Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-17

oI nVe years or SO, IN their lonely graves
peacefully, only Freeman's wife used to
say she saw 'em in hot, dry weather a
waterin' the roots of the wilier I sot out,
with their tears, and that would set all
the children in Shanty village carryin'
water to it from the brook, and the tree
grew and tlourished till We. see it's beau.
ty.
''Wal, one summer time, there come up
through here great company of Nor
mons from England Oh their way to
Utah. The agents shipped 'em about as
If they were cattle, and took 'em on ex-
ira trains SOS to connect with the Grand
Trunk. The engines was to be changed
here at this station, and lot of folks had
gathered to look at the Mormons, as if
they was wild animals instead of pack
of poor, deluded human beip's.
Just as the train whistled Freeman's
wife sided up to me, and says she,
'Somethin's up with them unfortinits.
They was out on the track all last night,
every time there was a whistle, with
their hands up over their eyes lookin'
down the road into the darkness. There
they be, now! said she. under the shade
OF the big hemlock, over on the edge of
the glen there, watchin' for the train
But I looked and couldn't see nothin'
'cept them two white birch saplins
Just then the extra came putin and blow
in along, and as soon as it stopped the
poor Mormons begun to swarm out like so
many sheep, with no more of an idea
than sheep Of the great ways they had
yet to go afore they got to the promised
land.
"Among the rest that got out was a
poor, old, tremblin', white haired man
that tottered about little and said to me
as was passin' him, do you know, good
sir, of town called Brackenboro', in
'Amerlky?' 'Brackenboro' is ten miles
north of here said I, it's the next station
you'll stop to- At that he threw up his
white, whithered hands, opened his
mouth as if to speak and dropped dead at
my feet.
cold Hugh Leigh is dead,' said the
sharp-voiced woman at my elbow; 'he's
dead and I'm glad enow. He's been
nought but trouble ever since we start
ed. But he would come when he found
it was to Ameriky we was bound, if it
took his last farthing. Now I hope he's
satisfied
"'He thought he should be fndin'
John and Alice and the baby said an
other, but they have been still now. They
never writ one blessed word-they didn't
want the trouble Of him. But the old
man was always sayin' Alice needed him
to help take care of baby Mary Hes
dead and I'm glad ont. His old heart
was we'll nigh broke with waitin' for a
letter. said the shrill voiced woman,
snatchin' the hat off the dead mans head
and disappearing in the car jest as the
whistle sounded, and they were off once
more. We laid the old man out in the
freight house in his turn"
can it was there the three ghosts kept
watch by the body, and Freeman's wife,
she seed 'em," put IN the square little
girl, enthusiastically.
"And the verdick was give this time"
went on the old station agent. Unknown
Mormon dropped dead from heat at
South Verony.' We buried him beside
the others, and there's never been a
shadder of doubt in my mind but what
ne was the grandtather.'
"An' heard Uncle Sammy pray this
time" said the Brislin's girl, quickly,
''an | niver shall torgit how he towld
about it they was all togither now, and
that God was always good"
"Of course did my dooty, there bein'
no minister" reiterated Uncle Sammy,
"and also made it my dooty to plant
that willer fence all round their graves.
And Freeman's wife sees 'em all there as
happy as can be under the willer. They
have never walked about since the grand
father come. Sometimes I think they
was unfortnits, and then agin I think
they was fortinits. Any way it's clear to
my mind that the good Lord had special
charge over 'em."
And we three wiped our eyes in COM
Pany-Uncle Sammy and I and the square
little girl Springfield Republican.