Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-18
A Change of Sentiment.
I0rlUiual

Conductor John Baker was in bad lnck. He had been discharged by the company. he knew no business except rairoadng and it iS not easy for :" discharged man to get another berth. Baker h.d q wife and five children, who were dependent upon him for bread and butter, to say nothing Of q roof over Their heads.
 The circumstances attending his dis charge were rather to his credit than tiiscredit. He had violated rule of the company through the kindness of his heart. He had passed a man over thc road who told q pitiful story with ,ut collecting fare and had given him quarter from his own pocket besides. His act had been reported to the super intendent. and his discharge followed Baker was at loss to know who had reported him. He knew all the train hands well and was sure there was not one of them who would thus injure him.
 And so for six long miserable months be brooded while doomed to see his wife and children hungry, ragged and driven from one house to another till they landed in a rookery. And all this time that he was not hunting for sit uation he was thinking of the pleasure he would take could he find the in former, in punishing him.
 At last he found q railroad superin- tendent who after considering the cause of his dismissal gave him q job. Conductors salaries are not bountiful, and Baker struggled for year or more, denying himself and his family every comfort that could possibly be spared, before he made up the deficicn- cy occasioned by his laying off and paid off the accumulation of sman loans during that period of suffering. Bless ed with an economical wife, he at last accomplished the task and could again look upon life with at least equanimity. But he never forgot the circumstances that led to his misfortune and never ceased to wish for an interview with the informcr.
 One day after Baker had taken his new position Il Wotaan With T little ttN -pt oil iiiN i1''ti'. " il'i' ii' ''tNfN' VI her for her ticket she began Il pitifui moa!.ing. and Ht the same ti.nc ;hc child began to cry, bat the ',,ct W;lS not forthcoming "Tickct" said Baker sharply. II haven't any ticket the woman walled My husband has ..:>t died and left me without money. I'm going to the poorhouse."
 Cow il Baker resolutely.
 The woman only responded by tears.
 Meanwhile passengers sitting near were listening, sympathizing with the poor widow and scowling at the con ductor.
 Haven't you T human heart under your rbs:' snecrcd q man.
 What d brutc." flashed d woman.
 These and other remarks derogatory to the f1inty conductor were hisSed here and there from the passengers, but they evidently produced no effect upon him. He stood looking at the woman, waiting for her to pay her fare At last he made q final demand and, receiving only the usual response of moans. took her child from her and handed him to q trainman. Then he pulled the bell cord.
 While the train was slowing up Baker stood mute in the aisle the Wo- man redoubling her means. Cries of "CoWard," Dog Pig Brute, greeted the conductor. He paid no at tention to them, though there was {, strange look in his eye. When the train came to q full stop he took the wonan by the back of her dress and hustled her off on to solid ground, Then he turned upon her and rained blows upon her with the rapidity of q Gatling gun. That his feet should not he idle he kept them at work kicl>in2 her shns.
 The car windows were thrown up and q score of passengers had thei! heads out the windows, crying 'Stol him" Don't let the hound kill q woman"' Wont some one put an enc 10 this barbarity:" and many other remarks of similar intent But T pro miSeuous crowd is never apt to q, knight crrantry work unless some bolJ Silrlt steps 1orlN to take tle lf"u. St Baker pounded with no other intcrfer encc than words. Finally he gave i; jerk on the would be dcadhead'S dress that tore it from neck to skirt, leaving q mans vest beneath
 Then for the first time the onlooker> realized that the widow was not ever woman, much less Il mother. Bakel went at the man again with redouhlet vigor and when he had pounded hin almost 10 a jelly stopped and said
 You spotter, So you're still playing your game, are you? l recognized you the moment l saw you as the man passed and gave q quarter to moro than year ago. You caused my dis charge, and my family nearly starved to death, You've rigsed yourself III as q woman and borrowed the child tl help you keep up your eontemptihls work. Take that"
 Again the Nlows fell on the spottcr Rut tlRrn had beeu rbanoe of sym