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BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
BOB'S BABY.
A Christmas Story.
A boy sat on a trunk near the -baggage
room of Wakeaha station, wait
ing for the train to come in. Not that
he was expeoting to go anywhere he
only wished he could but he liked
the bustle and excitement of the
scene, and, what was more to the pur
pose, he sometimes picked up a stray
penny by giving the porters a lift, or
standing guard over some gentle
man's traveling-bag, or carrying some
lady's supernumerary parcels.
On this particular occasion there
was au unusual bustle, for it was
Christmas morning, and the depot
was thronged with those awaiting
the arrival of .friends or who were
themselves bound on a holiday excur
sion. Presently the engine, with Its long
train of cars, came snorting and thun
dering up the track, and the crowd
surged forward to the front of the
platform. Bob for that was the boy's
name was about to do the same
when he was stopped by a showily
dressed woman with a child in her
arms.
"Please take my
ment," said she.
baby for
a mo-
"I've
forgotten
something."
"Yes, ma'am," said Bob, receiving
the child and seating himself on the
trunk again, while the woman, drop
ping her traveling-bag at his feet,
hurried away and was lost in the
crowd.
Bob waited patientty, not doubting
that she would immediately return to
claim her little charge ; but the min
utes wen by, the whistle sounded,
the bell rang, and the train began to
move slowly out of the depot, and
still she did not appear. Then Bob
started up in alarm and ran toward
the departing train, and, as he did so,
he distinctly saw the woman's face at
a window.
"The lady she's left her baby
take it, somebody !" he cried, and
held it out to two or three gentle
men who were rushing into the cars
at the last moment as gentlemen
will.
But neither of them seemed inclin
ed to avail themselves of the offer.
The train moved faster and faster,
and finally whisked out of sight,
while Bob still stood gazing in the di
rection in which it had vanished, an
irurtfc-o or ptryppJufi aritrl rtlsmtp-
"Gingo!" exclaimed he then, turn
ing his eyes from the lino of blue
smoke which still floated above the
tree-tops to the face of the child in
his arms; and in that single word he
expressed volumes.
"Well, what's the meaning of this?"
asked the depot-master, his attention
now for the first time attracted to the
scene.
"Why, you see, the lady asked me
to hold her baby while she went to
get something, and she was carried
off without it."
, "The lady ? What lady ?"
"I don't know. For I never seen
her before."
"Where did she come from?"
"Don't know. The fust T see, she
was standing right in front of me,"
"Where was she going ?"
"Don't know. Don't know nothing
about her, only she asked me to hold
the baby, because she'd forgot some
thing. She left her bag, too; here
'tis," pointing with his foot, because
his hands were otherwise engaged,
"and I know Bho went off in the cars,
'cause I see her looking out the win
der." There was a straightforwardness
about Bob's story which carried con
viction with it, and none of the little
circle, of which Bob was now the
center, thought of doubting its truth.
While the depot-master was delib
erating what to Bay next, a rough
looking boy about Bob's age, who
had left off shouting "Wakesha
Chronicle'' to hear what was going on,
cried out:
"Oh, ain't you green! She didn't
mean to come back.''
"That's so, I guess," said tho depot
master." "Bob, you're sold, and have got a
baby on your'hands," said another.
In short, it was apparent that the
young newsboy had expressed the
sentiments of all the men present.
"You had bettor go to the town au
thorities and let them take tho child,"
said the depot-master.
"Yes."
"Certainly," chimed in the bj-
standors; and so the matter would
have been settled, but the baby, who
had been looking wonderingly from
one to another, now nestled closely to
Bob s shoulder and began to wail pit
eously. It was only a natural result
of finding himself left so long alone
among strangers, but to tender-hearted
Bob it see.med a direct appeal to
his sympathy and protection.
"I should like to keep ber. I
should like to take her home,"
said he.
"Good for you!" said a man who
had not yet spoken only a poor coal
heaver, begrimed and smutched from
top to toe. "Good for you ! You see,
gentlemen, 'taint noways certain't
the woman won't come back next
tram ; so what's the hurry about
sending the baby to the poor-house
for that's what it would come to. If
the woman don't come and we don't
hear nothing after we've advertised,
'pears to me it'ill be time enough to
talk about the poor-house then."
No one offered any objeotion to this
view of the case, and the coal-heaver
'added:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1878.
"It will cost something to advertise,
though; don't know's that ought to
come onto Bob.7'
"Certainly not," said the depot
master, taking out IiIb pocket-book,
an example whloh was Immediately
followed by others, so that an amount
was collected quite sufficient to defray
all contingent expenses, and handed
over to Bob. Then he walked out of
the depot with the baby and carpet
bag, followed by his friend, the coal
heaver. "Have a ride on my keart?" asked
the latter.
"Don't care if I do, if it's in your
way," said Bob. .
"I'll make it in my way," said the
good-hearted man. So Bob climbed
in, the horse started offat a slow trot,
and the little oart jolted away over
the oobblestones, with its novel
freight.
It was not till Bob came in sight of
the little one-story house which he
called his home that he began to ask
himself whether he had not acted
hastily in undertaking such a charge
without consulting Mother Darby, as
he called the woman with whom he
lived.
For Bob was an orphan ; nay, more,
he had neither kith nor kin that he
knew of iu the world. Ever since
he could remember, he had been pass
ed from one to another, who had been
willing to harbor him for a little
while, either for charity or the work
he could do. For two or three months
his home had been with Mother Dar
by, receiving his board and scanty
clothing in consideration of his tend
ing the cow, bringing In wood and
running of errands.
"So, what will Mother Darby say?"
was the question he asked himself as
the cart stopped at the gate, and, bid
ding the kind coal-heaver good-bye,
he entered the house with his burden.
What she did say was, "What un
der the sun have you got there now?"
"She's so pretty and the woman
left her, and they talked of sending
her to the poor-house. I couldn't
help it," answered Bob, rather inco
herently. "Mercy on us! What are you talk
ing about? I can't make head nor
tail of it. But give me the baby, do.
She's most frozen, poor thing!"
And as the woman, whose heart
was much softer than her speech, sat
down by the fire and began to take off
the ohild's hood and cloak, Bob's
coutioj,.r.fiyived, and he told the story
rror. jeginning to end, as wo know
it already.
"A nice job you've undertaken!"
said Mrs. Darby then. "The woman
never'll come back, that you may de
pend. She wa'n't Its mother no
more'n lam."
"I thought you'd let It slay till
something could be done," said Bob,
dejectedly.
"Of course T will. I'm not a wild
Injun, to turn such a baby as this
adrift by itself," Baid Mother Darby.
She then warmed some milk and
fed the little one, and in a few min
utes it was sleeping quietly on Moth
er Darby's old calico lounge, uncon
scious alike of past or future perils.
"Her folks is well off, whatever
they be," said Mother Darby, exam
ining the little blue silk hood trim
med with Bwan's down, and the em
broidered Thibet cloak.
"The woman that gave her to me
was a stunner," said Bob; by" which
phrase he no doubt intended to ox
press his appreciation of her fine
clothes.
Bob lost no time in advertising the
child; but days went on and no ans
wer appeared, nor did the woman re
turn to claim her charge. The traveling-bag
contained nothing that would
afford tfce slightest clew to the child's
identity except the single name "El
sie" on some of the clothes.
"Well, I'm sorry, but there's noth
ing for it but to send it to the poor
house,' said Mother Darby.
"That I'll never do," said Bob.
"Heyday! I reckon there's some
body to be consulted besides you.
'Taiu'tlikely Ishall undertake to raise
her at my time of life, and nothing
but my two hands to depend upon,
neither."
"But couldn't you let her stay here
if I'd pny her board ?" pleaded Bob.
"You ?" said Mother Darby, laugh
ing derisively. "Muoh as ever you
earn the salt you eat."
"Well, if jou won't keep her, I sup
pose I must find a place for her some
where else, for she shall never go to
the poor-house while I can work for
liar
"Mercy sakes! If you're so set
about it, do let her stay and try it,"
said Mother Darby, whose heart se
cretly yearned over the child more
than she cared to acknowledge. And
so it was settled, though tho good
widow could not believe the arrange
ment would be more than temporary.
"I dar say, as soon as we begin to
get fond of the obild we shall have to
send her off," said she.
But in this case she was mistaken.
It was true that hitherto Bob had not
been overfond of work, and had giv
en her some ground for the taunt that
he hardly earned the salt he ate. But
now a great change came over him.
He feltjtbathe bad an object in life;
wbb ready to undertake any honest
job, to work early and late, so that he
might keep Elsie with him.
And when the story got abroad and
it was seen how thoroughly in earnest
he was, much sympathy was mani
fested for Bob and "Bob's baby," as
the child came to be called ; and
many kind-hearted people were ready
to aid him in his endeavors. So Bob
succeeded as he deserved to do, and
nothing more was ever said about
sending poor Elsie to the poor-house.
She, meanwhile, continued to grow
and thrive. In fact, she quite outgrew
her original wardrobe, which was
carefully folded away in Mrs. Darby's
best drawer, and new and coarser
clothing had to be provided for her
use.
Nearly a year had passed away and
people were ceasing to speculate upon
the mysterious advent of Bob's baby,
when the affair was revived again by
the appearance of an advertisement
in a New York paper headed, "Child
Lost." Then followed a description
of the child, of its clothing, with a
statement of dates and circumstances
which seemed to identify Elsie as the.
lost one beyond a doubt.
The address given was Amos Mark
ham, Box 1229, New York city.
Poor Bob ! This was a terrible blow
to him ; but he felt that he ought to
do all he could to restore Elsie to her
parents; so he immediately wrote a
letter in answer to the advertisement,
and, having dropped it into the office,
returned home with a heavy heart.
"Mebbe she doh't belong to them,
after all," said Bob to himself, "and
they've got to prove it before they
take her away.''
This was the one hope to whioh he
clung, but it speedily vanished, for
only three dayB later a lady and
gentleman stopped at Mother Darby's
door. Bob hastened to open it, and a
single giauoe at the lady's faco told
him that she was Elsie's mother.
"Is this the place" began the gen
tleman, but with a faint shriek tho
lady darted through the open door
and caught little Elsie in her arms.
"O my darling!" sobbed she; for
neither time, nor change, nor absence
could deceive the mother's heart.
If further proof was needed it was
found on Elsie's clothing, whloh, as
we have already said, Mother Darby
had carefully preserved, and in the
complete harmony of the evidence on
both sides.
The story Mr. Markham told was
this: His wife being an invalid, he
had, by order of the physician, taken
her to Italy to pass the winter, leav
ing Elsie in charge of a nurse in
whom they had confidence. They
kept up a oonstant communication
with the woman until their return,
when, to their dismay, they found
both nurse and ohild were missing
from the hou&e in whioh she had
llvod tr-lion tbjr-lad Joii the country.
They could obtain no trace of her,
and only recently they had received
a message from the woman, through a
third person, that she had left the
ohild at some station on the line of
the New York Central Railroad, but
the name of the place she had forgot
teh or failed to notice. Her object
in this transaction was, of course, to
appropriate the money, with which
she had been liberally supplied, and
rid herself of the burden of caring for
the child.
To Mother Darby, Mr. Markham
paid for her care of Elsie twice as
much as it was worth, which she re
ceived with a grateful courtesy, but
to Bob he said : "I don't know how
I can pay you."
"1 don't want any pay, I did it be
cause I loved her," answered Bob,
with a quivering lip.
"I shall remember you, though,"
said he, and led his wife to the hack
which was awaiting them outside the
gate ; but, when he would have lift
ed Elsie in, she clung to Bob, crying:
"Bobbie go, too! Bobbie go, too !"
"And why shouldn't he go, too? It
is very ornel to separate them," said
Mrs. Markham.
Then they talked a few minute3 iu
a low voice, and, turning to Bob, Mr.
Markham said, "How Bhould you like
to go to New York with us ?"
"To New York and be with Elsie?"
cried Bob, his brain hardly able to
take in two ideas of such magnitude
at once.
"Yes; to be with Elsie always. Do
you think you could be happy with
us?"
"Happy? Oh!" was all Bob could
answer.
Another Christmas morning dawn
ed, and again Bob rode from the sta
tion with Elsie in his arms; not, how
ever, in the poor coal-heaver's cart,
but in Mr. Markham's comfortable
carriage.
Presently the carriage stopped not
at Mother Darby's little one-story
house in the outskirts of Wakesha,
but at a pleasant, commodious dwel
ling in New York city. Mr. and
Mrs. Markham alighted, and went up
the granite steps, followed by Bob,
leading Elsie by the hand.
The door opened, and warmth, and
light, and beauty greeted them which
ever way they turned. Such was
Bob's entrance into his new home.
Can we do better than take our leave
of him there by wishiug him a mer
ry Christmas.
A writer sends to the Elmira Far
mers' Club the following cure for galls
on the shoulders of draft animals,
which he says is the best he ever used.
Dissolve six drachms of iodine in a
half pint of alcohol, and apply it on
the sore with a feather as soon as the
collar is removed, and, when at rest,
twice a day, morning and evening.
The article should be in the stable of
every farmer, as it is an excellent ap
plication on horses where the skin is
broken by kicks and other accidents,
and is a sure cure for splints if used in
a proper manner.
Cleanliness is the
vice and crime.
deadly enemy of
VOL. 23. NO. 21
PUNISHING CRIME.
Practical Reniarl3 of a Former 3feTY
York Governor.
From Horatio Seymour In Harper's.
While Governor of New York I
learned that the suffering for crime,
as a rule, fell not upon the offender,
but upon hi3 family. When I look
over our penal laws, their titles, to my
mind, read between their lines, "Acts
to punish wives and children of those
who violate their terms." I was con
stantly appealed to to pardon convicts
for these reasons, and in some cases
by the wives of those who made- the
complaints upon which the wrong
doer was. convicted. When thia was
told to them their answer was, that
while that was true, yet, when the
husbands were In jail, where they
were fed and warmedP their wives and
children were left to starve and freeze
for want of support. There is no per
fect way of dealing with crime, but
there is no worse way than the sys
tem of the State. Some years ago a
leading lawyer of New York traveled
through Egypt. He met the chief of
a wandering tribe of the desert, and
among othes things he told the wild
ruler of our laws and the way we dealt
with crime. He was heard with as
tonishment, andhehimself was struck
with their absurdities. After his re
turn he used to say that he never was
so thoroughly ashamed of his country
as when he was telling his simple
minded auditor what laws we had up
on this subject and how they were en
forced. While we may not frame per
fect systems, much can be done to
make a better state of things to sim
plify justice and to break up the ten
dency to disorderly conduct and to
vagrancy. We cannot hope to make
any marked improvement in our jails.
Each county must have one, and its
population will determine the charac
ter of its place of confinement. Those
in charge of them will be frequently
changed, and, save in the large cities,
the number and character of the in
mates will not admit of classification
etc.
The first change should be one that
will allow our Judges to impose pun
ishment other than sending the of
fenders to these common schools of
vice. As nothing can be worse than
our present laws, there can be no
harm in tryiug new plans. We must
have jails, as there are casea when the
safety of socfety makes It necessary
to lock men up. But as a rule, other
restraints can be used .which will
check, not teach, crime. Our laws
only allow two puulshments to be in
flicted for minor offences fines or im
prisonmentand these must be Im
posed without regard to age, sex, con
dition or circumstances. The law de
mands these, it matters not what mor
al or material mischief they may do.
As a rule, fines inflict distresson fam
ilies and friends, while jails are a gate
way to a course of wickedness which
leads to State prison. For these reas
ons no punishments are inflioted until
the offenders have grown into hard
ened criminals who exoite no sympa
thy. There is no power to deal in a
right way with the first step in crime,
with acts of mingled errorand wrong
doing. It has been my duty to look
into a great number of such cases,
and I have given much thought and
study to our statutes with regard to
them. Next to moral and religious
influences, we must rely upon the
wisdom of our laws with regard to
youthful offenders. It is compara
tively an easy matter to deal with
grave orimes. The first step toward
reform is to give magistrates a right,
within certain limits, to direct such
punishments as theyshallseeare best
fitted to reform wrong-doers. They
have all the facts before them,, and
best know what is just and right in
eaoh case. This will not give them
undue powers, but it will take away
pretexts for not doing their duty.
Now they must fine or imprison or
discharge. In many case9 either of
these courses is unsuitable, and many
wrong-doers go free for to enforoe tho
law would only make things-worae.
THIS STATE OF THINGS IS FULL OF
EVIL.
1 f magistrates should hi ud them out
to work, or direct the minors to- be
chastised by parents or guardians or
suitable persons many would be saved
from the moral leprosy which infects
our jails. Such or like punishment
would be inflicted, and there would be
no excuse for letting offenders escape.
Magistrates should have in addition
to their present power the same right
of control over vagrants, disorderly
persons and habitual offenders Which
parents or guardians have over their
children or wards. The fact that they
belong to these classes should be ju
diciously decided after a certain num-
I ber of convictions. When they are
thus enrolled in these classes, they
should have no right to vote at any
election. As our laws now stand, no
torious offenders who do no honest
work, who can only live in immoral
ways, are held to be innocent persons,
when they are arrested, until the for
mal, technical, and sometimes expen
sive, proofs are furnished that they
are guilty of practices which there is
a moral certainty they indulge in.
This is right when they are accused
of grave crimes. But there is no
hardship in putting such persons in
to thatstateof wardship in which the
law places all persons under the age
of 21 years, or who are afflicted with
disorderly minds. Should disorderly
morals be more leniently dealt with
than disorderly intellects? There is
no danger in giving magistrates the
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power over habitual offenders whioh,
parents and guardians have over mi
nors that of making them work, or
binding them out and of locking them
up; and, In the oas& of ohildrea
having them chastised rather than
senttojailB. There Is no reason to
fear that this punishment will be us
ed too often or too-harshly. It would
rarely be applied, but should not bo
made illegal, as it would give magis
trates great control, and would do
much to put an end to the bravado,
and swaggering of disorderly boys
which are so muoh admired by thebr
weak oryouthful companions.
A SCANDAL SPOILED.
The Plump and Pretty Woman a
Preacher Kissed.
The Wesleyan Methodist ohurcb
in Canada once might have bad asorfc
ofBeecher soandal, but it didn't. A
venerable clergyman was riding to the
district conference In the eastern
townships, somewhere near Stan
stead, his companion In the buggy
being a young, zealous-and indiscreet
minster, not long stationed In that
part of the country. As they Jogged
past a little cross-road tavern the old
gentleman indicated it with hla whlj
and Baid, "Manny and many a day
I've been at that tavorn years ago."
"Yes," said his companion with In
difference. Yes, aud a mighty hand
some wife the tavern-keeper had too.""
"Ah I" said the young brother, with
surprise. "Yes," continued the elder,
"she was one of the handsomest wo
men I evorsaw, young, pretty .plump-,
fine color, and suoh arms. Many and
many a kiss have I given her when
we weresittingonabighaircloth chair
In the little private sitting-room off
the bar. Well, well, time flies"
and the old man gazed at his compan
ion, whose eyes were as large as soup
plates, then blushing to a deep boet
red he said with. some confusion-,
"Bless me, what have I been saying?
Of course, brother, you will nofc
breathe a word of thia ; I cannot im
agine how I came to say anythlug a
bout It, but then the tongue is," etc.
The young-clergyman gave the requir
ed pledge and repeated it when at tha
end of their drive the old man be
sought him earnestly to remember
and not breathe a word of the matter.
But during the afternoon the young
uaiulatac arose, aad declaring that bV&
conscieuce would no longer allow him
to bear the burden he had imposed
upon it, and that he must tell the
truth, no matter how terrible the con
sequences, Informed the astonished
brethren that Brother B had that
day admitted that he had been guilty
of improper conduct towards a mar
ried woman nay, more, bad recited
his sin with an unction which show
ed that it had never been sincerely
repented of. It is needless to say that
everybody at first stared at the speak
er aud then at the accused minster,,
who for a hundred miles around, had
won an enviable reputation for up
rightness and purity. The accused
buried his face In hfs hands, and the
chairman desired the young brother;
to repeat his startling aocusatloni with?
details. The joung; clergymau did
so, and when he announced that the
other member of the"gullty pair" was.
a woman whose name he did not
know, but whose husband kept a tav
ern at corners, was electrified
to hear the chairman bawl, "Ha! ha!
ha! and every member of the confer
ence go'off in paroxysms oflaughter,
"Can you is it possible you can smile
at such a revelation ?" said the dumb
founded young minister, aud as soon
as the chairman had sufficiently mast
ered his emotion to speak, he said t
"My dear young brother, before-
Brother was converted and en
tered the ministry he kept that tav
ern !" Thereafter that young- minis
ter was no less zealous and infinitely
more disoreet.
Three Editions of a Dream.
Three editions of the same dream
In the watches of a single nJghtwitli.
a sequel early in the forenoon, Is al
physical phenomenon wortbstudylng
A correspondent of the Reading, Hag
gle relates that Anthony Romig, a
well-to-do farmer living about four
miles f7um Morgantown, wok&up his.
wife and told her a dream that made
the very strings of her nightcap stand
on end. He had dreamed that some
thieves had stopped his son, who had
started on his way to market shortly
after midnight with a wagon load of
produce, and robbed him of hiB cash
and severely beaten him. HIa wife-,
replied that it was only a dream, and
advised him to go to sleep as Boon aa
he eould. He did so, but soon after
again gave her another poke, and said
that be had had the same dream. She:
begged him to try and compose him
self and go to sleep which he did. A
third time the dream was repeated, on
which ho rose, and, it being- then af
ter 3 o'clock, dressed himself. At
breakfast his vision was the sole sub
ject of conversation. In the forenoon
word was brought to the house that
bis son had been attacked on the road,
robbed of his money and severely In
jured. Mr. Romig described minute
ly the appearance and dress of the two
men who in the dream had attacked
bis son. When he was taken to the
spot he pointed out the very place
where he bad seen the wagon Btopped
and his son assaulted by the robbers.
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that all luxuries are the result and
productoflabon