
er's passionate longing.
"No, no, she walled; then the old,
sad smile crept over her face. at is
Gods will, dear" she said, "and he
knows best. Besides, if am not here
when she GENES, she will take care of
he little namesake."
! With these words, she hacded me a
letter announcing Mays intention Of
paying us visit.
"If | am not here when she comes.
With the letter in my hand which show
ed me what my possible freedom
might mean, my sophistries fled.
knew that the old love was dead, and
from its ashes had wakened truer,
purer love for the woman whom | call
ed wife, and my baby one day would
call mother. | fell on my knees be
side her.
"Adele-live! live!' [ cried. "For
baby's sake"
! She put her hand on my hair.
'No, DEAR" she said, tenderIy. II
am glad to go, though you have tried
very hard and very nouly-so hard
that might never have known the
truth, but for your illness and delirium.
had loved you so long, so well, it was
hard to realize; but when she comes
and finds me gone, it will not be hard
for you to win her. | tell you this,
only because I want you to know it is
my wish that it should be So"
Her voice ceased in a sob and then,
still on my knees, | Outpoured all my
heart. | laid bare its every chamber =
all my struggle and its cost.
But said, "Adele, have learned
to love yO1-to love you with my soul
and strength-to love you as [ never
dreamed of loving in that untried time
Let May come. She is your sister, and
as such dear to me. But, oh, my wife,
do not leave me- I asked you 10 live
for baby's sake. My darling! my dar-
ling | ask you now to live for my
sake-your husband-the sake of the
man who adores You"
In that moment | knew all that she
had suffered. | thought that | had
killed her, but JOY does not kill. We
both had been blind: we both saw!
FROM that hour my darling grew
stronger, better, we'll
Love had been her physician. I
had won my wife, my beloved
snatched her from the Jealous arms OF
death.
Only name! Who dares assert ii
was no higher power? May had
brought me Adele-Adele my little
May. The story is finished, yet in It's
ecstacy just begun.
Restipg-Place Of Wilkes Booth
] The " ashington correspondent OF
| the Buffalo Commercial writes: It was
only after some patient inquiry that
could ascertain the facts, which are
interesting and, as far as [ know, are
yet unpublished. Booth, the murder
er Of Abraham Lincoln, died, as will
be remembered, in barn in Maryland,
from a wound received from the mus
ket of Boston Corbett. The body was
brought to Washington, and, after hav-
ing been identified by the court-martial
before which his fellow conspirators
were tried, was dissected by the sur
geon-general of the army. The brain
and heart and some other parts of the
body were preserved in alcohol and are
now on exhibition in the medical mu-
scum of the surgeon-general's Office.
| The building in which the assassination
occurred was Ford's theater. The gov
eminent coniscated it, but afterward
Ford was paid its full value, and it has
since been used as the headquarters of
the medical corps of the army. The
brain and heart of Booth are in jars,
standing in a case that is situated very
near the actual scene of the assassina-
ton. After the surgeon had done with
Booths body it was buried in grave
in the arsenal grounds Only half a
dozen persons knew the exact spot,
which was unmarked. In 1867 Edwin
Booth, the actor, sent Mr.. Weaver, the
sexton of Christ church, Baltimore, to
Washington, with the request that the
remains of his brother might be taken
up and removed to the family burial
place. After some delay, the request