Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — "Bringing Father’s Dinner.” [ARTICLE]

"Bringing Father’s Dinner.”

It was in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton depot in Cincinnati one day. when one of the men employed to oil cars as they came in accidently fell under the wheels of a moving coach and had his right leg and h p crushed in a hoorrPde manner. Ho was picket,, up and laid on some coats spread out on the <hatform,.and a doctor was soon on h:/.i. He must have suff?red interz jy, but after the doctor him he cooly asked. “Doctor, how badi. s it?” ••Verybad, indeed.” “Will I live?” “Not more than ten minutes* You are bleeding to death.” “What time is it Jim?” asked the man of a fellow employe. ■‘Eleven fifty five,” was the answer. “The children will bring my dinnet at sharp 12. "Some of you go and stop them. They mustn’t see me die Poor motherless children—orphan now'/’ I went to the door with others, am. we were just in time to stop a boy of .* and a girl of 6 from coming in. Each had hold of the handle of a baskecontaining father's dinner, and thej were smiling in anticipation of tlx greeting they would received. We sent them away with a false story about his having gone home, and the eyes of both were filled with tears of dissapointment. The echo of their footsteps could still be heard on the pavement when the farther breatheu, his last. White clover will afford more feed 11 cert tin times of the year than or any other kind of clover. It wi not flourish in damp sails, or those that are very poor. I; wi 1 do well t a partial'bhade, as a grove or orchan 1 , b t to make the highest excellence it -h'juld have the advantage of full sunlight.