The Forrest City times., 1893-06-02
MllBuRN'S MISERY.

The Blind Preachers Terrible Afiiotion
 in the Loss of His Only Surviving Son
 Greatly Augmented by the unjust AS
 persion Cast Upon Him in the f"o-
 Iished Accounts of the Suicide-A state
 ment.
 JACKSONVILLE, H.. May 30.-kev. w. H. Milburn earnestly desires the publication of the following:
 tis hard that the silence which befits the presence of death should be broken and that the veil should be lifted which belongs 10 the sacreoness of the family and it's relations But in this awful extremity no other course seems open that the only earthly possession left me 8 good name-should be preserved My son Fletcher Harris Milourn. who would have been 70 years of age on my seventeen birthday in September. was for long time a victim of alcohol disease, but last summer he spent some time at a retreat Tn Denver, and was pronounced by US authorities perfectly cured and himself assured me that he had lost all taste for liquor, and gave me the pledge Of his honor that he would never use lt again. The assurances gave me immeasurable happiness Against my earnest and repeated advice he started on a journey; was two weeKs on the way and seems to have fallen into temptation and yielded.
 had given him q letter of strong recom- mendation addressed to a number of friends in
 
 Worlds fair had interested others in his be- half. When his telegram came on Wednesday last asking to come home, my heart failed me Having no home of my own in which to care for him. and as I saw what must have happened. wired and also wrote immediately, stating the condition of the house and the family here My only brothers widow and children were in their home and also my circumstances narrow and hard, informing him at the same time that a number of letters awaited him in the care of my friend Mir. Quincy. He said nothing about being penniless but on the con- trary wrote just before leaving Denver that he had saved considerable sum of money which l supposed was still in his hands. Then came the terrible news an hour or two after mid night.
 have with reverent submission bowed to the will of Him whose ways are past finding out Not seldom was the last cent then pos sessed remitted to my son or for his use. But now that he was restored to a sound mind and body he promised to support himself. From that day. believing in his thorough cure and the steadfastness of his will. have used every means in my power, confident that was justi- fled in doing so by truth and honor to regain the position in the world he had lost. and to which his energy, business talents and accom- l plishments entitled him. and my heart glowed with the hope of seeing my only surviving sor filling an honored place among men. My eff l forts have been unsparing to secure him DO sition under the government with the hope O. success, and meanwhile tried to find him situation in Chicago to tide over the period oi waiting for better place. at the same time urging him to remain in Denver until my friends and myself could secur, l a place for him. With lifted hand
 declare before God and the world that l hav' used my best intelligence and unwavering love to rescue and redeem my son. and in the un speakable anguish Of this af1iction appeal [, the kind judgment and sympathy of all sort: and conditions of men throughout the land. | w. H. MU4BURN
 which have published the account of my son death will kindly give equal prominence to thi statement. w. H. M