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Show em ARRIVES !ti A TELESCOPE GRIP Not the action of tho stork, but tbat of two lads, employed as messengers, ga the homo of Thomas W. Read, who has a grocery store at 290.1 Washington Wash-ington avenue, a surprise Saturday night. To the astonishment of Mr, Read two boys appeared at his grocery store Saturday evening at aliout 10 o'clock and tol.l him that they had a package pack-age for him, at the time presenting lilm with a telescope grip. To tbe great surprise of Mr. Read and his wife, when the telescope was opened, they discovered a baby boy about S days old." Tho boys stated that they had been asked to driver the package pack-age to Mr. Read by a well-dressed .stranger whom they bad met a short time beforo on Twenty-ninth street between WasalngU'U and Grant ae-nues. ae-nues. The man, they said, had remarked re-marked that he had lo go to work j and would return to the store later and get tho package Depositing the package on .the counter, coun-ter, Mr. Read noticed a slight movement move-ment within, nod upon Investigating was 6tartled to find a living Infant . asleep In a wrapping of cotton wool. ' Tho baby was dressed Id well-made garments of good texture, apparently the handiwork of a palnstaklug mother Mr. Read immediately telephoned the police and the city phvslcian. Dr. Anna Rela. The latter arrived nhort-ly nhort-ly afterward, and upon examining the youngster stated that In her opinlou ho was about right days old and had been two weeks prematurely born, It e weight being but a trifle over three pounds. The world was too harsh for the little piece of human flesh brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Read, Saturday night, by a boy who 1 stated that it was given him by a well dressed man, for today at 11 o'clock : a. m., Its spirit took Its flight to the world beyond. I |