Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-22

Allison's affairs had all to be straight
ened out by me (this little triumph
antlv, for Mrs. Allison knew she was a
good business woman), and l have to
look after everything, no one seems to
manage properly. This is a world OF
trouble"
"Oh, yes,' said Mrs. Foster, ''but
you know we desire better country,
that is Heavenly If we only reach
that world, these troubles will seem very
small. But. Catherine, I'll tell you a
good thing to do, if you don't feel
| specially thankful yourself-but know
you will after you think quietly awhile
see if you can not make somebody
else thankful. Try it, and see if you
don't grow thankful yourself. Now /
must be going, or father'll think Pm
going to stay all night But will you
| try the liniment? I'll make some, and
send it over the first thing in the morn
ing
"If you please" was Mrs. Allison's
reply, in strangely softened voice.
And good Mrs. Foster. having endeav-
ored to give medicine to soul and body,
babe her friend blythe good evening
and departed.
Il wonder if l spoke too plain" she
said, as an hour or two later she talked
over the afternoons visit with father"
mot bit. not bit, said Mr.. Eos
ter, heartily. "Folks can generally
take your plain talk better'n most peo-
pies soft talk; and Catherine Allison
ought to hear plain talking once in
awhile. She's plain enough herself, I'll
be bound"
Whether Mrs. Foster was too plain or
not, Mrs. Allison could not forget her
words; and when the old lady was final.
ly helped tO>her room, and to bed, she
could not sleep, but began to think over
her old friends suggestion, that she
"make somebody else thankful. And
Catherine Allison was a Christian, al
belt she confessed herself an unthankful
one. She was Bible-reader, and Bible
words intermingled with Mrs. Fosters.
"Blessed is he that considereth the
poor: the Lord will deliver him in time
of trouble The Lord will strengthen
him upon the bed of languishing:
Thou wilt make all his bed in his sick
ness"
Il have not sufficiently considered
the poor, therefore perhaps the Lord
has withheld His strength from me.
Make some one else thankful!-where
shall begin?"
To be sure there was her poor neigh
Dor, Mrs. Vaughn, wasting away with
an incurable disease, and her poverty
did not admit of procuring delicacies
which might tempt the titful appetite.
Mrs. Allison bethOught her of the many
jelly glasses and the canned fruits in
her closets, and mentally set apart
portion for the invalid. There, too,
was the Wheeler family, who had lost
their home by fire. and who were now
receiving the half-welcome shelter of
brothers already overcrowded house.
The tenant house on her own upper
place was empty; why should she not
offer it rent free to honest John Wheel
er for the winter?
"And Walter-my poor Walter!''
And now tears, not entirely for herself,
came into Mrs. Allison's sleepless eyes.
If any one ever crept into the tenderest
corner of Catherine Allison's heart it
was her young brother Walter. She had
married cousin. and had not changed
her maiden name; indeed, she delighted
to say she had "always been an ALI
son." Walter, many years younger
than herself, had been left to her care
by their dying mother, and Catherine
had given the boy all a mothers care,
if she could not give motherly tender
ness. He never knew how dear he was
to his fault-tinding sister, and when
come to mans estate he could no longer
endure the incessant contradiction
and fault-finding of her home, so
he sought another home and en-
ployment in city. Then he
added to his offense by taking to HIM
self wife without confding in the
least in his sister. For awhile he and
his young wife endeavored to keep up
the family intercourse by letters, but
Mrs. Allison grew cooler and cooler, and
at last all communication ceased be-
tween them. But no one knew how
Mrs. Allison's heart yearned after
Walter, and tonight it ached for cher
bov."
She had heard some way that he was
in straitened circumstances, that sick
ness had entered his home. Was it the
eldest or youngest child that had died?
Some one had said Walter himself had
been sick what he might have eX-
pected going to live in a city-and his
wife had been doing sewing for people.
1t was a good thing she knew how; but
-but-she was an Allison. They must
be helped some way. And the next
morning Mrs. Allison found a way, as
the reader has already been told. And
by the time Thanksgiving came it was
surprising how many ways she found in
which to make others thankful.
When Thanksgiving came bright and
clear she was amazed to see her sitting
room door open, and in came Walter
and Bessie and Ethel, and Walters
arms were about her, and Bessies
kisses on her cheek.
1--WE thought we must come to tell
you how you had helped us, how thank
full you have made u.s." said Bessie.
And oh, it was SO kind of you, dea-
sister Catherine
Before they had fairly got their wrap
pings off, Mrs. Foster came in, her kind
face beaming with Joy.
''And oh, Catherine" she said, after
warmly greeting Walter and his wife.
Il ": sh YOU could see how comfortable
the Wheelers are in the house you let
them have. and Mrs. Vaughn says that
last Jelly helped her to sit up nearly all
day."
s.Tm sure am thankful could help |
them BOTH" said Mrs. Allison, but her |
lips trembled.
Then Mrs. Foster laughed such clear
ringing laugh that little Ethel had to
join in, too.
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