Year: 1875




ter left home ostensIbly for the town in


Kentucky where Lille was TO teach.
They came to Cincinnati and visited the
Home of the Friendless on Court street
1t is said that, on Meeting the Matron OF


that institution, the mother was unable


to bear the weight OF her daughter dis


grace, and claimed TO be her aunt, in


stead of her mother; but her sorrowing
face, her falling tears, her trembling form


and broken accents told too plainly OF
her tender relation to the unfortunate


Lille. The MatTon, accustomed TO such


scenes of grief, proposed more practical
solution of their trouble. She proposed
that the seducer be hunted down and
brought to Justice, 1t had been intimat
| ed that Jones had some to indianapolis,
| and she advised Mrs. Brown and her
| daughters to go over there and secure his
Z arrest. And so. with hearts burning for
| redress. they boarded the cars for that


city. By some kind Providence they


were led to stop ut the very hotel where
! the object OF their search was domiciled.
| A warrant for his arrest was secured and
served upon him before he had time to
realize his position. His father was sent
/ for and came TO his relief The affair
was compromised by the father of Jones
| paying over to Mrs. Brown the sum OF
twelve hundred dollars. Having secured
this much from the scoundrel, she re
turned to Cincinnati and placed Lille in
/ the Home of the Friendless until her
babe should be born, after which she
went back to her home in Brown county
to an1iousiy await the issue of events.
Lille was delivered of her child, bright
fair-faced boy, just one year ago, and in
six weeks from that time she left the
Home for her fathers house, pretending
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after the holidays. Though her face was
not so bright and cheerful as OF yore,and
though she was somewhat thin and at


tenuated in form, it was all ascribed to
the hard life she had lived as a school
teacher Her innocent and confding
sisters never dreamed that she had been
ruined and disgraced by the unprincipled
lover, and her old. kind-hearted father
never once thought but that his "baby
girl was as innocent and pure as when
he fondled her in his arms in her infancy.
The little boy baby was left at the Home
of the Friendless until some plan could
be devised by which it could be taken to
her own home. After six weeks of wear
isome suspense, it was decided that the
assistant Matron of the Home of the
Friendless should convey it to her fathers
house. II was arranged for her to leave
Cincinnati on certain day by the omni-
bus, which leaves from the corner of
Broadway and Second streets, which, by
the way, passes by the door of the Brown
homestead Lille knew at what hour
the omnibus would arrive, which was
about 9 o'clock at night, and kept an
eager watch for its coming Mrs Ed
ridge kept her company in walking up
and down the yard and gazing out into
the moon-lit road, listening for the COM
ing of the bus. ut seems to me-" says
our informant, "that | can now see her
as she appeared at that time in her ef-
forts TO pierce the darkness of the night,
and get glimpse of our approach. Every
sound startled her. Even the rustling
of the leaves caused her breast to heave
sighs, and when she mistook some dis
tant sound for our ponderous vehicle,
the disappointment would cause her
slender form TO shake like a reed in the
wind. At last the old familiar sound
was surely heard. First came the rum
bling of heavy wheels, and then the
tread of the horses feet Mrs Edridge
said it was all she could do to restrain
her from running up the road to meet
us. When we arrived and alighted, Lii
lie was almost overcome with excitement
She snatched her babe from me with al
most frantic fervor and covered it with
thousand kisses, while her tears were
falling on its little face like rain-drops in
a shower. No words can fully describe
that affecting scene Lille knew those
happy moments would be few, and so she
made the most OF them. How little did
her aged father and innocent sisters
dream of what was transpiriDg at the
gate, not hundred feet away The
mother was party to the programe that
had been arranged for the reception of
the clElu but at that moment she kept
her seat around the freside." Presently,
after all tears had been wiped away, Mrs
Eldridee and Lille introduced a strange
lady, with q young babe, who desired ac-
commodations for the night. The hos
pitalities of the house were freely ex-
tended The bright little baby became
a favorite at once with all the household,
and was almost suffocated with embraces
and caresses. Old Mr.. Brown was pro-
fuse in his demonstrations toward it, and
said many times, Il wish | was its grand
pa, he is such handsome little fellow
could keep him always u 1t is not nee
essary to inform the reader what Lille
and her mother were doing just then, or
undertake TO describe the anguish of
their hearts. When the strange lady
saw how well her charge was liked by the
entire family, she proposed that they
keep it for her for day or two until her
business in that neighborhood should be
completed. The proposition was eagerly
accepted. The lady departed early the
next morning and, of course. never re-
turned. II was at once noised abroad in
the neigh hborhood that the Browns had
had child left with them by some un-
feeling mother. just about that time
the scoundrel who was the father of the
child arrived there with his bride, hav-
ing in his absence made the acquaintance
of very excellent young lady and mar
ried her. When he heard that his vic
tim with her offspring had come home
he seemed livid with rage, and though
he, above all others, should have kept
the secret of his villainy in his own
breast, ne was so morally polluted that
upon the first opportunity he divulged
then to all others with whom he came In
contact. But wise Providence has de
creed that rewards and punishments
shall be meted out even in this life, and
the case of young Jones was no excep
ton to the rule We have not the plea
sure of announcing that Lilies distracted
father gave him a dose of cold lead in the
region Of blaclzened and depraved heart,
nor even knock his two eyes into one,
but be received his reward from an un-
expected quarter When his made
wife heard OF his outrageous conduct she
didn't tear her hair and fall over and
faint, aud then forgive her husband; but
she deliberately packed her trunks and
returned to her father house, where she
now is, and filed her application for di-
In oh &c Yaaf tSfF