The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-11
A ROMANTIC STORY.

Who Is the Youar Wheeling Lady who
Lost hor child Thirteen Years Ago aud
has Jus Found Her?
A very romantic story comes from
over the river, iu which tho central
figures are a young woman from Wheel.
lug aud a Iong.loit child. No names are
given, but it is alleged tina! tue mys.
FERROUS Wheeling mother is wealthy and
amply able to provide for her daughter.
Shu fully compensated tue family, 81
far as money could do it, that had Carod
for her child all OF the long thirteen
yosrs.
About thirteen years ago, the story
goes, q young woman with 4 babe in
her arms asked Tor lodging at tho Glover
house, IN JaCobsburg, Belmont county,
and wa given q room for the night,
Tho next morning the babe was found
in tile bod At tho hotel, but tho Young
woman, wBe Was supposed 30 bs the
mother Of tho child, hal disappeared,
nor was she to DO found. DIlisont
effort was made 10 ind tho Woman who
had so cruelty abandoned tho child, but
all 10 no avail. hat disposition to
mako OF tho charge that had been LETT
IN thcir caro- vas 4 pGrp!eEinG question
to the praptictota Of tue house. lhon
it was that Hammond Auli, who lives
and still lives ia that noighborhood. and
hisEood vito took tho little stranger in
and Mrs. Ault cared for tho little QUO ms
her own. Thoy wore good people aud
tho child learned to love thom ~ hcr
parents aud they in turn 10 lovO tho
child. Some yuars ago Mrs. Ault died,
but tho child had become greatly at.
taChod 10 ito adopted father and hO
cared TOT Il kindly.
Tho Child's caroor was no moro event.
irl during several years pasl than IS or
binary with q poor mnu'g clItdrun. That
IL, not until ton days ago, when there
appeared At MIR, AuIt's nome at Bclh0s.
da n wOll.drcgSoi and accom- pliBhed wo.
man who created some commuilon by
announcing to Mr. Auit that sho was
tho mother Of tho child he had raised
md regarded rs his own, now i sprIght'
~ miss Of thtrtprn BnmmpTt. Mr.. huit
stood aghaJt. Tho woman, however,
maintained her assertion aud gave proof
10 tho entire saliaiaCti0n OF Mr.. Au,i
that Bhn was tho rOal molhCfoi tho child,
Sho did this In tho klndliost spirit, ior
rho felt that Mr.. Aull and hia dog3Gtcd
wiiO had rendered hOr Invaluable srr.
vice. sud thus ths i]ntofyiew continued
until the bright little glrl returned from.
school. Even bui0rn tho Gather" 40
sho supposed, contt reveal to tInr t'n
truth. ihomcoting Of thGmOlicr with her
daughter whom 5ho had moufnol ~
dead passed beyond description, Sbn
liuggol tho lost ono 10 hcr brcait In n
long, fond cmhraun, tpart oil iuy wolltuG
from hor eyes, too happy tor words,
aud tho trio wofo mgltoI In lOitB Of
eehmiRelsd ioy and radhe8s that no
pOn eau toll. But tho mother did not
forget Mr. Aults kIndnoss In caring Tor
tho child nil thuso years, aud his warm
attachment Tor the iiltlu MISS, nov that
Bho had grown 10 Years nj appreciation,
aud by word aud decd 90 inr n8 hlo
could rli1 compensated him. Tho
amount Ot Cash pad Ia uut exactly
known, but Is said 10 layo bONn 500 10
500, whilo u correspondent Ut tho Holt.
rttS Democrat tom tho nuithbnrhoui
NJ ilio occurrence, HnyH, "1hu handed
Mr. Ault u roll 0i bills amounting too
ann 40 ntc not VI lth0r.y IN namr, Int
neum sufficient to buy him Il cumlUfla
bIn home
Tho mothers Rlory Of how iot hahu
was lnkon from h0r Ia auto pnlNnlic
slo said tuat shc had npRrtIcI asaiRst