The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-03
TOR 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.
"pawson is a good fellow" he risked
saying, because she said he was kind.
Before he left the train he tried to
get mo n berth, but he couldn't. and [
am not very we'll. and l am so tired
and sleepy"
why. i have Il BERTH said the man.
and If Dawson y told me You want
ed one you could have had mine. You
must take it tonight. l have had u
good rest and it would really do me
good to come back here and take your
seat and rough it II bit. This car and
this 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 n we'll tipped porter
waiting on her mt the direction of some
We'll bred women who tried to make
her comfortable.
AS the night came on The man got
tired of his seat in the chair car and
went into the smoke where he talked
with a cattle man about the country
they We're passing through. In one of
the forward seats a woman and a girl
We're trying to sleep. taking tusas in
caring Tor an epileptic youth, who
would wake now and then and strike
them. They We're 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 i'm
duced the tired somen to sleep while
he became their burden bearer. Once
the boy walked and slapped his new
seatmate. For a second the imbecile
was in danger of having his head
knocked off. for the muscular man he
Ln1 ,,,,r -, re l,;c ,,,n~l t,J prohnhIv
never been struck in that manner be-
fore in his life. But he conquered his
desire to strike back and held the poor
fellow until he was quiet in sleep again.
1t was broad daylight before the
mother and daughter awoke. for they
were Worn out. AT the breakfast stop
the man got them fooo, and when he
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 man came back to the sleeper
the trainmen nodded to him and the
conductor said: We'll. you've done
those folks a good turn" Several times
during the night the trainmen had come
into the car II had s>n the mar con-
troll the violent boy, n they knew he
had done his part becomingly.
When the man reached the sleeper
the porter called him colonel and told
iIiII lllc SIGN SlII li.i ~ III
to tho stout lady, who refused it. But
she did a lot to make the girl comfort
able. They told me to thank you, and
everybody IN his car is saying nice
things about YOU" said the porter. The
minister beamed on him. The priest
gave HIM u silent blessing. The para
BE abou the leaven which leavened
the whole lump came to his mind. The
collegian said. YOU'RE game The
school girls gave him smiles. Grand
mother sent the little girl to him to
say: II want you to bake 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 tina listle candle casts its beams
So shines a good deed in Il 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 in
asmuch as those about him understood
and appreciated his efforts, that they
would gladly Go as much or more than
he had done, when the opportunity
came to them.
AS the porter told him. the stout
woman had aiken good care of the sick
girl-she happened to be going to the
same town-and they We're off the train
before ne returned to the sleeper, but
he did not expect or desire grateful
words from the girl. She was more
than max IN the other WoIld WIN lhe
fatal lnalady 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 o
be home. All in all, things had gone
we'll.
"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 I" whatsoever
hath, to him shall be given"
Ewing Herbert.