Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-24

is, townsend has d very bad contract
He will meet with q heavy loss. But ]
don Y see how I can help it. =
Can't You release him ii ON il 2" MARI
trembfngly suggested.
That Worlldn't be business, said hi.
father. Then The loss would fall Of
me. 81 81 s|x
Excuse me, father but are not 3yor
better able to bear it than he is q
F erhaps. a good many Of my
] friends have met with losses which M
doubt might bear better then they :bu
| il doesn't fellow that 4 should say Il
Smith, Jones, or Blown, Here's my
check to make up that loss to you I'vt
more morey than your Would that b,
business-like? There are great many
men. " said Mr.. Kingdom, and now hi
smiled again, s.Who would like to d.
business with me III Just that way. !" FL
But isn't this different e sale
! Mark. !" You've had nothing to do will
their specnla tions; you're gained moth
| ing BY the1n."s# s5 81 z@ 81 (.
And you're mistaken, !" replied his
father, if you think I. drove HARD
bargain with Townsend. I agreed K
give him for building the block all
believed It would be worth 10 me. Elk
took all risks. If the times had beer
favorable, he would have made some,
thing. As is, he loses That's ali
there is about it. $5
! Mark was staggered for o moment
/ Then he exclaimed earnestly V, -
s"Oh no, father that ISM
all. If there had been. any or.
binary gain or loss, what you say might
be just But he is building block Of
houses for you; and i am sure YOU
won't insist on his doing it for what he
agreed, If it will ruin him--make his
family poor! + could never bear the
thought2of that's ..5 " Fl .4t = ,
+ Mr.. Ringdon answered, after pause
in 9 quiet but firm. voice, -. 1873 s
I You've kind heart, my son-pm
| glad Of that but you don't know any
thing about business, And it isn't fol
Won to tell me wlatSI ought ;to5 do:
You may be sure that: e shall do only
what seems to me o3ba5 right" 49,.
| 4 He adjusted his glasses and took up
| his paper Mark was not satisfied, but
there seemed to be nothing more for
him to say ~. ..~*
| He hoped that. his father would re-
lease Mr.. Townsend from the ruinous
| contract. "a And when the final crash
came, and it was known that the Town
sends had actually lost everything,
Mark felt even worse, about it, Z an
bound to say, than Rhoda did
INF N; The; Townsend family were obliged
to move into a smaller house, where
Twin g was less expensive ;2and Mark lost
sight of them. But the great wrong
they had suffered ranked in his heart
Often when his parents made him .
costly present, he would say to. him
! self,- g.. ~ -
II wonder if this was bought with
some of the money wrung out of poor
I Townsend!" 'i>>s
| Mr.. Townsend began business again,
and worked hard to support and
educate his family. But circum.
stances seemed alway US to be against
him. He couldn't get ahead. He con.
tinued the struggle manfully for g few
! years, then lost health and hope, and
| died poor man. =.
He had had his life insured for mod
crate sum; and that was all that was
left to his family. A widow with six
children, and only tho interest on three
thousand dollars to provide for their
wants! That was Mrs. Townsend's sit
| uation. Z, = .. .ahvs a. q
But since the change in their fortunes
! Rhoda had proved herself GLORIOUS
GIRL" as everybody said who knew
them She. had given up the lu1uries
of life, and the pleasures of society: to
devote herself to the family. House
| work, needlework, teaching her sisters
the piano,-bonnet trimming or drass-
Observation-Disclosures the task she brought
to it a willing heart and skillful hands.
Il don't know what Ishould have
DONE" Mrs. Townsend used to say
''if it hadn't been for Rhoda her tact for
keeping us all looking respectable on
nothing, is just wonderful And she
makes us all happy BY her good spir-
it's I'll @t,s @f5. E+i4 <*75
But now, after her fathers death,
something besides even Rhoda's helpful
! hands were needed to keep tho family
anca mon az vac onlv abort r two b,, ,u9
dollers > yaar ! Tbat wo,,ld not ; M ~
| ho,,sa rart - =. - -, $40 ~ p"'
AY 0na .van;na NJ Tou "n ond Rho
10 80 t.lI;n1s n ~, =. 49, 1A xrnsn.cts
'eaT '' 4ho,,ahf - e. 80 ;,,nor shaforo y
said Tia v,dow With . thpronoh, Ilo a..
on,rs &c rad a;r "But o,,r n.y., .nya.ty Mas
nothing to this. What shall We dor
Rhoda was now III her twentieth wear,
and wise little head she had for q girl
| of her age. She had thought the mat
ter over. w.. r = -. ~: -, 2as = r.