Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-08-26
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The following incident OF trasei - /!
narrated by correspo ndent OF s gie
Dahl Sarosooia,a It took place on the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad:
When the train halted at Saratoga,
among the passengers from the west
came . man OF about thirty years of
aoe elbowing his way through the
crowd, and bearing 10 his arms Q child
He was a poor man, his clothes were
poor he looked poor Around his hat
was tied a piece of soiled Grape. 1t
was evidently all the mourning his scan
ty means would permit, for the mother
of the child was dead.
This man was homely, yet his face
was an honest one. He handled the
baby awkwardly. yet there was ten
derness in his sad look that showed the
purity of fathers love The little fel-
low lay asleep on his coarsely-clad knee;
stray sunbeam glanced across Its
tired face. They were both tired, the
father and the child, for they had come
from the far West, and as he placed
his hard, toil-worn hand to shield il
from the golden rays, there was in his
look a mixture of sadness and care, as
if his pent up feelings had been so crowd
cd back into the inner cells OF his heart
that even tears could have been no re-
lief to the hidden anguish that was
making his life a misery
The poor child cried; it might be the
little thing was tired; it might be 1t
missed it's mother, perhaps it was hung
nv; perhaps it was sick, and so 1t cried.
| The tears rolled down it's baby cheeks;
the father wiped away the drops as
they fell, and then tried to feed it. lie
was so awkward with the bottle-hls
had been life of toll and hardship
and he knew not how To give his darl-
ing its nourishment. As he made eff
for, after effort to stitie the cries and
check the tears Of his motherless babe,
how he must have missed her who III
his life of labor aud privation had been
his solacs and comfort. An unblddcn
tear started to his eye, but he brushed
it quickly away. All who saw him
ptied him. At length n woman richly
appareled, with an infant resting on the
lap of her nurse beside her-she had
been watching the man-said IN gen
tie tone, Give mo the child The
poor fellow looked Mt her with look oil
gratitude, for there was mothers ten
derness in her voice. With humble
resignation, as though it was pain Ia
part with him even for moment, he
gave her his boy. The woman took it
Iits soiled clothes rested on her costly
silk; its tiny head vas coon beneath
her shawl. and in a moment oil was
still. Like tho Grccian daughter VIII
through the iron bars fed her starving
+. tatner, Sd did this high.born lady frou
her breast feed the hungry child. and
. when on her gentle bosom tho little one
lay in calm and unvexcd sleep. she put
aside the shawl.
The fathers heart swelled with graf
i,ade. lie said as tear welled IN hi'
eye, and his yoidc vas thick with emo
y ton, Thank you. I'll take him now
' Then the woman's nature spoke forth
: a. she gently answered. Not yet; yo'
/. will wake him." and fur milo after mills
!, tina. noble hearted woman held tina
/, poor mans child, and it was not unti
: her own babe required such nourish
4 mcnt as only mother can give sh
n gently rose and placed The strange
n boy with it's father.
GAY MARRIAGE CEgEGoSY.-The Seda
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