Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-01-28

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luxury. and you know aothias aboas The
struggles Of one who has to earn, sssp BY
step, every inch Of her position ia the
world, from the district school upwsrd -
You don't know the value Of money-and
never will. while i. flows a your nod, ~
freely as river Into the eear'
why, Mariar, you speak - though
you we're proverty stricken charity schol
ar! How happened you 70 i6sA out the
value Of money. little ons1'~ - a 4a
The collar came and went into Marian's
brown cheeks, and she heaved sigh be-
fore she answered. r ... @ D. a-'
~ am not rich. as you know, Virginia
ard yet have nothing to complain Of
now, nothing to ask. But was poorer
once. Shall l tell you story from my
life f"jitaH a.s.@aa 1h Ed---.H Suti
"Ob, do! cried Virginia, dropping upon
the carpet At her side, and throwing her
arm over Marian's shoulder. am de-
lighted to mske you talk about yourself
tor you never have shown me any Of the
secrets buried in that deep well Of your ex.
perience +" " a.
IL have no secrets, Virginia tina, is,
none Of the kind school girls delight in,
but will give You u little sketch:
"Tbere was once-(is not that class
ical beginning "a little girl who livedin
a country farm house, on the borders OF a
great woodland. Now, it is not Of fairies.
or giants that my story deals, although the
scene for their operations has been so well
laid Only the giant Of ignorance ruled
over the region with almost undisputed
sway. There was not a school house
within six miles and the nearest one was
at that distance, was u mere apology for
its title a cross between barn and log
cabin, with teacher to match, during FIVE
months out Of twelve. Well, to return to
this little girl. She was the youngest but
one Of a boisterous, unruly band Of thir-
teen motherless children, scolded beyond
the doors,eps by cross faced aunt, rega-
larly, every hour Of the day, who returned
as regularly to renew the uproar Baby
was served more humanely than the 9th
ers for his babyhood's sake. Blu, the
youngest girl, the mex. in size. was the
f"ot ball and scape-coat Of the house pack.
She could not even ind corner of the
house TO cry in peaceably, when she had
run the gauntlet of her wild brothers and
selfish sisters So she used to steal away
across q COW pasture ,ha. joined On to the
woodland, and gliding like squirrel
among the pines, and over the dead leaves
6nd her iavortc nook in the very thickes,
Of the forest There was little brook
there, and the sunlight streamsd down
over an aged hemlock, upon whose arms
she used to seat herself and swing and
sometimes poor child, wish that she had
never been born! 1"
"One day. when she had fed from per.
seculion, to indulge in some such unchild
like meditations, she was surprised in her
solitude by party Of village children,
out nut,ing.' Half frightened and half
curious. she kept her seat, eyeins the
strange boys and girls suspiciously, from
beneath her ragged and dirty yellow sun.
bonnet. =.@
The children. in return. passed their
comments upon her, one rude boy pro.
posing to start her off her roost' with a
stone--a m,,iou, happily, not seconded.
The elder girls gathered around the tree,
beneath her, and questioned her as girls
will, who have an impression Of their own
superiority. Her utter ignorance see med
to afford them great metrimen,; and their
shouts were caugh. up by the boys, who
vociierated-
II say here a bright one Nine years
old and doesn', know her letters!"
90, pooh! what better could you ex,
pect? She is out of the heather corner.
away on the Poor section, where they
never see q schoolmaster nor Sunday,
either"
The children went their way but the
words thsy had spoken lived in the heart
of the neglected child. and nwoke there
the FIRST definite desire to become some,
thing anything better than she seemed
born for She surprised her father not
long after, hy request to be allowed to
60 to school-a thing un,houyht Of by
even her nearly grown brothers.
With an incredulous laugh he told her
yes, If she would foot i. six miles every
day, she was wslcpme he didn't care how
many kept out OF the way.
"IIer aunt rallied and taunted her her
sisters, ~ usual. laughed At her; and her
brothers proposed 10 trundle her 10 the
village in The old whselbarrow. But the
purpose Of tho child had taken root, and
WAS not easily shaken. She walked the
whole distance, having len home before
half the family were up, and presented
herself before tho astonished teacher. ia
her ragged frock and bonnet, without .
book, pencil, or . penny toward buying
either. All she could say, WAS, ] wsntto
learn 20 read r And she did learn "a
read-,hanks to the good old mans Kind.
} ness. and her own ontiring perseverance,
for she walked--a child Of nine years old
! distance of six miles, twice daily, during
two thirds Of that season. carrying her
snellino h ,ok in little satchel acroas her