The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-02

song or story, and make room for he
stranger within your doors. When
you divide the boarded store OF cakes
or apples, remember that his own little
milk teeth are as eager for sweets as
your own darling's, and be there much
or little, give him a share. When your
hand is laid caressingly upon your own
children's heads, let its light pressure
also touch isyoung brow Who knows
but it may be there like consecrating
chrism, amounting him for noble deeds
for God and humanity? Do these
things, and do them now, Check OF
your kindly impulses until it is too late,
until the thin hands are crossed within
the coffin, and the sad eyes--hungry
for mothers kiss-haye gone TO tell
their pitiful story to Him who has said
Suffer the children or worse, until a
young soul shall have grown hardened;
and a little one, offended by you, shall
have become curse and clogging mill
stone upon the neck of society.
But TO return TO my story. Left
alone in the great barn the sensitive
child endured the two-fold agony of
nervous terror and anticipated suffering.
But he had not long to wait. Soon the
heavy boots of old Beeson were heard
tramping across the cow-yard into the
barn. Robbie stole one fugitive glance
as he entered, saw the hard-set face;
saw the long black whip trailing from
his hand, and the last vestige of hope
was gone.
Now, you young rascal, I'll pay
You for your carelesSness, cried the
bitter master, as he caught sight of the
covering form; and Selling the trem-
bling boy by the arm, he raised the
whip like great stifiening serpent,
high in the air
But why did ii not descend? The
boy, who had closed his eyes, and set
his teeth hard, wondered at the DELAY
From somewhere above came a rushing
sound, and the cruel, uplifted arm was
grasped and held with grip of iron.
What could il mean? Had God sent
one of his mighty angels down to res
cue the little waif, too hopeless to i'm
plore his protection? 1t well might be
so, for our Father is not Indifferent 10
the troubles Of His suffering children;
but the eyes of his glorious deliyerer
were cleaning with too much indig-
nant fury and human passion for those
Of heavenly visitant
Chris The one glad cry burst
from Robbie's lips, and then, unnoticed
by either, he sank sobbing among the
hay and straw littering the floor.
Coward, hypocrite. traitorr' These
were the words which burst impetu-
ously from the young mans lips, and
with each epithet a stunning blow was
planted in the breast of the farmer.
''ls it thus you treat the little brother |
entrusted to your care? Were it not
that since have been away from your
vicinity. have learned to be some
thing of which you do not even know
the meanings gentleman-I would
take the horsewhip and fay you within
an inch of your life, Wen, indeed, il
occurred 10 me TO test your faithfulness
in treating him kindly before gave Of
my hard earnings for the boys board.
Here in my pockets are four hundred
dollars designed for you-payment for
every week he has been here-but not
one copper of it will you see now. On
the contrary, | shall use it TO prosecute
you to the utter limit of the law"
And he kept his word. This youth.
whose energy and pluck had won the
victory in hand-to-hand struggle with
the world, was not likely to be troubled
with morbid pity for his adversary; and
with Sues fair honest face on the wit
nesS-box, not only was the full measure
of justice obtained, but the hard, grasp
ing farmer was disgraced forever in the
eyes of his friends and neighbors
Aside from the triumph concerning
his little brother, the trial resulted most
happily for Chris. himself. While
seeking TO redress an injustice and
wrong, like his illustrious namesake,
he discovered another fair realm-even
the sweet old Eldorado Of love. And
now, when the western sun sinks amid
the 6owery,prairies of Missouri, his last
beams gild cottage porch, where Of
ten sits slender student youth and a
broad shouldered bronze-faced pioneer
the rescuer and the rescued; while
above them beams the soft, womanly
face of happy Sue--wife and sister
loved and honored beyond all the
sworld.