St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-09

g 10y when nef ilIe oe
pended. She was a Well-dfeSSed
little lady and had an air of respect
ability and refinement rarely seen in
women who enter the police station at
that hour of the night. After looking
about the room in a
QUICK, AGITATED MANNER,
she seemed disappointed at something
and half turned to go.when the sergeant,
touching his hat, asked what She
wanted.
''Oh, have you seen anything of my
little boy-oh, Charlie, he isn't hereW
she said, turning to her husband, who
had just entered, and then the sergeant
went to the big surgeons chair in the
corner and, turning it slowly and care
fully around, exhibited chubby four
year-old, with one fat, dimpled hand
under his round, red cheek. rolled up in
a blanket, fast asleep. He seemed as
happy and peaceful as if he had been
put into the downest of beds by
the most careful of mothers, and
there was smile on his lips in spite Of
the sobbing sigh that now and then told
of the sorrow the little fellow had
known before he fell asleep.
With a cry of Joy the mother sDrang
forward and clasped the child in her
arms, waking and frightening the little
cherub into another fit of weeping by
and even "Charlie," who had tried to
talk encouragingly and be hopeful,
turned away as if there was
SOMETHING IN HIS THROAT.-n
In moment or two the angel child
had discovered that he was with his
mother, and, throwing his arms around
her neck, kissed her sleepily, and was
again in dreamland long before she and
Charlie had finished thanking the Off
GERS for finding the infant and caring
for him SO long and so we'll.
ooh, it's nothing, num- said the
sergeant. 1--WE find three or four day.
and they are all called for sooner or
later, some before they are found; then
the people who are looking for them
have a description and when we. get a
''stray" that fits it we notify them.
There's another one just gone before
you came in and he'd been gone since
morning. By the way, what's your
name and residence, please; we have to
keep record of it. you know"
She gave the name and residence, ard
the latter was OH Harmon place, eight
cen blocks from where the little fellow
had been picked up on Washington ave-
nue. south, where he was
TRoTTING QUIETLY ALONG
behind band Of street musicians.
''Oh, how tired he must be, and he
hasn't eaten anything since noOn," ex-
claimed the little lady, filled with fresh
alarm for her child.
'Well, l think you are just bit mis-
taken about that said the jailer, who
might have been feeling just a bit hun
cry HIMSELF" ate pretty near all that
was in my basket and Bob's. 1t might
not he just what he'd get at home, but
he seemed to get away with it all right"
Then tucking a shawl round the boy, the
happy father and mother went thei::
way. The sergeant drummed on the
desk rail moment and then drew up
his chin with gruff laugh and growled
"Humph, now they're happy. Wonder
who'll be here next"
Not Gay passes but the police pick
from three to twelve strayed kids OF all
ages, sizes and degrees Of raggedness,,
with some who are not ragged at all
and evidently have strayed from those
who usually keep them we'll within
bounds. Some of them begin to cry as
soon as they are out of sight OF home
walks, looking straight ahead and gaz-
lHS up litto tuo 1aI0S VI poop1o tuOyi
meet with, Il
aasna A TREAIBLT IN. TFEIR LIPS
and silent appeal TO aid II their eyes.
Most of them are afraid of the b rass
buttons and bright stars the officers
wear, and many of them cry pititully
when they are taken to the station.
When a child is picked up description
of him. with the time and place of find
ing, is telephoned to all the stations,
and if the child Is picked up at substa-
ton, to the telephone Office at headquar-
tiers as well, so that. no matter where
anxious parents may appear, they can
find out whether their lost one has been
found or not. Many fond father and
mother who has had the lost found by
the bluecoats would be willing to help
support police force if it did nothing
but pick up lost boys and girls