Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-30

look Uf satisfaction, Ills Is some
thing like living!'
IAN idle life, however, was not what
Jones Jones had been accustomed to,
and time soon began to hang heavily
on his hauds. He tried to bethink
him what other rich men did, and at
last decided to while away the time in
improving his house and grounds. In
deed, when he came to think about it,
his house partie ularly needed 1t. Ex-
ternally it was very stiff and plain,
and internally it was very contracted
for man of means. les, certainly a
wing was needed on the south side,
and bow. window on the front, and a
Mapsard roof would make the house
more imposing.
80, after settling in his own mind
what alterations would be needed, he
stepped over to William Williams, the
architect. Williams thought it would
be great Improvement, but when Jones
Jones patron!zinRly requested him to
draw the plans, William Williams in
formed him with the air Of mil
lonaire that Ee didn't do anytbing of
that sort himself; and one would never
suppose from his manner that he had
given up his profession only the week
| before.
"Jones Jones was disappointed, but
decided to try builder by the name OF
Gritiiths next, who was also a very
good hand at designing Grit1iths con
scented to undertake the job merely as q
matter OF friendship If Jones Jones
could furnish the masons and carpen-
ters. But not carpenter could he
find who was willing to work for him.
They had all given up their shops,
some of them not being able to sell
their business even. Finally, he came
across u mason living very humbly,
but upon inquiry he was told that the
reason he was found in such poor quar-
tiers was that he could find no ore to
help him build house for himself,
and so was forced to live in the same
old cottage, though the money lay in
heaps on the floor.
after fruitless efforts in every di.
rection, Jones Jones was forced to con-
tent himself with his abode as it was.
"'It's one comfort, any way, he
said to his wife, that we have enough
to eat and to wear
"'It is all we'll enough if you have
some one to cook the food and make
the Clothes she answered, but the
cook told me to-day that she was going
to be married, and no one will engage
to take her place; and, worse than that,
the dressmaker said that she would not
take in any more work after this, as
she had enough money to last her the
rest of her life.'
1.-The next day the gardener informed
Jones Jones that he might look about
for another hand, and smiled serenely
when he was threatened the loss of a
months wages If he left, as though
money was of no account whatever.
"'It's blessing that we have our
health and can do for ourselves said
Jones Jones to his family, as he went
out to milk the COW and attend to the
garden, while his wife went to break
fast.
"'Why don't you bring ON the
meat?' asked Jones of his wife afte,
they were seated at the table.
az couldn't get any she answered,
pathetically; there isn't a meat mar
ket in the place OPEN
"'Why didn't you go to the slaugA-
ter-house, then?"
Jones Jones asked this little saw.
agely, for he was rather hot and tired
He was plasterer by trade, unaccus
toned to out-of ,door-work, and was a
little soured by the hot sun. as also was
the milk which he had forgotten tc
carry to the house.
"'That was closed, too, and the old
butcher asked me if I supposed he
would keep on at such beastly business
as that when he didn't have to-
Well, we'll, here was trouble The
cooking could be- done, the dress. max
ing and the garden could be got through
with, though the latter was distasteful,
but no one would kill his cattle,
no one would make his butter, no
one would weave his cloth, no one
would even mend his garden tools. He
concluded that the world was composed
OF a miserable, lazy, selfish, disoblig-
ing race of beings, and yet, when he
came to consider the matter, he saw
that everybody he knew was obliged to
work harder than when he was poor. He
himself longed to get back to his trade,
which seemed mere play to him in com
parlson with the mental work he now
performed.
"Of course he was as selfish and
disobliging and proud as any of them,
for had he not persistently refused re-
peated requests to plaster this ones
and that ones walls? Things could
not 60 on in this way long. No man
could be his own butcher and barber,
gardener and miller, weaver and man
of-all-work, even though he were as
rich as Cr9sus. The first plan he
could think of was to go to the butcher
who had pleaded with him to do his
plastering, and offer to do it in ex-
change for the killing of his cattle,
which the butcher promised to do il
the miller would grind his wheat, which
the miller promised to do, if the weaver
would make him some cloth,
which the weaver promised to do il
the builder would build him house.
which the builder promised to do ii
the carpenters would finish his. The
carpenters said they would. So
1.-THE mouse began to gnaw the rope,