Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-05-21

| precluded his doing but moiety of the good i
lay in his power to do.
| All the way through our long, tedious journey
| he had been ever on the watch to do good III,
gave up his seat by the FIRE to an Irish woman
and her children, and took one farther back; soor
young girl seated herself by his side as tn,
night hours wore on, and she nodded YEARLY h,
rose, spread his beautiful leopard skin with it
soft, rich lining, on the seat, made pillow o
his carpetbag, and insisted that she should Ii,
down and sleep.
| What will you do . said she naiyely.
| Never mind mel can stand up and SLEEP
like Buffalo; I'm used to it-THAT's SO =
A little boy, pulled up from sound nap &c
give place to incemors, was pacitied and made
happy by handful of chestnuts and CLOWN g
bit of candy out of the big mans pocket When
he left the cars for refreshments 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 scoldng the little tired restless
ones with thick tongue, and glazing his furious
red eyes upon the poor grieved victim Of wife,
like tiger upon its prey, because she did not
keep her youn' ones still : they would disturb
every body. No bite of refreshment, no exhilar-
ating 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,
IN give yer a thousand dollars for him. said
he, as he handed him back to her arms.
You may have the whole lot for that answer
ed the drunken father with a swine-hke
grunt
It's bargain, said the big man, 'providin,
tn mothers willing .
'Indade sir, its not the one of them can be had
for money was the quiet yet determined re-
Spouse of the mothers heart.
How kindly he helped her off the cars when,
at the break of day, they came to their journey 3
end
Thus all night had he been attracting the at
tention of the waking ones in the cars. But mis-
kindness and rough politeness would soon have
been forgotten by the mass of the passengers,
had he not stamped it upon our memories with
his gold.
Il wonder who he is and where did he get in.
What an interesting character
Education would spoil him. What rich
furs. 'Di 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; for
he, who alone could have answered, sat creuched
in his fur coat, seeming unconscious of all but
his own deep thoughts
'Chicagon 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 looking country girl, who was going to
learn the milIiner's trade in the city. AS we
passed to our carriage, we discovered him again
holding an old man by the hand while he grasped
the shoulder of a conductor of another train
with the other, getting for the deaf, gray haired
sire the right information as to the route he
should take to get to his darter, who lived near
Muscatne, Iowa
God bless him for his good deeds = was our
earnest aspiration, as we whirled round the cor
ner. May his shadow never grow less, or the
gold in his pocket diminish, for in his unnum-
bered charities and mercies dropped so unosten-
tatiously here and there, he is, perhaps, doing
more good in his day and generation, than he
who donates his thousands to build charitable
institutions, to give honor to his own name.
This rough mans nature seemed the nature
of the little child. His quick eye saw at glance,
his great heart warmed, and his great hand ex-
ecuted his little works of charity-so small that
one would have expected to see them slip be-
tween his giant fingers unaccomplished-yet
were they done. The angel over the right
shoulder will have longer column to set down,
to his account of deeds well done, than all the
rest o. the passengers of that crowded car, on
that long, tedious, s.ormey night, in January,
1856