The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-09-14

very earnest and persuasive. talked to
them, and told the story of the poor
deaf mute with such effect as to enlist
their sympathies to the extent of half the
nuts they gathered that day.
The work Wen bravely on. As soon
its object was known, other children
volunteered to help the girls. Amy,
who took the lead and understood some>
thing Of the division Of labor, assigned
different parts to her band of workers.
The large boys thrashed the trees, and
then other children picked up the nuts
and carried them to the hullcrs, whose
business was to remove the hull OF the
nuts.
None of the young philanthropists
cared for stained fingers, or anything
else, and for the first time they felt the
pleasure that working for the benefit Of
the needy always brings with it. They
chatted and laughed and told stories to
their hearts content.
when did you come back from AL
word, Eddic?' asked one of the girls.
Alvord was II town near which the rail.
road accident had occurred. What dld
you see or hear there?"
II didn't see anything that would in.
tc.est YOU" Eddie Ross answered.
"'Woll, yes, | do remember something
queer. A tall, strengthening man
10 the train before we started, but
he spoke such bad English that nc one
seemed 10 understand him. But there
was u passenger on the train who, after
u while. made out that he wanted TO
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had expected some relatives who had
come from Europe. The conductor told
him that three foreigners, one woman
and two men. were killed, and he
thought they must be his friends. You
Ought to have seen how the poor fellow
went on, crying and wringing his
hands,"
Maybe he knew something about our
deaf and dumb woman" Amy cried.
perhaps size was one of is friends. o,
Eddie! why didn't you speak up and
tell him about her?s"
II never thought of it once" Eddie
answered. land | shouldn't have had
time if | had thought of it, for the train
started off before he had finished asking
euestions.'
"Oh. maybe when she gets well she'll
be able to make us understand where
she wants to co. Alice said. 1--WE
ought to have a good lot of nuts by
this time. How many have we, Amy?"
we have a barrel and a half of pc
cans already, that's eighteen dollars,
and three or four of walnuts. Pa is 90
ing to ship them next Saturday, and by
that time we ought to have as many
more. We're sure Of forty dollars at the
least"
But to the delight of the girls, fifty
dollars in gold and silver was placed in
their hands u fortnight afterwards. As
the was a foreigner. Judge
Wright said she would know nothing of
Amoricat bank-notes. So the coin had
been obtained, and a long procession of
children filed to the cabin to give the
money to her, for every child who had
assisted in the rutting felt that he or
she had a right to witness the prcsenta-
ton of the gift.
The poor oma was sitting in her
usual languid attitude. with her baby
on her knee, and the children saw she
had been weeping, for her large blue
eyes were swollen and red.
OF course there was nothing to be said.
but Amy. with Il smile, walked forward
and laid thenoney in her hand, with u
Gesture towards her companions indicat-
ING that it was Il Joint present from them
MI.
The woman looked at the money in n
bcwildered manner, and then with a
strange little cry. threw herself on her
Knees and seemed to offer up n feryent
prayer.
Her next movement. which was rather
"n embarrassing one for the children,
was to seize the hand of each in turn
and raise it to her lips. The boys back
e,! towards the door trying to escape,
bnt she was too quick for them. Then
with her eyes raining tears, she took Il
piece of ct,aycoal from the fireplace,
and, slowly and ~awkwardly, marked on
the whitewashed wall, Herman Bog
gild, Jacksonville, Florida"
Then followed some words in queer
characters and in Il strange language.
but the woman pointed to the name and
then to herself.
Il understand" cried Eddie Ross.
She WIS ggoifng TO Florida, to Her
man Boggild, when the accident occur
red"
oh, isn't it delightful" Amy ex.
claimed, clapping her hands; land she's
got none enough to get there. I'll get
pa 10 come right off and see aboutit.h
But when Judge Wright reached the
cabin, he could obtain no further infor.
nation from the mute than the names
written over and over again. 'Shc has
evidently only learned to write those
names in English" he said. but she
wants to go to Florida to this Herman
Hoggild, and VIC must send her there
A day or two later q southern-bound
train took the stranger and her child tc
Jacksonville. Her young friends ac-
companicd her to the cars. and it was
touching to sec her farewell to them. On
each head she seemed to invoke u bless
ing, and by signs she made them write
down their names on II piece of paper
which she carried 10 her lips, and thdi
put in her bosom.
About six months after this, a man
wcll-drcssed, and evidently q forci gne,
from his broken English, stopped in
Westvillc, and asked to be shown the
way to Judge Wright's.
81 am her brudder," he said to the
judge, ode deaf and dumb Nina YOU
We're SO goot to. stop here on my way
TO tank you, and de blessed children
who help her. am not poor man, and
l want TO pay you back"
"No, no., my friend" said judge
Wright. The children who helped
her, hy their own labor-for no one clsc
gave any money-would be terribly hurt
ii you offered to pay them. Let them
always feel that they have done a kline
and worthy act. And now tell me aboui
your sister. She reached you safely?"
Tears stood IN the mans eyes.
She did come safe. my poor sister
She lose her frents on de car dat broke;
she lose her money. and / tink she los.
her senses little while, till you help her.
Her boxes she send to me by express d,
day before de accident. Sc dey get &c
Jacksonville safe. vent to Alvord ane
aey told me all de Germans were killed.
Ach, what pain!'
well, it is over now, and she must bt
happy to be safe with you"
"Ah, yes!!" Herman cried. "She tall
on her fingers about your little girl, ant
all de heavenly, goot children dat helf
her. She say dey are the angels of d,
goot Colt; she pray all do time for dem
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