The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-21

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How . Suburban Reporter Restored {
Baby % IL Aoehss.
"A story too good to keep from the
public leaked out rather unintention.
ally while . party Of Roxborough
folks were waiting for . train al
Cynwyd station, on the Schuylkill
Valley division Of the Pennsylvania
railroad, announces the Philsdelphis
Times.
Two pretty nurses employed in one
Of the pretty rural residences along
Bala avenue called ut the station ia
receive package that was sent up
from the city on one Of the evening
trains. Standing on the station
porch - il unconscious of the writer.
who was seated in the station close
to the window reading an article In
the Times. the following conversation
was overheard:
Nellie. do tell mo how it hap
pened. and how in the world you
came 70 De so careless.
IL promised the mistress that
would say nothing about IL to nobody,
for she wants it to be kept. . secret,
and wouldn't for the world have the
boss to know about it. but. - you
seem to know some of the story I'll
tell you al about it. il you promise
70 let IL 90 NO further.
ut happened ON Wednesday after
noon, the day after Annie's birthday
party. and we were all pretty tired.
John hitched up the victoria in the
afternoon 70 take the young lady over
to Wayne. and the mistress concluded
TO accompany her and told me to
bring the baby along. Every thing
went on all right till We we're on our
way back home. when I noticed that
the madame was sound asleep. The
baby had also gone to sleep and. feel
ing tired. / closed my eyes and know
nothing moro till We were awakened
at the house by the coachman. just
- soon - opened my eyes l thought
Of the baby, and wondered what had
become Of the little darling. Oh.
but didn't the madame 60 on 1t me
about il, and ordered John to drive
me clear back to Wayne. where she
allowed had left it.
Just - We were about to start .
man on . bicycle rode up to the door
carrying the baby on his arm. and
wanted to know If We hadn't lost
something. and then went on and told
how he had been riding on the pike .
short distance behind the carriage
and seen something drop to the
ground. falling inside the wheel. As
he came up he found il to be . baby.
with the bottom Of its long dress cut
and soiled where the wheel had
passed over 1t. He said he tried to
catch up to us, but could not go fast
for fear Of dropping the baby. He
asked the boy at the toll-gste whose
carriage it was. and found out where
We lived. Madame asked him his
nsme, but oil he would say was that
he was . reporter. but couldn't
catch what paper he said he worked
for.
You ought to have heard him try
ing to get the madame to let him
write the thing up. heard her say,
Don't mention it for the world and
he said. it will take . good deal less
than the world to keep It quiet See
what he was after? Well. II she didn't
take out her pocketbo0k and hand
him two ten-dollar notes. and then
asked him If that was enough. and
he said. oh, yes. thank you, that will
about pay Then he got on his wheel
and, tipping his hat, rode or
What did the madame soy to you,
Nelliee"
why, she scolded . good little bit.
but whom she saw the, baby wasn't
hurt she said I'd have to b moro
careful. and then cautioned me not TO
the matter to soul. for fear
the master would hear about II, for he
thinks the world Of his baby"
just then the train came up 70 the
and. joining the others. the
--..sr stepped aboard and WAS cs--;e1
toward Conshohocken. where an inn
portant interview was to Be had with
D prominent iron manufacturer.
Three Future starr.
Wilson Barrett tells the following
story of his childhood: Forty years
ago three little boys advertised .
show to be given in the barn belong
ing to the father Of one Of them near
England. The price Of
was three pins. or six pins
Tor . reserved seat. The play was AN
of Julius Cesar. and the
parts Of Caesar Marc Anthony and
'Brutus' we're taken by three boys.
none Of whom was over four years Of
age. A retired actor, then living in
came to see the children
play. and after the performance re-
marked that he had never seen any
thing just like it before. Tine Of
those children was myself. the. others