The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-11

| httE WAS once Il MAN With an Only
laughter, and ha never could add up. He
would say 10 the mllkman, LIFETIME see,
SIR, = he often called tradesman ssir,
uartly because he was old fashioned, and
partly because he owed SO much money.
Ind was afraid Of having his bills stopped
--"et me see, sir how much do | owe
y"n ?" says the poor widower, for his
wife had long been dead. Zone, and
one is two, and three is eight, and Two is
wciVe, and ak is one and penny far
thing; but really did not tn nix it Was
50 much. j must pay you immediately,
5moaed(4te}y-on receiving q remittance.
Anem +! wish ycu good day, sir"
Being unable To add up, this unfor-
suhate person fell by. degrees into worse
| poverty, until at last it was hard to say
what would become IF him. But in the
meanwhile strange things happened. In
consequence of hia being SO unfit for
arithmetic, his nejghbors invariably
cal lied him "ihe accountant which. after
II time, got corrupted, as We say, into
'couptart, aud then into count" In d
year or two-a little less, perhaps, or Il
| little mOtejU fell into oblivion that be
BAD ever been called accountant for the
public is very rorgetfat, having SO many
| hing To remember Gust look at th4
news paper J and people took to calling
aim count just as II he lad always been.
real nobe,nan F>H
| Now, MS nabrer$, as We have stated,
were very polltr to the tradespeople, which
made il seem all the more likely that he
was d man of title so they went on
trusting INN very much indeed, and he
L., Il ~ ln.t
however, when they found that be q d
MOI receive romlttances, and could not
produce a pa>ent Of nobility, and never
wore Z star, nr,an order,ur went 80 court,
nr #n.lhIng off he sort (you know what |
mean and that no carriages with loot
uen ever cutnt to his door, tEley telt that
IN ju>fI:r They could not allow MIN to-
run up such long bilts The result OIL
| Tins was hat tiie count had Verv little
left to live upon, and gradually got
weaker ana walker, TIL at last he fell
that his end was near, aud that 1t was
time 10 mike THE necessary arrange
ments.
AS he tag upon lis bed, it occurred to
him that his great fault In lie
hid b. en- want at economy +; aad hav'
NJ heard that money increased in savings
banks b. called his little daughter to HIM
nmd SAID:
"My d.ar, | only leave you one poor
copper penny.pece But mind you must
Us sure ana put that in the savings bank,
wherr it VIII grow more and more
Yes. papa. said The little girl, who
had one day been rehuked by ID nelghb"r
for saying father" to count.
And so he died and she Was left to
shit for herself. The penny sue found
lin her fathers left-hand waist Goa picket,
and she resolved to say hing about it
To anybody, but immediately to look nut
or a savings bank to put it in, according
Ito her fathers directions.
OF course she did not look like noble
mans daughter, for her hair was all any,
how, and her clothes in rags; but tbs
people took to calling her countess all
the same. considering that she had in
herite1 her fathers title. AS for getting
living, the used to go out to work, and
especially to wait upon people who were
p0oI ly and as she always asked but little,
and was most beautiful nurse, she did
not want for food and lodging. One of
the first places, if not the very first, she
ever went to All er her fathers death was
3 toy shop, where the mistress was ill.
When her engagement was over, this
mistress, who had been much pleased
with her, said:
"Now, Countess, what shall give you
tor your services ?"
"lf you please, maam," said Countess,
'the little savings bank that see in your
shop window"
The mistress thought this was great
deal too little but her husband, who
was stingy man, gave her bad pinch,
and whispered in her ear:
"Why should you give her any more
than she asks Give her the savings
bank, and have done with her."
So Countess got the toy savings.bank
and went away happy, to seek another
engagement.
Now, Countess was a most generous
child, and what was running in her head
was just this; she thought TO herself
cit is such great pleasure to do kind
things, to help the weak and nurse the
sick, that it is shame to take anything
for doing it especially now | can put my
penny in the savings bank, whereas pa o
told me, it will grow to be more anc
: more" So she made up her mind to e
out helping and nursing, but took no wa
ges for it, only now and then an ole
rrock, or pair of worn ont shoes, o.
something of that sort, you know. Wher
people found she did not name pric'
for her services, some of them said, "Oh
that is her pride she thinks it Mould de
mean her to take wages, being countess.
rhey said "demeaa, not knowing thai