Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-01-05

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-
ment to neat. respectable looking house
on Myrtle street, and then hurried towards
home
She met her husband, when he came to
his FIVE oclock supper, with beaming
smile. The meal was well cooked aud neat
ly served the wife opposite him was young
and fair; and when John Stirling rose from
the table and went with her into her evening
room, it is no wonder he said to himself,
that this being in ones own home wasn't so
bad a thing after all.
"W hat is it, Nellie p he asked, after a
while, in answer to questio ming look in his
wife S eyes.
You are sure, John, you can spare me
that ivc hundred dollars without putting
aside any rgh,ful claim p
Il hope so, Nellie; if l had not thought
SO, should not have siven it TO you, much
as | love to please you
Then what" she spoke hesitatingly,
what if wanted very much indeed to use
it for something else p
Il do not understand what you can pos
sibly mean
For an answer she detailed to him the diff
ferent events of the day. When she was
through she said:
1T seems so hard, John, for that poor
girl, a minister daughter, too, to be suffer.
ing for want of food and living, or rather
dying, by inches, in that miserable, camp,
unhealthy place. / can see how, with five
hundred dollars, | could make her SO com
Portable. | stopped in at Nurse Smead'
on my way home to- day, and found tha,
she had nice, bright, good sized room,
whsre the sun shines half the day, which
she will let for seventy dollars year. There
is stove in it already, and carpet on the
floor, and thirty dollars more would supply
it with every needed comfort Now, if
could pay the rent of the room year in ad
vance for Annie Hadley, aud fit it up neatly
what fire start it would be for her Il
would give her such rest-such freedom
from care. She would have time to get
well She's very skilful With her needle
and. with the work she could easily do, she
|. could live SO nicely, and Jenny could go t(
school. have it all planned, and there
with your permissions goes the hundred dol
lars in my pocket.
John Stirling looked at his wife, and i
seemed do him, with the generous, unselisl
light Illuminating it, her face was the fac
OF an angel. But he did not say so then
He answered her, in the tone of one rails
ing an objection
But what would you wear to the party
Nellie, | should not Ike you to look shabby
my dear.
Trust to me for that. I can wear m!
wedding dress. 1t is such a rich, heav,
white silk. and it is not soiled at ALL Will
a little different arrangement of the trim
mings, it will be as handsome as anything
could get But are you quite set upon Civ
ing the party, John?"
Are you not, dear p
II was
There was pause for few moments i
which Nellie tied and united the tassels Q
her silk apron several times. When sh
looked up, an eager light shone through tn
mist which had somehow gathered befor
her eyes.
Il suppose there are many people in tn
city, John, just as worthy as Annie Hadley
and needing help just as much?''
without doubt, Nellie; plenty of wors
cases, especially now as winter is comm
on.
Gould you find them p
Il think | could. Some of the cases
destituiion, which he can not afford to r.
, lieve, make business mans heart ache a
most every day
''Then four hundred dollars extra, whic
you would not have given otherwise, will {
great deal.
''Yes, great deal. It is large sum. y
''Yes, it is a large sum, as you said la
night, to be spent on single evening e.
: tertainment for those who do not need
but not large when we compare it With Il
, wants of those who suffer. John, ha'
: no wish to give that party. Will you tai
t the money for doing good ?''
e 'sBut those who have invited US, Nellie
, The Hurlbuts, the Graysons; all yo
many friends? One wouldn't Ike to
: thought mean.
a 1--WE can ask them all. few at time
all those we care for. Your ordinary hous
D keeping allowance is liberal enough for tina
a If thai does not please them, after a
e John''-and the little woman hid her ia
, on her husbands shoulder, for she was Oh
who seldom uttered her deepest thought
or mentioned, even to him, the emotio
which she held most sacred-''it they shou
e not approve it, it matters SO much mo
1 what He thinks who told US to invite to o
r feasts, the poor, the MANNED, and the bin
have been blind till to day. l don't ca
for large parties any more. ~
t "You shall do as your heart has counse
e ed you, Nellie The money shall be at yo
i. disposal tomorrow. We will give our T
s ception to the guests whom God himst
u graciously chose for US.
e He said no more just then, but Nell
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