The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-13

to be impOsters. | know that you
seldom turn them off without help.
Perhaps ! would be more successful II
! appealed to you as beggar. Knight
say: Kind sir, please allow me out OF
your abundant means asmall pittance
for my comfort. 1t is true | have
enough to eat, and o not suffer for
clothing; but although | work for my
master from morning till night, and II
his children happen to be sick, from
night till morning again, yet he does
not pay me as much as he does his
cook, and am often greatly distressed
for want of a tritling sum which he
would not mind giving to a perfect
stranger. The other day while he was
away from home | had to 90 to the
next station to see a dear friend who
w3s i'll. and, not having 81 OF my own
| was obliged to borrow the money
from his cook. | was horribly morti-
fed 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 ) cents to pay for a
handful for her. Yesterday a friend
came to ask me to assist in a work OF
charity. 1t was a worthy object, and
| lOnged so much to give alittle money
for so good a purpose, but though the
wife of so rich man | had no money.
OF course | might ask my husband for
money, and if told him about what |
wanted OF it, and he approved of my
purpose and was in good humOr, he
would give it to me, but, sir, it is ter
ribly slavish to have to do so, even if
| couldrun to him every time | wanted
anything. People say | am a fortu-
ate woman because | am rich; but |
often envy the factory girls their abil-
ity to earn and spend their own
money. And sometimes | get so wild
thinking OF my helplessness that
if it were not for my children think |
would drop into the river and end it
ALL"
''Nettiel Nettie Jarvis What are
you saying?" cried the startled nus
band at last, for the PARKWAY look in
her eyes as i she did not see him, but
was looking to some higher power to
help her, touched his pride if it did
not his heart, for he had a great deal
of pride in selfish sort of way. HIS
was proud to be able to support his
family as well as he did. He wac
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 -four
ish. He was not one of the stingy
kind; he liked to spend money; and
when Nettle, who was once the most
spirited young lady of his acquaint-
ance, 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
depended upon him. He would have
felt aggravated had anyone left his
wife a legacy. 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
relation! 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 fam
lily comfortable. Things began to
look differently to him just now.
Could it be that he was not generous,
not even lust to his wife? Had he
paid her so poorly for fifteen years of
faithful labor for him that if she had
been obliged to begin the world for
herself that day it would have been
as penniless woman?
How fast he thought, standing there
by the Office window looking down at
title houses where the mill hands
lived. Could it be that he was not as
he thought? He had felt deeply the
wrongs OF the slave, whose labOrs had
been appropriated by their masters,
and when a negro who had worked
twenty years for his master before the
ema lcipation freed him came to Jar
Wis mills friendless and penniless, 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. Hehad called
him a robber many time. But now
Donald Jarvis looked to himself very
much like the old Shareholder, Nassa
Brown had taken the proceeds of
Cuffee's labor for his own without
even "thank you" for it. True. when
Cutfee ate he had given him food, when
he was sick he had given immedicine,
and he had clothed him, too, lust as he
himself had thought best. Mr.. Jarvis
had married a lovely, conscientious
woman, andfor fifteen years had appro-
prlated her labors. Her recompense
had been food and clothes, such as he
thought best for her; a little better
than Cuffee perhaps, but the similarity
OF the cases did not please him. He
had expected his wife to be very crate
ful for what he had done for her, but
now he wondered that she had not re-
belled long ago. Had his life been a
mistake? Had his wife no more
money or liberty than Cuffee had in
bondage? Was Donald Jarvis no bet
ter than Massa Brown?
His brain seemed to be in a middle.
and he looked so strangely that his
wife, anxious to break the spell, took
his arm, saying, Let us go home.
dear; tea must be waiting for us" He
put on his hat in a dreamy way and
then walked home in silence. The
children ran ioyously to meet them.
The yard was so fresh and green and
the flowers so many and bright that
he wondered he had never thanked
Nettie for them all. Hitherto he had
looked upon them as his, but now he
felt that his interests in them was only
q few dollars that would not