The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-08-11

bney W0Le I'LL IIuS' i1uOhllJ ho IhOuBhb
of Jane.
"Well, how much do you suppose
Jane will have left when New Year
comesP II she should get sick how long
could she pay for care such as you
haveP"
"It is not likely she will lay up many
dollars out of hundred year; but she
| is laying up something better, think.
Last winter she sent her mother warm
shawl and pair of shoes, and to her
brother and sister money to buy new
school books, and the warm, loving let
ters they send her do her more good
than twice the amount of money in the
bank would. This year she is laying by
a number of useful and pretty things for
them, and if-any misfortune should hap
pen to Jane they would only be too glad
to help her."
"Well, who do you suppose would
help you if you needed helpp" said Mr..
Jarvis, for want of better question.
Mrs Jarvis eyes sparkled angrily as sac
answered:
Nobody. If you should lose your
property to-day l should be a beggar,
without a claim on any one for help.
You have always held your purse strings
so tightly that it has been hard enough
to ask for my own necessities, leaving
others out altogether. Many q time q
dollar or two would have enabled me to
do some poor man or woman untold
good, but although you have always
said that all your property was mine,
never could and cannot now command q
dollar of it."
LUCKY you couldn't, if you wanted
to spend it on beggars."
Donald, you know that / would
sperd money as wisely as you do. Who
was it that, only last week, gave poor
lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare
to Burton, and then saw him throw his
crutches aside and make for the nearest
saloon Your wife could not do worse
if trusted with few dollars. You say
that the money is all mine, yet you
spend 1t as you please, while l cannot
spend dollar without asking you for
it, and telling what want it for. Any
beggar can get it the same way Christ
mas you bought presents for us and ex-
pected us to be very grateful for them.
A shaw for me OF the very color that
cannot wear, setof furs for Lucye3hat
she did not need, drum for Robin that
has been a nuisance ever since, and a
lot of worthless toys that were all
broken up in week. There was forty
or fifty dollars of my money just the
same rs thrown away, yet when ask
you to trust me with two dollars a week
you cannot imagine what use / have for
It, and fear it will be wasted. am
sure could not spend fifty dollars more
foolishly if tried to-"
"Wel," snapped the proprietor, 81
guess it is my own money, and l can
spend it as please. guess you'll know
it. too, when you get another present"
"Oh, it is your money then. under
stood you to say it was all mine, and in
tended to protest against your spending it
so foolishly. Ifit is your own, Of course,
you have n right to spend it as you
please, but il seems to me that a woman
who left parents and brothers and sis
ters, and all her friends, to make a home
for you among strangers, a woman who
has given her whole life to you for fif-
teen years, might be looked upon with
as much favor as you give to beggars,
who are very likely 10 be impostors.
know that you seldom turn them of
without help. Perhaps | would be
beggar. l might say, kind sir, please
allow to me out of your abundant
means small p,ttance for my comfort.
1t is true that have enough to eat, al
though / work for my master from
morning till night, and if his children
happen to be sick, from night until
morning again, yet he does not pay nae
as much as he does his cook, and am
often greatly distressed for want of 8
trifing sum which he would not mind
giving to perfect stranger! The othel
day while he was from home, had tC
go to the next station to see a deaI
friend who was ill, and, not having s
dollar of my own, was obliged to bor-
| al, f-A, e 4 o.
mortified! And not long since the berry.
woman came with such nice berries tc
, sell. and my little girl, who was moi
, well, wanted some very badly, but haC
not even five cents to pay for handfu
for her. Yesterday friend came to ash
me to assist in a work of charity. II
was worthy object, and l longed 81
much to give her little money for 81
good purpose, but though the wife o
a rich man i had no money. OF cours
l might ask my husband tor money
, and if told him all about what
wanted with it, and he approved of m!
purpose, and was in a good humor, b.
5 would give it to me; but, sir, it is ter
| ribly slavish to have to do so, even if
{ could run to him every time | wantet
5 anything. People say am fortunat
woman because my husband is rich, bu
1 often envy the factory girls thei
ability to earn and spend their ow
! money. And sometimes 1 get so will
| thinking about my helplessness that if
/ was not for my children think shoulC
D just drop into the river and end it all.
g p" Nettie! Nettie Jarvis! What ar
e you sayingP" cried the startled hus
t band at last, for the far away look j
d her eyes as if she did not see him, bu
n was looking to some higher power {
" help her, touched his pride, if it did nc
u his heart, for he had a good deal {
y pride in a selfish sort of way. He wa
8 proud to be able to support his famil
It as well as he did. He was proud I
b, think he did it himself. He was prou
e that when his children needed new shoe
e he could tell his wife to take them I
g Crispin's and get what tley needeC
,e He did it with a flourish. He was NJ
ono Of tho atinuu lxind-ha lilnd m snap