The Red Cloud chief., 1879-12-11
PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY.
n In.id-H, on a ws.,.rH RaiI-sy Train

The train IA on IT, way from Par.
ker-yille. Ind. ~ Coiuth. n AZ the
Western Junction Station fcw mile.
beyond Parker~yille-,hcr ans on
board the train a very beautiful young
lady. accompanied by a hari-farc,i AMI
gloomy looking man. who, from hi> P~T-
-pnal appearance, had probably hscn =
pirate in hi early youth. and had suns
in m3turcr year. - deeper depths e.:
crime. The pair occupied a Lat to-
gcther. the nan l-'ing careful {" give III
girl the seat mex 20 the window. lhs
passengers. If cBur-c, wcr. Interested ia
the beautiful young woman, ansl were
-ricych to notice that she Wa, in tear.
A. the train started, -hc exclaimed,
'.Oh' | can not %. Don't take III,
AWAY Ia which the dark aud forbid.
ding man audIbiy said, Hush. and
then. bending down, whispered what
Wa doubtless 4 diabriICll threat iu b,g
ear. She made nu further cutlery. hul,
pulling down her veil, wopt in silence,
while her companion watched her close
Is, with the evident determination 81
selling her should she attcmp, Ia c~ril.
- FrAf'AAi- WI ~ haAatAa
There Wa a confirmed philanihrupi,,
in the ear; a middlc-agc,l man who had
passed q lifetime mcdIling in the affair
# others. lii blood boiled a. he SAW
youth and beauty in the power uf 4 BE-,
tcrmincd villain. II wa> plain io biz
mind that the d~ark-facc. man hai Kid
mapped tn" girl. and wa taking her
AWAY from her home. Perhaps h. IN.
tended Ia c]oniinc her in a luuatIr l~y-
lum from motives IT revenge, ar per.
hapS he intended la marry her iurciuiy
in order I" seize her property. Ia any
event, hc MAS clearly an ]atruciou- male,
factor. and it wa- a phiiauthropic duty
I" thwart his wicked designs.
Ia the smoking ear were q dozen og
more miners returning from Dyidw"Ol,
and Ia these the veteran p~hilauthropi-;
betook himself. lie told them the story
Of the dark-faccd k]idnappcr and his
beautiful victim, aud asked him il they
would help him Ia rescue the girl and ina.
ilict summary punishment On the villain.
They all un~hc,itatingly consented, au,
the philanthropi,t had much dili.
Guilty in inducing them 10 refrain from
blowing the villains brains out, and Ia
content themselves with a mil,lcr form
Of punishment.
The twelve miners, with drawn pi~-
tolls, followed the philauthropi,t into the
a where the kidnapped girl va, weep
ing, and Suddenly presented their wclp-
on> at the head II the abductnr. The
girl gave a wild shrek and tainted,
which still further c~NtSpcrIIcd the res
cucr>. They seized the wicked man and
bound him hand and fool-occI>innIlly
hitting him over the hcad-not becaI>x
he made any resistance, but ~ a mere
tribute To virtue, and an expression OF
their adherence of his crime. The train
having by this time reached a lonely
swamp of many miles in extent, they
pulled the bcll-rope and stopped the ear.
The baiflcd villain was then thrown of
into Il particularly large mud-hole, AMI
the engineer, who had learned the cau>e
ii the Stoppagc, and had caught the
philanthropic fever, put ON steam and
drove the train rapidly on lis way.
Still escorted by his noble miners, the
philanthropi~t returned To- the ear i'm
which the young lady WAS slowly re-
covering from her fainting fit,
and waited until she fully rcyiv-
ed. Her first inquiry was, Where j.
he? What have YOU done with him?'
To which the philanthropi>t replied
"Don't be afraid, my dear: he can't get
YOU again. Hes Il lyin' at this Identical
moment in five foot If mud about three
mile back of this, and he cant get To n"
railroad station before tomorrow morn
ing. You're free now, my dear. and
Wen all stand by Vou.H Various en-
thuSiaStic miners added that they had al
had mothers Ia u greater or less extent
1T some time of their lives, and that they
wouldn't allow no man la kidnap her"
except over their dead bodies. The
Conductor, Is the chief legitimate au-
thoriiy. promised her that he would pat
her in charge of 4 nice old lady who
lived N the mex station, AMI would tel
cgrapll, free of cost, Ia her parents to
come and get her.
The young lady was not in the least
degree grateful. She >hriekcd again,
and exclaimed that the venerable phi
lanthropiSt was Il numbering vii
lain, and his followers were
worse than wild Indians. you've
gone and throwcd away my own dear
husband and killed him." she cried.
lie wasn't Il pirate, and You know it.
He was just our Sunday->chool Supcrin-
tcndcnt, and we were married this
morning. Oh. If there's any law in In
danny, YOU wrrtchc> shall swing for
this" She further followed this gcncr-
al dcnunciatinn with specific attack on
TIE venerable philanlhr"pi~t, whom She
openly called Il ~bald-hcalcd brute, and
had she not been restrained by force,
would have scattered his rcmaiuin" hair
Ia the winds of heaven.
The philanthropi>t and his mining
friends skunk into the >~mokin"-car, and
the Conductor, stopping the train one
more, abandoned it and took to the
woods. The missing husband has not
vet been heard of. and was probably
drowned i'll the swamp. Such are the
results Of wanton philanthropy. and it
is Ia he hoped that i'm this case law
enough will Ice found to punish the phil
an,hropic leader of the well meaning
mining bandits As he deServcS.-Ntw
York Times.