Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-24

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eeuae SS nav h0nored guest, and you are
10 mSzxe no Samaritan references 10 me.
Then sine introduced HIM TO her com
panacn, showed bin through the little
brown cottage, and, With many a tug
and little cry, helped him carry the old,
battered trunk up the winding stairway.
lie task accomplished, she proceeded
TO store Its conteAts In Iaultless order In
the bureau provided Tor the purpose.
$50 like your mother in her girlish
days. said Uncle John, i~nterrnpting her
in her work toindulge / n one more good,
long look. And what untold possess
sions and pleasures do you deny your
self for the sake of giving an old man a
homer"
"Ah! Urcle John" she answered, with
a merry laugh, my iiie has had so many
tienials that a few more or less are OF lit
tie consequence. And, besides, | have
found, with the German Leasing, that
the seeking the pleasures OF the pursuit
and anticipation is greater than the
realization"
And so you are deep in the Germans.
Do not let their Haeckels and Buchners
dim your faith"
Then they sat down and took a men
.al gauge of each other. From German
philosophy they ariitcd to poetry, from
poetry TO history, from history to
aUncle John has not found business
so absorbing that he has not taken time
TO read. Perhaps his devotion TO books
caused him to fall Thought Jennie.
THE little Samaritan had not allowed
poverty TO intefere with the develop
ment of her higher nature. She is thor
ough in all her intellectual attachments"
thought Uncle John.
Before a month had passed, q stran-
ger would have thought that Uncle
John was the master OF the house, 50
genially had he fitted into the lives of
the two girls. Left mostly to himself, his
COMPANIONS absent at their daily tasks,
he became absorbed In the chemical
mysteries Of the kitchen. 1t is said that
Dumas the elder was the best COOK in
France. Uncle John did credit TO lis
short experience in culinary affairs.
When the contents of Jennie's littla
book case became too familiar, the pub
lie library was II hanj; and after an
carly tea In the sost.une twilight. Uncle
Jobr wcusd read to the two girls, and
he read with that ~appreciattye 5eeling
which middle it q reaii pleasant to Listen
90 him.
Two months swiftly sped awayand the
school year drew to its close. Teachers
anu scholars we're alike dispersed, and
Jennie had settled down for the hot
summer months in the little brown cot
tages Is had not been so hard as she
anticipated. Uncle John had proved
such q pleasant companion, and, though.
from the coming, she had been com
PEELED to forego a few personal Injuries
she did not really regret them.
a was sitting in the little parlor, the
shades mostly down, to keep out the
not July sunshine, herself in keeping
with dainty yet Inexpensive furnishings
winch surrounded her, when Uncle John
entered, carrying an open letter and ex-
claiming:
In luck, ID luck, at last, little girl
Here Is n OF my old customers, who
mas long been indebted to me and from
Whom never expected to realize a
penny, at last taken pity on me and
sent me q draft for 500. tsCome little
girl u Uncle John snatcned some
article OF sewing from her hands and
Threw 1t into the corner, mo more work
WITH the lseedle this hot weather. Pack
your boxes and we will away 70 the
white hills. / know You would have
made this journeyis had not come, and
nov with Sue, and myself as baggage
master, We will see for ourselves how
much OF truth and how much OF poetry
iheess5S 10 IH tiic Starr King"
III was needless for Jennie Ia indnloe
II remonstrance. She could not tell
Uncle John ii would be much better to
put the money aside, against further
contingencies, without causing him to
ieei that his presence was a burden 10
e and 8 NJ was arranged that the
White bills should be visited.
Uncle John at one put himself In the
hand of a tailor. Was Ii jennie's imagi-
nation, or did the perfectly fitting
clothes, and the possession of a well
hlled purse, make q difference in Uncle
johns personal bearing? lie certainly
a little difficulty in assuming the moi
ished and courtly bearing that comes
from mlngling with the best OF humani-
~, and the two girls grew to be very
PROUD OF their escort. The pert hotel
clerks. the obsequious walters, semed Ia
nov thai fhaY had To dn NTH a ~n.f