The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-08
Charlestown, Mass.
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A pathetic story, the scene of which is To-
Gated in Michigan, has come to my attention.
For many months an elderly woman of the
name of Cusack had been patient at the
Garfield Hospital. She had an incurable
disease and the doctors held out no hopes
of a cure being affected, it was simply Ques-
tiOn of vitality when the end would come.
About the first of the month the doctors
told her that she was not likely to live
more than week and they warned her to
prepare for death. Il will not die in a
week." she said. II must live until the
Goth. for my Jimmy that 1 havn't seen for
years will be here then. AS soon as have
given him kiss will be content to die"
The doctors wanted to know where her
Jimmy" was so as to be able to write to
him and tell him that if he expected to see
his mother again he had better come here
without any more delay. But the woman
was very reticent as to her sons where
abOuts, and to all inquiries she simply said
that her son would surely be here before
the twentieth.
The day came. The woman appeared so
much better that even the doctors were sur
prised and they wondered if they had not
made a mistake and perhaps there was a
chance for the poor thing recovering. There
was color in her cheeks such as had not
been seen for many months, her voice was
firmer than it had been since she had been
admitted in the hospital and her general
condition was vastly improved. But it was
the improvement brought about by her own
force of will. All day long she lay on her
bed listening to every fOotstep and waiting
for the presence of him whose last kiss she
hoped would sOlace the journey which she
was soon to take. Every time she heard a
fOOtStep on the stairs she started up in bed
with an eager look of expectancy on her
face, and when the footsteps passed on and
did not stop at her door she resigned herself
to another period of waiting. AS the day
waned and her son did not make his appear
ance her condition grew rapidly worse and
the doctors had no doubt that before night
she would be dead. The shadows length
ened and the poor woman was now too weak
to sit up in bed. She knew that she was
dying and had abandoned all hope. Just
as the day was closing she murmured, "Oh,
Jimmy, why did you not Gomez" Then
she closed her eyes and like tired child
turned over and dropped into her last sleep.
But little of the former history of the
woman was known, but an examination of
the few papers which she left showed why
she was so determined to live un til the Goth
of this month. Enough could be cleaned
from these papers to show that her son was
confined in the Michigan State Prison. and
that deducting his time for good behavior
he would be released so as to be here on the
goth of-this month She had written to
him that she wanted to see him once more
before she died. but he had evidently paid
no attention to her summons and the poor
creature had been forced to leave this world
without sight of the one person for whom
SIZE had any love. L hope that this para
graph may meet his eyes and cause him in
the future to become a better man.-Se
lected.
A tramp is sometimes called nOmad;
and when farmers dog grabs him there is
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