The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-14

frt1 WeiSel would sell an elSntl
acre slice off his farm. People came
and went, looking at the slice and
sighing for it. At length an ofiel
was made for the whole farm a
$500.
'Try him at $1,000" said Mrs
Fritz, "if he agrees, take IL; for sev
en- thousand is much money. il vii
keep us for life"
so, So" Fritz said.
lie tried seven thousand and tht
offer was taken. As the terms wert
cash, Fritz one day came home, hi.
l.pocketbook erammed with green
backs.
"Come here, Thekla," he said te
his wife, shut the windows, lock
the door, put on your specks, you
are not so young as when | married
YOU barefoot. Come, ! shall show
you so much money as You never
saw"
Mrs. Fritz FASTENED to make
/ things secure against spies and caves.
droppers. She hung a shawl across
the window and stuffed Gotten in
the key-hole. Then she feasted hen
eyes on the hundred dollar bills and
the twenties and the tens.
"Ah now we have it easy we
have it good, at last, " she cried
cheerily.
$50, so" said Fritz. "The mon
ey-box we have got open, where our
money was locked" )"
Now we have got it good. But
where viii yod put so much money,
tonight, Fritz? Everybody knows
that the farm you have sold for mon
ey in hand, and everybody knows
we are cut on the prairie with no
body at ALL"
Il will take the money to bed
with me sleep with it in my
bosom"
"You can take it to bed,' said
Mrs. Fritz, "but you sleep not much
| think"
Neither man nor wife slept much.
One-half the night they were listen
ing for burglars, and the other half
were searching for the house break
ers. Toward morning they had y
nap apiece. When daylight came
they we're glad to see it. They were
to nire nossess;on in ten days. so
the morning was full Of anxious
questioning. Where were they to
90 +? where set up the new home ?
"There are not many Germans in
Nauvoo, we are all acquainted to-
gether. If we can get a home in
Nauvoo-"
Il viii go to Nauvoo, and / will
see"
and the money >" said Mrs.
Fritz,
and should carry so much
money TO lose +? 10 have my pockets
picked ? 1t is known TO everybody
that | have cash for the farm. !
take it not. leave it with YOU
"No. no, not with me. All alone
| shall be. Should some bad man
come, / could defend it never. Not
fair is it to leave it with a lone wo-
man. Take it you must"
And is it killed You want me to
get, me as married you barefoot, and
has worked through bad and worse
to get themuch money ?"
"And have | worked not ?"
But have | not harder worked +?
What is cooking and washing for
two people to plowing and digging
and reaping and packing ~
And have l not dug potatoes and
hoed cabbages and corn, and picked
grass for the cow and the goat? All!
Fritz, you are hard on your woman" !"
Do not cry, poor wife. Good wo-
man YOU have been to me and
good man / have been you. / beat
you never"
True true Y said Thekla. bright
ening. "Good you have been. ]
viii tell you, Fritz we should 90
away from this place, where every
body knows that we have much
money. To Chicago we should go,
where people know US not"
SO, so, said Fritz. That is
good; there be many Germans in
Chicago for company ; we get soon
acquainted together, and we tel! not
OF our much money. | think we
will go to Chicago.
To Chicago in a few days they
went, and settled in one room in the
German quarter, where no word of
English might be heard for weeks at
a time. Their money they were
carrying about in their shoes, in
their bosoms, and in their waist
bands.
"But stopped this must be the
money will be worn out it will 60
to pieces. Besides, we might fall
down on the street with fits or some
thing, and the money be lost.
so, so" said Fritz. II have been
thinking. What we can do know
not"
Mrs. Fritz suggested the bank,
about which institution she had no
clearly defined ideas. Fritz shook
his head, and shook it, and shook it.
sNo no no : no Put it in the
eastman, he put it and thousands
of poor peoples money in his pock-
ct, and ship to the old country, and
when | go my MONEY to draw, the
bank it has stopped. The bank no
good"
Mrs. Fritz said, Bonds" not
knowing the meaning of the word
Again Fritz shook his head. |
know not bonds / understand not
bonds. If / cannot take care of my
money how can some other peoples?
They care not for it 50 much as l..
No, money | shall keep in my fin
gers"
Where, then, shall we put it in
this one room, with only the stove
and bed and two chairs We have
no place to hide"
"And if place we had, we would
not it leave. One room might be
entered, or the house might get on
fire. All ifi were like silver, like
old country money, we could bury