The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-08-04

A ToruHsNs fasprNr. The following
incident 81 travel IL narrated ~ = cor
respondent II tie Daily saraiogian
II took place on The Rensselaer, and sar.
aaoca railroad. on one ~ She northern
trans, bfta cen Saraloga and White
ball. Wien tie train halted AZ Sara
toga. among thc passengers from the
Vast came man II about 30 years Of
aae. chewing lis way through The
crowd ard bearing IN bis arms child.
lie was poor man, bis clothes we're
poor, he hooked poor Around bic bat
vas tied piece of soiled worn Grape
II was evidently al The mourning his
scAnly means would permit for the
child's mother was dead. This man was
rough IN exterior yet bis face was an
honest one. He handled The baby awk
wardiy, vet there was tenderness IN
bis nAd look that showed The purity Of
q fathers lore. The little fellow lay
asleep on has coarsly clad knee; a stray
sunbeam glanced across It's tired face.
They were both tired, the father and
child. for they had come from the far
West; and ~ be placed his bard, toll.
worn hand Ia shield il from the golden
rays, there vas IN his look mixture Fl
sadness and care, as IL has pent-up feel
iuRa had beon so crowded back into
ths inner cells u bis heart that even
tears could have been no rebel To the
hidden angflish That was making his
life misery
The poor child cried; il might be
the little thing wus tired II might be
II missed is mother. perhaps it was
hungry perhaps il WAS sick aud 50 il
cried TIE tears rolled down lis baby
checks; the fathor wiped the dewdrops
as they fell, and then tried to feed it,
He was 80 awkward with the bottle
his had been life ~ toll and hardship
ard be know moi how 10 give his dar-
ling its punishment, As he made ef-
fort after effort to stiile the cries and
cheek the tears OF his motherless babe,
how he must have missed her who in
hls life 81 lali0r aud privatiun bad been
his solaoe aud comfort An unbidden
tear started 70 bis eye, but he brushed
il quickly away All who saw him pitt
led nam At length a woman, richly
appareled, with an infant resting on
the zap Of It's nurse beside her she
had been watching the man said IN a
gentle q tone, Give me the child.
The poof fellow looked nj her with a
look II gratitude, for there WAS a
mothers tenderness IN her voice Nlth
hlA -, uatiUn, a. though il Nere
n t3pa eltH lin Gu fl a ,ao-
fmeAi, h. ave ler has Boy. Tie so-
mau took It it's soiled clothes rested
on her costly six Is tiny heud was
sJon beneath her shawl and IN u mo-
ment al was etilt Like ihe Grcciau
daughter who, through the IRON bars,
fed her starving father, 80 did this
hieh.born l,dy from her breast feed
the hungry child. and when, on her
gentle bosom the little Que lay IN calm
aud unvexad sleep. she pat aside the
shawl
The fathers heart sweAed With graf
itude He said. 81 tear wellfd IN his
eye, and bis vnice WAS thick with emo
ton, Thanh you. I'll take him now,
Then the woman's nature spoke forth,
A. she answered, Not yet; you will
wake hin, and Tor nile after mile that
noblo-hcartUd woman hold that poor
mans child, and il was not until her
own babe required such nouushment
81 onls mother can give, she gently
rose aud placed the stranger boy with
i,s father.