Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-24
Saved by q Dream.

Saved by q Dream.
That was serious day for young Hubert
Collins, when, during the financial panic
Of thirty years ago the firm Of Woolsey &
Pollard succumbed to the pressure, and
went their way, with thousands of other
concerns all over the country, to irretriev-
able ruin. Hubert, though but twenty
one years of age, held responsible posi-
ton under these unfortunate merchants,
and was in the enjoyment Of lucrative
salary. He was highly esteemed by his
many acquaintance for the good qualities
he possessed, as we'll as for the talent,
: aptitude and energy he evinced. Besides
he was liberal to fault; and this, OF
itself, was enough to gain HIM innumer-
able friends, however questionable or
brittle may be the bonds of aim1ty per-
tanning to many Of them.
Hubert had been married some three
years when this fatal tide in his affairs
engulfed hinl, and was the father of two
very interesting specimens Of babyhood
"a little girl some two years old, and q
bouncing boy, who had attained the
mature age of six months or so.
Virginia Collins, the wife, was sweet
tempered little woman, scarcely twenty,
and seemed to live, and was contented to
live only for her husband and little ones.
She was not an extravagant wife, though,
like the rest of her sex, it is safe to assume
that she vearncd for the many feminine
triflcs in way of dress and the like; but
she knew that Hubert could not afford
them, and she silently submitted to the
inevitable. It would have been infinitely
better for her husband had he practised
the same economy in his out door life;
but Hubert was generous aud full of hope,
and liked his billiards and his vine as well
as the rest, and he enjoyed them, too. He
was never at a loss, either, to find some
one to Join him, and graciously permit him
to settle therefor, which isn't a singular
fact.
This prodigality had its due effect,
however, when Hubert found himself
without employment or money, and with
three he'll pless beings dependent on him.
On the evening Of the day on which
his employers had failed, he turned with
heavy heart in the direction of his
home, bitterly but uselessly bewailing his
misfortunes and the prohigacy which had
only rendered his situation incidentally
worse. Happy in her ignorance Of the
days events, his joyous little wife met
him with her usual welcome; but with a
woman's quick perception she easily dis
cerned, despite his efforts to appear
natural and self-possessed, that some
thing had eventuated to make Hubert
distracted, communicative, and alto
gether unlike his happy, careless, frolic-
some self.
Supper had been discussed, and the
table cleared. The little ones had long
since placed their tiny feet in dreamland
and Hubert and his wife sat alone. In
grim, oppressive silence he smoked his
accustomed cigar, while the busy fingers
of his wife piled diligently the maternal
needle, ceasing only occasionally to raise
her large gray eyes in dumb questioning
to Hubert's clouded face and gathered
brow. Though sharing, in common with
all Ewes daughters, a woman's curiosity,
she never asked the nature of his evident
trouble, but waited patiently for him to
break the silence. At last he did with a
single dissyllablc, "Virgy!"
"What, nv dear?' she replied.
Another moment of undisturbed quiet
@We're beggars."
"Beggars, Hubert2" she CALCULATED
Why, what do you mean?"
he briefly but fully acquainted hel
with the days disaster, concealed nothing
regarding their critical and hopeless con.
aition, and concluded his unhappy recital
with bitter curses on himself for his i'm
providence when he might have saved
and thus have provided in advance for a
contingency, which, had be been prudent
man, he should have feared, if not ex.
pected. Tears Of mingled anger and re-
pentance filled his eyes and rolled IN
needed over his cheeks Mans boosted
strength had broken down in the face u
present evil; but woman's nobler cour-
age, ignoring that present, pointed only
to future pregnant with hope and hap
piness.
"We}l, never mind, DEAR" she soothing
ly answered. ''This financial storm viii
soon blow over, and you'll have employ
ment again. In the meantime"
eyes," he interrupted, as dependently
echoed, in the meantime"
!" We can live for little while without
work." she continued, gayly, " for
nave over twenty pOunOS winch SaVeC
from time to time, and deposited in the
Brittania Bank"
"The Brittania!" he exclaimed, agar
interrupting her. "Poor girl, that to,
has failed"
"Well,'' she calmly rejoined, "that'
what feared, and SO I drew out my
little hoard week ago"
Poor Hurbert was overwhelmed. Tear
Of unayailing remorse would not be re
pressed, and he knelt at the feet of hi
prudent wife, lmploring her pardon 70
his improvidence. She gently raised hin
from his supplicating posture, and bad
him say no more about it. But trouble
come in groups. Hubert and the bah,
were taken sick at once; and by the tim
each had recovered the twenty odd pound
were exhausted and they were in trut]
beggars.
Virginia had some wealthy connections
and home was offered her and the little
ones il she would leave her husband
whom, for some reason, they disliked
Like the true wife, she refused, thoug
urged to accept the offer by Hubert hi a