The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-22
THE STORY OF ZONES Z co.

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they came by the way Of New York an
Washington and Parma City, in steam
J boat, and ma brought a maid to wait OIL
; her, and pa had black Teller named Jim
and when we got to California say we
I'm only fourteen now, but was no
born then, though that don't matter,
guess-pa had lots Of money. was borl
at the Lick House, and you ought to SCI
my baby clothes. Jones 4 Co. haven
the kind Of goods that them was, becaus,
Maud has draggled them all to pieces
Maud Is the baby. Six years old Maud Is
and 1t won't be long before she will be
Clerkin Jones 4 Co. First babies Away
havethe incest things Ma says first ba
bies are like second wives.
But keep getting away from Jones
Well, am OF the opinion that after ps
bought his house on Van Mass avenue, liz
went into stock, whatever that means
Going into stock must be curious bust
ness, and sometimes pa came home look.
Ing splendid, and wanted 10 buy every.
thing, and laughed at ma for being So
mean, and not getting better clothes, and
then he wanted to drive In the park and 10
the theatre. One day he came home with
bran new carriage and span Of long.
tailed horses, and negro coachman, and
funny little darkey for fOotman. Then
sometimes pa came home and looked very
blue, and talked about stocks, and began
10 watch pa, and noticed that sometimes
when he laughed loudest he looked as II
he wanted to cry, and then lie sold the
horses, and then the house, and the fur.
niture was sent TO auction, and ma she
lelt very bad, and pa wasn't like himself
any more, and never told me stories nor
kissed me, and once when Maud was
asleep in his arms, he kissed her and cried.
and when told ma she said she guessed
pa did not feel very well, and then she
cried.
After this we went to boarding house
"a nasty musty boarding house, Every
thing was well enough, only a boarding
house amt like home.
Then the baby came, and it died, and
ma almost died, and | heard pa say to the
man that kept the boarding house that he
was pretty tight up, but it was all coming
out right, and the next day pa didn't have
any watch, nor any sleeve buttons. |
dtdn' seem to noticeit because seen that
may DO pa had sold them to pay his board,
and heard pa and ma talk away in the
night, and sometimes ma cried, and pa
would look In the morning lust as II he
hadn't slept a wink, and l don't believe he
had. Once 1t was dreadful. Pa came
home tipsy, and never seen ma feel so
bad, ever; and then they talked II over.
and finally ma went home to grandpa's IN
New York with Maud, and STAYED with
pa to go to school.
Then pa kept getting worse and worse,
and Ye went to i've In rooms and cal al
restaurants, and pa stayed ont late nights,
and guess he drank more than was good
Tor him, and thought something had to
be done. 10 ! said TO pa one day, NPa,
less go into business and open store"
And he laughed and said: "What kind
of q store?"
And I said: "oh, candy store, cr a
stationary store, or thread and needle
store, Just such rs women keep and little
girls help In"
And pa laughed and said he would think
Of it, and when he came home that night
asked him II he had thought about It,
and he said he hadn't, and said he had
better, and he said he would, and that
morning he didn't go out, but stayed al
home and wrote me long letter.
So next day | went into . stlrp on Polk
street kept by q nice lady who had bad
husband, where they sold everything, and
she said In French they called it lingerie.
Ibid not know what she meant, BECAUSE
It was French, and asked II she didn't
want to sell hDr store, and she said:
"Do you want to buy q store, little
And said; "NGy pa does" And she
smiled and said she guessed the sheriff
would have store to sell In few days,
and said | would tell pa, because he
knew Mr.. Nunan. the sheriff twas one
OF Mr.. humans men that sold pas house
and furniture Tor him.
And tho next day told pa about the
store and what nice onp 1t was, and no
said he had been dry goods man onGe,
had had large store, and sold silk dress
goods, and velvets and furs, and laces,
worth ever SO much yard, and India
Shawls worth more than . thousand dol
lars apiece.
don't know exactly what pa did, but l
think something turned up few days
afterwards, for ! heard him say he had
made u "raIse," and he showed ma more
than thousand dollars in gold notes, and
for day or two he carried them in a side
pocket, and mostly kept his hand over
them for fear they would jump out and
fly away, and pa bought me some shoes
and hat, and stuff for aprons, and made
them myself, and never saw pa look so
happy since ma went away, and one day
he said to me:
"Vevie, l have bought the store on Polk
street, and you arc to be my saleswoman
and partner"
And snrp enough, III few days we went
into the store, and over tho door was Q
great big sign Of Jones & Co." and pa
said | was the Go" And when said,
and so. pa, you arc Zones" no blushed,
and guess he didn't like his old friends
to know that he was selling needles, and
thread, and tape and things.
We had two snug little rooms in the
buck Of the store TO sleep in, and l made
pas bed and swept ont the rooms, and
tidied things. At first p9 shut M The
store when he had 10 60 down town on
business, but AFTER little while tended
il, and when therp was two puslowers in
the store waited on one, and It wasn't
long before | could make change and sell
things, and add up almost as good as ps
could; and by.and.by when he went down
town tended store, and we had splendid
times. We went out 10 nice place
across the street for our meals, tended
storp ThHn pa went, and pa tended store
when went.
full troubled and and then hem said pa ain
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