The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-26

"Well, snapped the proprietorI"l guess
1t is my own money; aud can spand It as l
you set another present"
"ob, it is your money, then. understood
you 10 say IL was all mine, and 80 pretended
10 protect against your Spending it so tool
isbly. IL Is is your own, OF course you have
right TO spend il as you please, but II seems
10 me That hso,,a woman AID no lett
and all her friends 10 mako home
for you among strangers, q woman who has
gwen her whole lie TO you for fitteln years,
AZ ay be looked upon with as muc4 favor as
on give TO heggars, who are very likely to
be i'm posters. 1 know that you seldo m turn
them off without help. Perhaps l would be
more successful IL appealed to,you as a
befgar. l might cay. KIND air, plehse allow
me out OK your abundant means a small pit
lance Tor my comfort. 1t 10 true | have
enough 10 eat and Go not suffer for clothing;
but although / work for my mayer from
nc morning till night and II his chill rem hap
pen 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 OK q trifing sum which he gould not
mind giving 10 perfect stranger. Ehe other
day while ne was away from hom6 l mad to
go to the next station to see dear friend
who was i'll, and. not having 81 OF my own,
/ was obliged to borrow the money! from his
since the berry woman came with ouch nice
berries to sell, and my little girli who was
not well, wanted some verv badly, bat had
not even five cents to pay for hsHdIul for
her. Yesterday a friend came to ak me to
assist in q work OF charity. 1t wsc.a worthy
object, and longed so much to gt re q little
money for so good a purpose. bat though the
vie OF so rich man | had no money. Oh
course might ask my husband for money,
and If told him about what / wanted of il
and he approved of my purpose, arh was in
good humor, be would give ii TO me-, but, sir
1T is terribly slavish to have to do 30, eve il
I could run 10 him every time | waited a w.
thing. People say l am q fortunate woman
because | am itch; but / often envy the
fscioly girls their ability to earn end spend
their own money, And sometimes L get so
Wild thinking of my helplessnsss fthsr If it
were not for my children l thinl would
drop into the river and end it all''t
'NettieI Nettie Jarvis! What .are you
saying?' cried the startled husband at last.
for the tar.swav look In her eye4as IL she
did not see him, but waS looking TO some
higher power to help her, touched slis pride
il 1t did not his heart, for he had great deaf
of pride in selfish sort of way4 He was
proud 10 be able to support bis family as wsil
SIS be did. He was proud that when his
children needed shoes he could tell his wife
to take them TO Crispin's and get fyhst they
needed. He did ii with fourishl He was
not one of the stingv kind: he Liked to spend
money and when Nettie, who was once the
most spirited young LADY OF his acqp sintanc
came meekly 10 him for q dress or :cloak, he
Was neti9es tempted 10 refuge her money
juss to show her how helpless she WAS with
out him. Yes he was proud OF his faeniIy, and
wanted them to feel how much thes depend.
ed upcn him. He would have felt aggrsva-
ted If anyone had lett his wife a Lex scy, thus
allowing her to be tree in her pusse. Toe
idea OF her earning money, as 3is other
work.folks did, never entered his mind. He
supported ner," that was his idea of tn sir
RELATIONS. He never had happen @ 70 think
that IL was very good of her to take bis
money anu spend it for the good & him elf
and children. He never had thotghi that
any other woman would have wshted big
pay for doSg it. he had even thotght hi ~
self very generous for allowing hes money
to get things to make the family coIsfortable,
Things began to lcok differently to:him just
low. Could 1t bs that he was not generous,
not even Just 10 his vile? Had ne bald her
so poorly for fifteen years of faithful labor
for him that che had been Obliged 60 bsgin
the world for herself that day 1T wsuld have
been as penniless woman?
How fast he thought, anding thire at the
office window. looking down at Ahe little
houses where the mill hands lived. Could il
be that be was not as good n rtan as he
thought? He had felt deeply the wrongs of
by their masters, and when q Dtgro who
bad worked twenty years for his Master be-
fore the emancipation freed him came to
Jarvis mills friendless and penD.less the
heart of the proprietor swelled with3indigna.
ton at such injustice. He was eloAuent on
the subject ct home and abroad. about how
one could be so cruel and selfish II commit
such an outrsge against Justice. He had
called him robber many q time, Sbut now
Donald Jarvis looked to himshlf very
much like the old slave .holdegl Masss
Brown bad taken the proceeds off Cuffee's
labor for bis own without even 4 "thank
youn for it. True, when Cuffee atet he had
given him food, when he was sick3 he had
given him medicine, and he hadl clothed
him. too Just as he himself thought best.
| Mr.. jarvis bad married q lovely. lonscien-
| tious woman, sfH Tor fifteen years HAD ap-
| propriated her lahors. Her recomraRs5 had
been food and clothes such az he thought
| best for her; a little better than 3Cuffses,
| perhaps, but the similarity OF the Eases did
| not please him. He bad exrected 5his wife
| to be very grateful for what he had fione for
| her, but now he wondered that she lhad not
| rebelled long ago. Had hie life beet a mis-.
| take? Had his wife 40 more mone} or lib.
| erty than Cuffee had in bondale? Was
| Donald Jarvis no better than Massa Brown ?'
His brain seemed to be IN a musdle, and
| he looked so strangely that his wife Ga 1xious
| 10 bTeak The spell, took bis arm, saying, LET
us 60 home, dear; tea must be waiting for
Us." he put on his hat in q smy way
| and then walked home in silence. fhe chill.
| dIen ran joyously 10 meet them. the yard
was so fresh and green and the overs so
many and bright that be wondered be had
never thanked Nettie for them all. Hitherto
he had looked upon them So his, bug now be
felt that his interest in them was o:ly few
| dollars that would not have amtslntei TO
| anything without his wifes Gaze. HIS
| children were tidy ard sweet, ars sysrv.
| where around and in the house fad that
| CHEEKY look that rested him go after 'lhs hard
| dull cay 81 the mill. They tat agaik at the
| table that bad been a sourcs Of comfort and
| pleasure TO him for so many years sand he
| wond ertd how he c1nld have enjoyed IL so
| long without even thanking the woman who
| had provided IL. True. she had hit money