Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-05-31

DISSEMINATION. But earnestly hope God will
| put 1t It my sons heart to come home II he Is
living and relieve me Of my terrible ankle
ty.''
The kind-hearted Coroner at once wired
Mrs Cobb to the effect that thu hair of the
unfortunate victim was straight and very
| black.
| Mrs. Simpson, of No 1928 Biddle street,
Philadelphia. also has a wandering boy. In
her letter to Coroner Brennan she breatiles
| fervent prayer that it is not her boy lying in
the Bristol Morgue. After describing her
son, who she says is more than Is years old.
Mrs. Simpson says: ''If God has not yet seen
| fit to call my darling to his heavenly home,
pray He will guide his footsteps back to the
hearthstone his desertion has made SO DESC
late.''
Mrs Eiliberg, of No. 2O66 Taylor street
Philadelphia, also mourns an absent, way
ward son. The letter was written on May 16,
and little Jimmie had been missing since the
Saturday previous. 81 can only hope" runs
the letter, 'that the poor boy, lying so cold
and still in the Bristol Morgue, is not my lit.
tie Jimmie. He was good boy. and don't
know why he should 90 from us, who love
him so we'll God pity the poor mother Of the
little fellow in your charge"
| BOY GONE FROM YORK.
Mrs. F. e. Barton, of No. 5l2 South Water
street, York, Pa, sheds bite tears for one
who has wandered from the family fold
After describing her boy, Mrs. Barton COM
| forts the afflicted mother whose boy met such
shocking DEATH as follows: ''from my
heart of hearts ask the Good Father to pity
| the poor mother, if she be alive whose darling
boy is now your care. pray that God will
| watch my erring son and bring him back safe.
| ly to my arms. 1t the Athletic should fall to
| to my lot let me know quickly. l can bow
my head and say: THY will be done on
Earth as it is done in Heav en-. .
| The above are only samp les of very few
of the many letters receiv ed. 1t certainly
takes circumstance like tn death of little
Eddie Colgan to bring out all phases OF
| huma nature. Despite the act that accu
rate ecriptions of the boy were printed il
"The Record" together with his picture, some
remarkably absurd queries were sent in
Some of the lost boys had red hair. One wa
"bald. headed from sickness" Others ha(
missing fingers and toes. One little fellow
| was cripple, and the letter described him as
slightly demented.
o ne person, who would probably answe
accurately the description of the "village
wag," and who may get better sense if lef
unhung long enough, wrote anonymousl.
| from Bethlehem, Pa, suggesting that tn
dead boy might be the lost Charley Ross. IT
the young man who wrote that letter had
been in Bristo when it was opened he woul
have absorbed enough of the sense of sham
to last the ordinary person a lifetime. HI
might have absorbed couple of boots, also
for Coroner Brennan was in no trlfiing mood
One of the the most pathetic incidents was tn
receipt of cabinet photograph of cute littl
fellow on hobby horse. 1t obtained no des-
cription, and no address, but a sheet of pape
written in beautiful and scholarly feminine
hand bore the following stanza from one of
Eugene Fields poems. The letter was post
marked New York, and was evidently thu
outpouring from mother brooding over the
death of her boy:
asleep little one, and take thy rest,
With angels bending over thee
Sleep sweetly on that Fathers breast
Whom our dear Christ hath reconciled;
But stay not there-come ba ok to me.
o little child, my little child.''