The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-01-06
Modern samaritans.

Il was q sort Of impromptu inolgna-
ton meeting held just after breakfast
The lapdlady said that the way the child
next door was abused was q shame, and
the contractors wife said it was nothing
less than 8 crime
The shipping clerk said that be belieTT
ed that the baby had been crying steady
f,rs six hours. and the landlsdy said that
II had cried more OF less the day before
too.
The contractors wife said that she was
sure its mother whipped it, and thai Il
she we're only man she would have II
stoned. even if she had to 20 TO the Po-
lice.
The big gruf contractor Strengthened
himself up, and said be would go IN next
door and see what he could do.
The shipping clerk volunteered to &C
company him, and the little dry goods
salesman said be was in for any move
ment that would stop that crying. The
cashier said that cruelty TO children was
the one thing thar actually made him
want TO strike q woman. He had noticed
the way that baby bad been treated for
some time.
The four men sailed forth, and the
lanalady, the contractors wife and the
cashiers wife watched them from the
bay window. They climbed the steps,
rang tue bell, and moment later enter
ed the house. Three minutes sfterward
the cashier came out and hurried oh
down the street, and the women exclaim-
ed, simultaneously:
Hes going for a policeman
Then the shipping clerk appeared, and
hurried after the cashier.
Il was fully fifteen minutes before the
contractor appeared, followed by the dry
goods salesman. The former was wiping
his forehead with his handkerchief as ne
climbed the steps Of the boarding house
again. He was met at the door by the
three women.
"what did she say ?" asked his wife.
She said she was glad to see US" be
said, in his gruff way.
The brazen thing" exclaimed the
three women.
Stop that " he said, sharply. We
told her we we're neighbors, and she said
il was kind Of Us to come in"
"Oh On :" chorused the women.
Stop it, I tell you, he exclaimed "she
had the baby in her arms, and there
were dark rings under her eyes. She said
the baby was sick, and she didn't dare
leave it to 20 down cellar to the ice chest,
because there was no one else in the
house"
@And what did you do?" the landlady
asked.
Invent down cellar and got some cold
meat She hadn't had any breakfast"
@And brought up the milk put in
the salesman, and George ran for the
daetor and Harry went to the drug store" ="
ooh. dearl7 said the landlady. The
poor thing Where's her husband !!
q De didn't come home last night,
said the contractor, scOwling. Some
times he forgets, it seems"
And what are you going to do ? ask
ell the cashiers wife.
l know what one woman is going 10
do he i'd, looking in the direction OF
his wife.
Yes, John;7 she said, @Pm going
righi over"
And know what another woman Is
going to Dc" ided the landlady, picking
mp q shawl. She's going 10 offer to get
up something hot for mother and baby
Their kitchen FIRE must be cut"
And another's going over just to see
what she can do" put in the cashiers
wife
Then, as they started. one of them
called out How about the husband
Hadn't some one better"
IS can lick him." interrupted the lit
tie dry goods salesman, and if l ever
meet him, l will'"-C Chicago Tribune.