Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-29

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BRAVE ELSIE.
It was midnight of bright moonlight
night in July. There was hush over the
broad prairie, and moon and stars shone
on a peaceful, quiet scene. The cattle In the
corral were still, the horses In the stable
made no noise, and the Watchdog lay stretch
ed across the door step of the little prairie
home, whose inmates were all sleeping quiet
". The farmer, tired with his hard days
work in the field; the young mother, wearied
with work and the care Of her children; and
Elsie the little servant girl. who dreamed Of
the happy time at home with mothers low
ing care, and so forgot, for brief while, her
present lot and the circumstances that had
made it so. She was hardly more than O
child; and had been through experiences that
would have dauntsd many an older person;
but brave little Elsie had borne it all courage
ously, never losing faith in the future and in
the God her mother had early taught her to
trust. They had lost their little property,
then the mother had died suddenly, and
Elsie, homeless and almost friendless, had
determined to 60 West to and her uncle, her
mothers brother.
When her mother had found that she must
die she said to Elsie; my child, 60 to your
uncle Charlie, am sure that he will take care
of you for my sake"
So after her. mothers death Elsie had
written to H., where her uncle was when they
last heard from him. She waited but received
no answer and determined to go and find
him; she could not stay where she was, she
had money enough to take her there, and she
felt sure she could find him if she were only
there.
So she had come to the southern part of
Kansas, among strangers, and with but little
money. It was no easy thing, she found, to
trace people in q new country where the
population is constantly changing, and where
frequently, people do not know the names of
their nearest neighbors.
Z So with no one to help her and with no
knowledge of her own in the matter, she had
given up the search, and now we find her in
the home Of Geo. Markham, who, with his
wife and three little children. il living on a
s.cla;m. i avav ont On the prairie.
I said ali we're ouietly sleepinp. should
have aa;d Al, bpt opa. for the stranger who
had driven up to the door, q few days before,
ON jagged little pony, and who had asked
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