The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-10
Fer Romance.
BY LYNN ROBY MEEKINS.

Copyright, 1901 by Daily Story Pub Co.
When the most terrible hurricane Of the
nineteenth century swept over Galveston
in the first hours of Sunday morning,
the 9th of September, 1900, 1900 lives and
$37,O00,0O0 worth Of property were de-
stroyed. and the world stood appalled,
at, the extent Of the calamity. Then be-
fore the week was over, amid the rush
Ing of the relief trains and the noble
responses from town. city and state, the
stories of the tragedy began to spread
in all their marvellous details, and fact
outdid fiction in it's widest flights, for
in the merciless swirl of those waves of
death miracles occurred. Now the city
has risen again upon it's graves and the
brief memory of man, which in modern
times is little more than a ticker that
registers indehbly the electric impulses of
the indCmitable present, has long forgot
ten the stories of heroiSm and unac-
countable escape. But some of the in
stances will remain because there are
living testimonies.
Such is the case of the Garbane boy,
now entering his fourth year. His IA
Their was Paul Garbane, whose parents
and two sisters lived in Galveston. Paul
married the stcp-daughter of Mrs. Per-
law. Miss Clara Perlaw, a beautiful girl,
who made him a charming wife. Clara
was the daughter of the first wife, and
the second Mrs. Perlow was only few
years older than her step-daughter, whom
she disliked. Mr.. Perlaw died in 1896,
and the following year Clara Perlaw was
married to Paul Garbane after a brief
but earnest wooing. He had business
interests in the little city of Norkla,
where the Perlaws lived, and there they
settled in a cottage. Mrs. Perlaw, after
few months of loneliness, went to live
with them. Then within a year the
young Paul Garbane-he was named af-
ter his father-came to fill the home with
gladness, and life was sweet and good.
In the beginning Of September the Gar
banes-husband, wife and child-went to
Galveston to visit his parents Mrs.
Perlaw remaining in charge of the house.
They were caught in the hurricane and
all the Garbanes perished-parents and
sisters, son and wife-all except one.
RescuerS searching for those in whom
life remained heard a small voice issuing
from a pile of wreckage, and hastily re-
moving the brush, they found a sturdy
little fellow as snugly ensconced in his
surroundings as was Moses when the
daughter of Pharaoh pushed aside the
bullrushes.
Mrs. Perlaw read the story of the find
ing of the child and recognized him from
the initials upon the clothing and from
the description; so she hurried to the
stricken city and traced him step by
step until she reached the hospital tent
in which he was comfortably resting.
She gave the name to the committee,
and the next morning the papers of the
whole country told the thrilling story of
In a household of six adults and one
infant only the child escaped" and the
coming of Mrs. Perlaw and the fact that
she would take the boy to Norkla at once
were correctly reported in the diSpa tcheS.
The great public read the account, shud-
dered a second, and then forgot all about
the six victims of the hurricane and the
little life left ine the world without a
single blood relative to guide it's growth
to manhood.
But Mrs Parlow did well, for she did
the best she could, and as generously as
Ter modest circumstances would allow
Still it was a hard ordeal. Three DAYS
after they arrived in Norkla, Paul went
down with a severe cold and weakness
then fever set in and there were pains
that made him cry. DR.. Barnes, whose
life was rich with thizsy years of use
fitness in his profession, was called.
and he soon saw that pneumonia had
set in.
Mrs Perlaw," he said, Sin this there
is a limit to medicine; the case depends
| more upon nursing, and you must have
some one to help YOU
Neighbors gave their Assistance for
several night, but the burden fell chiefly
upon Mrs Perlaw. and she was bending
under it. One afternoon stranger, a
lady of evident refinement, dressed So
berry, came to the door and said that
she had heard experienced nursing was
needed in the case of little patient, and
she had come to offer her services. Be
fore she fully explained, DR.. Barnes ar
rived. He questioned her politely. but a