The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-11-28

happy. OF course there We're sick. and
lame, ANA blind, and deaf people, and beg.
gars. plenty IN the world. but Heaven was
keeping them ont of her sight that day,
and bringing before her only happy grown
folks and merry little ones.
The streets looked 80 clean and the ain
seemed SO pure that She charged herself
with having often borne false witness
against the beautiful city. aS she ran with
light heart through Washington, Tremcnt
anu Court streets. and Bowdoin square. I'm
first 90 a store and then 10 "A hotel. I'm
each place She asked for the proprietor or
the steward. and opening her basket, drew
out three little glass jars of what the hotel
keeper al home had called ''sour things
! In one minute She told her business. and
the necessity that brought her ont on il.
Her cheerful face, her prompt manner and
her few well-chosen words gained the vic
\ tory for her. She went back nj night
pledged 10 supply homemade pickles,
chow-chow and caisup for three hotels and
five large groceries /; and she whispered. as
She mounted the steps of her little home.
III show father whether or not We are
going 10 starve.'
Her cheerful story of success did more
for her poor. di.heartened young husband
than peek of old-schOol pills or four tiny
new-schOof ones could have done. The
very story of an old woman's poke-bonnet,
which was worn so one-sided i'm the car ~
10 blind one eve, and OF the silly airs of "A
silly bride. and of Il boy with two guinea
pigs buttoned into his jacketror safe trans
portation, really frightened the hope of
life in his heart; and after partaking OF
nice supper prepared by their pretty
friend, he said
~ \ al \ 80.
get about and be well and take care OF my
family again, and this is the first time
have had any hope.'
Love kept away from her father till she
had visited two market-gardens in the out
skirts of the town and engaged great
supply of cucumbers, onions. peppers and
tomatoes. and had brought back the strong
girl She had first felt Obliged to dismiss. To
help her in her new work.
But ii YOU could only have seen the size
of the old gentleman's eyes. and the style
of mouth he got up. and heard his eNcla-
nations. why, Love. you are crazy
What will your mother say. lou surely
forget that her first husband was president
OF the l. National Bank. and that I'm
cashier of it. Who ever heard OF a bank
officers daughter making pickles for tav-
erns and groceries :"
"Who ever heard of a bank officers
daughter sitting down and starving when
trouble comes :" replied the spunky little
lady.
"Why don't YOU teach music.'
9 because don't know enough"
" lou might keep few very genteel-
well. not just boarler~. but friends who
don't care TO keep house. and would pay
largely"
Where are they, and where's the house
and furniture for them:n
20. that's true But you might-eh -
or YOU might-eh ,'-and here his wits
failed him; there are so few grand things
that people can do In the hope OF cheating
Others into the beliefthat they are working
for fun rather than from necessity. But
soon the old gentleman addcd-it was the
truest word he had ever uttered
= declare. Fn actually afraid To 90
home lest it has reached your mothers
ears -
The proud woman soon heard of il. and
she talked angrily about "what Mrs. Dr.
Adams. and Mrs. Col. West. and that
purse-proud Miss Allen would say" and
She ''was almost inclined to think il would
be better to give Love five hundred dollars
than Ia be disgraccd in society"
"Love wouldn't take any money" re-
liltu the Olb uittii. NlD~t ditittit NUflll-
the conversation was that of one caught
Out IN cutting hail-stOrm without an UNI
brella.
Dreadful independent for anybody
that's penniless, = cried the old lady.
Love and her stout Irish helper went 10
work at once. and very soon the china
closet. and next the neat little dinng-room.
were filed with glass jars through which
tiny green cucumbers. and onions. and
everything else nice in that line. Were
peeping, or, as Love said. "smiling on the
family
The business went on bravcly. and in
one year Loves husband. who was par
tally restored to health, forsook the desk
and took charge of it, and she sent back 10
the nursery-every good mothers place
when Providence doesn't call her out of il.
This is no pretty fiction TO teach young
folks that "Where there's a will there's
way Ii is true story of a brave little
woman, and we could tell you the street
and numbcr Of the large store in certain
city, not far away. where her entcrprising
husband has built up large business. and
made not a little money.
He says now, that ii Love had never
learned TO make pickles. or had been too
proud to make them for others. In the dark |
time, he should have been in his grave live
years ago.
Who thinks less of her for doing it?-
Youths Companion.
The Fort Scott Monitor says: Yes
tcr,lay afternoon Judge J. w. IIeylmun |
while standing at the heads of the horses
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