Only One Want.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 273, 19 November 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

Only One Want.

A destructive storm recently passed in the vicinity of Watertown, Dakato Territory, doing considerable damage. A number of settlers lost nearly everything, their houses being blown away and personal effects destroyed. A relief committee went out from Watertown the next morning to look up the sufferers. One of the worst cases they could learn was that of a woman who had had a small house directly in the path of the storm and who lost everything she had in the world, with the exception of a dress which she hurriedly slipped on when awakened by the storm. Some of the lady members of the Committee visited her at a neighbour's house. "So you lost everything?" one of them said.

" Everything I had in the world except the dress I have on."

" House and furniture all blown away ?" "Yes." "Your clothing all gone except that dress?"

" Everything—even my shoes and stock?

ings." "Well, we have come out to do something for you people who were so unfortunate as to be struck by the cyclone. What will you want first in the way of clothing?"

" Wejl," replied the woman, who had lost everything, "I feel ..very gratefuj for your kindness, You just give pie a apd I think I can stir arqund and e§rn ifeq of the things I need mys6l£"