The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-05-07
A PATHETII STORY.

| NDA~"'oh NAihcoH county, LeaueI
Through a period of thirteen year
there has appeared upon the records o
the proceedings Of the Board Of Super
yisors Of this county, the following item
"Jessc May and child, temporary relief
one month, $780,"
| Obseryant, IL not suspicious persons
had begun to cogitate and wonder VIII,
such permanent repetition OF "tempo.
rary" necessity. From month to month
as the years have dragged their SLOW
lengths along since 1890 surely "Jess,
May" has grown old or die perhaps, ant
the "child" has maturedi
WHO is Jesse May and child?" mar
exclaimed irritably as he felthis pocket.
book and grudgingly paid his taxes
mumbling out something about forty
dollars more or less month going fol
Temporary relief "Send 'em to the
poor house that's their place." The
cold finger of the law points that way
indeed, and those who so contend have
the law for 1t, But we are only telling
the pathetic story OF Jesse May and
child.
Fourteen years, next August, stall
wart, handsome young farmer wooed
and won maiden fair, with a heart as
true as the dire exigencies OF human life
could possibly demand. The sunshine
Of joy beamed through the bright win
dows OF their little homo and like nest
ing birds they hoYered, and warbled Of
days and fuller joys to come.
On the 23rd Of August, 1891, a wee
hirdling fluttered in to share the warmth
OF the home nest and the heart OF the
lover throbbed with the added Joy Of
fatherhood; the sweetest story ever
heard foated out on the morning breeze,
rcdolentiwith the perfume OF honey sue.
kle and the fragrant odor Of the pines.
The grandmother, still young in years,
clasped the little one to her breast and
life seemed at full tide.
Six days later as the young father was
attending his duties about the place, he
was throWn by q mule and was rendered
helpless thereby, his body being para
lyaed from his waist down. The young
wife and mothers couch became his
resting place; and she emerged from the
pangs and joys motherhood to JAKE up
the bHrGen ii life alone, except for the
adpee aud tbopehttully planning tho
prostrate husband could give
AND he? Strong. brave, energetic, am
bilious, he was bound by chains that
tcould not be broken, oven by the de-
iaons OF rebellion and resistance that at
first ragged within his soul, At length,
when the Fathers will began to put "a
Hight the human side and "Not as | will.
but rs Thou wiltn came In gentle whis-
pers over the troubled waters, the strong
man lay there in the shade and shadow
watching the child" grow into young
womanhood, and counting the steps Of
the busy young mother who smiled to
think that she could serve him she had
vowed to love and honor through all
time. The particulars of this service
are enough TO wrench heart OF stone.
Thus the years passed by, and last
week when Hon. q. p. Jones, President
OF the Board Of Supervisors, and Road
Commissioner Montgomery went to In
yestigate the case with a view to finding
out all there is to find concerning the
dolngs OF the Board and the duties per-
tanning thereto, as is the Presidents
bounden duty, they found, out near
Adams Camp Ground, cosy coun.
try home, with comfortable appoint.
ments and some adornments. The faith
ful hands Of the mother, and her mother,
had labored assiduously and there was
corn and meat and to spare. These two
noble women had raised six bales Of cot.
ton the past season, and, through the
courtesy or Christian benevolence oi
a merchant Of summit they had be,
come the owners Of iorty acres Of lant
in their own right. The "child" wa
found to be a girl Of about thirteen
years, while Mrs. May is now but So an,
her mother still active and in REASONABLY,
health.
! And ryesse May,"-the strong young
man who had suffered living dealt