Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16

OF the woman who had gone to
look after the baggage. The baby
now slept soundly, and the fret
ting custodian heard with distraction
the car-bell ring, and witnessed the de-
parture OF his fellow-waiters to get aboard
the train. he was too moral to swear
outWardly, but inwardly he roundlycursed
his luck and the evil moment he had con
scented to become nurse for the offspring
OF the unknown woman. The idea sud-
denly flashed upon him that he had been
made the victim Of confidence game, and
then he grew wild with wrath and excite
ment. He tried to free himself of the in
| FAINT by laying it down in a chair to finish
its sweet repose, but he had hardly turned
his back till it made the depot resound
with such screams as only well-developed
and " colicky" innocems can put forth !;
but he needed not the plaintive wailings.
lie dashed out Of the door just in time to
catch sight of the rear-end of the swift
moving train which did not turn back in
| response to his calls and maniacal ques-
tons. He sank down wilted and discon-
ISOLATE, and the weeping walls of the babe
he had SO cruelty deserted fell upon his
ears with awful force and terror. What
was he to dos
Now 1t must not be supposed for an in
slant that the old gentleman was hard
hearted or insensible as to what rightly
constituted cruelty to animals, even If he
did thus desert the little wait in the man
ner mentioned. To the contrary, all his
impulses were good and generous; but
u. any head OF genteel family put him.
self in his place and we should like to
know what he would do While cogitat-
ing over the plans ofrelief which rapidly,
| i'll succession, presented themselves to the
bewlldered farmer in this sad predica-
ment, the juvenile cause of his trouble
kept up such an unearthly yelling as to
call together around it n crowd of people,
| who at once concluded that it mad been
| deserted and left to die by cruel parents,
and many and loud and deep were the
anathemas hurled against the culprits by
the angry populace. The police were
called and they lost but little time in
working up case against the old
Granger, who was promptly arrested
on the depot platform and who vain
ly endcavored to eytricate himself from
his now exceedingly unpleasant situa-
ton. His story, though told with fearful
eyes, was entirely disbelievcd and he was
threatened with lynch law did he not &C
knowledge the truth and own up to the
parentage of the abandoned baby. This
he would not nor could not do. There is
no telling what might have happened to
the old man had not his own pastor hap
pened to drop in upon the scene to vouch
for his honesty, sobriety and many ether
virtues. All the while the babe squalled
territically, seeming to call for vengeance
on somebody, or tor-paregoric, soothing
syrup, or something else. rhe farmer was
arrested " on view for child desertion
and was about being taken to the station
house when, JOY beyond ioy!th the fat mother,
putting and blowing like iaded beast on
IA Butler County stage route, put in her
appearance and teartuly claimed her dar
ling little Charley, whom she thought she
had forever lost. The old man was at
once released from custody, and whisper
ing to his pastor the farewell injunction
not for his life to tell his wife Susan about
it, he left on the next train for his home,
inwardly resolved never again to be
caught in such an awkward iix--Pttts
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