The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-06-03

, and said ia low voice
al am very grateful, madam but
! if you please. | will wait until you
, leave me Allow me at present to
attend to you,'
. "No, indeed - Mrs Stirling spoke
in her pretty, absolute fashion. lam
not going yet. | want to talk with
you awhile, and | shall not do so uu.
al you have take something to
strengthen you. Little Jane has
lunched already"
So tho the gay, bright lady sat,
! aud waited, feeling, in the new pros
pcct Of being actively useful, genu.
inc glow pf delight. When tho g,rl
had finished her generous meal aud
taken up her work again, Mrs. Stir
ling began to talk to her,
"Is this consumption, Anuia2" she
asked, gently, "your cough alarms
nc"
"No. ma'am, l am sure it is moth
ing Of the kind yet There is no
consumption in our family. My
father was country minister, aud
had II strong and healthy constitution,
he died young, but it was from vi
olent fever, caught in attendance on
a sick stranger. think it was grief
which made my mother follow him in
three months. She had always been
delicate, though not sickly, and she
lacked the strength it required to
live. and suffer. 1t is seven years
since she died, on the very day little
Jane was born"
GLOW old were you theu?'
"Fiitcon, and there was no living
children between us two"
"Aud you have supported yourself
aud her ever since p
ooh no. My fathers books and
furniture sold for enough to keep us
somo time, aud my aunt, who lived
here brought us to Boston. We both
lived with her She took care of
Jane, aud l worked in shop, and
earned enough to buy our clothes aud
help auLt Martha with the living. 1t
is only since she died, three years
ago, that have heen all alone with
Jenny"
"You came ou. of the shop then p
ayes, because | could not have
Jenny there with me, aud she had no
one else to see TO her, and indeed
have made more money since, / hayo
embroidered so much.
"But surely you have suffered more
lbA7TGss'aq this summer
ooh yes, ma'am. The Ihu2ies- that
| work for are mostly out of town 10 i
tho sun''nor sl~cys. nnj 80 winters I
try to save something to help us
through. But last winter was so
hard that | had not as much work as
usual, and this summer we have not
been very well off. | had to give up
the comfortable room | used to have,
because could not earn enough to
pay for it, and l suppose the damp
ness here has not just agreed with
me-"
She tried to smile, but the tears
came instead. Mrs, Stirling took her
hand with comforting pressure.
Don't cry, Better times are CON.
ing to you now. l am sure | can in
huence you a great deal more work.
You shall have enough to do, aud we
must see that you move out OF this
damp, unhealthy place"
Sister Annie smiled sadly.
"The landlord has seen to that,
madam. | can only stay here three
days longer. He wants to lot the
room to a tenant who will pay more
aud | have been troubled for fear
should not be able to go out aud Gnd
another place"
"Weil, you must not feel anxious.
Just leave that till to morrow. Then
if you are not able to go, will find
n place for you. 1t can not be dit
icult matter TO find one as good as
this. At any rate, to morrow you
shall see me again and, iu the mean
time. the pay for the work little Jane
brought home will make you comfort,
able"
So saying, she put into the girls
hand twice the customary price for
the embroidery she had done, and
without waitin! for the thanks which
trembled on Annie lIadley's pale
lips, she went out Of the room, down
the stairs, aud returned home after
this, her FIRST charity visit.
On the way she stopped but once.
and that was not to look into any Of {
the windows gay with autumn goods.
or to exchange her hundred dollar
note on the Suffolk Bank for silks
and satins. She only went for mo
meut to neat, respectable looking
house on Myrtle street, aud then hur-
ried home,
She met her husband, when he
came to his fiye-O clock dinner, with
a beaming smile. The meal was well
cooked and neatly served; the wife
opposite him was young and fairj and
when John Stirling rose from tho ia
lie and went with her into her eve-
ming room, it is no wonder he said to
himself, that this boiDg in one own
home wasn't so bad thing. after all.
"Whar i it. Nellie p he asked, af.
ter a while, in answer to a question:
ing look in his wifo's eyes. She drew
near him.
"You are sure, John, you can spare
me that FIVE hundred dollars without
putting aside any righlful claim ?"
IL hope so Nellie; if l had not
thought so, / should not have given
it to you, much as love to lease
you"
"Then what" she spoke hesitat-
ingly, "what If wanted very much in
deed to use il for something else2p
II do not understand what you can
possibly mean"
For answer she detailod to him the