The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-08-19
doing but moiety Of the good it lay in
his mower 10 do.

bis power to do.
All the way through our long and te.
dious journey, he had been ever on the
watch to do good BE gave up bic seat
BY the Ere to an Irish woman and her
child, and took one farther back. Soon
young girl seated herself by his side
as the night hours wore on, and abe
nodded wearily he rose spread his beau.
tiful leopard skin, 18th its soft rich Ii.
ming on the seat, made a pillow of his
carpet bag and insisted that she should
lie down and sleep
What will you do 2 said she.
Never mind mel can stand up and
sleep like buffalo; I'n used to it
that's so.'
A little boy, pulled up from a sound
nap to give place to incomers, paeiied
and made happy by handful Of chest.
mute and a glowing bit of candy out Of
the big mans pocket. When he left
the cars for refreshments, be brought
back bis hands full Of pies, and distribu.
ted them among weary and way-worn
looking group. A mother and uevon
little children, the eldest not twelve year
old, whose husband and father left the
cara At every stopping place. and re.
turned more stupid and beastly each
time, scolding the little tired, restless
ones, with thick tongue and glsring bis
furious red eyes upon the poor grieved
victim Of wife, like q tiger upon it's
prey, because she did not keep her
young ones still they would disturb
everybody, No bite of refreshment. no
exhiirating draught, no rest from that
fat, cross baby, came to her all the long
night. save when the big man strstched
out bis big hands and took her boy for
an hour, and lie, him play with his splen
did hunting watch to keep him quiet.
III give you q thousand dollars for
him. said he as he handed him back to
her arms.
You can have the whole lot for that
answered the drunken father, with
swipe.like grnut
'Irs q bargain, said the big man,
providing the mothers willing
'1udade, sir it's no, one of them can
be bought for the money was the quiet
yet determined response of the mothers
heart
How kindly he helped her of the cars,
when at the break of day they came to
their journeys end.
Thus all night long had he been at
tracing the attention of the waking
ones in the cars. But bis kindness and
rough politeness would soon have been
forgotten by the mass of passengers bad
he not stamped it on our memories with
his gold.
Chicago 7 shouted the brakeman, and
in an instant all was in confusion, and
our hero was lost in the crowd. The
next We saw Of him was at the baggage
stand, looking up a box for sweet look.
ing country girl, who was going to learn
the milliner's tradO in shat city. A We
pressed to our carriage, We discovered
him again, holding an old man BY the
hand, while he Rrssped the shoulder Of
the conductor Of on other train with the
other. getting for the deaf, grey haired
sire, the right information as to the route
he should take 10 get to his darter, who
lived near Musoatine Iowa.
God bless him for bis noble deeds y
was onr earnest aspiration, a. we whirl.
ed round the corner. May his shadow
never be less, or the gold in his pocket
diminish, for in his unnum bered ohari.
ties and mercies dropped so unosten,a.
tiously here and there, he is. perhaps.
doing more good in bis day and genera.
tion, than he who donates his thousands
to build charitable institutions, to give
honor to his own name.
Oh, how much the world need, great
hearts that are able to comprehend little
tbings-and yet how often it happens
that the learned, the rich and the wise,
outgrow the every day wants of humani.
ty, and feeling with themselves the pow.
er to move migbtily-pass by the hum.
BILE duties that would maka . thousand
hoarts leap for joy--snd puah on looking
for soms great wrong or right, some
great sorrow to be smoothed, some giant
work to be accomplished aud failing to
find the great work live and die, inoar.
cerated 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 glance; his great heart
warmed, and his great hand expedited
his little works Of eharity--so small that
one would have expected to see them
slip between his gian, 6ngers-yet they
were done. The angel over the right
shoulder will have longer column to
set down to his account of good deeds
we'll done, than to all the rest Of the pas.
sengers of the crowded car, on that te.
dious stormy night Of January, 1857.