Show DICK death of the man who was I 1 by biekens t I 1 ch ica go d the death of C R G ardson better known to his friends in st I 1 louis as dick Garris qu who i perished horribly by falling down the mining shaft at webb city mo the other day recalls to the post dispatch the fact that his ad vent upon taij planet also attracted a great deal of attention in the latter case bot directly as in his death but never thelius more ex ten because hia little life was woven into the susceptible nature of the great D ekens and through him became known to nearly all of the american people lito ended in a tragedy it began to dickens mind with a drama it was in january 1842 that charles dickens on his first tour left the list for a trip through tile west he caine out to stlouis in that loriney lou iney and by june ath was ba in th 0 fast it waa on his travels from louisville to st louis by steamboat that he met with a baby who figured in it mile a 0 sweetly described by tile novelist that thousands of persons will think tenderly of the person who who c h impression on the great writer the baby described in what fv lows was 0 IL garrison who was then on his way to te home his little eyes had never seen the ex bupt tells the rest F ew of those who at the burial services looked brough br pugh the coffin lid upon the bungled features lying still in eter nil sleep guessed that that face over forty years ago bad by its sleeping peace touched one of the greatest hearts that ever dick garrison often read and reread re read with increasing interest the story of the love with abich his early years were blest ro his most intimate friends be often read part of the american notes in which his babyhood is thus do F bribed i on night after leaving i louisville we reached at louis and here I 1 witnessed the conclusion of an incident trifling enouch in itself but very pleaman t to see aich bad interested there was a little woman on board with a little baby both little woman and little child were cheerful good looking br 1 bat 9 eyed and to see e woman bad been passing a long time with her sick mother in new york the baby was born in her sn others house and she bad not seen her husband to whom she was now returning for twelve months left him a month or two after their arriage well IT be sure there never was a little woman so full of hope and tenderness and love and anxiety as this little woman was and all aaby long she wondered whether ha would be at the wharf stud whether he bad got her letter and whether if she sent the baby ashore by else ille would know it meeting it in the street which seeing that be had never set eyes upon it in his life was not very likely in the abstract but was probable enough to the young mother such creature and was in such a sunny beaming hopeful state nod let out all this matter clinging cliD ging close about her heart so freely ahat all the other lady passengers entered into aal ri t as much as she and the cap t abo heard all ids wife was wondrously sly 1 promise you inquiring every time we met at table as in forgetfulness whether she pecked anybody to meet her at st louis whether she would want to go ashore the night we reached it but he supposed ehe and cutting many other dry okes of that nature phere 11 was one little dried apple faced old woman took to doubt the constancy of husbands in auch circumstances of bereavement and there was an other lady with a lap log old enough to moralize on the light ness of human affections yet not so old that she could help n aring the baby now and then or lau it ing like the rest when th e liftee woman called it by its fathers fath erss name and asking it all kanuer of fantastic questions concer him and theroy of her heart it was something of a blow to the little woman that when we were within twenty miles of our destination it bacare clearly feces ary to put this baby bed bat be got over it w ith tl same good humor tied a handkerchief aroutin her bead and came into the gallery with the rest then such an oracle I 1 she be came in reference to the and such facetiousness as was dis pla d by the married and or of laughter as the little woman herself who would just as soon have cried greeted every lest kithil at last there were the lights of st louis andberg and bere was the wharf and those were the steps and the little woman covering her face with her hands and or seem jag to laugh more rhan ever ran into her own cabin and abut herself up I 1 baye no doubt that in the chamion chami og inconsistency of such excitement cit ement abe stopped her cara lest she bear apking for her but I 1 did not E ee her do it then a great crowd of pe 0 ale rushed on board though throat th boat i was not made fast but ing about strong the oabe r boats I 1 t I 1 IA 1 1 I 1 0 t to find a landing place az antl everybody looked for lite lita band nod nobody taw cinq when in themi det 0 it us all I leaven knows how she 9 ot there there wit tile little woman clinging with both arnis light around the of a five good looking sturdy young bellou anti in a moment afterward there she 1111 I 1 actually clapp it er I 1 ittle all ds for illy r Is 1 I d ragged bim the en 11 door of her I 1 cabin to look at t he baby as be lay weep |