Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-01


fore me. Why couldn't have gone with
them? What is life to me? A broken leaf
let; shattered fragment; how cruel 1t
all seems. Mother, mother! help your
child" The sobbing ceased "a calm fell
on the anguished heart as if the Toying
presence OF thai angel mother had come
at the call of the suffering daughter and
laid the sweet wings of peace about her
grief shaken form, A long time she sat
exhausted by the tempest that had stir
red her. 81 have chosen friendship for
love and duty for happiness. not that l
preferred to do SO, but it is all there IL
left of future that promised so brightly;
henceforth let me follow on submissive
y to the end, wasting no energy in re-
grets-even now there is duty before
me; that heavily burdened little neigh
Dor may need sIch help as / can give"
She found house of dire confusion.
The children had taken cold in the open
house; MIS-. Fyber had been broken of
her rest by caring for them at night, and
was almost discouraged, though attemp-
ting braveIy to conceal it. she had al
ways before had an abundance of room,
and she did not know how to dispose OF
things to the best advantage III the tiny |
house, where beds mus be made on the |
floor every night; as there was room for |
but one bedstead. :'Xe shall have more |
room after the chamber is finished" she |
explained. "but the house seems very |
cold" Miss Banner suggested that sod |
ding the outside was the approved style
in Dakota, and if her house proved open
at all she would haye it protected in this
manner.
20, it looks so horrd, Miss Banner.
don't you allow it,"
ave did not come to this country to
devote our attention to looks, and if We
can gain comfort so easily and inexpen
sively as by disfgufing our dwellings
trihe, we will be wise to accept it.
L find everything rough and uncouth
here, II admit, but l am so grateful for
home and rest that it compensates me
for the crucifxion of my love of the har-
monious and beautiful" She had touch
ed the vibrating chord of Mrs. Fyber'
nature.
you take very sensible view of mat
ters," she reioined; II am hoping for
home here, and there is no other chance
for us to obtain one, our family is 10 Large,
and We haye no capital To start wltn,-
1 try to keep that thought before me to
manufacture patience from, but fail
sometimes. The children suffer for milk
and fruit, and both are out OF our power
to gye them"
II intended asking you to speak TO Mr..
Fvber about taking care of cow for me
this winter. If he will do so, and let me
have couple of quarts OF milk each
day, will buy one ami YOU may have
the remainder of the milk for feeding
her. Mr. Byron tells me that they dig o
cave in a south bank and cover with
poles and hay and make comfortable sta
Oles for sto,k, and until snow comes cat
tie eat this sun cured grass, Keeping sleek
and fat without other food" This help
full intention originated in the girls mind
after entering the neighbors house and
discovering how scant of comforts the
family really were.
J you will do US good turn, Miss Ban
ner, and will answer for my husband
that he will care for your COW, for my
son or myself eau either of US feed and
. milk her. presume Mr.. Fyber will be
away from home whenever he can OBJ
tain employment. 1t will be our only in
tient heart; he would lay down his life
for his tender flock, as he calls his chill
dren and l." and the loving wife show
! ed her appreciation of such husband
as plainly as any sentiment can WITTY
, the human face.
!, You have an interesting family, Sun
ME pursued. "your oldest will soon be a
young lady. Is she advanced in study
, sufficiently to teach a country SCHOOL, %
Il fear not; her father has drilled her
; in music at the sacrifice of more practi-
cal study, though she is an average schol-
, or, think, for girl of fifteen years of
) age"
t Il shall be glad TO assist her during the
long winter evenings. If she will come
and stay with me all night-the days go
, pleasantly by, but the evenings not 50
: agreeably; I can only sit and think and
t too much thinking is not good for us, Mrs.
: Fyber, so if Miss My.ta will give me
somsthins better to do, l shall be under
: obligation to her."
he dark eyed, dark browed girl, the
| counterpart of her father. on a maidenly
, scale, stood quietly by the window du-
= ring the conversations.
: Il shall be under the deepest obliga-
r ton she said, in reply to the lady's
t suggestion, my music will repay Moth
| ing in this place, but common knowl-
: edge of tho English branches will enable
me to help my father. There win be
! schools to teach, aud will he dllligent
t pupil if you will assist me-"
/ The prompt earnestness of the young
. girl wen the heart uI Sunnie Banner in
stautly. you are worth, dangut, I"
she said, rs size rnse to go; YOU can b.
GIN stndyIns with me as soon as your
, mother gets our house IA order and can
, lot you lume."
t ave all have our burdens" she solilo-
pulsed, as she sat in her own quiet little
nest that evening. That woman has
; love of husband and children, and is
/ biest in both, but her hands are 81 tull
that she can never find time TO count the
! treasures of her heart-hslf 90 10y unap-
prec ated because too much is crowded
into short life; she is pretty end win
| ming, but will fade and wear out before
r her prime. Our lives are full Of blum
: ders, discovered too late to rectify, or
, never discovered at all. Lee Byron has
, shown his good genius to that family as
= he ever does; even the lsping baby had
( a word of praise for the boy" And she
finished the evening in studying how
she might further their interest with her
: slender means and not encruach upon
their pride and Independent spirit, feel
[ ing happier herself for the opportunity
: of aiding those who sought to help them
solves
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