The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31

| spite of the determined efforts of the young
wife the business went to nothing. The
sheriff finally came In, aud the one-time
| happy home was broken up, even the fur
nIture being sold TO satisfy the hungry
| creditors.
| Still Radcliffe continued in his shameful.
course and his treatment of his wife became
! unbearable. To her he attributed all his
| mistortunes, and after the usual days de-
| bauch at the liquor store would return and
vent his unmanIy spite in beating her.
With no money coming in Mrs. Radcliffe
and her baby daughter would have starved
TO death but for the kindness Of the neigh
bors. At length the long-sIfTering wife,
seeing that her husband was incorrigible,
determined TO leave HIM, and one night
when he returned home i'll one of has drunk
en- fits, he found the miserable room they
had occupied since the store had been sold
deserted and his wife and child gone.
SUPPORTED HERSELF AND CHILD.
Mrs. Radcliffe removed to Manayunk,
where she was enabled to earn living for
herself and child, and managed to keep her
whereabouts secret from her husband,
although she kept trace of him. The woman
prospered, but the husband went from bad
to worse, and six years ago entered the
Blockley almshouse, where ne has been ever
SINCE
In the meantime the baby Charlotte grew
to womsnhood. She procured employment
at Manayunk, and assisted her mother. The
two lived contented IL eacn others COM
pany, and no mention was made of the hus-
baad aud fathers name until about four
years ago, when, by the fireslde one mgh',
the mother told her daughter a portion OF
the trials and troubles of her early life.
Charlotte's curiosity was aroused. She
asked if her father was still alive, and was
told that he was 50 far as her mother knew.
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and find her father, and to pa'ch up
reconciliation, bat after twenty years Mrs
Radcliffe could not forget the treatment size
had received, and refused, declaring she had
no idea where her husband was, aud no time
to try aud find him.
THE DAUGHTER BEGINS THE SEARCH.
Charlotte than commenced the search
herself. At first it seemed hopeless, but by
degrees she got traces, ana after nearly
three years yesterday disco erred him in the
BlockleY almshouse. old and decrepi5. She
Informed her mother she had located the
old man, and, although Mrs. Radcliffe had
known his whereab Juts all along and
dreaded hor daugh discovering him. she
seemed surprised, but agreed u go to the
allnshouse with Charlotte,
AT the entrance Mrs. Radcliffe declined
to 60 farther. and Charlotte went on alone
to the old mon's quarters Radcliffe was
pointed out and Charlotte approached the
father she had never seen before and made
known VINO she was. The old man seemed
heart broken, aud it was some time before
he would recognize the daughter wh1 he
only remembered as a baby, in the we'll
dressed, handsome young woman who stood
before him. After q time Charlotte in
formed the decrepit old man that her
mother was outside, and then went back
and induced Der mother to come aud shake
hands with the husband she had not seen
for twenty-one years
The meeting was most affecting, father,
mother and daughter mingled their tears,
but at length the time for departure came
and the mother and daughter went off to
see about procuring the old mans re-
lease, In order that he may spend his few
remaining daysin the home their labor has
built up.