Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-18
GOOD DEEDS.
Hom the Carpenters amd Brich1nyer'
HeIncd Er1,I SnrccE.

Eotr the Carpenters and B'tcHf"ye''
Helped Frank SerccE.
The cynics and pessimists must
nause in their clamor against the base
ness, Observation-Disclosures, and ingratl-
tudc of this wicked and inhospitable
world, as they consider the episode in
the life of Mr.. Frank Sevceh. Prior
to the hard storm of last month Nh.
Seycek, bohemian laborer, was wholly
unknown to fame. Few beyond his i'm
mediate neighbors had ever known or
heard of him, and but for that storm
! he might have remained. as he always
| had been, a mere unit i'll the vast popu-
| lation of Chicago, of no Importance to
to any one except the little family de-
pendent upon him. When the furious
| Gale, however, blew down and demol-
ished his home it became known from
the newspaper reports that Sevsec had
been an industrious, economical, and
frugal unit, that the pile of ruins rep
resented the savings Of years of hard
labor, and that he had nothing left with
which to make q home.
1t was at this juncture that generosi-
ty and human kindness, the claims of
human brotherhood, the prompt recog-
milton of a fellow being in distress, APP
peared to silence the complaints of the
pessimists. For what did the carpen-
tiers do one Sunday but swarm all over
the lot and do their part of the work
toward restoring the little cottage, un-
der the direction of the building in
%spectors of the city? And what did
the bricklayers do the next Sunday but
gather in force and do their part of the
work? And last Sunday what did car
penters and .b%ricklayers do but come
together to finish up their work? And
as Sunday was the only day they could
spare from their own toll, would not
the sternest old Puritan have forgiven
them for this generous and fraternal
violation of the Sabbath? Nay, more,
would he not have gone to the dinner
which the good women of the neighbor-
hood provided for the workmen, and
mayhap have drank their health in a
tankard OF beer which the brewers so
generously provided, for it was hot
work Sunday restoring Brother Sew
cek's house, particularly as they
thought Of the cool sports in the parks
where they might have been. had not
charity imposed her mission upon them?
And then, when the workmen had
finished their Sunday job and the
children of the humble neighborhood
came, bringing flowers to adorn it,
would not the stern old Puritan, who
was naturally averse to floral display
or decoration OF any kind, have been
reused by the sight of this coed decd
to bless the men who gave the lumber,
boards, laths, shingles. bricks, sand
and lime, and the fellows whose stout
arms had wrought them together until
Brother Sevcek's cottage stood CON
iessed again ready, as soon as it is dry,
for him and his family to move in and
start again just as before?
And yet, not just as before, for Mrs.
Seycek, feeling that she should do
something to celebrate the bright and
beautiful episode in her husbands life,
what does she do, while the carpenters
and brichlayers We're at work and the
children We're consccrating it with their
flowers, but provided him with a new
boy, SO that they will go into the new
house with a male quintette! The
The Sevce]zs are obscure people. The
new house is q little one. The people
who have built it are not famous, but
no more beautiful OF charitable deed
ever Illuminated this world. 1t should
silence the pessimists Trib-
qt2e.