Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-03-23

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greatest sorrow was connected with
her mother, and the latter's love for
her beautiful daughter Is the cause of
her present condition. She is hope
lessly deranged, and spends her time
talking OF the one child for whom she
experienced the strongest affection,
and from whom she received only a
duiiful regard and kindly attention.
Mrs. Bland has no other daughter,
though she was the mother Of twelve
children by her late husband, Mr..
Bland.
DR.. d. said that the newspaper peo-
pie had tried for years 10 learn the
particulars Of Miss Nelson's early life,
aud that Mrs. Bland had guarded her
secret zealously until a few months
ago, when the poor soul began to talk
Of the forbidden subject, and now con-
iides her story over and over 10 her at
tendAnt.
Daily she rehearses rs Lady Mac
beth, and then describes her triumphs
when on the boards OF the Leeds
theatre. She tells Of her great beauty
which attracted the gallants in every
audience before which she appeared,
aud aiectedly recounts the love of the
dark eyed Spaniard who won her
heart and became the father Of her
child, the beautiful little girl who was
born IN Leeds tenement house, and
whose earliest impressions were OF the
stage. The mother, now a haggard,
prematurely aged woman, whose
once beautiful eyes stare vacantly on
those about her. told the doctor that
her daughters beauty was her fathers
dover, but that she inherited her love
Of the stage from her. Il was pas
sion with her as n girl, and she ran
away from her home 20 be an actress.
Before she was twenty she was the
mother Of the child who was aftcrward
known as Adelaide Nelson, hut whose
real name was Lizzie Ann Brown,
called so after her mothers sister, who
was a tailoress in Leeds.
Mrs. Bland was the beauty OF her
family and from the accounts she
gives OF herself she was in her youth q
wayward girl. That she had talent is
undeniable. but the unfortunate cir
cpnstance that took her from the
stage, before she had achieved any
kind 81 success, colored her whole life.
She saws. in her aimless chats, that
after she left the stage, before Lizzie
was born. she lived at her sisters
and did needlework She was not
penniless, for the young man who was
mo father of the child was not indiifer-
ant "a her welfare, and he supported
her for sometime after the birth OF the
little girl. ,..
al with the slightest worldliness, which
40 snringhtly Lizzie Brown had with
Tho dark eyed foreigner, who was her
Erst and only love, and the offspring OF
that most unfortunate connection was
the loving. generous and beautiful
,Toman. Adelaide Nelson. Strange to
relnte Mrs. Bland never speaks the
name az this lover of her youth now
that she Is irresponsible for her actions,
She aid not at any time after her
daughter left her 20 go TO London to
earn her own way in the world, ana
ber aid acauaintanoes say that she had
hoen compelled by her daughter TO
take an oath that she would never re-
veal h or the fact of her illegitimacy.
,,Iizzie Bland,n as the little girl was
known 10 Guiseley people, was sup
nosed 10 be the daughter OF Mr. STAND,
sor The family had moved to the village
when she was four years old, and the
o J child Of Mr.. Bland was babe
year old. IA Adelaide
d,d not know that she was not the
daughter OF the paper hanger whom
NC called father, and she would have
s bsen. IN ignorance Of the fact yet lon.
cor COR had not her mother unwiss,ely
aroused her curiosity by ioroloI in,is
Nor "a open a drawer which she Kept
lacked nv, and seemed anxious about
N wnJ hmusbend's meagre income she did
sewing for tho village , families @ss y lSft r n
ILL., ar,c ~ The homo and the babies,
shaw She Was determined to know the con.
, snu ~ Tie drawer which her mother
guarded So zoalous,lys o and ,l,r Sns S SaSS
nul,,s NY she opened t. The mother
H IUi hcr rambling talks has ofion, 70 u
, y. NV Adelaido discovered there. When
y .hn returned homo at the end Of the