The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-06-21
CHAPTER VI.

One morning, when several visitors
We're at Westwood. the conversation
turned upon the Indian famine. We
were all seated at luncheon. Some of
the gentlemen remarked what a chart
table country ours was-what large
sums OF money We're forthcoming when
any great disaster occurred.
Lord Ioriie agreed.
But he said, Il do not think we
realize what the word famine means.
In our happy land we have not seen
women and children dying by the road
side, piucking the dry roots and the
grass in the pangs of hunger"
4 have seen something like it." said
Mr.. Devine. Il was in Ireland during
the potato famine and | saw there
scenes that viii haunt me to my dying
day-gaunt, hungry men, in whose eyes
WAS q wolish CLEAN. pale, patient wom-
en-, dying without complaint, children
like spectres, with famine written in
their faces. | have seen mother and
children lying dead together-and it
takes a long time for hunger to KILL
Did you really witness all this?'
asked Lady Yorke.
Il did indeed" replied Mr.. Devine.
u did not know said Lady Yorke,
with a slight shudder, that people ever
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Iquite understood the meaning of the
word famine"
Your life has been a happy one,
Louise" said Lord Yorke. ''You have
seen only the rose-colored side of ex-
istence."
THAT must be true" she allowed
more gravely than | had expected.
The next morning | had to drive with
Lady Yorkc to Woodheaton; she want
ed to make some purchases. The morn
ing was lovely. but her mind was evil
aenuiy still disturbed by the conyersa-
ton of tho previous day.
Miss Chester" she said suddenly,
nave you ever seen people who We're
really i'll from want of food?"
YES, very often, when / was at home
with my mother. She, out of her limit
ed means, made a point of relieving
some poor person or other every days
And l." said Lady York, sliave
Door person in my life. We send money
To various charities; but l have never
personally given any away. Illave seen
60 few poor people,
saw that her mind was awakened,
we talked on the same subject during
the whole OF our drive. l told her what
i had seen amongst the poor at Grace
dieti--their patience. their industry. the
pashoS and beauty of their lives.
1.-The true heroes and heroines of this
Torld,"I said, ARE the accomplishing
poor"
Heroes and ~heroines!" she repeated,
why, Miss Chester, what can there be
heroic in poverty"
Poverty bravely borne is true hero
ISM l SAID. ut is easy to be happy
and contented when everything goes
we'd, when n has plenty of money.
plenty of food, and everything one ran
desire. What can be more heroic than
the endurance of hunger and cold with
out complaint? | have read of what the
world calls heroines-Joan of Arc. who
Won a throne for her king, Charlotte
Cerday, who slew the enemy of France:
but, to my way OF thinking, the real
heroine is the wife and mother whose
lille is enc continual struggle, who denies
herself that her husband and children
may have enough, who works without
ceasing, never complains, comforts her
husband. brings up her children well,
and practices heroic virtues unseen by
any one, unknown even to herself.
That woman is II of Heavens own
leroinas."
Lady Yorkc was silent and thought
fnl during the rest of the day, but in
the evening she relapsed into the old
l~ackaaaisical mood.
* few days afterwards | asked her if
She woala 60 10 Mobilization again,
and, having no other engagement, she
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