The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-08-02
OF THE SOWFR
WHO WENT OUT TO SOW

engineer, working on the new c,t-oee
He was very kind to me-" oH,
The man from the sleeper dis.
know Dawson, but he pretended thatt
he did. mat
Dawson is a good fellow" ha r;s,.
SAYING, because she said he was lsinS
Before he left the train he tria Mil :
get me a berth, but he couldn't, ana
am not very well, and l I'm so tirot
and sleepy eu
Why, | have a BERTH" said the mon
and II Dawson had old me you want'
ed one you could have had mine Yon
must take it tonight. l nave had -
good rest and it would really do ne
good to come back here and take yonr
seat and rough it a bit. This car ana
this chair are lots better than the rich
est people could buy twenty years ago.
And soon the sick girl was back il
the standard with a we'll tipped portar
waiting on her at the direction Of soma
well bred women who tried to maka
her comfortable
AS the night came on the man eo.
tired Of his seat in the chair car and
went into the NOk where he talked
With q cattle MAJ about the countrv
they were passing through. In one Of
the forward seats a woman and a girl
We're trying to sleep, taking tusals in
caring for an epileptic youth, who
'Sth - eibiNi NllSll allu STRIKE
them. They We're weary and stained
with travel and as miserable as thew
possibly could be. When the cattle man
got off, the man from the sleeper sat
down by the irresponsible boy and in
0uced the tired pomen to sleep while
he became their burden bearer. Once
the boy walked and slapped his new
seat1nate. For a second the imbecile
was in danger Of having his head
knocked off, for the muscular man he
had caught off his guard had probably
V been struck in hat manner be-
fore in his life. But he conquered his
desire to strike bacl and held the poor
fellow until ne 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 nan 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 nan am back to the sleeper
the trainmen nodded to him and the
those folks 4 good turn" Several times
the night the trainmen had come
the car and had s\n the man con-
troll the violent boy, and they knew he
had done 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 it. But
she Gid a lot to make the girl comfort
able. They toll me to thank you, and
everybody IN this car is saying nice
things about YOU said the porter. The
bcamed on him. The priest
gave him a silent blessing. The para
whole lump came to his mind. The
col!eSian said, you're game" The
girls ave him smiles. Grand
sent the little girl to him to
Il want o to hake my bible
md keep it." And she looked so happy
o be rid of it that he took it.
All the while he was trying to recall
he lines:
low far that little candle casts it's beams
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
The ma didn't feel proud of himself
he felt good because he had done
good, and then he knew that in
as those about him understood
appreciated his efforts, that they
would gladly do as much or more than
he had done, when the opportunity
to them.
AS the porter old him, the stout
woman had taken 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 dld not expect or desire grateful
words from the girl. She was more
han half in the other world with the
malady that looks hopefully to
'un-up in vain for help. He felt fine.
o have made things pleasant for her.
The sick boy and his mother and sis
err were comfortable and would soon
'e home. All in all, things had gone
veil.
"This is a pretty good world, after
H." said the a lie had been to the
'oast a dozen times and this was his
,est trip. He picked up the little girls
'ible and found the words: "A
forth to SOW u u Il whatsoever
,ath, to him shall be given"
Ewing Herbert.