New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-12
A RAILWAY iuclde,t.

az the station, az he put her into tina a.
risge with an affeotiOnate farewell.
ways watch with great interest the faran
and greetings of my fellow travellers y
have fashion for thinking out for w.
the whole story of their previous lives r.
the little hints that get in this way. 7,
to me az IT were permitted to omen ,
second volume of an interesting roman,
and allowing to read only one short s au'
in this, and asked to guess as nearly ss se y
slble from this one scene the previous coa ~
OF the story and the characters OF the ao.,
in 1t. w"
The youngest child was an infant oh,
three or four months old-very QUIET :,
good, the other was pretty, restless IN
girl of three, who could not be still sin.
moment, and kept the careful mother hV9
by her childish questions and wsuts y
childish prattle. She was not at all bsssd
and soon talked to us also In sach natna]
cOquettish, condescending way. thai
were quite in love with the charming IN.
lassie, and begged her mother not to ANY, I
her innocent advances to us.
When we had been travelling .ogetba, j
two or three hours and began to feel ou;|
like old acquaintance, while the train "
going at full speed, the mother half NJ
from her seat to place the little girl, vi
had left her place again on the opposA
seat. How it happened have never andJ
stood; it was one of those Academia MI
seem impossible, and, in fact, only ham,
once in a hundred thousand times; but M
as she stood half erect holding her slee61
babe upon one arm and her little frolicso1]
maiden somewhat awkwardly on the otb1
the little girl made one Of her sud5l
quick movements, and in an instant che n
gone from her eyes.
What moment! The poor mother so
fixed snd rigid in exactly the same at RIM
Her arm still bent as though around
child, gazing with wide open, fixed eys
the place whence she vanished. She seem|
literally turned to stone; with the rest Of
the case was almost the same. How IN
this lasted l do not know; doubtlem
seemed to us much longer than it rsa
was. Then the young mother seemed
come to herself, and made q sudden maj
ment as If she would epring through
window after her vanished darling, now
away. / caught her quickly fast and h
her. while the kind young lady who cat
pOsite to me took the baby from her ar
and we all began to talk together, no
listening to the other, about what was Ia
done for her. Somehow-we managed in
excitement to do all that was possible.
guard came, the train was stopped, and
mother, without speaking to one of ii,
even looking at us, left the train, suppl
ing herself on one arm of the sympathi,|
guard, while he held the still sleeping b
fast in the other.
OF course the train must 90 with
creased speed TO make up for the nom
of delay, 80 there was no chance for as
see more of the poor bereaved mott
Telegraph TO us at the next station
one of the railroad functionaries to
guard. Eyes, yes, be sure to do it i'm
d1,.tely," cried dozen voices, for in %
mysterious way the news of the aceid
had run through the train as if by
triclty, and long row of sympathid
faces watched from the carriage the dis
pearing FERNS of the mother and the %,
sit will take her half an hour to reach
spot, and it is just thirty minutes
to the next station" said the stout gen
man in the corner, taking out bis watch
holding it open in his hand, his eyes "a
upon it. He had struck me as one Of
most selfish and disagreeable old gen
men possible; scarcely answering a p
que ton from neighbOr, and then 10
shortest and grutfest manner possible
had seemed completely absorbed by
newspaper and his snuff box, not haV
noticed the little fairy in any way excep
glance at her now and then with ssV
expression as her clear, childish laugh
disturbed his reading. Now his whole
seemed to be fixed on the watch before !
and he "chided the tardy flight of til n
again and again in words more ford
than ornamental.
There was young would-be dandy in 7
corner; light, straw colored gloves,
der cane, an infant mustache, and an
glass stuck In one eye, seemed to be, id
opinion, tokens of vast superiority over y
other travellers; ald he spoke very ii l,
except occasionally to make some sups
ious remark or ask some question 81
third class travelling, apparently to prod 7
on us the impression that he was a I'd
nobleman or prince, perhaps. in disg
seeing for himself how ordinary moi
Jared. What . change had come over
now; the eye glass hung dangling hi
and thither; with the kid gloves, Of vi
he had been SO dainty, he had graspsd
dirty facing of the door, and was strsI
his gaze, first back ward, until the
mother was no longer to be seen, and
forward to the next station, where \,
was to meet him. Z
Now, at last, we are there; the
halts, and one of the guards runs qu
into the little Office over which "telsg
is painted. Eyeryb body who can pe
get his or her head out of the windoU
that side thrusts it out. There is moi v
of intense suspense; here comes the X
again with dispatch in mis- hand; hest
about midway between the ends Of
train. and begins to read it out in his
loud, official tones: "Child perfectly 90
alighted on pile of straw in field
two feet from stone WALL" bm
Then what scene Every man =
train windows has his hat off in mO1 "'
and is waving it and cheering o. r.. -.
would split his throat; every womI "
buried in her pocket han 1kerchief, An
and laughing together. The stout !. !,
egotist and the vain young dandy
thrown their arms around each other
are en- bracing with that heartiness th
longs to the sons of the Vaterlan
though they never met before this mod
The stiff old maid in the corner has d
my hands in both hers 80 many time
l feel they are quite sore.
All the inhabitants of the little se
come running around the train. "W
it3 Where is he} IL it the X aiser BIZ
or is it the KrOnprinzlr they asked
wildered excitement at the sight Of y Pos
But all the Kaisers and Kronpriu
Europe put tegethe could not havea IT
the flood of feeling that surged throug
train. 1t was sympathy with sent
far older than loyalty-older than the III,
to whom loyalty is due-which was st
every heart. 1t was sympathy VI
mothers love ~. s. T.. IL The Boso IL
certiser.
A Heavenly Study.
The young man who had always
tested an interest in the heavens aboy M,