St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-25

exercise of an industry which the child
had observed of its mother, another life
had been forfeited and Ieplenished
pail hung over the little hut on Billy
goat Plains. This new calamity par
alyZed the Fling household. Mary, the
eldest. on seeing the mangled remains
of her little sister, fell PROSTATE in
dead faint. Hysteria then succeeded,
and for twelve days and nights she lay
in delirium. In fact. Mrs. Fling was
the only rational being about the hut.
When the yardmen set up the cry of
death Mr.. Fling, who happened to be
patching a wall of the hut, was the first
attracted to the scene of the accident.
BY the time the willing hands of the
sturdy railroaders had gathered the re-
mains of the ifeless little one and car
cumbed to tears, and his soIe
frame shook like a rhubarb leaf
in rain storm. He was therefore
helpless. The half-abe children who
were not sick abed or crippleS-and
there were few that were net wrong
some Way-Were frantic with grief and
fear. A veritable pandemonium about
the stout little woman who alone could
in part control the general disaster.
There was no reason for doctor, the
child was as dead as a tie, "besOides the
D. L
reasoned with the yardmen, who speed
lily retired. after delivering into her
qulvering bosom the CHASTITY remnant of
her ''darlint." But the reporters heard
OF lt,and soon those sensitive chrOniclerS
OF human events were stOrming the
precincts for an account of the m:Shap.
The cottage was ferreted out, and one
after the other they came, saw, indited
and left-heavy with the pity that
stirred them for that wretched family.
Among the news gathererS there was
one of the kindest women ever in the
service of the press. She it was who.
on seeing the distress and disturbance,
the suffering and want SO manifest
with the Filings, retraced her steps to
the town, and there purchased with
30 per cent of her weeks salary, such
neceSSarleS as were essential to actual
life and the emergency upon the OBJ
jectS of her charity, and conveying them
back to the Filings, spread balm upon a
score or wounds, revived eight hunger
sick little stomachS = visiting angels
work upon the weak. sore and unfOrtu-
nate which, more or less, exist in every
obscure ditch in large cities. With
words of kindness and a passing help,
this noble worker Of an arduous labor
whose terms are from daylight to lamp
light. from lamplight to dav. did what
hurry and circumstance would permit,
reporting 10 the world the next morn
ing lines concise to the effect that there
had been an accident. death, the man.
Der thereof and the identity of the de-
ceaSed-nOthing more, for that is all the
conscience OF The "blue pencil'' could
permit to be served at the journalistic
breakfast of ''crimeS and casualties
Unlike most busy people who would
In q M In hN
Fling brood for the expanSe of their
own personal concerns. this fair plod-
ding little worker sought the fated hut
the next day. She found cOndollng
nelghborS crOwdlng about the Wailing
mother. and jauutily-dressed, imper-
iouS- looking man discussing the Stu
alton.
Now, Mrs. Fling. you need have no
worry about the matter none at all.
madam. l assure you; will personally
see that the body is buried in a respect
able manner, quite becoming. | say.
quite In harmony with your proud pc.
SitiOn," etc. etc.
with this manner of speech the
'claim agent Of the great corporation
"a species of adept, suave-mannereI.
gllb-tOngued. pOSsum-faced wolf-had
been. tor halt an hour, endeavOring to
get Fling and his wife 10 sign paper
which purported to be simple receipt
for the expense incurred in burying the
deceased, but which III fact was a ssre-
lease" of all claims by reason of the
death.
The reporter took in the matter at a
glance and frustrated the corporation
plan" in a way which NAV be as we'll
imagined as told. However. the agent
sent coffin and man who took charge
of the funeral, and the Fling baby was
buried in Calvary cemeteryin the pres
ence or four mOurnerS-Fiing, his wife
very fat woman and very lean girl
their nearest neighbOrS.
Even in SO large a family the place
flied by such tiny entity becomes at
once painfully conspicuous by its empti-
ness. These ungOverned and ungovern-
able families, crowded in one jumbled.
dirty room, as nature unfods itself In
the domestic organism, seem to partake
of parts that become as essential to
their completeness as food is essential
to their lives. There seems to be a
time for every yell of some youngster.
or the petty rows of a pair of them, or
the usual stampede to the dinner. the
growl at the hair combing and face
washing sin the mornin'' The sick
ones, too, should be on hand or the
serenity is broken and the superstitious
parent begins to suspect a pOrtent of
evil. Then the debts and wants and
cares and ills. the noises and the iuve-
nile miSchiefS all must have time, place
and occurrence, or the unity is not that
OF family such as the Filings.
1t has been said, and not by the Pro
hiOItion party necessarily, that .'If pow
erty is the mother of crimes. want of
sense is the father of them" Now,
where both these elements concur in an
individual with red hair and whiskers.
and freckles which move in orbits
about his face. with large red nose as
an attracting sun, there should be a
physiognOmy for man to beware of.
A few days after the burial, when the
Filings had in a measure recovered from
the fateful past, and the valid members
OF the family were stan ding and sitting
about the only table in the room, dis
cuSSing Scant supper, there came a
knock upon the door. Fling dropped
his fork and, stumbling to the door, be-
gan uniatchlng the chain lock. The
visitor concluded that he was unchain-
ing the dog. That which served as
door fell IN upon filings shoulder. who.
while holding it, invited the visitor to
give up his name, if he had it with him.
81 am Mr. Fox, and | have called at
the direction OF lady, the reporter who
called on you in regard TO your recent
misfortune. You remember?"
And do that" and he eyed him
suspiciOusly. "Can l come in and ex-
plain the nature of my visit?'' Mr.. Fox
beseeched in tender tones of shiverlng
solicitude. for the night was bitter cold.
well, lifts only visitin' you're afther,
l can tell yes iths no use comm in. If
iths Onyting else you want. spheak oop.
for dev'lish black night it is, and our
SthOve iShn't aV the kind what heats the
| inSoide and Outsoide av houses at the
same tOme.''
At this juncture Mr.. Fox had wedged
inside and was standing in the middle
of the room-the only spot to stand on.
Said he, with many a Establishment:
"That was indeed distressing acct
dent-that which happened to your lit
tie girl. l have-''