The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-31
BESSIE HENDRICKS JOUR-
NEY,

NEY.
| CARS stop twenty minuteSn' called
out Conductor Richardson at Allen S
Junction. Then, as the train came to
a dead halt, he jumped down upon the
depot platform, ran along to the front
of the long line of passenger cars,
where the engine was standing, and,
swinging himself up into the cab said
to the engineer:
Frank, | want you to come back to
| the first passenger coach and see lit
| tie girl that l don't hardly know what
to make Of.
Frank nodded, without speaking,
| deliberately wiped his oily, smoky
! hands in bunch of "waste,' took a
! look at his grim, dusty face in the mar
row little mirror that hung beside the
steam-gauge, pulled off his short frock,
put on a coat, changed his little black,
greasy cap for soft felt hat, taking
these ''dreSs-up" articles from the ten
| der-boX, where an engineer always has
something slowed away for any emer-
gency, and went back to the car as re-
quested.
He entered the car and made his
way to the seat where the kind-hearted
! conductor sat talking to a brlght-lOOk-
ing little girl, about nine yeats old,
oddly dressed i'll woman'S shawl and
bonnet.
Several of the passengers were
grouped around the seat, evidently
much interested in the child. who
wore sad, prematurely old counte-
nance, but seemed to be neither tlmd
nor confused.
Here is the engineer, said the
conductor, kindly, as Frank ap-
preached.
She held up her hand to him. with
a winsome smile breaking over her
pinched little face, and said:
My papa was an engineer nefefe he
became SICK and Went to i've on Il
larm III MONTANA lie Is 0e"t dIlo lIlS
mamma IS oeao' ohe oIed llrSt' De
lore vine ana susie My papa use"
to tell me that after he should be dead
there would be no one 10 take care OF
me, and then must get on the cars
and go TO MS olo nome Ill Vermont.
! Ana he Salu IL lllt ColluuclolS NouIu
! not leU lie llue pecduSe hdoll dilE
tlchel' hAu9I DISH Iol ''le eti6illeei aii'
Ieli MN Iii"t l was ''"iiieS heii''rlcA ;
httIe GIRL ana 'h"' lie use" 10 run on
'iie NJ o''''
Inc Pleadlhg Olne eyes We're now
SulluSeo WIN Tears ouC Slle ulu iloI
CRY alIer tie nldililei Vi cllllOIleil Ill
general.
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hlSoe" llol wa e0nO''ilS' "i''' 'n'i' 90
lie brushed 'he tears away from HIS
own eyes sad
ell, my oeaI' 50 So" are NIUE
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poaiu tillS llalh'
lnen' l'IlHlllS lol'llu w llie SlOup vi
! passengers lle "eill oll.
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was Hall ouC ol Cel Inou'"llo' " heii
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accilill"'eu' was 'lcA " great part oI
'he tlne' 50 INA! l oouiu no' WORK
ana l got hoheSlch anu oiSco"ttSeo'
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10 say hoIllllls ol my uoClol piA' @ii''
ulul Mucn cdle "heIAel 1 ANco VI
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dlohS anu Tie iheh "ele Set'iii5 'iieii
hioHIniy wages there WASH " GeH'
coming 70 me lor ll"''n Deem II ct
ffom the aSne nor worked al llo"l loI
'he last lholth,
1elt SO 'plue IllaC sdC uo"il vi
plle ol lallloao lleS all" io"ii'u i'is
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