Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
A BABY MARTYR,


actIess in the middle Of the deep ruts, and
CHANGING With occasional nervous distrust ST
tho border Of rank-looking grass on either
side Of the way. The constant rains, alter
mating with fierce suns, had rendered the
whole soil a continuous puify, spOngy mas
and more than once they had passed y the
decaying. halfsUnked csrcssSes OF stock
mir,d within essy reach Of The driver ) whip
As the stage took an extra heavy rgi, .
faint Nhimprr, from bundle carried By a
woman on the back seat reminded the pas
seugsrs oil The presence OF = baby.
That puls me II mind, said sn erect
gray-whiskered man in the front seat, OF q
queer experience lot of rs Amy ielloEs
had With b baby way back In-In-
In Of Msjyr, put in handsome yolng
lady OF about ~ Who sat beside the speaker,
aud Who lad received tne undivided aiIsn-
uon Of COT pie OF Csgmmers on The Da-N
seat. Ihey es.seujiy taking her Tor the Old
gcDileDsns dSug Lter.
Mont YOU tell US about II. SIR? SAID one
Of the par, iugrslIa,iugi,. al tue lady Pt'
seng.rs. married ara sIugle IEdocSIag the
request.
well" said the Major With = retrospect.
i've smile you see VAS stationed 81 Fort
Laramie al the time, and was sen. with
deIacbm-BI Of tSenty i've men To escort
General Whipple, ~hO Sas visiting the fort.
md his staff 10 another post, about 100
miles further north. The country Was full
Of Indians on the war path, but We didn't
mind :hem 80 much as the weather, which
was simply fearful Snow breast high, and
n steady norther blowing that would cut the
eyes out Of you. We struggled along some
how TOR . couple Of days, but finally the
su,w began 10 fall again, and We lost the
trail The whole party Vas Just On the
point OF giving up for good, when one OF
The scouts came IN TO report that be had
found. few miles further on, = cerIsln log
house snd siOcks1e thSt we had been aim
inc for. OF course tina. brscsd Us up once
more. and We soon reached the house and
started Up 8 roaring IRE you may suppose.
As the men were bridging in their last srCls-
full Of WOOd they heard faint call tor help
on the wind A 70 Horn hope volunteered
TO 90 out and see vhaI was the matter, and
pretty soon they brought in an emlgrauL
family whose teams had got showed IN, and
who bad Just about lain down 10 die some
half mile from the holse. There was the
father. TIRE boys, . little girl carrying q
kitten, AID the mother With small baby
wrapped in dozen shaSls
Dear. dear me-" exclaimed the lady pas
sengers 10 chorus.
The log house had q small room in one
corner and we gave that TO the poor family
and made them comfortable. That night
it blew 9 gale, and the wind swept the trsi!
so clear that the emigraniS decided TO push
on south Our party concluded to wait
another day for the weather to settle, and
well enough IL vas, rs the snow began again.
Some time during the next evening, one OF
the officers happened to 90 into the room
that had been occupied by the emigrsnt
family, when be heard = sort OF low cry and,
going toward bunk, saw something move
inside bundle lying there wrapped up IN
an old red shAEl-"
"A blue shawl, Major" interrupted the
young lady, merily.
so il vas said the old oifcer, gIsncius
fondly at his companion. HE was brave
fellow, that Lieutenant; but be ran out TO
Us ss pale "a death. TenIlemen, said be,
in the excitement Of getting away, those
people have left their baby.
"Yoa never saw such scared lot of men
in your life. There We were, SnOVe in,
three hundred miles from civilization, with
baby A grizzly bear would have been
more welcome.
"Oh. You horrid thing" SMILED the
mother on the back seat.
You don't seem 20 grspple with the
proposition, ma am, explained the Major.
"0n eanyassing the matter We discovered
that there wasn't but one married man in
the whole command. AMI he, as luck would
have il, had never had baby in his family.
We didn't have any more idea hoE TO take
care of baby than the man in the moon
OH il was dreadful and the Major wiped
the preparation from his face at the mers
recollection.
Had the poor darling been all thst day
without anything 10 eat?' indignantly in
quired Young bride who sat up with the
driver.
TO drink, you nean.' said the Major.
That was Just il There wasn't even a can
ofeondensed milk in she outfit, so We went
into council Of war as to the proper thing
TO giyeiJ 10 eat One officer said Hour and
water was the correct thing. Captain Brown
insisted on milk. BOggs thought that nest
chopped up hne would answer. Somebody
else argued that the proper ration for baby
was sugar tied up IN rag somahoS. A
young ensign believed they sucked the juice
of a piece OF rubber, 50 to speak, while oil
Nhipple stuck it out that babies were iei
exclusively on paregorie. You never heard
such q WrsDgle"
"And the poor little creature suffering all
that tins" murmured the mother, wiping q
tear of her nose.
The result was that We agreed to make
an impartial mixture Of ell these things. on
the theory that If one missed fire the others
would sort Of eountsract il, IS il were So
We made 9 sort OF stew In the eofce-pot,
which included whole bottle OF pAregoric
from the medicine chest fo- most Of US
rather leaned toward Whipple's IDEAS after
all Then NO huI,ed up a small funnel
used for filing the whisky keg.
"What was that fory' gsSped the LADY
passengers, wko By this time had Eorksi
themselves up into state Of suppressed
fury.
why, to run the compound into the ba5y
with. so as not to spill IL. continued the
Msjor calmly; so when the Committee or
Pap Concluded tie mixture was cool enough,
we started to feed the"
II wonder II didn't Kill you," interrupted
tie bride, looking knowingly at the MAJORS
companion. "Of course, | esn see hOs Il
sill turned out. You were the baby, aad the
Msjor brought you uP and married you-"
Test wait oil hniah, went on the
Major. "Jnst az We started for the bunk
there Was terrible crash of firms. followed |
bya yen that would have curdlsd yoar |
blood We were attacked by the 'Pachss |
They bad surrounded Us on snoWshoes. OF