The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-07-24
kENTUCKIANS IN
STRANGE STORY
Child of Love Match is
Abandoned.
Wed in Secret Because Their
Parents Hated Each
Other.

Herald publishes the following story
in which Kentucky people figure:
n re are no names in pnas STORY
Because of a blue-eyed five-year old
Mary who should never know until
she is old enough to know and under
stand and possibly forgive.
Because of man and wife who
stumbled into the pa'" who suffered
I'm secret and who will continue to
suffer while asts-and they ah0uNd
be permgtted TO retain their secnsE Z
Because of a man and woman to
whom God denied offspring erH VINO
have taken unto their hearrb and
home the baby abandoned by a boy
and a cir when eNpediency overrui-
ed love, .~
And, because
The moving fingex" wrote that
they should hate each other with the
cold. deadly, never-dying malevolence
Of Kentucky feud. They did, and
they do to this day, but no one knows
the reason why.
TN early manhood they left tie
Blue Grass State and Fate, with che
malignant persistence with which che
perfumes those unmarried in her Seb.
brought their wandering footsteps to
q halt i'm little town in Michigan.
There they settled.
They grew with the community.
One became the leading banker and the
other its prGArinent lawyer. Success
came but the oAd-time' raacor 30
manned. When the amenities OF so-
cial or busintes life lift,I command
ing finger courtesy ruled, but ohat
was all.
And they Married. To tine lawyer
was bonn son and unto the banker
daughter was given.
Fate. remorseless, threw boy and
girl together in SCHOOL, in play and
in the youthful activities of q small
town. Pinafore and knickerbOcker
friendship grew as the years rolled
by and one day-befOre they were
out of school--the chrysalis of friend
ship burst AMI radiant love came
forth.
For while boy and girl kept their
wonderful secret to themselves. 10
wprl% have been sacrflege TO talk
about it. Then the brutal realities
Of life crept into the roseate picture
Would papa? Would he-and be-
forget that horrible mysterious some
thing that had embitterd two lives?
Daughter crept into daddy's arms and
whispered the tale; son stood be0ore
father and told the story.
Tie OIL hatred blazed forth and
weeping girl and angry boy went
fort to meet i'm secret and wonder
why fate was SO unipkd.
One day they married. not in the
home town, but in another not far
away.
At first IL was a secret, but soon
1t became. APPARENT that 1t could not
be secret forever. So on some pre-
text or the other they left their re-
spective homes and met in the Wis
consan woods" There for several
weeks they lived q life of utter free
dom. But the greatest day in a
woman's life was approaching and
they came to Chicago. A bcby-a In
tie glrl-was born in Oak Park.
Today they are ashamed OF what
they did. Five years Of anguish and
remonse have not balanced the scales.
She could not, would not 80 back
home with a baby; newell. he ad-
mits III tOday-was a coward. They
decided to abandon the child.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester T. Bradford
live in Evanston. They. too. had a
baby, but it was upstairs In hs crib
while the little buggy stood on the
of the Bradford residence.
Fate placed IT there. The young
father had a friend who lived I'm
well-to-do young man.
who necessarily must live in o good
And with The address
IS pivot In seeking a house I'm
which their baby would receive ut
least a chance OF decent upbstneing.
the young towards started Tor Evsas-
ton. HalN a. block before they reach-
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