The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-27

Ileic ISL u dllS UIlilS tiSt 4 cOtllQ 90 SO
well. Plain cooking, with dripping
and soapfat by way OF perquisites;"
and l gave u laugh which was meant
to be merry,
sit is hard" said John, with a
moody look on his face which was
foreign to it's usual frank brightness.
"How much q little money would
sometimes do for people who can'tget
it, and how little it is worth to other
people, who fling it away without a
thought OF it's value! A thousand dol
lars, now! Any rich man would con
slider it a mere bagatelle i'll his expen-
SEES; but if could command the sum,
it would make us three comfortable
for life"
"How do you mean? What would
you do with a thousand dollars if you
had it, John?"
ON tell you. Langworthy is going
to sell his practice"
"Oh!"
at is n large practice for the coun-
try, you know. 1t brings him in six
or eight hundred o. year-sometimes
more. He has u chance to 90 into
partnership with his brother, out
West, somewhere, and he'll sell for u
thousand"
"But, John, some people like you
better than they do DR.. Lang
worthy
"Yes, some peopledo, Buttheques-
ton is, will they like me better thar,
the other man who buys DIR. Lang
worthy out? If | were that man !
should command bothpraetices. IT is
II chance, don't you see? But a new
man coming in has his chance to cut
me OUT
81 see. What can be done?"
Nothing" with rucful glance.
Chats the worst OF it. | can only
keep on and hope for the best. But
it is hard, when with this miserable
thousand dollars | could double my
chances and make anicehome for you
two. Sue, darling, don't cry"
She had laid her cheek down on his
arm, but she wasn't crying, only look.
ing sadly into the fire.
"If we sold everything, allthis which
aunty left us-thc home, everything
couldn't weget the thousanddollars?"
L asked desperately.
John shook his head. ~ couldn't
let you do that, Cree, i'll any case.
You'll want your share some day
yourself; it mustn't go into buying a
practice for me. But, apart from
that, houses sell so badly now that
this wouldn't realize much over the
value OF the m%ortgaseat a forced sale
And the furniture, though worth q
good deal to keep would go for moth.
ing ut I'm auction. That plan would
not do at all for any of us"
"Still, there's no harm in thinking
about it, and seeing what we have
and what it's worth" | urged, 10th tc
give up any ghost OF Il chance. "Wt
may do that, mayn't we, John?"
"Of course. That is II thing yor
must do sooner or later. Look over
the house, and make a list carefully
and we'll consult and fix on approx
mate values. Don't hurry about it
though. Next week is time enough
and ! know you need rest"
"itest is the very thing | don't neeC
and cant take" | cried, impetuously
"Something to fill up the long days
and keep us from thinking and getting
DIEt Is WI " We WANT. we IL make the
list tomorrow, John"
A little more talk and he rose to 20
did you stop at the post office
John?"
YES. There was nothing for YOU
Not even the lntelligenccr2:" asked
Sue. languidly.
81 forgot to tell you. There has
been q great fire in New York, and thu
Irtelligcncer is burned out. Abnel
brought the news over; it was tele
graphed to the Junction. They say
the building is a total loss, SO l sup
pose there won't be any publication
for awhile-some days at least"
Poor aunty. how sorry she would
be-" sighed Sue. "Aunty took the pa
per ever since it began-forty-tiv,
years ago. She never missed Il mum
Der. There it all is upstairs-stack.
and stacks OF it. She was so proud O
her file. It's no use at all now, l sup
pose, is it, John?"
THE ragman will give q penny 4;
pound for it," l suggested; that!
Something"
We'll weigh the lot one OF thes,
days and see what we n realize
said John. Good night, children"
1t was n Ghostly task which we Sc
out to do next day. The past itself
the faint fragmentary past, seems tt
be wrapped up and enclosed in thos'
bundles of time-worn articles Will
which elderly people cucumber thei,
storerooms and shelves. Some air O
antiquity exhales as you open them
and ,,irpE,,n "ifl' ,, ~,~1,u, gu
produces an impression h~alflaughable
half sad. Aunt Priscilla had been {
born collector. She loved old thing
because they were old, apart from us
or value, and instinct and principle
combined had kept her from eve
throwing away anything in her life
Our list was n very short one. A fey
chairs and tables, adozen thin spoons
and a small teapot in silver, tn
huge newspaper heap which l ha,
appraised at a penny the pound
these seemed the only salable things
and we looked comically and griml,
into each others faces as we set then
down.
81 wish it were possible to eat inte'
ligencers,' said l.
"They say newspapers make exec
lent counterpanes, replied Sue-warm
er than blankets"
John came as usual in the evening
Here's enterprise?" he called out a
he came in.
"What is enterprise"
"The Intelligencer! Behold it, larc
as life, and looking just as usual, onl
forty-eight hours after the fire! That
what | call pluck"
Isn't it?" cried Sue, a%dmlringly, a
she drew the paper from it's wrappe
and held it to the blaze that she Nigh
see the familiar page. Meanwhile
took from my pocket Il melanchol