The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-05-23

would be glad to pay HIM in advance,
and to refer him for their standing to
certain prominent citizens Of Phila-
delphia. OF course, the farmer took
them. To his honest heart their gen
tie bearing was sufficient reference;
and his wife, catching with quick
eve the reason of the WOman's ILL
ness, warmed into the loving pity
which makes the world of woman
hood akin.
It was not a week before the city
guests had become attached to the
Kentucky household. The wife espe-
cially, sad as she was, and weighed
down by the broOding care which
ALWAYS waits upon maternity, was so
prime q favOrite in the family that
when the grave.faced, anxious hus-
band was recalled ostensibly to Phil
adelphia upon urgent business, he
said. as he kissed her, that he would
leave her there without the slightest
fear; and she answered, as she chung
to him and sobbed, that he was only
leaving her with the new mother she
had found. Within ten days there
after a little child was born.
THE FOUNDING.
The absent husband wrote daily to
his wife, and sent grateful messages
of appreciation OF the care which had
been shown her. This continued
until the baby, whom the mother
refused to name before the father saw
him, was six weeks old. Then the
man came back, driving over from
the station in a hack late one after
noon. He said he had come to take
his wife and baby home. for his bust
ness would keep him closely in the
city for awhile, and he could not en-
dure to be separated from them any
longer. And, as he declared that he
had stolen the time in which he came
and had not q day to spare, they left
early next morning. taking the little
baby with them in the hack.
It was q raw day for the season,
and the snow was falling in little
ffakelets, which played IN the sharp
north wind and seemed to be coquet-
ting with the earth before they would
rest upon 1t.
And so the keeper of a tol!-gate,
about ten miles from the farmers
house, on the road to Maysville, was
not surprised when a gentleman,
with q baby in his arms, got out of a
closed carriage and said to him:
II passed some movers about a
mile back, and they asked me to
bring this little fellow ahead and
leave him here to warm until they
came. Can you take care of him for
them?"
"Just hand him here, sir" said the
toll-man ; "of course I can let him
warm. Wouldn't your wife like to
light and warm herself, too?"
"Thanks. She is not cold"
THE DESERTION.
The carriage went on toward Mays
vile, and the good woman in the
gate-house warmed some milk for the
baby and sang to it until it went to
sleep in her lap; but the movers did
not come to claim it. The next morn
ing the gate-keeper rode back to the
next gate and found that no movers
had passed the day before, and then
he realized that the child had been
left upon his hands, deserted by its
parents. He at once went to Mays
Vile, where he found that the Occu-
pants of the carriage had taken a
train for the East. and so he came
back home, and the neighbors focked
in to see the little waif, who soon be-
came the show and talk OF all the
country round about.
Finally the circumstances of its de-
sertion came to the ear of a wealthy
and philanthropic lady, the wife of
Mr.. nYOung, an eminent lawyer
of Owingsville. She and her hus-
band were childless, and she was SO
pleased with the pretty face of the
baby when che went to see it that she
took it home with her and finally
persuaded her husband to adopt it.
By the time this was done Mr..
Young had come to love the child as
if it were his OVID, and as q matter of
personal satisfaction, he determined
to trace its parentage.
ON THE TRAIL.
He is a mai of years and fortune,
and in prosecuting his self-appointed
task has shown himself to be a
shrewd detective, as we'll as an able
lawyer and q methudical man of bus
mess. It was an easy matter to trace
the carriage from the dollhouse back
to the farm house where the child
was born, and there to obtain the
particulars given above and a minute
description of the parents. Then he
followed them to Maysville, and
thence East. While the parents were
CONCENTRATING themselves upon their
esdape, the country lawyer was de-
voting himself to their Identification
as slowly, as calmly and as steadily
as If it were a case in equity. He dis
carded their story as false and paid
not the slightest attention to it, but
followed his own theory persistently
and patiently until he tracked them
to Washington. It is there that he
found the dishonored parents and
cleared the mystery: which sur
rounded the birth of the child.
THE SECRET DISCOVERED.
It was the old story, save that it
was of woman infatuated rather than
of woman deceived. There was q
Senator of the United States, whose
name is to-day in almost any paper
one may select at random, and there
was q fashionable woman, the
daughter of q Federal Judge, almost
as we'll known as the Senator him
self. They were attracted toward
each other as they were thrown
together in the "swlm" of the
capital, and the association rlpened
into sin. 1t is said that when it
became evident to them that the
time when her shame could no
longer be concealed was manifestly
near, the Senator, in desperation,
| confessed the matter to q lady closely
related to him, and implored her to
save her friends character and his
! own political life. The lady relative,
after much persuasion, consented to
do So, and with womanly ingenuity
devised the plan. The two ladies
left Washington to visit q distant
State.
The Senator quickly met them en-
route, and brought his mistress to