Japhet Secundus.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7957, 21 October 1905, Page 4

Japhet Secundus.

lil IV v,;r, ;1 \ 4 .|-\ rollia 111 ji" roiMvai. d r nil advi-rl isement ap P'-arihii in the a K ony column oi 11, ( . Times the diliday. and which ran its follows ; I N " S '~reward for information as icili,. whereabouts rl th«» highl.v i<>j»rrialilc patents v\ ho so m,\ s-t-rinwly lost tln-ir ;nfant \al>v I.oy about ixr.fl. The S|IJ) i s ;l | jv nml u.'II, All particulars can Uc had bv applicat ion to (.\F. M.. '-a. .Milwrli.n Stnvi, Kensington Ibmd. S.K. j,ondon. Ihe tads of jJiis story of a modern •Inphet can ho beietly summarised. In IN.">B ihoiv liv.tl mVir Manchester a well 10-do land dwiht anil his wj|>, whose muiie. however, is unknown. .\ son was hum to thi'in. but when only a few months old was taken out by his nurse, and neither returned. For years Dtp- agonised parents Tor missing hoy. Novrlort or expemse was spared to discover Ins whereabouts, hut allijail-| cd. and in tinn* the bereaved parents jjave np the .(piest in despair. The 'ba- I by hoy, it now transpires, had been hand.d over' to a sculptor and h*s wife. w]io lived at West Gordon, in Manchester. When he was sown \ears old Ihe family moved to JLi\erpoci, and 11v»'■ years later went "to Canada, uhere the ho\ was educated and started in libv Fur thilly-fotir vears he lived t heje u ithout an inUiiuj, of the fori that the man and woman lie loved us his parents were in v no wax related lohim. Hut in ISJJ2 he learned the trutli. hut no! the whole of it. for the death of his supposed father robbed him of that, and made ne<vssar\ the search which he has vince eniiducted. The sculptor. then a ui-douer. la\ on his -deathbed, but though lie I.iii"U heuasd.vbip: could not himself to bleak hi* bni«; sil.-nce and inform tlie"son" of his true p.uvnt For da.vs the >old man Impend on. (ended by his adopl.d son. When the end drew neart he d\inir man suddenly grasped his "son's hand, and. st ln ln a silting poslure. gasped out : " You are not my son. /You are " Then h- iVH b.vk dead, taking the Secret with him to th.-urave. Since then •('F V. ' h;is unavailinvJv sought lii parents, jijst as foriy-seven \i(ir« .!i'i t he.v spared >no effort to iii.'d him.