The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22

was mine, I never could and can not
now command dollar of it,
LUCKY you couldn't, if you wanted
to spend it on beggars.n
Donald, you know that l would
spend money as wisely as you do. Who
was it that only last week gave poor,
lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare
to Burton and then saw him throw his
crutches away and make for the nearest
saloonP Your wife could not do worse
if trusted with a few dollars. You say
that the money is all mine, yet you
spend as you please, while can not
spend dollar without asking you for
it and telling what want it for. Any
beggar can get it in the same way
Christmas, you bought presents for us
and expected us to be grateful for
them. A shawl for me, the very color
I can not wear, set of furs for Lucy
that she did not need, drum for Robin
that has been nuisance ever since,
and lot of worthless toys that are
broken up in week. There were
forty dollars or fifty dollars of my
money just the same as thrown away.
yet when | ask you to trust me with
two dollars week you can not imagine
what use have for it, and fear it will
be wasted. / am sure could not spend
fifty dollars more foolishly if I tried to-"
"Well," snapped the proprietor, Il
guess it is my own money, and l can
spend it as | please. I guess you'll
know it, too, when you get another
present"
"Oh, it is your money, then. / I'M
derstood you to say it was all mine, and
so pretended to protest against your
spending it so foolishly. Il it is your
own, of course you have right to spend
it as you please; but it seems to me that
q woman who left parents and brothers
and sisters. and all her friends to make
home for you among strangers, wo-
man who has given her whole life to
you for fifteen years, may be looked
upon with as much favor as you give to
beggars, who are very likely to be i'm
posters. l know that you seldom turn
them or v-ithout help. Perhaps I would
be more successful if appealed to you
as a beggar. I might say: Kind sir,
please allow me out of your abundant
means small pittance for my comfort
1t is true l have enough to eat, and do
not suffer for clothing; but although
| work for my master from morn
ing till night, and if his children
happen to be sick, from night till morn
ing again, yet he does not pay me as
much as he does his cook, and I am
often greatly distressed for want of
trifing sum which he would not mind
giving to a perfect stranger. The other
day while he was from home had to
60 to the next station to see a dear
friend who was i'll, aud not having a
dollar of my own, was obliged TO bor-
row the money from his cook. / was so
mortified! And not long since the berry,
woman came with such nice berries to
sell, and my little girl, who was not
well, wanted some very badly, but had
not even five cents to pay for handful
for her. Yesterday friend came to
ask me to assist in work of charity.
1t was worthy object, and I longed so
much to give little money for so good
q purpose, but though the wife Of SO
rich a man, | had-no money OF course,
| might ask my husband for money,
and if told him about what I wanted
Of it, and he approved of my purpose
and was in good humor, he would give
it to me, but, sir, it is terribly slaYish
to have to do so, even if could run to
him every time wanted anything. Peo-
pie say am fortunate woman because
[ am rich; but often envy the factory
girls their ability to earn and spend
their own money. And sometimes I
get so wild thinking of my helplessness
that if it were not for my children I
think l would drop into the river and
end it all. -
'Nettie! Nettie Jarvis! What are
you saying?" cried the startled hus-
band at last, for the PARKWAY look in
her eyes as if she did not see him, but
was looking to some higher power to
help her, touched his pride in selfish
sort of way. He was proud to be able
to support his family as well as he did.
He was proud that when his children
needed new shoes he could tell his wife
to take them to Crispin's and get what
they needed. He did it with a flourish.
He was not one of the stingy kind;
he liked to spend money; and
when Nettie, who was once the
most spirited young lady of his
acquaintance came meekly to him for
dress or cloak, he was sometimes
tempted to refuse her money Just to
show her how helpless she was without
him. Yes, he was proud of his family,
and wanted them to feel how much
they depended upon him. He would
have felt aggravated if any one had left
his wife legacy, thus allowing her to
be free in her purse. The idea of her
earning money, as his other work-folks
did, never entered his mind. He "sup-
ported her." that was his idea of their
relations! He never had happened to
think that it was very good of her to
take his money and spend it for the
good of himself and children. He never
had thought that any other woman
would have wanted big pay for doing
it. He had even thought himself very
generous for allowing her money to get
things to make the family comfortable
Things began to look differently to him
just now. Could it be that he was not
generous, not even just, to his wifep
Had he paid her so poorly for
her fifteen years of faithful labor
1OL nlIu tudb IL SH6 u9U O60n
obliged to begin the world for herself
that day it would have been as penni-
less woman?
How fast he thought, standing there
at the office window, looking down at
| the little houses where the mill hands
lived. Could it be that he was not as
good man as he thought He had felt
deeply the wrongs of the slave, whose
labors had been appropriated by their
masters, and when negro who had
worked twenty years for his master be-
fore the emancipation freed him came
to Jarvis mills, friendless and penni-
less, the heart of the proprietor swelled
with indignation at such injustice He
was eloquent on the subject at home
and abroad, about how any one could
be so cruel and selfish to commit such
an outrage against justice. He had
called him robber many time, but
now Donald Jarvis looked to himself
Very much like the old stakeholder!
Massa Brown had taken the proceeds of
Cuffna'S laho1, for. h;c ovr, WI; III ,,t ax,o,, a