Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-19

One incident l had nearly forgot !
ten. At Ann Arbor, Mich, wishing
TO see all / could of the town, | |
started to get off the train; in front
of me there was a young woman
dressed in an old and very plain
print dress, straw bonnet and thick
boots; she seemed to be somewhat
agitated and as she got out on the
car steps her agitation increased. A
large, fleshy woman stepped from
the waiting crowd on the station
platform. The young woman burst
into tears and threw herself into the
fat woman's arms; how she sobbed
and kissed and Rugged the fat
woman, and how the fat woman pat
ted her on the back. / thought this
a rather remarkable proceeding for
two evident friends to indulge in at
a railway station meeting and was
mentally putting the casus 6eli
down to the sex, when the young
woman suddenly raised her head
and pointed to the baggage car. l
looked. They were taking there
from one of those oblong pine boxes
which, to say the least, are not
pleasant sight, and give the ordinary
miserable sinner a cold chill; then
flashed across my mind what l after
wards found to be a fact, the young
woman was bringing home the re-
mains OF her young husband.
We went through a greater part
of Missouri in the night but there
was a sight in the smoking car of
more interest to me than any land
scape could be. He was evidently
a native, for he had the yellow tuft
of whiskers on his chin and wore a
coarse blue wooden shirt, brown
overalls, and a very ancient and
rusty felt hat. He was accompanied
by two children, aged about four
and six years respectively, and car
ried in his arms a baby that could
not have been over week old
How the baby was clothed was a
mystery; he kept it wrapped up in
a piece of an old bed quilt, and you
should have seen him handle that
baby! All night long he sat there
erect, never once closing his eyes or
getting out of his seat. Talk about
a mothers care ! The way he
nursed the little one W as little short
of phenomenal; the nursing bottle
alone would have given the moderr
young mothers Mysteries. 1t was :
common square case bottle, arranged
for the baby's use by stretching ;
rubber nipple over the neck;
learned from long observation tina
it required considerable practice tc
keep it tipped to the right angle t.
avoid strangulation and yet keep uE
the supply. When he got off in the
morning at station east of Kansas
City there was no woman or man t.
meet him, and he started off across
the plain with the baby in his arm,
and the two children in tow. Per
haps the reader doesn't see anything
in this worthy of remark, but lie
ME say that regard it as the prize
banner exhibition of love and pa
thence.
Kansas City was the liveliest city
saw on the route. Everything
seems to be booming there and new
buildings are going up in all direc
tions. Denver is dull, why, I couldn'
find out. If you ask native he viii
swear on his honor that it isn't dull
that, in fact, it was never livelier
still the interesting fact remain
that Denver is dull. It's dull al
through the West.
From Denver I went to Bots,
City, which is the capital of Idahc
Territory. They have no capito
building there yet, but are going t.
erect one this summer. Boise wa
the dullest place. struck. The rail
road has come and gone and lief
Boise Is miles in the lurch. Find
ing nothing in Boise I came back t.
Shoshone and from there went VI
what is called the "Wood rive
, country" at present the livelies
part of Idaho, yet it is dull here
Two of the largest mines have lost
the vein and all kinds of bushes
are at low ebb.
But here l am at an altitude o
about 10000 feet, and here an
going to stay this summer. Their
is ten-foot snowdrift right lit from
Of my cabin. This is a great health
, giving climate; such air you East