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From I’rocUm's National Magazine,
MRS. RRESTS’ BABY.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.
Mr. Ellery Cor ban was an exceedingly
1 nervous man. He came honestly l>y it,
for his mother was nervous before him .
Mr. Corban was a bachelor of 45 re
markably well preserved and rather fine
I looking. He had a portly figure a flor
id complexion and hud a head of dark
i brown hair which any man might have
! excused for feeling proud of;
Mr. Corban was very well off. lie
had never kept house perhaps because he
knew that elderly bachelors and widow
ora were generally fated to marry their
housekeepers ; and Mr. Corban regarded
marriage and tlie gallows about on a
par.
Women and babies ho considered a
very unnecessary part of creation. r llie
mystery of their having been allowed
an existence he could never solve. He
could not help regarding their creation
us a grave mistake somewhere.
lie boarded at Mrs. Greggs aud had
made his home there for fifteen years
Mrs. Gregg was as much like a man as
she could be and still be a woman.
One day last summer it became evi
ient to Mr. Corban that he must take a
journey west. The interests of his busi
ness demanded it; so lie put a few things
nto a valise said good morning to Mrs.
Gregg and set out for the depot.
He was 5 minutes late for his necktye
had given him a great deal of trouble,
u,d lie had been unable to find a pair of
stockings which were not destitute of
toes. Hut he had comforted himself
with the reflection that, as he had boots
m nobody would be the wiser in regard
t,o tin* unclad condition of his toes aud at
last he got off.
lie heard the whistle and started on
the run. If there is anything especial
'y calculated to put one out of temper it
h having to run to catch the cars ; ami
mi hero may he excused if, when drip
oing with perspiration nnd completely
nit of breath lie rushed into the first
which offered, he was iiritatcd with all |
th ) world andhinsi If i.-.chidod.
The car was well filled. In fact there j
was only one vacant seal, and that was i
beside a woman.
Corban t urned to seek the next car j
hut was met hy the conductor at the j
loor. ‘No room in there sir ! All full, j
Anniversary meeting at Parkersburg, j
There’s a seat sir!’ indicating the one he j
side the woman.
Corban was troubled with a touch of
the rheumatism in his left knee, and
could not stand comfortably —nothing
else could have forced him to get so
near one of the sex. He stepped up to
her and made theStcn'typed intjuiry,
‘This seat engaged V
‘No sir, replied a very sweet v Geo :
and Corban saw that the speaker had ex
pressive blue eyes and golden hair.
He took the scat and the lady drew
the bundle she had been partially resting
on the ciishon into her lap.
'Better let me put your bundle up on
Ihe rack ? suggested Mr. Corban.
The lady opened her yi , with indig
nant amazement, whipped off a layer of
flannel from the package and displayed
to the horrified eyes of our bachelor
friend the red puffy face of a rnoou eyed
baby !
i 'Murder’s pitte twoety sugar darling !’
she exclaimed in the dialect which is
perfectly intelligible to all babydorn.
‘Murder wont let the naughty man put
the yittie lai»y lumpy baby up on the
rack !’
The baby struck out menacingly with
its fat fists in the direction of Mr* Cur
tain and gave utterance to a yell of tri
umph.
Mr. Corban brok“ into a celd perspira
tion. He had never been so near a ba
by before in all his life—and a baby and
a woman too ! It was almost too much
for him.
lie had a strong mind to stand the
remainder of the way or until somebody
vacated a seat : but his knee gave an :
extra twinge and decided him to try and
endure the terrible state of things.
lie took a paper from his pocket and i
essayed U> read ; but * baby bad
out ir; one of those baby iHr »,i»s which
is like music in the ears of all mothers
and the cooing 8 > < mi used o ut* bachelor
hero that lie could make no sense of his
paper so he pocketed it with the sav
age determination to petition the next
Congress for women with babies to be
kept in a car by themselves.
At the first stopping place he was on
the lookout for a seat and to his joy dis
covered the gentleman in the next car
making preparations to leave ; but be
fore he was fairly out of his seat an old
lady in a green shawl and a poke bon
, net had edged into it and cut off all Mr.
j Corbau’s hopes.
j Os corn sc she turned around’ and be
gan at once to talk to the baby.
I ‘Dor little chicken ! llow old is it,
! marm v
| ‘Almost 8 months/ said the proud
1 in other.
‘Well, I dcrliiro ! wlnt a l.upo child
of its ago ! Why there was my Knoch,
when ho was year ho warn’t j n he nor
grsin bigger than that child! But then
i Knoch he had the whooping cough, and
the ntcaseU and the nettle rash, and the
Colla.-ettu iidanthide afore ho xvnss 11
months ! And I expect them diseases
hail some eileet on his constitution !
‘I should think so replied/ the baby's
mother.
‘You look tired, dear,’ went on the
old lady ; the baby must be dreadful
heavy. Why dent you let his pa take
I him Y with uu expressively reproachful
glance at the savage countenance of Mr.
Cpl'ban.
‘i’m not iiis pa?’ grumbled Mr. Corban,
pulling his hat a little farther down over
his eyes.
'Oil ! you aint ? Wall, now, that's cu
ris !’ said the old lady. ‘1 should have
thought _iou was for sartin ! The baby
is the image of ye- jest the same kind
of a nose; and its eyes has get the same
ixptessiun.’
Expression, indeed ! Mr. Corbnn was
boiling over I lie had always particular
ly prided himself on his expression ; hero
was this old ogre comparing him to that
dumpling faced, huckleberry eyed baby I
‘ V\ all,’ said tlio old lady, slowly, as
though she had reached the conclusion
after some thought, ‘I ’sposo as it’s like•
ly this is a postmortem child, which
means one as is born after the death of
its father, and you married its mother
rather soon afler ils mother died. Wall,
that's got to be dreadful common now.
jlut my Elijah has been dead nigh onto
1U mouths, and 1 imiii’t began to think of
a 2nd pardner. Though, Squire Audsou,
he has been ruther retentive to me late
ly; and the squire is lelt so helpless and
oufortinit with them six children of his,
that l don’t know. I hope the Lord will
show me my duty, and give me strength
to take the squire for better or for worse,
if ils right and Lent. I don’t want to
shirk no duty, marm. When did your
lirst husband die, maim ?’
‘J’arkCrstmrg ! : screamed the conduct
or. ‘Stop live minutes fur refreshments!
Change cars tor Willingfurd, Amsterdam
and Myrtle-Bridge I’
The woman with the baby arose quick
ly. A (brill of joy went through Mr.
Corban. lie thought she was at her
journey's end. tie, too, ruse with alao
riiy.
'Can I assist you anyway, madam?’
he asked, gallantly.
1 rtiauk you. 1 will just trouble you
to bold the bahy while ! go and get. a
cup of coffee. 1 breakfasted early, and
need something warm. Be careful and
hold his head high, he is subject to the
croup.’
And before Corban could utter one
word by way of refusal, she hud put the
baby in liis arms, and was rushing ofl’
with thu crowd.
Our unfortunate hero felt himself grow
ing hot and cold alternately. Ho had
served two yea s with credit in thu war,
and been in a score of battles, bat through
it all, lie had never experienced such a
sinking at thu stomach us came over
him now.
Most of the passengers left the cars;
aud Corban would have done likewise,
but lie feared lie might lose sight of the
baby’s mother, and the train would start
without him.
S", in an agony of terror lest some
thing dreadful should happen, he stood
there in the aisle, holding the baby at
arms’ length, und fixing liis frantic gaze
on the door through which iiis deliverer
would come.
‘All aboard I’ called the stentorian
voice of anew conductor—and the peo
ple rushed in. But the passengers were,
most of them, new ones, for there was a
junction at Parkersburg; and, must ol
all, the baby’s inothel was not among
them I
The bell rung; the cars were moving;
the door was shut witli a hang, and the
train was off.
Corban waxed desperate.
‘Hallo, there !' lie called to the conduc
tor. 'Stop ; this train can't go on; there’s
a woman led'', behind I Sl* went to get
a cup of coffee. Stop I I tell you, this
instant, sir I’
'What’s up?’ asked the conductor.
‘She’s left the baby ’
Your wife ? Oil I never mind. Such
till,, n oc cur frequently. She’ll come next
train.’
1 tel! you to stop I I shall go crazy I
And Oh, Lord I what shall l do with
the baby ? Say, I’ll give you five dollars
—ten dollars —twenty—yes, fifty dollars,
if you’ll put back and let me off at Par
kersbnrg.’
'I should have no objection to the mon
ey, sir; but I couldn’t oblige you if you
were one of the Uotlichilds !’
And the conductor passed on.
'Bless your soul, sir !’ said the old lady
in the next sea", giving Corban a nudge
with her parasol, ‘you'll suffocate that
bahy I Don’t you see you’re holding
him with Ids feet v.licro his head had
urlcr be ? lie’s wrong side up '.’
Corban hastily rescued the youngster,
; which uttered a'shrill jell at his ucat
nil. lit.
'You’d ort to he ashamed of yomselll’
went on the eld lady, indignantly, ‘to
toss that blessed child round in sich an
uuhtttmin way/ A man never ort to
have no children that don’t have no mit
ral feelitt toward 'em. Sir, you was a
baby once yerself I’
dust then a thin, yellow-faced woman,
slipped into the seat in front of Mr. Cur
ban. She was middle-aged, but her
dress had all the yuth tie/uoss of sixteen
‘Lovely child I’ she exclaimed, iiisinu
at i ugly.
The baby bagan to squizzle up ils face,
and tiorisb its heel* and fists,
‘Dear me I how forward it is I llow old
is it, sir V inquired the sp'nistor, for such
she was.
‘I don’t know !' growled Corban.
‘Been a widower long, sir?’ inquired
the lady.
‘No; I've never had a wife I’
‘Bless me I’ cried the lady; ‘then she
is run away and left I Dear I dear I how
could she leave such a nice man, and
such a dear, durlirg little baby ?’
‘What’s that,’ inquired a middle-aged
gentleman near by, who was evidently
a little deaf, ‘your wife gone and left
you, sir? Just my case, sir, exactly.—
My poor Jane departed this lile last May.
1 got her the handsomest gravestone
that money could buy. There’s an an
gel on it, with till her wings spread, and
this Latin description —ltequires lit v* cal
in pence. The gravestone maker said
that would lie a good epigram; and )
consented, as she was fond ot a eat.’
By this lime the baby began to cry
lustily, and the whole ear sympathized
especially the female passengers.
‘lt’s got the clmlery morbus I’ said the
old lady previously mentioned. ‘lt’ll die
for sartin if something hain’t done I’
‘Die I You don’t think so ?’ cried Cor
ban.
‘Dear me I’ said the thin faced lady,
‘what an inhuman woman it's mother
was .’
‘Take it, my good lady, do I cried Cot
bail, imploringly. 'l'll give you a bun
dred dollars to take it.’
‘What is all this row about ?’ said a
sharp-nosed little man, with a newspa
per in his hand.
‘A child, is it ? Fall back gentlemen,
hind id me look at it. Jt it thuuld lie the
‘llow ? What do you mean ? queried
a dozen voices.
'll is I it is I It can’t be no other !' ex
claimed the sharp-nosed man, excitedly.
'How strange, that I should chance upon
il I Listen to this, gentlemen; and he
read Loin the paper this notice :
"Stolen —supposed to have been stolen
fr m its carriage in Centra! Park, oil the
morning of the eighteenth inst., a male
child, about nine months old. Said child
has blue eyes, and rather dark hair; and
is a remarkably forward and interesting
child. Any person who will return him
to his afflicted parents, at No. ,
Forty-Ninth street, or g.ve information
that will lead to Ins recovery, shall re
ceive a reward of three hundred dollars.
1,. ltoscoe.”
'Wall I I never I’ exclaimed the old la
dy. ‘lt must be the very same baby I
Thh child lias gut blue eyes, and dark
hair, and pears remarkably forward I’
'Yes, ma’am, unquestionably the very
same,’ remarked t lie sharp nosed man,
confidently; ‘consider it my duly to take
possession.'
‘Oh, take it, do !' cried Corban, implo
ringly; I’ll give a hundred dolluisto get
it off my hands I’
‘No doubt you would, my man; but I
ain’t took in that way. My name is
Smitbers— Peter Smitliers, sir; and 1 live
iu Albany. I'm a magistrate, sir; arid I
arrest you for ebild-str aiing.
'1 tell you J didn’t steal it. She went
off after a cup of coffer.’
‘Don’t trouble yourself to repeat that
story again. 1 understand the case ful
ly,’ said Mr. Smitbers, promptly. ‘Con
ductor, t-i there a place on the tiain
where this rascal would bo any safer
than hero ?’
‘We don’t run prison vans,’ responded
that worthy, sulkily. ’
‘Well, gentlemen,' said Mr. Smitliers,
blandly; ‘you are all men of honor, aud
have wives and children, or ought to
have; and you all have fooling* of sym
pathy, doubtless, for the parents of this j
unfortunate babe; and I depend upon
you, gentlemen, to assist u.e in guarding j
him until we reach a station, where 1 can
place him in charge of the official. At
the next stopping place, 1 will telegraph j
to Bridcswall, and have constables ready j
to take possession of him the moment we :
a. rive.
‘You shall pay dearly for this I roared
Corban, now fairly infuriated. 'Yes, sir!
PH take the law bold of you tile moment
we get anywhere where there is any law!
Call me a rascal, indeed !’
Just then the sharp signal to down
brakes sounded; and in a tew moments
there was a slight slunk, and the Ira n
came to a sudden stop.
Everybody rushed out to ascertain
the difficulty; and,it was found that a
i wheel of the engine had broken, and the
j 1 icoinorive was partially off the track.
[53.00 per Annum
NO. 7.
No oho whs injured; but it would or
copy some time to get tilings so Unit tin
next train could run; and, in the menu
time, Mr Curium thought, with rupture,
he could make his escape.
110 formed the plan of dropping the
I baby and Hoeing to the woods. In the
i bustle anil confusion it could only be ae
complished, Ilut he had reekone 1 with
out his host, Mr. Smilhers, was right a:
his ellmw. lie had uo notion of allowing
I that tempting reward to slip through his
j fingers; and a couple of other men kept
| guard with him. And there stool poor
Oorhan holding the whimpering baliy
and expostulating, swearing, and bins
tering in a way that made all the ladies
decide that he was a monster—and they
gave him and the baliy a wide berth.
Suddenly the whistle of the next car
from Parkersburg was heard A bright
hope sprang up in Corhnn’s breast. It
was possible that the baby’s mother
might bo on board.
He rushed forward, hut Mr. Smitliers
seized his arm and held him back',
‘Be quiet, sir!’ said lie. Ttemcpibcr, 1
yon are under arrest !’
■4'lie train had been warned of the do
tention of the first express, and came In
a halt at il little distance behind;, and the !
moment it did so, the door of one of the
earringes were burst open, and out leaped
the baby's mother.
A cry of joy came from (ha ban; and
with one bound, he broke the grasp of:
Mr. Smithers upon his arm, and rushed
toward her.
‘Uh ! my baby I My precious baby !'
screamed she, snatching the baby from
Oorhan. ‘My darling ! My little angel
darling ?' null she fell to kissing it in n
way that set all the ladies round about
to pulling out their handkerchiefs and
cxchiimitig : ‘Did yon ever?’
‘God bless you I’ ciied Oorbun, enthu
siastically. ‘1 never was so glad to sec
any mortal being before !’
‘Oil ! yon delightful man !' cried she,
shaking hands with him. ‘i am so much
obliged to yon for taking care of my lit
tle lamb ! You see I got btdated ;i mo
ment —the coffee was so dreadful hot !’
Mr. Sniithcr’s face had grown very
long.
‘Then it. is got Mr. Lewis Homme's
child '! And it has not been stolen ?' he
asked, dubiously 1 .
'1 should rather think not !’ replied the
mother, indignantly. ‘lt is my child,
hi- ! All 1 have left of the dear husband
who gave op his life .it Goal Harbor, two
months after baby’s birth.’
‘I most heartily beg your pardon, sir,’
said Smitliers, addressing Mr. (J- ‘i.— I,
that is, 1 didn’t t ink—Von see ———.'
‘Mind your own business, sir,’ said Mr.
Oorhan, shortly; ‘and continue io do so
for the rest of your life—that’s my ad
vice, sir.’
Mr. Oorbitn and Airs. Brent—for that
was the young widow’s name—gut very
friendly and familiar by the time the train
was ready to go on; and Mr. 0. took the
next seat by her side with a real f cling
of delight, now.
She was going on a visit to see some
friend in the very city where his busi
ness called him; and lie obtained permis
sion to call on her and inquire about the
baby.
And in due time—l cannot tell how it
came about, for there is no accounting
tor tilings oi this kind—Mr. Durban con
cluded that he was tired ot boarding—
Mrs- Gregg luidfcbceome so neglectful of
her boarders comfort; so lie ed Mrs.
Brent to the alter and set up a home of
his own with a wife and baby.
Go to him now, and utter one word
against women and babies and you
would get shown to the door without
ceremony.
Fmvoi.itieh. —A certain doctor, when j
called to ehildien, no matter what rn ght
he the symptoms always prescribed I r
one and the s ime malady—worms. Icing
summoned one day to the bedside ot a
little hoy he gravely sat down, and hav-,
ing felt the patient’s pulse, looked up
gravely through Ids spectacles ad sa.d
to the mother in a solemn tone, 'Worms,
madam woi ms.” To which the mother
responded,‘‘l tell ye, doctor, the b y
hain’t got a single worm. He stumbhil
over a stick of wood and broke his leg,
and I want it set quick.” The doctor
not at all limphiss and, but bt 11 and b -
mined to vindicate his theory put on a
I very solemn look as he said, “Aortas,
madam, I assure you—Worms in the
wood !"
Some wags took a drunken felo.v, i
placed him in a graveyard and waited
to see the effect. AT r a short time th,
fumes of the liquor left him and his po
sition being rather outlined he sat. up
right and after looking around i xclaintcd
“Well, I’m the first that’s riz ! or else
I’m confoundedly belate l ”
A widower was married, a lew days
ago at a church mailing a "big splungu”
with a brass band. After the interes
ting ceremony the band streak up that
old. and familiar air. ‘My wife’s dead and
I've got aiiotbci on .” Apgtupr*atc.
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Obituary notics, Tributes of' lU'Hpoct. ami a 1 !
u 'til led t> ii personal c'aanictci', charged for a*
a IvertisiMnontß.
For announcing candidate* for office, SIO.OO
Oi.o Tin: os - -Gbe mo old songs thorn*
■xijiiisitf bursts of melody which thrilled
the I vires of the inspired p» t*U and min
strels of long ago. Every note lias
homo on the air a tale of joy and rap
tun- -of sorrow ami sadness. They tell
of days gone by and time has given them
voice that speaks to us of thus? inelo
-1 dies ; may they be mine to hear till life
shall have end ; as I /launch my bout*
on the mi a of eternity may their echoes
-1 be wafted on my ear, to cheer me on my
passage from earth to heaven.
(live me old path?, 1 i avc wandered
and ended the flowers of fticid
ship in the days of "Auld Lang Syne,”
sweeter, far, the i’e Is ‘whose echoes
have and whose i 1 s I avo, in childhood**
days reflected back our forma, and some
of our merry school fellows from whom
we have parted and met no more in the
old books we loved so well. May the
old paths be watered with heaven’s own
: dew and be green forever in my mem
ury.
Give me the old house, upon whose
stairs we seem to hear light footsteps,
and under whose porth a merry laugh
seems to mingle with the winds that
whistle through the old elms beneath
whose branches lie the graves of thnno
who once filled tl.e halls and made the
chambers ring with glee.
Ab -vo all, give me the old friends
hearts bound to mine in life’s sunshiny
hours an ! a link so strong that all tho
storms of earth might not break it in two
spirits congenial whose hearts through
lilb have beat in unison with their own.
When death si and! still this heart 1 would
ask for nothin •; more sacred to hal
low my dust tl.un the tear of an old
friend.
A lb: \uriFi i. Skn’timknt. Dr. Chalmcra
beautifully says *. “ The little that 1 have
s<vn in the world and known of the his
tory of mankind teaches me to look upon
j their errors in sorrow not in atigei.
When 1 take the history of one poor
lie.trt that has sinned and suffered and
represent to myself the Hniggles and
’ temptations it passed through the brief
pulsations of joy ; the tears of regret ;
the feebleness of purpose ; the sc >rn of
the wo: Id that has little charily the des*
o’aiions of th« sou's s.i ictuary and
threatening voices within ; health gone,
li ij p ness gone ; I would jfain leave
the erring soul of r.iy fellow mm with
Him from whose hands it came.”
Ct t 11 i-:it Limas.-A newly married
coaph* were lately prcsnlat a revival
meeting in this. S'.file, and during lliecx
e vises, from some cause or other fainted
Inti use exc temeiit followed in the midst
of which uu old gentleman noted for his
antipathy to tight lacing general hard
ness of the heart and a bad habit of
.stiittesing cried out at the top of his
voice to tho distressed husband, who
was holding his fainting wife in his arms
‘ A a-ron, damn it, m man, take out your
knife and c-ccnt her lacers !’ A gencr
a roar of laughter followed even from
ihe most sedate but the new made hus
band adopted the prescription on tho
instant and with success.
A Kansas city edior worn skating the
other day, and slipped into an air hole.
His ' ills caught on the edge of the ice,
lhe hole not being big enough to let
them through. They partially froze and
will be amputt ted and used lur door
mats.
When intoxicated a Frenchman want#
to dance, a German to sing a Spaniard
to gamble, an Englishman to eat, an
Italian to boast, a llussian to be aft c
tiouatc, an Ir simian to light and an
American to make a speecln
If a man is without enemies.l wouldn’t,
give ten cents for all his friends. 1 lio
man who can please everybody hasn’t
gut sense enough to displease anybody..
Isn’t it wry aft eting to hi hold at sv.
wedding the sorrow stricken air of a pa
rent as he “gives the bride away.” whom
ytdi know that for the last ten years he
Inis bemi trying to get her off his hand*.
All the pas. ions make us commit faults
but love nuilo's us guilty < l the most ndE
culoim orn-s.
AY! y cannot a deaf man be legally
convict ii ? Localise it is not lawful to*
convict a man without a hearing.
A needle will limit if carefully laid <»w
the surface of the water.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors will prevent their creaking..
Negroes are operating extensively
alim/tU lino >.!' tlm Georgia xemral
R i vr.nl, iii selling l>ogt» tickets to un
-1 Hupliisl'n'iited in oilmen.
1 “Oil, slie was a jewel of a wife,” saiJ
Pat, mourning o e the death of hw bet
ter Un'f. “title always struck me w'tl*
iliu soft in! o t e mop-”
Kindi.c.-s"iTTTgulch » elmi-ii ky wUiek
s' c'c'y is U>m and t«»g< tt.'-a.