Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-03

being turned to Hiram he could see
she was crying. Of started the train,
and the dust and the cinders sifted
through in showers. Most every body
seemed cross, and Hiram uncommon
ly so. There was no smoker on the
train, and we had TO stay IN that car.
That baby's crying bothered me as it
did everybody else. Turning around
I saw the young woman take a nurs-
ing bottle out of q basket, then small
earthenware jug, and uncorked it. Ii
was full of mIlk, and she began TO ill
the nursing bottle. A drop of milk
fell on her hand, and she tasted it,
then looked very much distressed. She
Bat back the nursing bottle and the
Jug in the basket again, and didn't
feed the baby.
What on earth shall / do2 /
heard her say. The milk is as sour
as viAegar and will kill the child, and
she began to cry again, not aloud like
the baby, but the tears just streamed
down her pale cheeks. Then Hiram
b. Stebbins shook himself up and leaa-
ed forward and said to the young
woman kind of cross like:
Your infant, ma ann
"Oh,no, sir. 1t was my poor sisters
and she died week ago-died of brok
en- heart because her husband, this
little baby's father, was killed on
railroad few days before baby was
born. It's delicate child aud half
starved, and the hot weather has turn
eG the milk sour, What am to do9
I am trying to carry the poor little
child some hundred miles further to
my mother, and if / can't feed it it
will die before | tget TO the end of my
Journey, it's so feeble now. Then she
sobbed afresh and the baby sobbed
too.
Hiram B. Stebbins didn't say any
thing for fully minute, then he got
up and came to me and said he: Fam
lily mani told HIM wasn't Then
he sat down and iidgeted; then he got
up suddenly, looked around him, and
went into the next car. He passed
through our car and then through the
whole train BY and by he came back
and said: Not a darned one on the
train
" Not a whatF l inquired.
"A woman nursing her baby. Gen
orally they are ever so plenty, just
when you don't want 'em'
Ard you would have asked a
strange woman you never saw before
--to-to-Eurse that childY | asked
aStonished.
Why should l notl' said Stebbins
simply.
"Then the conductor came and Bill
went for him at once. "When does
the train stop-tne first place l mean
asked Stebbns.
e" Thirty eight miles from here, he
said.
"'W hat kind of place p asked Steb-
bins. any refreshmeptsT
None; not bar even. Wood
and water,
" No chance of mike
" Nary chance
Are there any milk cans on this
trainT
+" Not oGe,'
" But there's baby on this train
that wants milk
" This amt no baby or milk train
as l knows of, said that conductor in
You're a blasted heather, any
how, cried Bill. This train has
got to stop, for / am bound to get
some milk for that baby
"'Not much. Behind time now,
and hadn't you better keep a civil
tongue in your jaws3 Otherwise you're
likely 10 get them jaws broke aud like
wise put off the cars
The talk of the two was so loud
and threatening that some of the pas
sengers heard it. Jumping upon one
of the seats. Hiram addressed the pas
sengers; 'LaoIes and gentlemen.
said he, but most especially ladies, |
want your kind attention. On this
train-iu this car-there is a little
baby whose mother is Just dead. That
baby is going to perish right before
your eyes for the want OF drop OF
milk. Here is a conductor that won't
stop this train SO as TO save the life OF
that poor little child. l put 1t to you
shall this train stop so that l can get
some milk, are are you willing that the
baby should die, all on account of a
Junk head CONDUCTOR
By iabers Dime wild We and the
young woman livery toirne, said a big
Irishman.
"DAt Is ious So chimed in Ger
man. Then all the women joined in
q chorus, and cried: Shame Shame I
But, said the conductor, some
what scared at the storm he had rails.
ed. There isn't any milk at the next
stopping place-nor at the next station
neither.
" Can't you stop at some farm
house then T. asked Hiram.
" There isn't a house along the
line Of road for the next twenty five
mile
"There must be cows somewhere
In the pastures, insisted Hiram B
Sebbus
"'And who's to milk them, provid
ed we see anyG asked the conductor
/ ser itching his head.
is there any lady in this car thai
can milk a cow inquired Hiram. NJ
one responding, it seemed likely tha'
no milkmaid was aboard.