Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-01
lACINEHi'S LOVE STORY.
ny Mary KYLE DaIIas.

s~IIIN9N9S NMf rtN1fy SINs IlrAtAT
il its yEded cage AMI pecled az the
saInp 0e wtsrc sugar Sparkling between
the os-s. md at the cuttle-ish sus-
reIiaei D. 4 rink cord. and ar the Bit
I'll chick veess reeping through the wire
work lt the top OF the cage, or now
md then hoped dowu TO the lowest
.,esch IND drank from its glass basin.
.lgtiug Is head hasvenward as though
Il wera thanking God. and then flying
igher again. sang long and sweetly,
quite aappy in a world a foot and q
Azif square. little. pr~ison-born being,
ssno hid never even wished to ay sky
GARD.
But "a tar Iacintha herself, she sat
sesida her window. restless and miser-
abie.
She s.so had q giided cage. An up
per r1Oan IN the most expensive hotel
OSsihle-iauties TO eat-al she chose
10 b;iF OF dresses or jewelry. But she
.satea tne city streets. the din OF trathc.
ahe, wao had lived where wild. green
.ails spread about her, and owe all
great space OF sky. blue or cloudy by
iaTns-srIl always the sky.
There the little tcr.n lay, and great,
Iright lowers opened TO the golden
sdn. and in their gay dresses the girls
rat g. rhesr doors, or walked with arms
FT0uni each others waists down to the
l3arket place, where old women sat
5ealing traits and vegetables and pip
slns md baskets, and butter made rs
tfehrew women made IL In the old
Bible tines by shaking the milk In
asss fastened between two sticks
WHERE men brought donkeys to sell
aHaa Serraats waited for masters, ami
lttie yellow tovtilias were baked and
sold aus ears Of hot corn Or on sun
say tser went to church and saw the
blessed pictures OF saints and angels on
me walls aud sid their
oh. the pretty village How strange
- think that there was not a wan OF all
chose hat used to look as white Is
low against tho dark-hiua sSy, now
taYaiGg Oaa night as they slept in
thesI hafaT1oc6S the air seemed 10
hoe rs 8 furnace, and the earth
.u!vcra1 beneath them, ana shrsasss
snd Er0ans we're heard from al the gft-
re homes The earthquake hal come,
M al the white houses roppacd down.
n even the eea-tifui church fen ami
= the morning her parents AMI her lit
ae brother IeO were dead They lay
2~alfcoveged by rubbish.
Almost every oEe in the town was
rushed 70 death. even the old padre
tty with his cruciIix in his hand
amongst a crowd OF pool folk who
aeenaed 10 have been praying.
SICK md faint and wounded. Jac;ntha
1at watching the faces Of her dear
ones. and thinking OF lose. who must
i've dead 1ISo. or he would have come 10
Ter. for she knew he loved her dearly.
until she lost consciousness.
When b seemed 10 awake she VA
N a place she k1Aew nothing Of. A
handsome. middle-agai lady SAT- near
her. a st0us old gentleman rubbed his
Thin with a gold headed cane; a fair
Young man Was there also.
No . left belonging to her: all
1ead, she heard the lady say. in En-
giisa. which Jaciatha knew VERY well.
because an old gentleman who Lad
onca haaried with her parents had
Taught her. AN alone in the world,
snd so beautiful. When we heard
WHIST the earthquake had done. we
drove down-ray son and Ito do what
rood we could at the PoSada. which sin
stood. for Ii was a stout Oil buillia..
and a little ont OF range. Taey told -
Ct this girl-sile is named Jacsntha
Sae would have married some one
named Hose. bat he must have tean
killes1 The house where he lived with
his mother was n mere pile OF Stoups.
Parents brothers, hetrothed husband.
all gone! WIS 10 sorry for her that
brought her away. And she VIII get
well, DOCTOR
oh, yes. said the doctor-"yes. mad
anne. I see no reason whv not. and in
three or four days il viii be safe for
ner 10 travel. since you are so anxious
90 leave this place"
Yes, indeedi A place where fhe
ground may open and swallow YOU any
day. the Lady replied. II shan re-
turn e New York and stay there"
Then the doctor and the young maa
went away.
tacintha was too weak TO DO more
than CRY softly 10 herself.
But one after the other the faces
-. her dead seemed 10 rise before her:
her mother. her father. little Leon.
handsome Jose-dcad. dead. deadi the
earth mounds above their boSoms-
dead.
Oh, how could people die-how cpud
ii I've that they who were so hopeful.
50 bright and brave. were nothing and
could be found nowhere any 'oncer?
The terror of the thought. the dnsola-
ton, pierced her heart again and again.
like a yertiabie dagger. and 500 she
tnssed about in 4 high fever. calling
ell those lost ones hy name. ~reproaching
them with having left her. begging
hose, good Jose. TO come back for her.
because she knew not how to find the
way 10 them.
oh, miserable hours-but that was
not two years ago.a and how good these
Strangers had been 20 her! How Mrs,
Eyerton had cared for her as for a
laughter. and dressed her In fine
clothes. and taught her what 10 do,
and given her masters in music, and the
fashionable waytof dangling.
Before that She danced well enough
for Jose.
Ard her son. Mr.. Ralph Everton. so
kind. 80 handsome, so like y prince,
had asked her TO marry him, and his
mother had not cried out against IL