The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-27

"inifrcd White. who
T." This Mss White
at lil. but lived i'm a neat
sI III alone. There was not
- house in the village quite as
Jas hers. The interior was spot
Never a stray spcck or shipping
Id be found on her carpets; never Il
? .%riicicr Of dust anywhere; 80 spider
! ger dared 10 invade even the most OBJ
scurc hooks ana corners. The sun
Shine never faded her pretty furniture,
although now and then it did venture
in between the barred shutters 10 make
nice round warm spot for the cat 20
bask IN. he cat was very proper.
too. he seldom went out on Il damp
or stormy day, and if he did 90 b. tar
ried a long while by the back door,
near the scrapcr. 10 make surc that his
feet wcrc thoroughly clean before he
IeniHrcd to enter the Kitchen.
Tn exterior of her homa was equally
neat. Dry leaves never chased each
other mrrrily in her door-yard: not
even 4 stray gGost feather had ever
been seen anon" the blades Of her
iI"ndcrson's best lawn grass. Mis-
White sop; gce~r. She was not care
less of t,ir cOaaiits ANA cushions -. life"
To the latter she was especially de-
voted. Her geese were her treasures.
No other geese i'll the village could
grow such feathers As hers; and so it
happened tbat her beds. her pillows
and her holsters were marvclS of soft
hess and comfort. And. of course. she
possessed 40 end of sofa pillows and
chair cushions, not TO mention Il most
rnticing fcathcry arrangement for her
cat.
Miss White never invited children 10
visit her. They DO upset things So
she said. land are SIRE 10 get the
things awrY, md to make such general
confusion. that j, takes nj least a week
to Get taingS righi";i again The vii
lacers all thought Miss White very
nice. but rather iu>sy. Not n Of them
drcaTcd of The existence Of = warm.
tender corner IL her heart, where 4
deed OF kindness WAS tucked away,
which was TO be brought oUt and well
aired on bright Thanksgiving Day.
On one corner Of the valley road
there was a biz tree. The village car
penter had fastened II it a @ood-sizcd
board, which WAS used ~ a sort of bu,-
lctin. All the festivals and fairs ami
school meetings and political meetings
were posted upon it for the hcr,.ij of
the paSsrgs-hy. Not far from the tree
there lived Il little girl named Nellie
Bird. She WAS I sweet child. Her life
WAS like 4 little song. aud she was al
WAYS trying 10 DO something Ia put a
song into the lives OF others. One day
when she WAS IN the city 4 gentleman
cave her = number of little books and
cards. On the cards a verse was print
eG which pleased Nellie very muck:
and she began al once 10 try tocontrive
some place where she could put a card.
where ever SO many people could see
il. All N once she thought of the corner
tree. and resolved TO tack il III there.
But she did not want her left hand Il
know what her right hand was about;
and SO she had Ia plan some way 10y
which she could get the card on the
bulletin. and keep it for a secret of
her own. letting no one know who had
put il there.
There WAS a time about the middle
of the morning when the village seemed
TO be mapping. Every had been
after the mai, and had returned home
again: the factory hands Were busy ut
their work, the children were in school;
the mothers We're in the kitchen max
ing dessert, not forgetting the turn
overs for the hungry Youngsters; the
;rrandmothers were Knitting 6y the
firesidc. and the streets We're deserted.
Nellie did not 60 to school. 81 she
chose that quiet hour to perform her
little mission. And with the card in
one hand and a pin in the other she
ran down to the big tree. She found a
stone which would answer for \ ham,
mer. and soon fastened the card on the
bulletin board.
Miss White went out to walk that
afternoon. She was going down to the
store to buy \ half-pouna Of Clipped
beef. and she passed the big tree by the
way. That little card in the middle of
the large board looked SO queer that
she stopped to read it. The words she
read made = great impression upon
her; she could not seem to forget them.
All the rest of that day and all the next
day they kept humming in her ears.
and as her ears were large the hum
ming was very loud: Il expect 10 pass
through the world but once: any good
thing that l q do or any kindness
that / can show to a human being. or
any word l can speak for the good OF
others-let me do il now. Let ME not
neglect or defer it, for l shall not pass
this way again."
1t was Thanksgiving week. Miss
White never invited company to
Thanksgiving dinner. She feared that
some OF her nice china might get
nicked. and that was too precious: she
could MOI run the risk. Some kind
neighbor always remembered her. and
she took her turkey and pumpkin pie
under some one else's vine and fg-tree.
But this year those words on the big
tree haunted her. until she made q IA
nous resolves resolve which brought
about the ~jolliest Thanksgiving she
had ever known, and which surprised
ever one, and most OF all Miss White
S6f6inS 81 M .nd the