The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-03-26

You will carry your money so care
lessly, you'll lose it some day" remon-
strated Jenny. "You know how often
| have begged you To he more method
ical and prudent with your money"
g FiddIssticks! / don't go round like
you woman, losing things. / never lost
a cent yet" 34T
eff y"n are not careful" 81
"Oh, no you don't catch me scatter
ing money right and left. ! never lose
anything. 0, here il is! Didn't tell
you I'd find it ?' odaN5.r--,.,....4 :.
He spread out new. cracking FIVE
hundred dollar note before Jenny's
eager eyes. Her white fingers curled in-
srinctively. like the claws of vul,ure.
., Aris;ides! it is just enough for m.
shawl"
"JuSt enonch for straight Jacket
snarled Mr.. Jones, Suddenly clouding
over, thrusting the bill into his pocket
again, and plunging into the newspa
per.
Jenny began to sob again, and
looked into the fire. A very wretchc,i
ill.used individual she thonght herself
"Good-bye, Jenny said Mr.. Jones,
fitting on his gloves at the street door,
next morning. a3 4'A si u -
"Good bye" pointed Jenny. She
hadn't quite recovered from her little
milf "f the evening before, SO she ben,
her dark blue eyes resolutely on the
door handle, and never offered him a
kiss. Shed teach him! and so she
went up stairs.
"G"od gracious !" and the small lady
jumped nervously az something rnstled
under her foot-a crnmhled mp biz OF
brown paper. 1, was the FIVE hundred
dollar bin
Jenny picked it up, and contempla.
ted its fat figures with bewildered
eye. a .a. n
"Aristiies has dropped it; he's al.
ways 40 careless of money; I'll run
after him with it, was her first thought.
Her next was more malicious. "Thq
first FIVE hundred dollars found lay
ing around loose, might have for my
ramrl's hair shawl. We'll this is the
pery first FIVE hundred dollars / have
seen. He cant object. And Jenny
skipped off down town to make sure I"
that dear, sweet shawl; and in les,
than an hour, she struck dismay int
Mrs. Hardw"rthy's heart, by eclipsinl
her on Broadway, with a shawl wortl
twice what she gave for hers.
Nothing but prompt acticn.'
thought Jenny; it was real coup
d'etat on the part of the petticoated Ma
p"leon. a4as.ae .r. s.t ri .r4is li
"Confonnd it, I can't have dropped
that bill, can ! ?'' ponderrd Mr.. Jones
lha, same day, sounding the depths oi
all his pockets, with preturbed brow
and uneasy heart. Ii cant he possible
Yet what has berome nf it? Jenn,
told me to be careful, why didn't fol
low her advice? Women are alwaw,
right, do believe How she will crow
over me and rxult. No, she sham
either; III keep as whist as mouse
How could ] he SO careless rs To los,
FIVE hundred dollars, AZ If it had beer
but three cent piece. o, dear, dear
| it wonl,l have been better to have go
poor Jenny's shawl for her. Poor
dear little Jenny |! tits a Judgment oI
me. Aristidrs groaned bitterly, ant
wiped the prrspiration from his brow
Jenny sounded her husband that eve
ming Ia learn whether he had missed
the money or not.
I" Aristides, how should like to lool
at that bill again. Nav I?"
"Well, you see, my dear, you see,
stammered Mr.. Jones, rubbing his
chin, nervonsly, 81 don't like To carr,
40 much money about with me, 40
just locked it up in the safe at my of
tice." 9ea1
Jenny looked surprised, but sait
nothing. A pretty fair balance to hel
fib about the strawberry jam.
The next day Mr.. jones happene,
I" have large wholesale transactio,
with the merchant who had sold hi
wife the coveted India shawl, and il
the settling up thereof, Mr.. H"pkips"r
proffered Z" Jones the five hundred dol
lar bill. ai1aff s
"Why, bless me, what on earth ?
suffered Jones, as he scrutinized the
note and recognized one or two little
memo, andas he had jottrd down on il
when it first came into his possession.
/" Where under the canopy did you get
this note, MFR. Hopkinson ?" he inter
rogated, cl"gging eagerly at the mer
chants wrist to attract his attention