The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-04
A NOBLE wOMAN's LOVE.
Sad Fate OF a Young Couple. He Yale
Graduate and sac a Society Belle.
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/ young man who had felt that be WA under
/ sentence Of death for six previous years,
from which sentence there could be no re-
prieve, and yet while keeping, as he has
Z been. that death-wa.ch upon himself no
{ one ever heard HIM complain. either Of the
sufferiugs which we're tending his body or
/ the fate which. ike a deaths head was
{ always starr { him in the face.
Uriah J. Weuusr was born 10 Bethlehem,
/ Pa, torty-twO yesrs ago He was OF
{ splendid stock; his brother. G. L. Wenner,
I Is now one Of the foremost doctors of d.
vlnlty IN New York city. He took many
honors in the schools; he graduated with
honor at Yale, and with high hoDes he be-
gan his life work
TUea the disease, which had all the time
been latent, developed. and he knew that
active work in the career which he had
marked of was impossible. he bought
Fremont Is ard. in Great Salt Lake: be
built him home there, stocked the island
with sheep and cattle and horses. moved bis
little family there, aud sst down 20 wait
for the inevitable.
he story Of Mrs Wenner's life on FREE
I mont Island is about the most pathetic story
/ ever told on the frontier. she was born
1 aud reared II luxury. she came 10 this city,
g bride. eleven years ago. When, i've
/ years ago, her husosad decided to move to
Fremont Island. she chesrfully gave up her
luxurious home and went with him OF
course SIZE hsd 10 neighbors With no one
but her husband and her little family
around hex. with hired man aud girl TO
sSSlSt, she lived there I've years. At one
tine she was there two years and half
without leaving the island.
HER HUSBAND DOOMED.
When. two year. ago, her husband be-
Z came too weak 70 ride on horseback she
. looSsd after tue stock herself, she attended
% Der house snd taught her children. she
nursed thsr husband, snd 10 these
occC atoms sos was busy every moment of
Der tina she SAYS she was happy, and we
DO not doubt IL Fer husband was failing
81 the time. but be had been long time i'll,
AID she vi l3 10; permit the thought OF
the possibility Of bis dying 10 enter her
mind 50 Il went on until two weeks ago.
when Der husband said he felt more relieved
than be bsd for months before. or course,
great Tsr,st-at1O1 always follows a hem
u-T1AGa, soo 50 be lay very weak, but
cheerful, and on Friday ne wanted the man
Eoo hsa been their faithful employe so long
g lEEe tie boat 90 over to Hooper and get
t5e rlAl4, SIS be said he wanted his papers
sd DAEAZoeS The man, however, did
Lot - uDtll Saturday morning.
through the day on Friday Judge Wen
Der was comparatively easy. He asked his
vie % read to him from their favorite
books, AMI also TO repeat TO him the whole
uosus which she knew by heart, and so the
cay snd night passed away. On Saturday
morning be told her what to cook for his
breakfast, saying be wanted a good break
fast, but while that was in preparation she
/ heard the signal which she had prepared for
hin 70 make in case he needed her.
WheE she got to bis side the fatal hemor-
rhage was on his lips; when she fastened to
give him the medicine that was always given
him at such time he motioned her away
| She put her arms around his neck, drew his
head on her bosom, asked him if he loved
her: be answered, YES asked her if she
loved him. at her yes he smiled, and in
an instant without a spasm. that smile was
| trRnshXed and his soul had fled.
She was there all alone. With her own
hands she washed and dressed her hus-
bands body, went cuside and got the
board herself and stretched it upon two
chairs beside the bed. The girl had such
horror of death that she could not be iu-
duced to come into the room to help her lay
her husband on the plank.
THE SACRIFICE FOR LOVE,
She did it all alone, and when all was
composed she went to her children, told
them that their father was dead, explained
to them as well as she could what death
meant, took them in and showed them their
fathers face.
They all kissed him and knelt and prayed
beside him. The day wore long, and a great
storm came upon the lake, so that it was
impossible for the man to return.
1t had always been understood that two
signal fires meant that she needed help, so
as the night came down she went and lighted
those fires and then took up her watch be-
side her dead. At intervals through the
night she would go and replenish the fires,
and 80 the watch went on till daylight
All that day passed away. At night she
renewed the fires, and finally at great peril
the man reached the island at 10 o'clock at
night. There was no possibility to return
to get the casket, so the poor woman told
the man that he must, from the boards on
the place. make the best box heoould. The
man helplessly said he could not. buE she
encouraged him and told him she would
help him. 80 the box wa3 made. From the
best material she had in the house she, with
her own hands, lined a box and fixed a
pillow for the sleeper's head That COM
pleted the man dug grave. The only SER
vice for the dead was by the wife and little
children kneeling around the coff1u before
| 10 was moved from the house aud praying
But then, what other service was needed?
AS best they could they got the box to
the grave. The man drove stakes on one
side of she grave and tied ropes to them.
and that woman and that man lowered the
body into the grave. Then she went back
to take care OF her children. The storm was
80 furious on the lake that 1t was e. week
before she could take her children and leave
the island.
What she endured through that Saturday.
that Saturday night, that Sunday and that
Sunday night no one knows no one can i'm
agine. She did not shed tear; she has not
shed tear since; she says very calmly that
she never anticipated life without her hus-
. band, but that now her children need what
strength she has got And she speaks of
what she did as nothing at all.
She says 1t was pleasure to her to do the
last offices; it is very much sweeter for her
to think of than it would be to think it was
, performed by some one who might have
been less tender in his touch than she.
= And that was by little woman who
never knew what work was or what isola.
ton meant: who knew nothing at all about
the rouGher side OF life until she gave her
heart up to her husband and thenceforth
lived only for him.