The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-09-18

#&2E 0OIiC1J HAS 6OIle " Tile AlOulldillS GIN
the sea-. I've lost my heart. She live
only a block away, Long session: prob
ably stay here until August.
Fob thinks the old man in danger ant
advises our return. Your old John"
Samuel, it's q sin an q shame for lit
tie. Ruth Ann Stuart to be sent away of
to that wicked capital to work. Why
Samuel, she's about 10. pretty as a peacf
m how them sinful congressman viii
stare at her! Look at them college young
sters this minute. watch.n' her get on tt
the. train!!n"
What Is she goin' for, Martha?'
Z TT take a position in the treasury
Lots OF nice girls there, Martha: splen.
did girls
Its no place for little young things
like Ruth, the pretty blossom. I want tc
fetch her back"
Late In the evening the New York train
gSwh.rled into Washington. From the over
crowded common car, tired, sleepy people
passed intO&the waiting rooms and the
street, among them a small gray figure
with q violin case In n hand. umbrella
and bag In the other. .
college boys on the train called her
Lady Gray" and the wide-open, frank,
gray eyes with black lashes suited thu
name.
Mrs. Parker showed the new boarder
her third story room In the ~second-rate
boarding house.
When the clocks struck midnight the
little stranger with wide-open eyes was
yatnly trying to sleep.
Her home, her world was left behind
her. There lay the green fields, the salt
sea, marshes, pale olive In the sur; the
eiIns, the country roads, soft as velvet
her people royalty rich in green grass and
. Gma1I%ShnTnaS and uroo ,tart&&Ao ,,&
now a Woman Her father died
from hardships in the war. and her little
mother toiied to keep her children to-
gether.
John a. Logan had given Ruth a posi-
stton N the treasury and she must adjust
4 herself to the new place.
when Captain Stuart's little girl asked
help, Senator Logan a y it. Her. father
vas one of his boys" and Logan never
failed a soldier
But was bright, vivid and intense.
Nothing seemed dull to her. The violin,
WAS her passion. Her father had cheered
many an hour in camp with his faithful
nddle.. that the boys would never leave
behind.
Ruth was introduced to her neares,
ne.ghbo at breakfast, Mrs. willis. n
Sneralittle crippled girl Pansy.
. near you are going to Join our fam
iiy. MISS Stuart. lis an old story to me.
I've been in the treasury ten years"
thought Mrs. Willis so full OF
ssnser ana courage good new friend.
Hundreds OF men and women went INFO
the big gray-walled building with its
Ionic columns and marble floors. On all
SIDES Q n corridors, large rooms. desks
and stab les piled with work.
what q hum of voices what a world of
people. Ruth was given q desk in a room
VIII tnirty women. young n old. who
counted; restored and registered old cur
3rency as 1t came HON to Uncle sam IN
be redeemed.
How deftly the fingers flew. Two hun
dred women at work on the north side Of
3Sne gray stone building alone.
What stories those walls could tell
Days, weeks n months of close. ma
tent work made Ruth somewhat ..ex-
pert. IN counting and asserting her pack
ages, OF money. She compared marked
counterfe.ts and learned the old story Of
me United States millions of dollars, She
grew familiar with tho hustle OF messen-
eers, the l1ttle x to cash clerks when
Ut last the responsibility ceases and the
money passes out Of tired fingers.
Early In the summer Senator John Az
len waited at the train for q guest Tn
the sitting room he saw the sweetest face
ne had ever met. "A little girl, hopeless
" aeformed. but sunny. radiant, with hair
eyes like pictures Of angels. Her
clear voice rang out over the common
crowds like a bell.
Can you tell me when the train leave
for Baltimore, sssr?"
she looked such a folded up pink and
yhite blossom in that place.
Senate Allen went quickly to her and
replied: Not for AaIf an hour. Can I do
for you. little one? NV little
girls look like you-With blue eyes-and-"
on, YES, s.r! Ruth is going with me
TIE startled face looked SO
eager and p,tined.
Let me get your ticket, dear child
You see my jolly little girls always want
father to carry their bags and buy their
tickets and"
Here she comes! Ruth, I was so afraid
YOU wouldn't get here-and this kin gen
tleman was SO good to me-,
VINO wouldn't be to a sunbeam like
hey?"
That's what I say remarked ruth
as she touched the little girl under her
arm and gave her the crutch. and the
"gopd gentleman" carried all the bags.
AS the train passed out of the depof the
big heart of the father pounded and
hunlped with pain and a new tenderness
as ne the starry eyes so
the little crippled girl.
Mr.. Allen said to his clerk.
nave you noticed a small, lame girl these
hot mornings sitting under the trees In
the Capitsl %grounas?"
= have. and I,ve particularly noticed q
YOUNG. girl who Isn't lame. but has vim
ana iife, enough for a dozen common SUM
aAow does h look. Bob?"
Beautiful.
l8s.Big or Hitler"
The most precious size In the world.
high a. pour heart.
The very sanei What ID she doing in
thntgQueer boarding house2,.
~ i. senator I Judge she works for