St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-02-28

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result-~to obtain > snbsistenee; which they
will not honestly earn. Rctrenchment j.
a lesson slowly acquired slow, also; j,
the lesson of industry and self.denial
only substitutes. tor the lack of facilities in
procuring a living. Were pride cruci6ed,
and these lessons speedily learned by the
better classes, more speedily should We
find the remedy for the hard times ;"s :
Mr. Huoks experiences the: consequeb.
ces. Of the practice of these two classes liv.
ing without the means,1 as most men OF
property have sadly experienced. How
much their own course has led to these re.
suits, their own reflections must teach them.
Mr: Hunks, and not without some reason,
suspects honest John, whom he has not
paid, has found his way to the woodpile
which had been so conveniently for use by
his own unpaid toll: Since the new wash
erwoman has been installed into her Office,
numerous articles of the IA nily linen have
disappeared. These are some, Of the lcgit.
innate fruits of the hard times Mr..
Hunks, is also much startled by An item in
his mornings paper announcing that a
near neighbor's house had been entered by
burglars, and large sum of money, drawn
from Swift bank at the time of the run,
had been stolen. He drops the paper,
then seizes It again to make sure he is not
mistaken in the name-that it was not
JOHN Hunks, after all, who had been rob-
bed. No, it was NJ, a man against
whom he had small bill, which he had
vainly tried for weeks to collect Good for
him, to have money stolen which had been
drawn from bank to be boarded, and not
used to pay his debts. Hunks creeps qni-
etly to his secreted pile, to see that he bad
not''met with similar: misfortune It
was all there, bright, new bills, in original
packages, just as. he had received them
from the bank clerks hands, numbered in
order,, and with which he had become so
familiar as TO be ablc to identify them
should theysby.any means slip through his
fingers. III cn;-r.,"i .:..i..5 'a~.>
ltmay well be supposed there were, at
the breakfast table that morning, some re-
fections not peculiar to the mind Of Mr.
Hunks. ~ He was also informed that the
customary num- upon his personal bank for
funds had already commenced. That the
old washerwoman was in the kitchen, de-
manding her money, and declaring that
she will not leave. till she has it-she can
not 90 home to starve, for she has no Ion
ger food nor fuel, aud as for stealing them
she cannot, neither will she beg so long as
there is any anything due her from the av-
enue folks. -
John also threatened them with anoth-
er visit, and the .milliner who made Su.
sans bonnet will come this morning for
the last time, for her pay and if she does
not get it, they don't know what she will
do next. .+: - -.
Over this pile of unwelcome news, su-
peradded to the contents of the morning
paper, the patient Mrs. Hunks vcntured a
word Of expostulation.
"Husband, would try to ply off some
Of those bills. III were a man, it seems
to me- could fiud some gay. earn it, or do
something, to- stop this everlasting dun
ming"
"Wie, send wash Mary to the parlor ;
and if John comes, tell him want to see
him; and if any Of the Others come here
to-day, you may send them up. I will try
what can do. I shall be at home to-day
to look up some Of my old papers, aud I
will see anv ono that calls"
MIR. Hunks; with selfsatis6ed air, left
the breakfast table He vas not seen to
60 to his room and from private drawer
take roll Of bills but this he did never
thelsss, though no eye was upon him
take ten FIVE dollar bills, numbered "5O'
and upwards, aud put them into his side
pocket. When wash Mary made her ap-
pearance, she was handed one Of these new
bills, which she received with unfeigned
thankfulness, a. if an infinite favor had
been conferred npon her. John soon
made his appearance, sandrecsived another
bill from the same side pocket, without
note or comment. All callers were made
welcome that day, and every man was paid
his bill in full. :: HAPPILY there remained
not many men Of the same sort t, call
Very contentedly and with cheerful
spirit he remained at home, to attend, as
he proposed, to the arrangement of his pa
pers. We regret to say that many of these
we're notes and accounts due Nj. H.which
ought long ago to have been paid him, for
slow as he was, he was more siuned against
than SHINING: They did not seem to him
50 hopelessly bad 'as heretofore, when he
had reluctantly noticed them! II will
try what can be done on some of these
leases and bills. If times should ever got
better, t. they will mostly :.bo paid, l be-
lieve." - go "
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