South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-08-13

iSi wv uSt lhoiS s3OoO tilStii TWICE the
amount Of money in the bank would.
This year she is laying By number
of useful and pretty things for them,
and if any misfortune should happen
to Jane they would only be too glad
to help her.
'Well, who do you suppose would
help you if you needed heip?' said Mr..
Jarvis, for want of better question.
Mrs. Jarvis eyes spark,ed angrily us
she answered:
Nobody. IF you should lose your
property to-day should be beggar,
without 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
time q dollar or two would have
enabled me to do some poor man or
woman untold good, but although
yon have always said that all your
property was mine / never could and
cannot now command Il dollar of it,
Lucky you couldn't, ifyou wanted TO
spend it on beggars.'
Donald, you know that / would
spend money as wisely rs you do
who was it that, only last week, gave
a 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 q
few dollars. You say that the money
is all mine, yet you spend it rs you
please, while | cannot spend n dollar
without asking you for it, and telling
what want 1t for Any beggar can
get il III the same way Christmas
You bought presents for us and expect
cd us To be very grateful FOR them.
A shawl for me Of the very color
cannot wear, Il set of furs for Lucy
that she did not need, q drum for
Robin that has been Il nuisance ever
since, and lot Of worthless toys that
were all broken MP in week. There
was forty or fifty dollars of my money
! Just the same as thrown away, yet
when | ask you to trust me with two
dollars 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-
'WolI, snapped the proprietor, i
guess II is my own money, and ] car
spend it n I please. j guess YOU.
know it, too, when you get anothe'
present.
ooh, it is your money then. I un
derstood you to say it was all mine
and intended to protest against you.
spending it so fooIishly. If it is your
own, of course, you have right tC
spend it n you please, but it seem.
to me that woman who left parent.
and brothers and sisters, and all hel
friends, to make home for you q
mong strangers, woman who ha.
given her whole life to you for tn,
past fifteen years, might be looked
upon with az much favor as you Civ
to beggars, vino are very likely to be
impostcrs. | know that you seldom
turn them Oft without help. Perhaps
| would be more successful # / an
pealed to YOU as n beggar. I might
say, Kind sir, please allow 70 me ont
OF your abundant means 81 small pit
tance for my comfort. 1t is true
have enough to eat, and do not SUITE!
for clothing, but, although / 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 me as much as lie
does his cook, and ] am often greatly
distressed for want 81 trifing sum
which lie would not mind giving to o
perfect stranger! The other day
while he was from home, I had to &c
to the next station TO see dear iriend
who was Ill, and not having a dollal
of my own was obliged 70 borrow
the money from his cook. l was &C
mortified And not long since thC
berry-womau came with such mic,
| berries to sell, and my little girl, VIII
was not well, wanted some very bad
| u, but | had not even five cents to
pay for handful for her. YESTERDAY
q friend came to ask me to assist in Z
! work Of charity. Vt was worthy
object and longed 80 much to give
her little money for 40 good a pur
| pose, but though the wife of a ricl
man had no money. Of course
might ask my husband for money
and if / told him all about what
wanted with it, and ne approved o
my purpose, and was in a good hum
or, he would give it to me; but, sir
1t Is terribly slavish to have to 10 80
even If ! could run to him every tim,
| wanted anything People say an
q fortunate woman because my hus
band is rich but ! often envy tie fac
tory girls their ability to earn an,
spcud their own money And some
times ] set so wild thinking about m,
/ helplessncss that If it was not for IN,
children think ] should lust droj
into the river and end il al.