A Touching Incident

A gronp ■: emigrante was irnthi'i-ecl Id the long, dreary passage whlcb bpens n ttoe 1 ay al Jers y ( i;. tion. and as passengere ivaltíng for tli-e niidnlght train gtrayed that way tiicy observed a stolid, p&thetIc look nu cach face thai told ol mame greater Borrow tlian the llnelíof a sírangie land. Tliere were the aged erandmother, the father and iiiotinT, and a famlly of luilfïrrown cliilclrcn - Ut tic men and ivomen -u oo moved and talked and looked Uke tbelr elders. Bal they were all gdïent now and at motlonless on the hard 'Uen :hea m wlik-h thelr rude luggage was plled. Between the and mother was a rougb bed, eztemporized trona lihAWls and comforters and a coarsc floth coat, and on that bed the youngest of the family iviis BleepIng ; trat there was that iu the aspect of the group that denoted inch doe] siiitiiw ihat ome i the pessongers approached and askcd : "Is the tl i 1 cl Bfck V The Dnnish p-eople shook their it was au iiiikniiivii tongue to tbem. But one of the boya, hu had pdcked ap a few of the oeceasary EngMi worde trom liix fellow traveters on riic Bteamsbjp voyage tó tiiis country, answered, without movIng a muecle í hle face : "Yeeh - ehleepe." An liour later ao officia] Btopped aml liookecl at ilic group. Then he Iiirnod (l(.vn with 110 un.ucinle hand, the coverlid from what he believed to be the eleeplng cfclld. "Why," he exelaimed, Htartlng back, "Tbïe chtld is dead." 'Yesh,'" said the boy Who tould peak Enniisii. "ehleep- dead." And these people bad aat iy thelp dead tor nearly eight long bours, racked witii anxlety os to what they ehould do, di.stiacted wtth grief, yet imable to speak a word of their trouble to the many eympathizing libarte that wcre -vvithin reach of i hem. Tttey left the little yellow liaired gïri baby, consigned to a íoreign grave, and went. on their way, hut though they Bhed no teare, there was that in thelr blue eyee that told of a ]cr]i w Diiiid. and dOTlbtlees in t licir new home they wiH miss the qualnt little figui-e in its bine vroolen drese and round white cap and tiny wooden .-ai.es - the lianisli lalj.v ihat lies alone ander the shade trees of Jersey i Ity.