St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-10-26

An vno can guess what comfort springs
From her quiet way Of doing shingss
-Josephipe Pollard. in N. Y. Ledger.
STORY OF A LOST BOY,
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Graphic Account Of . T hrillins II
perience>.srs. - -
A Search That Went on for Three Dsys
n Ne widest spot IN Coneeetieae
s-Tbe Recovery and the
Celebration.
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On. ths morning of Memorial Day
Emil Bonahatel. not quite three year,
old. followed his brothers from the
house a short distance downithe road
into the timber. where they were go
ing en- their business OF charcoal max.
ing. He was sent back. and was aft
crward seen about the barn at eigh,
o'clock Presumably he followed them
again later, at any rate he disappeared.
and nothing was known of his where
abouts until long afterward-
At five p. m. his brothers returned.
and inquiry was at once made for lit
tie Emil As he had occasionally gone
with them before, his sister. the only
one remaining at home for the day.
supposed he had been with them. To
the horror Of all it was reported that
they had seen nothing Of him. The
child had been lost sight of for nine
hours.
The Bonahatcls live on the top Of
the Taconic range. near. the line be-
tween Mt Washington. Mass, and
Salisbury. Conn. 1t is densely wooded
and sparscly Inhabited for miles in
every direction. The town of Mt
Washington itself contains neither doc
tor, lawyer nor minister. SO few are its
citizens. Salisbury. the nearest vii
lage on the Connecticut side Of the
line. Is seven miles away over q
rough mountain road with a steep
climb'in many place. The woods
are the home Of wild cats. foxes and
occasional wolves. who might readily
molcst "A child wandering In those
wilds. The writer saw pile OF forty :
eight such pelts brought down from
that region . few weeks agO, the
produss of aswinter's catch BY one man.
1t was in this locality, one of the Wild
est in New EnglanA that . bare.Aead-
ed and bAregs0ted child -of two years
and nine months. was lost Fs-- ssS -
The father and mother we're at work
two miles from home in another direc-
tiOn that day. They were at once
alarmed, and the entire family set out
upon the search before the night closed
in. Amile and a half from tho llUuses
the little footprints msl1s ~ arcAtlde'
bare feet in the mud by the roadside
were found, and that was the enly
trace sf him diseoverabae .Allnight
through the family sought for him
with lanterns They had no neigh
bOrs. and SO were alone in the search.
1t had rained steadily from the morn.
ing of Memorial Day, and that night i
poured in torrents What might be-
come OF child chilled through with
storm at tsightp Their anxiety In
creased with every hour.
The following day tifty men were en-
listed in the search. The rain con-
tinued. and a cold. areary nistshnns
upon th0 moantains. lmakhg mAny ;
strong mSn numb with the cold and
wet The woods were searched in
every quarter without discovering a
single trace further. All night, TOO,
the lasserns weres in saee Prepara-
tions wsro made fsr dragging certain
of the mountain ponds into which tho
child might have fallen.
The third day opened With three
hundred men in the field. BY this time
the news had spread t. many settle
ments. and the road was lined with
wagons that had brought searching
parties, The pathetic appearance OF
that agonized father; and mother
touched every heart Il am . poor
man." said NJ Bonahatel, ."'but would
rather have my little boy than ten.
thousand dollars" The mother could
only walk the room in distress utterly
tagged out with grief and exhaustion.
The raina still continued. and . high
wind accompanied it The mist hid
every object twenty feet away. Every
road and :, clearing was minutely.
searched Men plunged into swamps
that hardly a wildscst even could pen
citrate Severai4 Of 1the parties lost
themselyca. and bad 10 climb trees 70
find their way out The third day
closed with al hope abandoned Of ilnd-
ing the child alive. The only thought
now was sof discovering the body and
relieving the agony o.! the. psrents.'
who wereswesFsiEh dying themselves
OF suspense hndsslsepiessneSss t'-'
The fourth dax opened *ith sunshine
away at ten O'Clock. Five hundred
men were Sox sssenblsd. Long lines
of searcAers> ten feet apart we're
formed. and every foot OF ground was
minutely-fdsF Feeted = The party satis-
fed themselves that the child could not
cossibly be in the territory thus gone
over. The feeling was general that
day that aaeApby vould now be found.
10 hope ssRia< se9lsFif foea saAs 'ps ~