The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-17

All, and iii IS awful times these De noWt
Tin of the hands that's bin getting of
twelve dollars a week whit home with
none at all, sure. Did the master say
nothin' at all about itP The men takes
II awful bad because some tells of how
Mr.. Osborn could have done better.
Sure and it's myself, Nora O'Flyn, that
see the suffering about
"No, Nora, mr. Wentworth said
nothing Of it. ] believe his men were
paid of. !"
Yes, and may the Lord bless and
kape him forever! The men are telling
about the difference between them,
sure-Mr. Osborn and tho master. But
it's goin' I'll be-"
Mora, come first to the pantry; I'll
fix up some things for you. Or just
I give me a basket and III put in the
things while you are getting ready,
| Grace said.
Ten minutes after Nora came back,
| picking up one bundle after another,
smelling and pinching them, as she
exclaimed
Tea! coffee! sugarl crackers! wine!
the cold chicken l fixed for your lunch,
surel And Jelly! Oh, may YOU live
forever! For what would we do with
out you sure Oh, the mother and the
childers win pray for you every day
that they livel
With the grateful Morals words still
sounding in her ear, Grace Wentworth
sat down to think over the scene about
the diamond ring.
'Oh, how must Harry have been
hurt and disappointed at my reception
of his gift! All, perhaps when he said
that if he had bought the ring it might
have been at q severe cost he meant
that he could not have paid his men as
usual. He has looked so worried often
times lately. I'm sorry / behaved like
a child. l wiz try and do better in
the future"
When Harry came home to dinner
Grace had so much to tell about Nora 5
friends. He had determined to cloud
Grace's sunny nature as little as posi-
bic with outside troubles And so she
began to think perhaps things or 1.-the
times" were not so bad after all, and
the next week she said:
"HaTTy, my hat is out Of date. AL
most all OF my friends have got their
fall fixings, and can not I have mine?'
"What is necessary Harry asked,
in tone Grace did not like at all. So
she said:
Necessary! Nothing, l suppose. 1
can stay in the house"
"What do you wish, then, Grace?'
her husband asked, gravely.
"a hat, fall suit, gloves, shoes and
some new ribbons. Harry, | declare,
by your looks one would suppose was
eNtravagant I've not had a hat for
three months" Grace said, the quick
tears coming again. Alas! for her
good intentions.
what will they costP" he simply
asked.
"A hundred dollars might make
He looked as if about demonstrate,
but then, with-a sigh, he took up his
hat, asking:
"When must you have it?"
"This is Friday; L should like it by
Monday, please
VERY well, viii try to have it for
you. Good-by," he said, and pressing
his lips to hers went out.
''Now, Harry is worried because 7
asked him for that trife! 1 declare,
the more one gives up, the more she
I'm not going out looking dowdy. I
will put on my things now and 60 and
engage Mrs. Harding to do my suit the
first of the week"
care you busyP'' she asked, entering
the dressmaker's room.
''No, indeed; wish we were.
Scarcely any work at all, and no pay
for what we have DONE" Mrs. Harding
said, with a sigh.
A groan from the next room caused
her to 90 hurriedly out. After several
minutes absence she returned and
said
Maggie is suffering so terribly with
her eyes, poor child; it almost sets me
crazy to see her So"
Eyes, l remember they were troub-
ling her considerably some months
ago. Was it occasioned by trying
them too severely" Grace asked.
eyes, yes; every night until almost
morning, and on very trying mate
rails, too. Do you remember that en-
broidered black cashmere of Mrs. Os-
| born'sP That was the finishing stroke,
l believe"
Eyes, do. No amount could pay
! the cost of that suit, l should feel.
Does she know it?" asked Grace.
just at that moment the door opened
and a girl entered. Mrs. Harding
| asked quickly:
"Have you got it?"
and I told her how terribly Maggie was
sufferin0-H
''God help us! What shall we do?n
groaned the mother.
"What is it? Tell me. dor said
Grace, going up to Mrs. Harding and
taking her hand.
"Oh, l sent to Mrs. Osborn again. I
have been sending for weeks without
success This time I made Sucb an
appeal I thought she could not resist.
/ begged her to send me enough only
to send Maggie to B to have her
eyes attended to- But you see she has
not done it. She owes us, Maggie
mostly, fifty dollars. / begged for
thirty, or, if not SO much, any
| amount" the poor mother sobbed
forth.
perhaps she has it not. Her hus-
band could - Worl1men last