Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-06-25

"Whas will you do said she naively

| like buffalo Pm used to it."
A little boy pulled up from sound nap to
give place to ineomers, was pacifed and made
| quiet by a handful chestnuts and glowing bit
of candy out of the big mans pocket When
he left the cars for refreshment he brought
back his hand full of pies, and distributed them
among weary group A mother and seven
little children, the eldest not twelve years old
whose husband and father left the cars at every
stopping place, and returned more stupid and
beastly each time, scoIding the little tired rest
less ones with thick tongue, and glaring his
furious red eyes upon the poor grieyed victim
OF wife, like tiger upon its prey, because
she did not keep her young ones still they
would disturb everybody" No bite of refresh
ment, no exhlirating draught, no rest from
that fat, cross baby came to her all the long
night save when the big man stretched out
his great hands and took her baby boy for an
hour, and let him play with his splendid watch
to keep him quiet
"rll give ye thousand dollars for him."
said he, as he handed him back to her arms
on may have the whole lot for that
answered the drunken father, with swine like
grunt.
{" It's bargain" said the big man, "pro-
vidin' the mothers willin'"
" Indade, sir, it's not the one of them can
be bought for money" was the quiet yet de-
termined response of the mothers haart.
How kindly he helped her off of the cars
when, at the break of day, they came to their
journeys end.
Thus all night had he been attracting the
attention of the waking ones in the cars. But
his kindness would soon have been forgotten
by the mass Of the passengers, had he he
not stamped it upon our memories with his
gold
1" / wonder who he is p
"Where did he get in 2"
What an interesting character"
Education would spoil him."
"What rich furS !"
"Dd you notice what splendid watch he
carries ?"
=" He's some great man incog"
Such were a few of the queries that passed
from lip to lip. But there came no answer J;
for he who alone could have answered sat
crouched in his fur coat, seeming unconscious
of all but his own deep thoughts.
" Chicago !" shouted the brakeman, and in
an instant all was confusion, and our hero was
lost in the crowd. The next we saw of him
was at the baggage stand looking up band
box for a sweet-fooking country girl who was
going to learn the milliner's trade in the city
AS he he passed to our carriage we discovered
him again, holding an old man by the hand,
while he graSped the shoulder OF the conduc-
tor of another train with the other, getting
for the deaf gIay-haired SIRE the right infor-
nation as to the route he should take to get
to his darter who lived near Muscatine,
Iowa"
"God bless him for his good deeds y was
our earnest aspiration as we whirled round
the corner May his shadow never grow less !;
nor the gold in his pocket diminish for in his
unnumbered charities and mercies dropped so
unostentatiousy here and there, he is, perhaps,
doing more good in his day and generation,
than he who devotes his thousands to build
charitable institutions, to give honor to his
own name.
Oh, how much the world needs great hearts
that are able to comprehend little things !
and yet how often it happens that the learned,
the wise, and the rich out-grow the everyday
wants of humanity, and, feeling within them
selves the power to move rightly, pass the
humble duties that would make Thousand
hearts leap for joy, and push on, looking for
some wrong to right, some great sorrow to be
sOothed, some giant work to be accomplished !;
and failing to find the great WOrk. live and
die ncarcerated in their own sel6shness, and
do nothing at all
This rough mans nature seemed the nature
of the little child. His quick eye saw at a
glance ; his great heart warmed, and his
great hand executed his little work of charity
so small that one would have expected to
to see them slip between his giant fingers un-
mplished-yet were they done The re-
cordng angel will have longer column to set
down to his account of deeds well done, than
all the rest of the passengers on that crowd
ed car, on that long tedious, stormy night, in
January, 1856.