Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-09-12

"Hdt you thinK VIII enable me barely to
squeeze through a year and granting
that itdoes cost me less to live, suffer me
to enjoy the nprivilege granted to every
day.laborsr, Of storing his surplus earn.
ings against rainy day. If you, Mr..
Krauft, and menIlike you, would exert
what influence you have to do away with
this crying evil, you would only show
me, and thousands like me. simply justice
and yet this is not what drove me here to
complain "but3 the hopelessness, and
her voice sank sank 1.-The utter hopeless.
ness" and her voice sank ''the7 utter
hopelessness Of it, Mr.. Krauft By pinch.
! ing and that means, never allowing our
selves food enough thoroughly 70 satisfy
US, and FIRE enough thoroughly to warm
US, we live: that is, we keep roof over
us, and get out the children's books and
shoes, by edgihg every little while a little
closer to starvation than usual; but, Mr..
Krauft, when you Jared poorly you were
cutting your way through the forest, and
every blow was'a step nearer light. We
cut down the day difficulties with the Ger
tainty that each tomorrow will supply
US with a rankcr and more obstinate
growth. We can't get out as matters
stand. Every year entanges US more
Thoroughly. aud allows us less straw with
which to make our brick" q u ~
Up to this point Krauft had listened
perforce, but with his indignation increas
ing gat every scntance; and as Mr.. krauf
was large, calm person, whose very IA
ges were cold, his indignation by this
, time was sort of moral glacier which
now being in motion came down on Mis-
} Tree, warm aud glowing with enthusiasm
: aud crushed her. bed msdgvI ob.aW
."aiiss Tree, am really.aI may say
panied shocked II astonishcd "! Why
| ma'am. you are striking at the very root
If our social system osYou are flying di
roetly in the face of Providence; you
/. y0G+" 92iods & Of gyrss5a.L
rPoor roots and poor Providence :, siE
ped IN Miss Tree while Mri Krauft labor
70 ed. for the rest of his sentance. GOOD
: night, Sir" ,ospd went ont. By tha
: time Mr. Krauft's dinner had been sci
. we'd full FIVE minutes,l and Mr. Krauft SO
! down to it dlled with spite. ,g oaL.U
:, t,Confound the women" he growlcd q
: he helped himself to salmon and col
T. found all reforms!II, he ,grOwled agai
y after his final glass Of .shery, But wh'
, next Did NJ, Kraufs then take t(f,,lj his b
= aud step out in the street On that poll
= Mr., lKyuft h,mself is unable 70 depo'
J Eyi,h certainty He only knows that that
: found, himself walking in, Broadway, an
= that very curious changehad passed u
on him. The Mr.. Krautt who drank Il
- sherry was large. prosperous, full-bloW
T. man. NJ. Krauft who erept along Broa'
u way was dwindlcd edition Of" himseI
d seedily dressed; and where's he cairi,
'sl about with him -habitually aoseuec Of h
I'D iinportance, like an bair cushion, he W
~ CONSCIOUS Of novel timidity and o. 80
psIi irowful forebobihg anxiety about som
uf thing not Yet defined, ~ An equal remar
liable alteration ahad taken place in ID
'slqcharatter Of the Broadway crowti? 1T 90
nah sisted Of men and woman,1 as before, b
But now it was the woman who walk
all with a brisk aifqof business, and wi
'o- stood easily III shop doors and 'bchi'
Htoupters ;.the woman iwbo scanned y
ILL., from hotol steps, who diScusscdanews a
me- markets in narrow downltowp d stree
pre- and eyed faverably handsome, well DIRE
H2ed young mcu walking lnodestly aalog
vs shopping expeditions. and only glanOi
ID about them under their cyolashes,s or p
dI sed worse. dressed and attractive men Ii
oalo Mr. Kraaft with hccool indifference, aud
ian some M ysterious &aysAIn Krauft und
lnd stood that the roots of society had at j
IS gone by the board there had been n
~ boldtion men had lost the HeinsIof pow'
in short men and \ women had chang
places. ,Ioiiog sGmodI ,a1sbiJlga
nan Then Mrd Craufty scomprehended
nse' timid anxiety that had 2Iaken the pl
I'd of the old ilpoEtanea iHisoglfe b
sht died leaving her oaffairs much involv
non and two helpless little boys for him
'me support. Mr., Kraufsc was aasA in in search