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Show . n v . .v . , ... ... ,V & T) 17) rt; r7) ,V, (7) it ffl (J 0 8 vi) LIGHT SXILL EUEKS" () TTT" ' VI'TOT? - NQ W rCi DAVID PATTON". ' a ; - . - ' S T5 ere s a "r rht in the window"' W '0 for Uavi 1 Pa" ..n. (J Uvery l !ght for'ihlrty ypnrs it has (..) ") burnt-d is a beacon -to iJirect the (") (j) etejig cf th WttiMlerer, should he () fj chance to see it. () (") His uhit-baired, - faithful wife, (") who has not seen him eic he e Ud (o ''Good-bye," soon afler returnir.ff C5 W from the waria the keeper" of the 0 W sacred lighthouse. , Oh Until now she has been buoyed up S w by the hope that the sweetheart of () her youth would some day return. (Sj 0 Now. as old age creeps upon her, (5) her faith, grows weaker, 0 Sl.e does not believe the man ha forgotten her; she fears that he W 3eaJ and that his body Is resting in an oliscure. unhonored grave. ., For that reason she seeks infor- motion of the musing man, in ordor A that her mind may be set at rest and that she may, if he reaily b i dtiidj'y a tribute to his memory. ) vte) ii) (t) ( :'rsf; J::lia Pattoa' Watts and Prays fcr Husband Who Left for the Vest - Thirty Years, Ago CINCITNATr, 0, Aug. 5. For thirty long years, many of them full of bitter hardships, Mrs. Julia M. Patton, this - city, hum Matched and waited for her husband. N " When eht last saw him he was a j-'' young man, hale and hearty, witb the glow of fresh young manhood -in his face. , If he is living today he Is white-i - haired, old and bent, but thes things the faithful wife doe, not take into " conalderation. ... ; StlU .Cer Eweethaart. . To her he Is stm the young and har.d-. har.d-. soma man to whom she said good-bye ' Juet after the war, when he went West ; to sock bis fortune, leaving her behind until he should b able to send for her. Her devotion never fcas wavered for Van instant. During all the weary years she has ' waited she ha supported herself as beet , she could, hoping that some day her f husband .would return to claim her, 1 Almost Pives TJp Hope. j Now she has almost 'given up hope ' of ever seeing him alive, and is trying . to find his last resting place, in order that she may lay a wreath, of-flowers on the grave, which she would water with her tears. , - ' . Mrs. Patton is more than 60 years of age and for several years has lived by herself in a plain but neatly furnished room at 725 Broadway. , It is a story full of pathetic heart ln-i ln-i : terest the way this woman, left by her i . husband at the close of the Civil war, , , has struggled through the world alone, ' and noWj when her hair has turned gray and the furrows cf car have left " Indelible traces in her face, yearns for ', tidings of him. 1 ... The man she seeks is David Patton, who was a member of company H, One -Hundred and Thirty-seventh OJ1I0 vol-. vol-. unteers. Patton married her when he enlisted, leaving the young wife alone at home, as .' so many did in thosa troublous times. He served through the war and after . being mustered out, like many others, turned his face to the West in search .'. of fortune. Leaving Mrs. Fatten here, he went Z first to Kansas and then to Texas. - Occasionally word rame from the missing man, but these . notes soon stopped, and for thirty years -Mrs. Pat-" Pat-" ton has lived alone with her hope that - some day he might return. j : ; tfot tn ActnaJ Want, .: . , 1 Through the infirmities of age it is gradually becomjng harder for her to . ftnd the means of support, but sh,e does i. - ' not want. - She has relatives here, but stm she feels it unnecessary to fall back ' on them. , . s "I will hear from David some day,' she says, "and I shall advertise in the ' papers until I do. Whether he is dead I do not know, but it would be a great satisfaction to have definite knowledge - of his whereabouts." |