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Show IKINT IiritlCD AT MX I'ATHKriC TVL. OJ A HEC JSr tCCt'IUlICK ON A t- ijtvr.c iis.k. A man who was a psasenger on the JfriUtS J'nncu, which arrived here last Monday, cite. thl account ac-count of the death and burial of an infant during tlie voiage: "In the steerage," he said, "mi woman named Too'e, with a bright-faced, twc-year-old boy. kbe was from one of the noitheru co J titles cf J:t-lat.'l. J:t-lat.'l. and was coming to tills country coun-try to jolii hrr h uband, who is a thrilty artisan. , ben we were about four diys out.Iittle Jimmy Toole, tbat was the child's name, was taken sick bronchitis, bron-chitis, Dr. Ueutluu i.n ncunced 'It. A day or two later son ere toid the child had piieuruuula. Dr. Iten-than Iten-than was very aUentlTo to the llttio rauerer, but. decplto bU care and the tender nursing of the mother, little Jimmy died whin we were two da fium puiL. The mother was lirarthrokeu. (!aitaln Kruth antf l'urser Large made her ax comfortable com-fortable as losaible, and did what they could to cousole the poor woman. wo-man. CatJain Kruth told her that ho cuul t Ltei t!ie body f the. child until the Hcamcr rched port, but headvbjed her to bury it at sea. He told her Risfcop Whitaxer. of Philadelphia, was among the saloon 11a.SM.ngen, and he wasuite sure le would read the lurlal tervice. The mother hesitated for a time wbeUier she should take the dead body of her baby boy to her hus-banJ, hus-banJ, or leave it at the bottom of the ocean. She decifed that it would Iki best to bury it nt Kra. Captain Kruth coamlted llisbop Whltaker, uud he InimedUtel proQcred his Mrrvicta. TLo bUbop aud the purser vWted the mother lu theMirgiry, and then the kind-hearted bbhop prayed witli her and endeavoied to . console her. t "Tho followlngday little Jimmie'a 1 body was sewed In a canvua bag I and placed upon the grate near the 1 turtle back. Shortly before noon BUhop Whltaker and Mrs. Vhlt-I Vhlt-I aker started with solemn tread from theraloou csbin U the turtle back. ' "Following them were the otllcera 1 of tbe steamer and these rhiUJel-'phian. rhiUJel-'phian. Mr.' and Mr. J. II. Kin-ley, Kin-ley, J. B. Morthead, Frank OUen, , Mls Derr Martllly, Itev. Father I Eustan of St. Ixu!s, and Mr. J. IS. j lane. The procession moved to where the dead body lsy with the boatsTalu and boatswain' mate standing on either side. Thesker-age Thesker-age paseengLTS came up and crowded crowd-ed the top of the turtleback. Tlieu Bishop Whltaker legau o read the beauUful and imprr.tre burial service ser-vice of the Kplwopal Church. Aa he coucludcd the boatswain and his matu lifted the board ami let the tiny body in the bag slide over the rail and Into the tea. The mother was not on deck, she not Ulug able to bear the sight, but there wire many wet eyes in the company that wltneued the burial. "At the service onbunday Bishop Whltaker oflered a r-peciil prayer for the bereaved woman. The meeting meet-ing at the wiiarf between the .husband .hus-band and wife was pathetic The husband's bright, cheery fare chaiiged the moment he taw Jii wife, and they drew w ay into the corner and wept together." Tufa. |