The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
A SAFE INVESTM ENT.
From Appleton's Journal.

husband in d small village on the Hud
son, some fifty or sixty miles from New
York. The house we occupied was 5
large, rambling mansion, Of considerable
antiquity for this country, and stood q
little apart from the rest Of the village
surrounded by broad fields, and command
ing a glorious view of the river and the
hills Of the Highlands 1t had been built
before the Revolution, by my husbands
great grandfather, and, though destitute
OF many modern Improvements" was
still 9 comfortable and pleasant residence.
My husband was lawyer and large
real estate owner in the neighborhoOd,
and, at the period Of which I write, was
greatly perplexed, like many other per
sons in the perilous state of the times,
and especially about the safe investment
o. his funds, as the suspension Of specie
payments, the great rise IN gold, and the
military disasre rs in Virg mia made it al
most impossible to tel. where it would be
safe to deposit or use ones money III any
large amount.
In the course or his transactions Ia real
estate, IL happened, one daY, tna'0r re
ceived what was for us then large sum,
about ten thousand dollars, which he
brought home and placed in my charge
telling me at the same time he should
have to be absent during the evening, at
tending to some business on the other side
of the river, and should not be back till
about midnight.
" You can place the money in the safe
DEAR" he said, as he gave it to me, a." and
tomorrow. will try and find some way
to invest it securely"
So saying, he stepped into the buggy
which was standing at the door, and
drove. ,yav takinr With hin, Our hira6
MOI, Gilos md 1a0vircr ,oo with no c,,f
1,,1, ~ III 1aAI ~
- ,,'o no"4S an ~ ho,,so
, hold the functInns Of cook and maid. Of
all-work, as she had long done in the fam
Iilf of my own parents, who, Oh my mar
J., riage had Welded her TO me asa valuable
mart ot NV dowar
D;,ot was i1,5oad . chorootor Oh,
VS. talI and varv sf,,nt wciobino Oh,
% wonId never tell how mnch. more tba,
two hundred pounds. She was YER,
black, and as law as she was black.
don't think any one could move more de
liberately than Dinah did, that is to NOV
at all. And by q wonderful dispensation
she seemed to feel that, whatever he
other faults might be, she was strong o.
the point OF locomotion. For when sh
had been moving with Ponder"us slow
ness, almost maddenlng 70 person OF or
binary qulckneSs, one Of her favorlte eX
pressions was, Well, Miss Lille, Wha
!, shall fly into next?"
How she accomplished all she did, til
brownies only know. We used sometime
almost to tremble when there was an
special hurry about her domestic arrange
menus a a. YET oman always managed t
s.lI''19 !" d u.s. ne
- 49," ,.'s
'N'n6 0"o' "AVn 0''>14 ~ !, T0u AiIn
:. Woulu $40" ~ ehunCia.c' " I'll, HlISS, WIZ
shall l 1y into next
1t was nearly dark when my husban
departed' and at er giving my order
D'Aan' OF rather my suggestions. lei
hei' anu 'nau0 'ile Jour Oh the mouse;
see Cia .t all was SAFE anu properly locke
up. Inns duty aCCehoeo TO- Went 10 III
bedroom, intending to- pass my time /
reading tlll my husi"fd returned
1t was large room on the ground foe
with two French windows opening on
verandah. The windows were drape
with long yelloW-silk curtains, betwee
which the moonlight family entered
dimmed by the shadow of the ROOF of til
piazza, and partly intercepted by tn
fringe of the woodbine which hung fror
it, My bed stood with its foot towar
the windows, and with it's head abou
nall YARD from the wall 1t was an ole
fashioned structure, nung with yello'
silk like the windows, but l slept wit
the hangings drawn back and fastened t
the blackboard The bed was so iarg