The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-28
ONE TOUCH or NATURE.
\ Thrilling Railway Incident In
Germany.


twas Il third class carriage, She
was plcasant-iaced young woman,
going, think, for the first time after
her marriage, to visit her parents in
her old home, to show them their
fine grandchildren. At least, this
was the little history | built upon
her in my own brain from word
or two that | had heard betwe n
her and her young husband at the
station, as he put her into the car.
riage with an afectionate farewell.
| always watch with great interest
the farewell and greetings Of my
fellow travellers, and have fashion
of thinking out for myself the whole
story Of their previous lives from
the little hints that | get in this
way. 1t is to me as if | were per-
niitted to open the second volume Of
an interesting romance, and allowed
to read one short scene in this, and
asked to guess as nearly as possible,
from this one scene, the previous
course of the story and the charac.
ter of the actors in it.
The youngest child was an infant
of about three or four months old
very quiet and good; the other was
apretty, restless
LITTLE GIRL OF THREE,
who could not be still u single mo-
ment, and kept the careful mother
busy by her questions and wants
and childish pratte. She was not
at all bashful, and soon talked to us
also in such natural, coquetish,
condescending way that we were
quite in love with the charming lit
tie lassio, and begged her mother
not to check her innocent advances
to us.
When we had been travelling to-
gether for two or three hours, and
began to feel quite like old acquain.
tancos, while the train was going at
full speed, the mother halfrose from
her seat to place the little girl, who
had left her place again, on tho OPP
posite seat. How it happened, |
never understood, it was one Of
those accidents which seem impos-
sible, and, in fact, only happen once
in a hundred thousand times but
Just as she stood half Greet, holding
her sleeping babe upon ono arm, and
her little froliesomc maiden some
what awkwardly on the other, the
little girl made one Of her sudden,
quick movements, and in an instant
SHE WAS GONE FROM OUR EYES
What moment The poor
mother stood fixed aud rigid in ex-
actly the same attitude, her arms
still bent as though around hcr
child, gazing with wide open, fixed
eyes at the place whore she had
vanished. She seemed literally,
suddenly turned to stone; with the
rest of us, tho case was almost the
same How long this lasted, | do
not know doubtless, it seemed
much longer than it really was.
Then the young mother seeraed to
come to herself and made a sudden
movelheb 'Nress she woul spring
from Tho windom,after her vanished
darling, now far away. | caught
iser quickly, and,held her fast while
the young lady who sat opposite to
me took her baby from her arms,
and we all begin to talk together,
no one listening to the other, about
what Yves to be done for her. Some
how, we managed in ourexcitement
to dc all. that was possible; The
.,ar%. .lame, the train was stopped,
and tie mother, without speaking
to one of us, or even looking at us,
left the. train, ..,nassg
SUPPORTING HERSELF n
on the arm of the sympathizing
guard, while ho held the sleeping
body fast In The other
OF course the train mustgp with
increased speed to make up for the
moment of delay, so there was no
chance for us to sec more OF the
poor bereaved mother. Photograph
to us at the next station, sad one
of the railroad functionaries to thC
guard. "Yes, yes, be sure to DO II
Immediately, cried a dozen voices
for in som mysterious way the news
of tho accident had run through
the tram as II by electricity, and I
long row of sympathizing face
watched from the carriage the dls
appearing of the mother and th'
guard. efiA ~
at will take her half an hour Y
reach the spot, and it is just thirty
fveNminutes now to tho next sta
ton, said the stout gentleman i
the corner, taking out his watc'
and holding il open in his hand, hi
2 eyes fixed upon IT, He had struck m
as being one of tho most selfish an
disagreable old gentlemen possible
he had seemed completely absorbe
by his newspaper and his smut, boz
not having noticed tho littlo fair
in any way except to glance at he
now and then witha savage oxprei