THE "SCBANTOK TBIBUNE-SATTTBDAT MOBNINOr JTJLT ' 25, 1896.1
V - FIELD AND FflNHING'S dONIOR. i
5 BY JOHN PAUL BOCOCK. S
N Copyricht, 1898, by the Bacheller Syndicate.! S
PART I. "
. I was asked one morning by my legal
preceptors. Potter & Patterson, to help
prepare for trial a law suit they had
brought' against .the Children's In
dustrial Home. I was not yet eld
enough to be admitted to the bar, hav
lac barely passed my twentieth birth
day, but I had assisted Mr. Patterson
in the trial of a number of Important
cases and was thoroughly competent
to look up and digest authorities as
well as to Beek out and examine wit
nesses before trial. I knew how' to col
lect italierit facts and brief leading au
thorities, and I looked forward eagerly
to the day when I could open a case, as
making' the first argument is oalled,
with my preceptor and friend Bitting
by, making - ready for the closing
speech. ' Lawyer Patterson had already
warned me With a laugh against "open
ing" a case "so wide" that he. "could
not close .it"" But I fairly ached for
the chance.. I. didn't see much of inter
est ahead, however, in this suit of "Wil
son H. Peckham and Wife against the
Children's- Industrial Home." It was
a fine May morning and I could not help
thinking that Isaak Walton's gentle
lore was .mure to my taste Just. then
than Sir William. Blackstone's.
Of course,. 11 r. Patterson had a gen
eral Idea of the facts on which our bill
in equity, the first paper In such a pro
ceeding, was based, for Mr. ltter had
talked them over with him before draw
ing the pleadings. Mr. Potter always
drew our pleadings; Mr. Patterson said
an advocate who was sure of his plead
ings had his case half won. . But he
thought It just as well that I should
call on Mr. and Mrs. Peckham that
morning and make careful notes of the
facts an dates which he would have
to depend on them to prove under oath.
I found them on the porch of the
handsome villa Mr. Peckham had taken
the spring before. I was struck by the
mournful beauty of Mrs. Peckham's
face and the graceful melancholy of her
voice and gestures. I suppose the near
approach of the date when the sad
story of her life would have to be told,
in public, at the county seat, fifteen
miles away, had opened the-old wounds.
And when I remembered that the ob
ject of this very suit. In whose prepara
tion I was now assisting, was to compel
the managers of the Children's Indus
trial home to reveal to Mrs. Peckham
the fate of her baby boy, committed to
their charge by a false friend nearly
twenty years before, I realized sud
denly how gentle I ought to be in my
treatment of so painful a subject.
Mr. Peckham was a handsome man
of military bearing and dignified man
ners. He came to meet me as I walked
up the lawn and shook his head when
I explained my employer's Instructions.
"I suppose it can't be helped," he said,
"but I am exceedingly sorry that Mrs.
Peckham must be harassed In this way.
She has seemed to me unusually de
pressed In spirits-of late." The lady
herself showed no hesitation when her
husband, leaning over the back of her
long porch chair, explained what I had
come for, . . .
"I will tell you, as best t can," she
said, slowly, ''of this great grler of my
life."' Her eyes sought those of her
husband, who sat by her side, hold
ing her hand with that delicate ten
derness which Is a husband's highest
compliment to his wife. Phe read en
couragement in them and went on:
"I had been living; happily. In the
town of P for nearly two years,
when my first husband. Captain Kste,
received a cablegram, one Friday night,
announcing the dangerous illness of his
mother, in Milan. He was her only son
and the thought came Into the minds
of us both, by a 'lightning flash of
sympathy, that he ought to go to her.
A steanwr sailed from New Tork the
next day at noon, and. although the
last train to the city had gone down
that night. It would be easy for him
to catch the boat Saturday morning.
iWe kissed our baby boy, Just a year
old, as he lay asleep in his cradle and
et about packing my husband's trunk..
He thought he would be back again in
a month, surely,, andi somehow the
dreadful shock of the parting had not
yet come over me.
"Weeks passed and I heard no more
from him. I tried to imagine him Over
come by the death of his mother, but
I could not understand how he could
be forgetful of his wife. A month
passed, and I wrote to the American1
consul at Milan, asking him to cable
me as soon as he had anything definite
to communicated ' No cable message
came, and one day In my desperation I
turned' to my neighbor, Mrs. Bartlett,
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as Bhe sat on my little vine-covered
piazza, comforting me, and cried outi
'Oh, Fanny, will you keep little Henry
if I go to Milan? If I don't do some
thing, I shall die! I can't sit here
and Just wait any longer Then I re
member I burst into tears and sobbed
on Fanny Bartlett's. shoulder until she
soothed me with a- speedy acquiescence
in my prayer. My little boy, she said,
should be as dear to her as though he
were her own. And. God forgive me,
I believed her!
"With no less haste than fop my hus
band's I prepared for my own depar-
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ture. ' He had left me a hundred or
two dollars in ready money, which I
also left In the local bank to Mrs. Bart
lett's credit. My diamond earrings, my
husband's present to me a short time
before, on my birthday. I took straight
into New York to the great Jewel house
from which I knew he had purchased
them. I explained the circumstances
and received for them in cash. $400. He
had paid $r,00; but I was delighted
with the bargain I had made. ' I made a
few hasty purchases, bought a ticket
to Genoa and hurried home to my baby.
The next day but one I was to sail.
ThP night I slept but little. All the
next day It was Friday, June 13
Fanny spent with me. She had no chil
dren of her own, and her husband was
away from home weeks at a- time on
business.. My house was to be Bhut up
and my baby's nurse was to go to
Fanny's with baby.
"Saturday morning, the 14th, I kissed
my brave little laddy, my blue-eyed
baby, good-by and hurried to the train.
In an agony of tears. Fanny petted me
and cheered me all she could, and hold
him up so that I could see him almost
all the way to the station. . lie smiled
and cooed."
Mrs. Peckham's voice choked: and,
on looking up, I perceived that her
head was resting on her husband's
shoulder and that tears were stream
ing down his cheeks. There, thought
I, is a Becond marriage whose happi
ness may yet make up for the misery
of the first. -
"I made a quick voyage," MK Teck
ham went on; by and by, "and reached
Milan without misadventure. I drove
straight to the American consul's and
was most kindly received. After watch
ing for many hours' nt the bedside of
his dying mother, my husband hud
himself expired suddenly oh the day of
the funeral. They ha been burled in
one tomb. The mother, havlnfr been a
resident of Milan for so many years,
her friends, in the confusion attendant
on the double fatality, lost sight en
tirely of the home and the loved ones
the son had left In a foreign land. No
body knew, so nobody thought any
thing about me and little Henry. When
I learned that my husband was dead, I
fainted. The consul had not seen or
heard of him.
It was a long time before I was able
to talk of my troubles. The consul
was very kind. He didn't know any
thing about my baby boy at home, and
I couldn't tell him. 1 was for weeks in
a weary dream of uhcohsclouiuiess, I y-
Wng motionless, speechless, on 'the hos
pital cot, waklng'now and then to the
reality of my iwoe and again . lapsing
Into feverish visions and black depths
of nothingness. Brain fever, the doc
tors callled It, In those: days. When I
could sit up In my -cot- and brush my
hair before- a hand-mirror I didn't
know myself.
"You poor thing, you poor, emaciated
sufferer, I thought, you are indeed to
be pitied. The angels must, weep for
you, here alone, friendless and. help-
"OH, GOD, MT BABY BOY!"
less, a widow In a strange land! Toil
thought to And him here, your protec
tor, your husband,, and you found him
dead! Your only welcome was the
grave.
"Now, as I sat so, commiserating my
self, I could see in the mirror a, fright
ened look steal into my own eyes and
I grew cold and trembled. What else
was there? What other, fiercer, sharp
er grief was this, that had been gnaw
ing at my heart-strings - these long
weeks of oblivion? What was it that
thrlled me now with terrible anguish.
"All of a sudden the hand glass
dropped to the tiled floor and broke In
to a dozen pieces, and I shrieked with
allmy strength: "My baby! Oh, Ood!
my baby boy! and I fell back once more
into merciful oblivion.".
PART) It
"All throgh the racking pangs and
frenzies of the yet more dreadful fever
which now preyed upon me," continued
Mrs.Peekham, "I talked and sobbed
and prayed and shrieked of just my
baby boy.
"There was nobody there that knew
me, except the consul; he didn't know
anything about my wee lad so far
away or how one little bit of news from
him might have healed up the poor
stricken mother's heart and soothed
the throbbing of her brain He was
gentleness and kindness itself, all that
a manly, courteous gentleman should
be; and I'll never, never cease to be
grateful to him for It."
Here Bhe patted her husband's shoul
der as he leuned over her chair and
held her hand in his, looking down all
the while in her beautiful, melancholy
eyes of gray. So you were the consul,
my fine fellow, I thought.
"The doctors quite gave me up this
time, and when I did regain consci
ousness, they say I had forgotten all
about baby and home and husband. I
could only sit on the long portico and
look out through the stone pilasters to
the smiling bay. -
"It was October before I was strong
enough to be moved, and when I start
ed for Havre, the consul and his good
patient sister, whom I had learned to
love, went with me. It was they, too,
sir, who brought me back here to P
safe home again. But not to baby I
have never Been my boy since the Sat
urday morning when Fanny Bartlett
held him up, In her arms.laughlng and
crowing, twenty years ago.
Mrs. Peckham's voice brokct Into a
sob, and. Indeed, I too was much af
fected. Her husband, who I now un
derstood, had resigned the consul
ship at Milan to accompany her back
to the United States, took up the story
here for her.
"We found, sir," said he, nlowly and
distinctly, "that the Bnrtletts had gone
to Sun Francisco to live. v Not hearing
from the child's mother, they had at
first marveled and fretted, and finally
made what may have seemed to them
proper disposition of the child. My
wife had no near relatives living and
no other close friend here, for now, you
see, we have chosen our home not far
away from where she and the Bartletts
then lived. They hnd not written to
her about the boy because they had
never heard from her. They could not
know that she was ill among strang
ers, unable to write, borken down
mentally and physically under Intense
sufferings. So they placed the child
In the Children's Industrial home, a
highly respectable private Institution,
as you know, and it Is to find out
what became of him that this suit you
are now preparing for has been
brought. For when we reached here,
the boy also had disappeared.
"For eighteen years we have sought
him In vain. We followed the Bartletts
to California and thence to the Sand
wich Islands, and would have followed
them to the bottom of the sea if the
gale which wrecked their steamer hud
not spared ours. We advertised and
we hired detectives and employed law
yers. I hnd no children, and I longed
to welcome the lost darling of my dear
wife. It was not until last year that
we found that he had been placed by
the Bartletts In the Children's Indus-
"NO, NO, NOT THAT!"
trial home Just before they started for
San Francisco. It nearly broke my
wife's heart when the president of the
home informed us that by the advice of
counsel he must decline to tell us what
had become of the boy. He acknowl
edged, however, that soon after the
Bartletts had entered him, under an as
sumed name, the lad had been removed
from the home. By whom he refused to
say. And that is the history of the law
suit which is to be tried next month."
I went back to the office of Potter &
Patterson wondering at the existence
of statutes which allowed such cruel
ties to be perpetrated in the name of
the law. Field & Funning, the attor
neys for the home, took the position
that he should not now be unsettled In
"his present family relations," having
gro,wn up In absolute Ignorance even
of his baptismal name. This was tho
only hint we had had that the babe had
lived.
At the opening of the term the cal
endar, or list of cases to be heard, was
formally culled. Peckham versus Tlvi
Children's Home would probably be
reached the third clay. Field & Fan
ning protested, through a Junior part
ner, whom I had not seen before, that
they could not be ready at that time,
but the Judge declared that the case
must be tried when reached. I took
this as an augury In our favor. Field
& Fanning's Junior left the courtroom
when I did, and I was filled with envy
when I heard that he was going to try
the cose, himself for his firm. It seemed
he had Just been admitted to partner
ship and was very anxious to succeed
In this his first serious undertaking. 1
was equally determined to relax no ef
fort in behalf of Mr. Peckham. OC
course, Mr. Patterson was to bear the
brunt of our side of the case.
When court opened on the day of
trial neither old Mr. Field nor Mr.
Fanning was present; they had left
everything to their Junior. President
Carter, of the Children's Home, a venerable-looking
man of great wealth
and many charities, sat by his young
counsel with several of the board of
directors. Mr. Carter was a retired
lawyer himself, and I was rather sur
prised to learn that Field & Fannlng's
Jvnlor was his son, and that President
Carter had been young Lawyer Cart
er's first client. The old man had asked
Field & Fanning If they were willing
to trust his son with the conduct of the
case, and they, not without some mis
glvings, it turned out, agreed to let
young Carter manage It.
Well, we put In our evidence, and
Mrs. Peckham's story, told In court
much as she had told It to me. brought
tears to many eyes. Young Carter, as
handsome a youth as I ever saw, cross
examined her with dignity and Intelli
gence. His sympathetic yet searching
questions moved her greatly; when he
asked her if she did not think that Mrs.
Bartlett was warranted by her long
and unexplained absence In believing
she had abandoned her child, Mrs. Peck
ham's emotion became uncontrollable.
Khe stretched her soft white hands ap
peallngly out to him from the witness
box with such a look In her eyes of
agony as no beholder could forget. "No,
no, not that!" Bhe moaneu. l thought
I saw her cross-examiner turn pale. As
his lip quivered for a moment I imag
ined he must have thought of his own
mother. Yet I knew old Lawyer-Car
ter had been a Widower for many years.
The dignity of the law soon reasserted
Itself in the court room, however, and
the case proceeded. When it came to
his closing speech In behalf of the home
and the beneflclent statutes which had
created and sustained it, and the benev
olent men who directed it, young Car
ter s tact was masterly. Mr. Patter-
son on our side had appealed for the
broken-hearted mother, her lifetime of
anguish, her heart hunger still unsat
istled, her alTecttons still clinging to
the babe she had prayed and wt'Ot for
mi :
"MADAM, THERE IS YOUR SON.
this score of years. He did all that any
man could do and would have carried
any Jury irreslstably. But the Judge
wns Imperturable.
Young Carter pleaded for the future
of the boy whose legal adoption had
given others a right to his love and
obedience, who had learned to regard
his present protectors as his parents,
and whose life had been ordained by
Providence, in accordance with the laws
governing the Children's Industrial
home, amid new scenes and faces. "I
do not know," he said. In conclusion
"where or who that lad may be, or Into
whose kindly hands he has fallen. I am
assured by the president of the lnsti
tution, the venerable man you see here
before you, thnt the babe has fulfilled
the fondest wishes of his adopted par
ents and that he is Ignorant that others
ever had a claim on him. God In His
Infinite wisdom has seen lit to separate
his path from that of lils fond mother
who bore him. We may wonder, but we
may not repine"
At this point the extraordinary char
acter of the scene around him disturbed
the speaker in his nrdent eloquence.
Everybody else had been watching it
with growing amazement. The Judge's
eyes were fixed on Mr. Carter, sr. The
latter's face was convulsed with emo
tlon.hls eyes seemed starting from their
sockets with anguished Intensity he
gazed at the sobbing figure of this
mother, who for twenty years had
mourned her son, dead only to her.
With a violent effort,- a hoarse cry, the
president of the children's home arose
to his feet and fairly shrieking: "Mud
am, there Is your son," pointed to the
Impassioned orator who at that mo
ment paused, turned ns white as this
paper on which I am writing, and with
a look of unutterable regret, of piteous
entreaty, fell Insensible over the table
And to him, sobbing:- "I knew it, I
knew it,' flew his mother Indeed.
For a few minutes there was a re
laxation of tense nerves and a general
unbending of brows and drying of eyes
It rarely falls to the lot of any man to
see such a spectacle. Court was In
stantly adjourned and nn entry made
on tho minutes of diseontlnance by mil
tual consent. And to the now smiling
mother, the light of happiness tenderly
glowing In her fair face, the wretched
old man explained how he had himself
adopted the boy, not long after Mrs,
Bartlett had placed him In the home.
and had grown to love him as his own
until he had been unable even after her
suit was brought to confess nnd surren
der. And thut's the way Mrs. Peck
ham's case was won for her, unwitting
ly, by her own son.
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'York, gays: "1 swiirei Immbly from rtyt-f
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DUPONT'S
RIMING, BUSTING MO SPORTING
POWDER
fanufaotured at the Wapwallopen Mills,
Luierne county, Pa., and at Wil
mington, Delaware.
HENRY BELIN, Jr.
General Agent for the Wyoming- District
II WYOMINO AVENUE. Scranton, Pa
Third National Bank Building.
AGENCIES:
THOS. FORD, Plttston, Pa.
JOHN B. SMITH A SON. Plymouth, Pa.
E. W. MULLIGAN. Wllkes-Barre. Pa,
Agents for the Repauno Chemical Com
pany's High Explosives.
ASKFOfcTRE B&KLETON
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FOR SALE BY THE
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SCRANTON STATION.
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tor Infants and Children; '
MOTHERS, Do You Know that Paregoric
Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing 6yrops, aad '
most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine? '
P Von Know that opium aad morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons A
' Be Tea Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell
narcotics without labelling them poisons ? ;
Po Yon Kimwt that you should not permit any medicine to be given your.
Child unless you or your physician know of what it is composed r . 1
o Vow Know that Caatorla Is a purely vegetable preparation, ml that a Ust
of Us ingredients is published with every bottle ?
Vo KtiOMr that Costoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. SAMTTEt.
PrrcBEa. That it has been la use for nearly thirty years, aud that more Costoria is -now
sold than of all other remedies for children combined? , '
Po Von Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher aud Ms assigns to use the word
Castor la and Its formula, and that to Imitate them is a state prison offense ?
' Po Von Know that one of the reasons for granting this government-protection -was
because Costoria had been proven to be absolutely barmleasr ''
Po Von Know that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for S
cents), or one cent a dose ?
Po Von Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, yonrcbildtes
Will be kept well, and that you will have unbroken rest ?
Well, these things) are worth knowing.
The facsimile
atgwatnre of
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wrapper.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
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Establishid 18GS.
Ovtr 26,000 in Uso.
THE (5ENUINE
PIANO
At a time when niauy manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardingthe merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
EL C. RICKER
General Dealer in Northeast
era Pennsylvania.
New Telephone Exchange Building, 115
Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa.
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61,827 BARRELS OF FLGUR
days' run at Plllsburj'S "A" Mill, aud over One Million
barrels in tho past six months, running Six Days a Week,
tho highest record of any mill in the world. Mr. Pil la
bury, tho manager of the Tillsbury "A" Mill, Challenges
Ail)' .Mill in tho World to como within 13.000 barrels of it
in a six days' run. Tho Pillsbury Washburn Flonr
Mills Co., Limited, not only own the largest mill in the
world, but make tho BEST FLO I It.
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C. P. flatthews Sons & Co.,
SCltAXTOX, pa.
Mill Agent,
Northeastern Perm's
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HEADACHE nH'iiir
IxnAI.in will core yon. A
vuDUrrrnl boon to pufffrtn
from Colds, HoreTb rout,
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tmmf (Hate relief. Anefficieni
rpmeilr. fnn ronton! tn mm
IB socket, resijr to tl on Ont Inillrstion of cold.
ratMe4 tJee l-aete Permanent rnre.
Satlsfaotloneiifcrnnteed or monoy refunded. Price,
ete. Trlul free nt DnteiriL9. KcgiAtorcd mnil.
W cants. a.D.CC3El,ll!r.,Ikn.R,Tn,sjctL, O.S.4.
rmnMiWAW) aa
lirilTlini The sarent and safeat remede for
Itlbn I nUL allpkindlseanes, KrTems.ltnh'.mit
Rheum.otd Pores. Murna, 'nta. WoneVrful rem
dy for PI I.F.H. Price. CS eta. at Drne- nil
"lets or by mall prepaid. Addrpaaasaboyn. OF I '
For sale by MATTHEWS BROS, and
JOHN H. PHELPS. Scranton. Pa,
Complexion Frcscnred
DR. HEBRA'S
IIIMI ftnanDl
Villi H -kfa't.V1 Yuiraw
Remove Freekle, Fimplst, 'it
Liver Moles. Blsckhssd; V
Sunburn and I an, ana n.-
storca tho skin to l! s origi
nal IriKtincss, frmucir.? i
..Inn .nil hpnltllT C ITU
preparations and ponortiy hamiPM. At all
UrugKiAUi.ur mailed fur SOiU. ticwX for Circular.
VIOLA 8KIM SOAP l inrly lweraM as
Ain unrt I .In. Hoao. unecnnVd for tn toih. aod vHkoat 8
,1 fcV UN Srwy. !hrtT M and dkaUr
cud. AUramH-s Price 25 CeMs.
G. C. BITTNCR& CO., Toledo, X
Por fiale by MATTHEWS BROS. aa4
JOHN II. PHELPS, Scranton, Pa-