Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — Bread Cast Upon the Water. [ARTICLE]

Bread Cast Upon the Water.

In the garden of a beautiful house situated just north of the town oi 8 , a little child was at play. She was so intent on watching the butterflies among the flowers that she did not notice a woman carrying a child stop at the gate, until the woman, in a feeble bat pleasant voic6, thus addressed her: “Please, little miss, would you give me a drop of milk for my baby V ’ The child turned around, and, seeing the stranger, opened the gate and said, “Gome in, lady, please, and I will get you my bread and milk that nurse left for mydlnner; for I am not a birhungiy.’’ The child disappeared, but soon return, ed carrying in her hand a large bowl of bread and milk. The woman had seated herself on the steps, and taken her child in her arms, when little Maggie appeared; And, taking the bread and milk from her, she said, “May God bless you, my child I *nOmay he never let you want a meal!’’ When Maggie learned that the woman was on her way to her fhther’s, and that she had yet to travel thirty mileA she took from her pocket a half-crown, and. putJing it in the hand of the woman, said, “Please take this. It is all I have. Uncle rive It to me for my own this morning. would give you more, but I do not think rather would let me." The woman thukedj her with tears in her eyeA saying she would not take it. only she had net a cent left and was so tired that she could not walk any farther, mid that she would ret a ride to her father’s door. She took up her child to depart, then, turning around, said, “I hope some day to be able to repay you, miss; but if I can not, God will.” -A 6 *"®?**??* 1 when » young girl witn a bundle on her arm came up to a three

“Come in, my good girl.” said the lady. “I was poor once myself. A little girl who gfifi nlfitfiam U _ hfillftil ■■■ll Uul KmUvD fd T * ,m * *** brea “ “d milk for my little Wfcsn the lady bad finished her story, Maggietfavit was she) said, I am the ll, fT £* vc “7 bread and milk pad the half-crown that uncle gave Wto m««a„well M io rp. riaed that she should thus, after many ■Ufwtnais Ihu opportunity of paying back, to soma extent, what she owed to tola young girl when she was a child. As t)w lady was Just then in want of a nursery-governess for her three little ones •he engaged Maggie to fill the place; and, the two all through life remained the beyoMrtstnfc. An# thfiUle tonnd bread w wsjer, after many days.— Bwork ,on the “Tar Color Rela. the following particulars reprecautions to maintain *%2g%s jags SWfesSSS batfcrfng"is reckoned as work time. The time allowed for the bath KEtifeswiSLS&is" linem cash workman in the color branch fwseives weekly a clean suit of clothes, two hand towels and a piece of soap. Bert Sherman, a twelve year old boy of a wealthy Milwaukee merchant was kidnapped, blindfolded, jriaced teHa buggy, wWeto and was rescued by a former. tom. Qetectives are after the kidnappers.