Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-02-01
Dollars lxnd Sense.

\ "3f iyet Dollars sRnd Sense! IL naii:r
i The following picture of almost ineredi
bic generosity is from Fhe pen Of Robert HI
I Newell {" Orpheus O. Kerr in the S0cia
/ Studies of the World. ~ ~ 9lIi" III IoiIg9iy
A very worthy and respectable wife ant
! mother, living in South Boston, was SO IN
fortunate few years ago as ta be feddced ID
| ) sWidowhood Of which five littia fssIildret n
| were nearly the whole earthly treasure. /.
! other words, she has brought to the trui,
trying situation of weil-bred woman. lef,
| suddenly with but few poor dollars III, tft
! world, and with dependents unable to do any.
thing for either her or their dowfi Helm
Through two or three years she jstruetpted
nobly with the poverty In which she was? We,
too proud to seek charity and strained every
device of energetic hand ahd Heart to- retain
for her little family some of the outward
properties Uf their former estates. but 5rlie
Dattle was against dreadful odds, and two OF
her children had fallen in 1t before the brave
woman would surrender her last stronghold
ora generous pride for them Finally there
was nothing left for her but to remove with
her 'dariings into that terror of hthei once
richer, tenement house."@ andp 10 learn
where there was one eligible for her heart
sick purpose, she consulted a certain real
estate agent Of noted! eccehtrieity. IRoused
to some PERSONAL interest nby her tihfd, TIN
accustomed manner of stating her VI ant, this
agent, with all due respect, questioned the
WIDOW concerning her past andtpresent cir-
cunstahces, and Twas then moved to become
in a moderate ttayzheF bdnefactof!iI Having
q snIan house ofthis own standing 9lhScc,f1
pied, lie insisted that she sli6utt take II dit
tile rent which siielwoald ihasg Bednr Obliged
TO pay for rooms I'M a. tenement ahd also
promised to help secure for her two or three
boarders, whose payniehtsi 'shbuldiaid I'm the
support of the family bGratefulfy did the;
poor harrassed wofiaig accept these beneI
factions, scarce realizing, Rh6Weyefyi their
fun proportions; !. and thus began an acduaaiis,
anoe ID between her8sand her rich landlord
tliat, only fortnight ago, mattlred into the
kindly gentlehian's Offer of his, benevolent
hand in marriage Gratitudeis not Aecessati
Iily love, especially IN the praetiearaprose Of
Jaded middle age, and thei lady Iad Iq,ota
learned TO love he" eccentric suitor; ibutpShe
was Still very poor; her thFeefenlainiAt q chill
dren would be reduced to sore want iii base
9f her own sickness or death and she allowed
her gratitude to give the man of MONEY 4
favorable reply. Too honest, though, to hide \
from him the considerations chiefly inducing
her answer, she stipulated To- him that heB'
should 'sdeedp to her and to her children one
pan OF ms property before the wedding cere-
hony! III Rightly understanding the proper
pradenoe LOS this exaction itheG gentleman
hesltated not d momentIto give the REQUIRED
deed and instruct her t0ihaVe it recbrdeap,All
seemed ready now for the marriage but be-
fore it could be solen1nized a strange, woman
paid visit to the widow, for the purpose of
introducing herself as one already inarriedsto
the bridegroom elect Frointhis startling M d
terview the widow went, shocked and intieA
1ant, to her land1ortfs bfffteiand charged him
with practicing a~aeruel,y yt,nnanly deception
Upon her: Without prevarieatfoii he at once
confessed that the strange woman wasihdeed
his wife, though. she had driven him from
her years ago, and that he knew, the impossi- !
1ility of his marrying again. He never ia fI-
ended 10 let the second marriage actuallVaf
AXE place; but having learnedl tojreally love |
he tenant of his, little house and her family,
md being eager to confer upon her and, hers
IS much of worldly benefit as could accrue to, /
hem from q arich husband and father. he had
pretended the marriage enga gep,ept only to
AVE excuse and opportunity for, the trans
errNgt Of half his property That the widow
BELIEVED him fully was pFoyedIby her, accept
nee OF the generous gift, which is valued at
70 less than y $TNp p00;f anA Aifla woman ofsuch
req ;and :pGoyed worthy traits as hers could
p pelieye and 80 ACCEPT it is mot for Others
Q judge less, peditaSly the purpose and mo-
ives of her eccentpic. hanaf w CHAR