The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-05-21

tie children, the eldest not twelve year
: old, whose husband and father left tn
carsat every stopping place, and returne
t more stupid and beastly each time, scold
, ing the little tired restless ones with thicI
: tongue, and glaring his furious red eye
upon the poor grieved victim Of a wife
, like a tiger upon its prey; because Sh
did not keep her young ones still, they
would disturb every body. No bit of re-
froshmont, no cxhilarating draught no res
for that fat, cross baby, came to her al
the long night, save when the big mar
stretched out his great handsand took the
baby boy for an hour, and let him play
with his splendid watch to keep him qui
ct.
'l'll give yer thousand dollars for
him, said he as lie handed him back to
her arms.
you may have the whole lot for that,
answered the drunken father with a swine
! like grunt.
+ Its bargain, said the big man, pro
yidin' the mothers willing.
'Indqde sir, its not the one Of them can
be had for money was the quiet yet de-
termined response Of the mothers heart.
How kindly he helped her off 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. ,BNt his kindness and rough polite
ness would soon have been forgotten by
the mass of the passengers, had he not
stamped it upon our memories with his
gold.
4 wonder who he is and where did
he get in What an interesting charac-
ter
Education would spoil him. what
rich furs. Did you notice what a splen-
did 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 an
swered, sat crouched in bis 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 him was at the baggage stand, look,
ing up a band box for a sweet looking
country girl, who was going to learn the
milliner'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 the conductor of
another train with the other, getting for
the deaf, gray-haired sire the right infor
nation as to the rout he should take to
get to 'his darter who lived near Musca-
tine, Iowa
God bless him for his good deeds! was
our earnest aspiration, as we whirled
round the corner. May his shadow never
grow less, or the gold in his pocket dimin-
sh, for in his uncumbered charities and
mercies dropped so unostantatiously here
and there, he is perhaps, doing more good
n his day and generation, than be who
levotes his thousands to build charitable
10 give honor to his own
name.
Oh how much the world needs great
hearts that are able to comprehend little
hings-and yet how often it happens that
he learned, the wise, and the rich, out
grow the every day wants of humanity,
md feeling within themselves the power
o move mightily--pass by the humble
luties that would make a thousand hearts
cap for joy-and push on, looking for
ome wrong to right some giant work to
,e accomplished; and failing to find The
rent COrk, live and die, incarcerated in
heir own selfshness, and ,do.po.AiamiaA