The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-27
HEIR TO A FORTUNE
ORPHAN IN sUMMERFIELD
 HOME IS WEALTHY. l
A Story of Unusual Interest Develops from Receipt of Letter from
 Canada-News of the
 Central City.
Advertiser Bureau,


 Selma, June z6.
 Several months ago there appeared story in the Selma Department of The Advertiser story of young Canadian and his bride coming from their northern home last August and settling in one or the logging camps on the new nne or the Louisville and Nashville. just comA pleted in Wilcox County. The young man was intelligent and it appeared to those who knew him that he had been used to better days and was not accus- toraed to make his living welding an axe and pulling a saw. His wife was cul- tured, refined little woman, and never murmur was heard to fall from her ips. There was an air of culture and reiine- ment about the rough board house that they occupied, so much so that the other woodsmen, rough, but honest ieiioWs. always looked up to the new corners with deference and respect and they paid the wife of the young woodsman the greatest respect when in her presence. She was comedy young woman and by her digni- ty, gcntleness, patience, refinement and above all tender heartedness, she com manded the respect of all with whom she came in contact.
 Everything went we'll with the young couple until the winters rains set in, and then it was that the delicate constitution of the young husband gave way ana ne contracted pneumonia. For several weeks he fought against death. the ,beau- tiful young wife hanging over him ike ministering angel, but he finally sue cumbed to the disease and his companions gently placed him in coffin and bore nim on their shoulders and buried him De- heath the pines not far from the camp.
 The young wife, left helpless and penni- faac laxzf hn doath Of her husband. over 8 thousand miles away from those she loved was an object of pity. The loggers held a meeting and talked over the situa- tion and they all agreed to contribute out of their earnings toward her support, ana to their credit, be it said they kept their agreement sacredly. Each week sum of money. sufficient for her wants, was left in delicate manner where she could get it, and every day water was brought and wood was placed convenient For her The wives of the other loggers assisted her about her simple household duties and the angel of the camp" as she was called had everything just as she had in her husbands life, except the love and tender care of him who lay under the sod a few hundred yards away.
 In the course of time little blue-eyed baby came to that rude plank cottage and the sympathies of the camp were still more aroused by this event and those who had adopted her as their own, re- doubled their efforts to make her com fortable. But the exposure incident to a camp life was too much for the heart broken mother to stand. and one cold winters day. with. tbe rain pelting down pitilessly on the rude roof and the wind bowling dismally around the corners of the cottage, with her babe on aher arm and prayer on her lips. she closed her eyes in eternal sleep. and those who had buried the husband placed the young wife and mother by his side
 Another meeting was held and the log gers adopted the baby as their own, and determined to do for it what they had attempted to do for it's mother. They hired an old colored mammy to take care of the child, but they soon saw that un- less they could procure better home for the little baby boy, it, too, would soon be placed beside the father and mother, under the shadow of the pines" One of their number. a Mir. Williams, came to Selma and told the story to H. H. Stewart of the Summerfield Orphans Home with the result that the baby was taken there.
 Both mother and father were very reti- cent about where they came~fFom, and it seemed that they did all in their power to conceal their identity. A few clues were let drop, however. and these have been worked on by different persons. and this morning MT. Stewart received letter from Canada that throws light on the lives Of the. dead parents and may Iced up to a sequel full of interest.
 The letter stated that the man who had died in Wilcox was named Young, (and that was his name), had married the girl of his choice; ow with his father 6nsued and he left homo and had never written back. He was an only son and the father, who was wealthy. had grieved over the departure of his son and had pined away and died, and the little waif, now in the Summerfield Home, is the only heir to the large fortune left by its grandfather in his far-away Ca nadian home. Steps are being taken to establish beyond doubt the identity of the child.