Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-03
STORY OF THE SOWER
WHO WENT OUT SOW"

engineer, working on the new cutoff.
He was very kind to me-"
The man from the sleeper didn't
know Dawson, but he pretended that
he did.
saying, because she said ne was kind.
Before he left the train he tried TO
get me a berth, but he couldn't, and |
am not very well, and | am so tired
and sleepy"
why. / have a berth" said the man.
and If Dawson had told me you want
ed one you could have had mine. You
must take it tonight. / have had a
good rest and it would really do me
good to come back here and take your
seat and rough it a bit. This a and
his chair are lots better than the rich
est people could buy twenty years ago"
And soon the sick girl was back in
the standard with a well tipped porter
waiting on her at the direction OF some
well bred women who tried to make
her comfortable.
AS the night came on the mar got
tired of his seat in the chair car and
went into the smoker where he talked
with a cattle man about the country
they were passing through. In n of
the forward seats a woman and a girl
were trying to sleep, taking tuSns in
caring for an epileptic youth, h
would wake now n then and strike
them. They were weary and stained
with travel and as miserable as they
possibly could be. When the cattle man
got off, the man from the sleeper sat
down by the irresponsible boy and in
duced the tired s1men to sleep while
he became their burden bearer. Once
the boy walked and slapped his new
seatmate. For a second the imbecile
was i'm danger of having his head
knocked off, for the muscular man he
had caught off his guard had probabl
never been struck in that manner
fore in his life. But he conquered
desire to strike back and held the
fellow until he was quiet in sleep ae
1t was broad daylight before
mother and daughter awoke, for II
were worn out. At the breakfast st Y
the man got them foou, and when /
left them his charge of the night was
looking out the window without at
tracing attention of passengers or
troubling those with him"
AS the nan came back to the sleeper
the trainmen nodded to him and the
conductor said: "Well, you've done
those folks a good turn" Several times
during the night the trainmen had come
into the car and had IN the man con-
troll the violent boy, and they knew he
had one his part becomingly.
When the man reached the sleeper
the porter called him colonel" and told
him the sick girl had offered the lower
to the stout lady, who refused 1t. But
she did n lot to make the girl comfort
able. They told me to thank you, and
everybody IN this car is saying nice
things about you said the porter. h
minister beamed OF him. The priest
gave him a silent blessing. The para
BE about the leaven which leavened
tho ,yhC1a hmm n a ma tn his mind The
cOllegian said, you're game" The
school girls gave him smiles. Grand
mother sent the little girl to him to
say: Il want you to hake my bible
and keep it." And she looked so happy
to be rid of it that he took it.
All the while ne was trying to recall
the lines:
How far that little candle casts it's beams
So shines a good decd in a naughty world.
The man didn't feel proud of himself,
but he felt good because he had done
some good, and then he knew that n
asmuch as those about him understood
and appreciated his efforts, that they
would gladly do as much or more than
he had done, when the opportunity
came to them.
As the porter told him. the stout
woman had taken good care of the sick
girl-she happened to be going to the
same town-and they were off the train
before ne returned to tine sleeper, but
he did not expect or desire grateful
words from the girl. She was more
than half in the other world with the
fatal malady that looks hopefully to
sun-up in vain for help. He felt fine
to have made things pleasant for her.
The sick boy and his mother and sis
ter were comfortable and would soon
be home. All in all, things had gone
well.
This is a pretty good world, after
ALL" said the man. He had been to the
coast a dozen times and this was his
best trip. He picked up the little girls
bible and found the words: "A sower
went forth TO SOW " y whatsoever
hath, to him shall be given"
Ewing Herbert.