Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-16

gerous state of mind, being the inter
mediate stage between the last eX-
tremity Of mental suffering and the in
sanity to which Ii tends. Just as the
wretched girl was beginning TO lose
herself In these metaphysical myster-
les the real world broke in upon her
with the voice of the landlady, who
was heard outside the door, saying:
Here, Charley, set down the box;
I'll take 1t in myself; and now you go,
like a clever boy, and mind the shop
until | come
There vas a sound of the box set
down upon the ioor and of the retreat
Of Charley down the stairs, and then a
rap at the door.
Come in," said Eudora .pausing TN
her walk.
The landIady entered ane incurred:
Where will you have this set, Miss
Milleryr
In my chamber" replied Eudora, in
a startled voice, Ike one suddenly
reused from a dream.
Our landlady looked wistfully at her,
and. after depOsiting the box IN u cor
ner ef the bed room, she came back,
and in a motherly manner. took Eudo-
ra by the hand. and made her sit down
again in the armchair, while she stood
by her and said:
Now, don't you take on so. that's n
Garling. Sure, we've all got 10 lose our
parents, unless we ourselves die afore
our time. I've lost my mother and
father yes, and the father of my thfr-
teen children, too. And / don't take
on about 1t. Sure II I did the house
would go to ruin and the children to
the union! And then there's that poor
child up stairs, with a father as Is
worse 0 dead. coming home every
night drunk, and beating and starving
her nearly to death! Why she don't
take on, but Is as merry as a monkey,
with her lantern jaws and large eyes.
And more be token, If it wasn't for the
child, I'd ha' sent the father packing
long ago, which he has never paid me
the first penny of rent for his rooms
the six weeks he has been here. and
and swears at me when j ask him for
*. so you see. dear, everybody has
their own troubles in this world, but
Tor all that. we mustn't take on about
IT. but must do the best we can for
ourselves and each other, too. Now. ]
make ito doubt you will be the greatest
OF blessings to that girl up stairs, and
shed be the best OF amusement TO
you! She'd take you off your sorrows:
she's the ~liveliest, queerest, funniest
There. hats her, now, Listen.'
At this moment a bounding step was
heard upon the stairs. and a carolling
voice broke forth in song:
II care for pobody-no. not /,
And nobody cares for mer'
as the singing girl vanished I'D into
the upper stories o. the house.
There, that's her, she's always inst
like that! Now it's ten to one as that
child will have any dinner this day,
yet listen how she sings like n lark
Shall ! 90 and fetch her down to yon;
Shed be a world Of entertainment Go
ynu
"Oh, no. no, not for the world. I am
not tit for any company. least of all
for that light-hearted girl. Yet
thank you for the kind thought" re-
piled Eudora.
We'll, then, dear, since you are tor
heayy-hearted to be soothed by anv
thing lively, you must try to interes,
yourself In something serious-any.
thing to take your mind of from brood
Ing over your own troubles" said tn
landlady, and taking n folded newspa
per from her pocket. she added:
snow here, here's this morning;
Times as I've been and borrowed from
tue library at the corner, o. purpose Il