, 1877-02-10
A SAD EXPERIENCE.

Tho Story Of an EmIxsnnt-An Heroic Girl.
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sJntncs Stockton ltyt.l III u small town In 1:f-
gland. WORK was sery scarrc. and lie, with
t1nny others, felt that liz could not rcnRn lonG
ns he was. J hn frver to go tn Ancriea had PEN
etratcd the little village, aud many were selling
to collie to this enuntyy, where they thought al
WIS prosperity. St'skton l.ltl brAtl,cr who llaA
gollc 10 the nited States ard WIS reported ns
uot1g well. NgdeternErd to hunt hin up, and.
pr wurk was plenty. tU send fur Ills family. Al
though hc had III ltta of The sixe of tic country
10 Which he was Wung. and did not know wherc
l,:s brother was 10 atgi lie thought It wuult! be
very easy matter to lind him. He aoou dlscov-
cred its mistake.
After wandering about for tomc time, he
finally found Eoxl c'np!1yment III little placs
not far fruni Cleveland. Time uassed and he Ease
up MI hope VI finding Ills hruthcr and prepared
u return 10 his lalnily in Engin.,i. Quo Jay
fellow. workman askcd luis na1sc, telling hin, that
d Hlan named William Stockton WAS neighlor
10 hin. Stoekton felt that lie had found llis
lung,ost brother, a',l was 50 reloisc.i that lie
could not llnlkt Ills 'lay's work. lie fund Ills
brttier comfortably situated with q family
around him, and IL made him long 10 have hls
dear uncs. also. ronc. lie wrote tu have them
prepare, os he woutl seill passage tickets III u
abort time.
He procured the tickets mud was about to
send them, when he rcgrfyc1l letter from En-.
F'and: 1t wns long and alEcctlonatc mcssaEc
IRON bis wtc telling him that she was al reaiiy
u come, aud would bring to him little chilli
four months old, horn tu them after lii depart
are froln home sh. siTkc Of tic. joy shs
,yt, wou,d iave ~ akng ;i t! Journey knowing st.
thought That her journey III ([Ee Ems ncnsly over.
At tho end of thu letter wese lev lines from
the ot!t It child. girl u years of ngc, inform
tnE hin that. OIL tic next nDsnlslg after her
mother laA wrlttc,, the letter, ttiu. children
hcarl the little babc crying, uE. rs the mothers
voice NILS not heard, U,lc of them went 10 sec
whnt was tile matter, ald fouaL the mother
HAL IL
This LETT the carc o llyr small children to this
girl al Is years, md size a*ke1 her fatf,er what
she should do. a. l!p had q Vuol situation here,
he decided to hare thcrn eotne.
Tile little lrrae started with her tlnsre. She
knew ncthsng III travelling nndtousc4ucptly her
difficulties wero many. Wlsrn unc OF Two days
out OH the oetnn the labc took alex. anu ail ttst
others were n.oFc or less scastck. As the child
iiicdtciuc. liz ordered her to giyu The cild
warm batl! each morning. Sue went tu the
eook 14r the Hhrnl water, only to f'e grnt!y
ordered OF with tho Tcnlark that iic had MI tiHu
to trouble with the matter. Repcutell attempts
proved iii better, and. hefnxtUo tftnil to apyto
otncra for alh, sllo could du nothing fortfe little
sufferer. New York was. reached at last, an!l
se Thought sr ,. anost i oser s shl,.
would soosl see their father; But II two dAys'
journey on tho ears etlll awaited them.
Tic babe grow worse. mil TN tht lust day It
died In her arsl's. shc darcd not tell any one of
her anl thcu her iatllcr could not See Il. The
train tnalc longrr stop than usual ut a certain
plaec, and tho children went out onto the plat
iurnl fr exercise. Il !ady. noticing 10 many
children alone, went and talke1 with them. She
drew nstde the clolk from the little o1lc's 14er
mud saw that 1t ~as dead, The puor gtr begged
an piteuusly tliut she might bc allowed to t1kc
1t the few iaorr miles she ilal to 70, that small
collin WINS procured and tho dead baLe laid In
IT. Tie children started once ilose on their.
why, tho young nurse carrying the coffin un her
la{..
home VI lis brother, arg t!,o poor eh!!l Int! ts,o
lorg-pcnt gricf, telling through, her tcars how
much she had suffered and how she tlati prayed
tint s!lo might bring the bato nllye to hcr
f4thrr. ;,
such wills the experience Of James Stockton.
1t was sna trial for him, but he Ia co1lforte,
Will, tho thought that nurh nobso daughter Is
spared to him.