The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-18
ere they to 90? where set up the new

were they to 90? where set up the new
home?
I There are many Germans in Nau.
VOC, we are al acquainted together. II
We can get home at Nauvoo---"
| II will 60 to Nauvoo, and l will see, "
said Fritz.
"And the money?' said Mrs. Fritz.
"And should carry so much money
to losee to have my pockets picked? It
is known to everybody that have cash
for the farm. take it not. 1 leave it
with YOU"
No. no, not with me. All alone
shall be. Should some bad men come,
l could defend it never. Not fair is il
to leave it with lone woman. 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
the much money!"
"And have I worked not?'
"But have not harder worked?
What is cooking and washing for two
people to blowing and digging and
reaping and packing?'
"And have 1 not dug potatoes and
hoed cabbages and corn, and picked
grass for the COW and the goatp All
Fritz, you are hard on your woman"
"DO not cry, poor wife. Good wOm-
an you have been to me; and good man
l have been to you. beat you never.
"True! true!' said Thekla. brighten
ing. GOOD you have been. 1 will
tel you, Fritz; we should 90 away from
this place, where everybody knows we
have much money. 10 Chicago we
should 60. where people know us not -
$50. So" said Fritz. That is good;
there be many Germans in Chicago for
company; we get soon acquainted to-
gether. and we tell not of our much
money. think we 60 to Chicago"
10 Chicago in few days they went,
and settled in one room in the German
quarter, where no word of English
might be heard for weeks at time.
Their money they were carrying about
in their shoes, in their bosoms, in theil
Wristbands.
"But stopped this must be; the mon.
ey will be worn out; it will go to pieces.
Besides. we might fall down on the
street with fits or something, and the
money be lost"
$50, so,' said Fritz. 81 have been
thinking. What we can do l know
not"
Mrs. Fritz suggested the bank, about
which institution she had no clearly de.
fined ideas. Fritz shook his head and
shook it, and shook it. mo! no! mo-
/ no! Put it in bank, and the eastman
he put it and thousands of poor people S
money in his pocket, 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 know
ing the meaning of the word.
Again Fritz shook his head. 81
know not bonds: understand otbonds.
If cannot take care of my moeley how
can some other peoples? They care not
for it so much as l. No, my money l
shall keep in my fingers"
"Where. then, shall VIC put it in this
one room. with only the stove and the
bed aud two chairs? We have no place
to hide
land if place we had, we could not
it leave. Our room might De entered.
or the house might get on fire. All! if
if were like silver like Old Country
money. we could bury it,
1--WE could not; for we have not any
yard. All! it is much trouble. think,
think, all day long; all night when can
sleep not. Now, We have very much
trouble, my woman. We had not SO
much trouble when in the Old County,
we picked the grass barefoot, and loved
together"
1.-The money was better in land; land
no one could STEAL" said madam.
"In land, it would be BETTER" Fritz
agreed, eff when we sack of flour
buy, we could pay slice of land, and
when soupbone, one very little slice.
But do that we could not, and we have
much trouble every way "Ah! mel"
sighed Thekla. "When I was poor,
AVID no money had for shoes or new
frock. l thought the rich people had
not any trouble; but much money,
much trouble, 1 believe"
$50! so"' said the man, 'that is So"
Having no work to engage him, Fritz
might have interested himself in the
sights OF the street. But he was never
easy out of his own room. Especially
was he anxious when in crowd. Was
he jostled? he thought he was being
robbed. Every man who touched him
was suspected OF intent to pick his
waistband. Returning to his room it
was with e half expectation of seeing
Thekla chloroformed and the money
she carried gone. More and more he
kept to the room to guard her and the
money. He distrusted every person
who gave him sharp look, the Prus-
sian next door, the viOlinist overhead.
the cigar maker across the hall. A
dozen times in twenty-four hours he
detected the odor of chloroform and
claimed that he was being put to sleep
through some crack. Drowsiness at
unusual hours he attributed not to his
inactive, listless life, but to the an9sthe-
tic in the hands of a robber. He be-
came morbidly interested il burglar
proof inventions and skeleton keys. He
weighed the matter of buying proof
SAFE for the moneys sake.
But" he said, considering the cons
of the idea, ''people coming in here
would know what for had the safe,
they would find out had much money;
they would give us chloroform through
the cracks, and when we be dead with
it, we would be locked in a crazy
house. Then they blow open the safe
with powder, and there the money all
find"
"Ah! yes; it is much trouble is much
money" the wife assented. II wish
most we had yet the interest hole to
pour our money in. To fill it, we
worked hard; but hard work is not so
worse rs much worry-thinking, think
ing, thinking all the time; face SO
mournful, heart so heavy. All, Fritz.
we were so bad never. You laugh not
any more; laugh not; we have much
sorrow, Fritz, very much sorrow"
at is So" said Fritz. with melan-
choly emphasis. Then he dropped
his head on his breast. and both were
silent till bed time thinking, think
ing what had best be done with the
money. .
A few days after this when Fritz
came in with beef and bologna sausage,
I