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Show A BIRTH IN A BERTH. An ttxeltlng Inctdeut on a Northern Pn-cllie Pn-cllie Xjraln in Idaho. I Ml Meenday the isih, a baby VBJ born to Mrs. C. K. Ilraut of .'scaltle, on board of the sh e ping car "(ilyiidoif jiisl ns thee train was pulling out of Hop,-, Idaho. The colored porter first became aware of the lady's jire. dicatnent and tiotillcd several gentle men passengers who at once searched the train for a doctor and were fortunate enough to liud two surgeons of the Northern Pacific railroad, Drs. T. 11. Johnson and T. F. Smiih of'Facema, loanotltor sleeper. Hr. Smith Immediately responded to their call, and the r " lady was hastily, though tenderly, removed to the drawing room ot the sleeper, where Dr. Smith did everything that was possible feu- her comfort, and in a few minutes announced an-nounced to the now thoroughly aroused in-mates in-mates of the e ar lhat a (rfrl baby had been born. Everybody was anxious to do some, thing for the little stranger, unci Frank Clark of .Minneapolis and .lames A. McCor-niic McCor-niic k of New Vork, appointed tlu-insclvess committe e- to take up a collection to buy the baby a present. A mass meeting of passengers was called to choose n name for the little, girl, and with the mother's eonsi'ut she was c hristened "Ida Glyndnn." the first name being a contraction con-traction eel the slab- sin- Brst on atlicd In and the second the name of the car on which she first saw the light. When the train reached Spokane the mother and child were removed tu the' Sacred Heart h p i t . i and Braal was j tetsgrftphod for. During Iho aftcrtuiou Mr. Chirk and Mr. McCormlca salki el out and : jeiircbn-ed nn elegant e-ihe r e np ami a Sieo. kenp souvenir spoem for Hie baby. Mrs. Brunt came from St. Paul, and had been visiting vis-iting friends in Missoula, She was on her way lo join her husband in Seattle, and was 1 In expectation of spending a mouth or so i there before the little stranger would make I lis advent in Hie World. It is he r first babv, and is a pretty liltio-ei c,e little girl. m |