Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-17

still at sound that came from with
in. 1t was like childs toy lamt
bleating. Walter removed the cover
and there, buried in f1annels and lace
was newly born baby.
One Of the station men was passing
and Walter called to him.
Say, here's box young woman
who has gone out on that train handed
| me, asking me to see that it was deliv
cred. There isn't any address on it,
"What's in it?'
"a baby"
'"Ihe dickens you Say!'
''I'm going to turn it in. Just take II
to the station master, will you?"
mot much I won't You can't play
that game on me''
The man went on. Walter carried tho
box to the station masters office
where he told his story and requested
that the official take the box off his
hands. 1t had been turned over to him
fraudulently in the station and natural
ly fell to the railroad company for at
tention.
young man." said the station mas
ter, ''if you want to get rid of youl
baby you'd better leave it on the steps
Of founding asylum"
ut isn't my baby"
Cant receive it." And the man
turned to other duties.
Walter went into the waiting room
The toy lamb bleating began again
Walter took the cover off the box tc
stop the noise, which was attracting
the suspicious attentions Of waiting
passengers. and couple Of women
caught sight Of a pair Of tiny arms
fighting the air. They came and
peeped into the box.
LA sakes," said one, "the dear little
thing! Just think of carrying a baby
that way"
"Y' ought to be ashamed O. your
SELF" said the other to Walter. 'The
child's hungry. Where is it's mother?'
"Gone in the last train" And again
Walter told the story.
HAS she deserted you?" asked wo
man who came up only in time to heal
the end Of It..
'"That's a cock and bull yarn" said
another. Its contemplate way OF
trying to get rid of your poor helpless
offspring"
Walter fed, called a cab and took the
baby to his own bachelor quarters
There he called upon his landlady. who
procured bottle, warmed some milk
fed the child and put it to bed-in Wal.
ter's room. Leaving the door ajar 50
that the landlady could hear the little
one cry, Walter went out and applied
at the rounding asylum to have il
taken in. In the first place they were
full, and in the second they did not
propose to have man put baby upon
them that he was abundantly able to
take care Of himself, under pretense
that it was not his child. Walter went
back to his room and with the help of
the landlady continued to take care
Of the founding from day to day,
month to month.
Walter said nothing to any one about
the baby. He was expecting to be-
come engaged and dreaded lest some
inkling Of his having a child in his
keeping might get out and his story be
disbelieved. One day his married SIS
ter, Mrs. Brown, called at his room to
see him. With her was Miss Charles,
to whom he was engaged. Mrs. Brown
insisted on going up to Walters room
and taking his f1ancee with her to see
what a bachelors quarters We're like.
The landlady, as instructed, guarded
the way, but Mrs. Brown was deter
mined woman and forced it. In COM
pany with Miss Charles, she entered
Walters room, and there, asleep on the
bed, was the baby. Miss Charles went
home and wrote t Walter for an ex-
PLANTATION. OF cor Sc his tale was not
believed, and the >gagement was bro
ken.
Walter had a standing advertisement
in newspaper that the lady who had
left baby In a box with a gentleman
at the station could have it-no proof
Of property required-by addressing B.
472, Office Of the paper. The day after
the breaking of his engagement, while
he was In his room finishing his toilet
for dinner, the landlady came up with
who should it be but the young wo-
man who had put her baby off on him!
Seeing the child on a lounge pulling
away at its bottle, she rushed fran
tically to it and Struggled it to her
bosom.
There is another story, which need
not be given here, though it may be
we'll to mention that it is a story of a
young married woman driven to des-
peration by worthless husband. He
died suddenly. The young mother
came into a small property and was
searching for her babe when she saw
the ad. - ~ H. FIT
Bonner eventually became the child's
sstepfather. M. u RI n Il z> ! i !.
81 JAMES CLARK GU1LFoRD. 4