The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-07

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and received a stone, He was MAXIM
his way YEARLY along toward the rail
way, He might reach his destination
he might mot. Perhaps he could live OF
Chestnuts and roadside apples, III
would ask for nothing II he starved
No one should call him tramp again Of
refuse TO give the morsel he never re-
fused q fellow being in his life, He was
weak with hunger already, but he took
his oath 70 that, And as he sWore this
Mrs, Cary's carriage rolled past him,
covering him with dust from its red
wheels; and the little boy, In his gay
costume, cried aloud;
"MRnma, there's that tramp again !"
II was as though he had thrown an.
other stone which wounded,
PaFadise-on.ths, Hill has q long car
riage drive 10 the railway station, There
is one spot where II is very picturesque
aRd beautiful, II is where the carriage
road crosses o cut through which the
railway runs between natural stone
walls, Tho cars can not be- seen by
drivers because oil the tall rocks and great
trees until they are Just across the aper-
tuFe, Every one Is cautious here, Mrs
Gary was particularly so. She drove so
slowly down the hill that the man she
had called u tramp outwalked her. He
reached the cut, looked, believed he
saw an express train coming at full
speed, and sat down by the rOadside,
He was not strong enough nor was his
head steady enough TO risk crossing
against time, He sat and waited, and
looking up the drive, saw the pretty pic
ture he had just seen altered to terFl'
BILE one,
The shrek OF the coming train was
fearful one-a warning note desirable in
a region where old residents quietly
drove their slow teams before rushing
express trains every day, and where an
accident TO "our esteemed neighbor So.
and-so" was one OF the regular items OF
the newspaper In consequence, But
Mrs, Cary's horse bethought himself TO
bs terribly alarmed at tho sound, and
with q plunge and q cry as alarming In
itself as that uttered by the iron monster
10 the cut the animal started oil at full
speed,
The man who watched him knew
that he would reach the track Just In
time to drag the wagon before the en-
CINE. He saw the woman holding her
child fast and cinging TO the light rail
which surrounded the seat. She was
paralyzed with terror-powerles TO do
anything to save herself. Yes, there was
the human being who had refused him
aid less than an hohr before; who had
called him tramp. There was the man
who had thrown u stone at him, He
had cursed them. His curse had been:
"May you need .elp and get none" aud
II had fallen already. They needed
help, aud suddenly the demon In his
soul fled from II. The angel OF pity took
its place, and he stood 1T for heaven.
They needed help, and he would give 1t
what help he could. II might be Of
avail.
"God giant It mayp he prayed; and
he sprung forward,
He was III time. He seized tho mad |
horses bride. He held II, feeling
most sorely that he had not bis usual
strength.
Jump while you cail" he shouted.
II cannot hold the creature longl"
Mrs. Cary obeyed. Her foot was
light, her action swift, or she had not
succeeded. As 1t was, she tottered and
fell as she touched the ground, aud got
to her feet giddy aud faint, but holding
her child's warm little hand safe In
hers.
But where was the carriage, where
was the horse, where was the man who
had saved their llves-the man she
would reward with full.heapsd hands,
US we'll as with thanks and blessings
the man che had turned hungry from
her door, and who had repaid her ILL
doing with such deed Us this-where
was he? The whistle shrieked, the cara
backed, slowed, stopped; passengers
alighted; her husband was there, His
arms were about her, his pale face was
covered with tears, as he sobbed:
"You are not hurt darlingH 1t is q
miracle!"
But still her eyes strained themselves
10 SEQ that shabby figure, dusty and
mud.staIned, but such d hero TO her now
only TO say to him: II know you are
not tramp. Forgive me. Let me help
you; let me pay little OF my great debt
to YOU" She could never be happy In
this world again unless this were given
her. So she stood, her head Oh her hus.
bands shoulder, waiting until he should
come. But the others gathered slowly,
silently toward the one spot, where up
from the cut came two men bearing
between them.
"He ia dead |" one Of them said. "ThG
horse threw him before the engine"