The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-14
BOSS LIAR.
He had won the prize.
TRUE TO HER TRUST.
A Brokers Wife Clings to the Bonds
Put Aside for Rainy Day.

From the Providence Journal.
The tale of Boston man and the money
he settled on his wife is rather interesting.
1t is suggestive, and it possesses that quail
ity which to small minds seems to add to
the value of any narrative-it is true. Mr..
NJ, a Boston broker who INDUCES in specu-
lations, and as consequence is of uneven
fortunes, on one occasion came to his wife
and said:
Here is $4,000 in bonds. There are ups
and downs co my business, and | want you
to have something to fall back upon il any
thing happens. Now, you are to draw the
interest on this, and you may spend it or
save it, just as you choose; only don't give
1T to me. If l come to you and ask for it,
no matter what | say, don't you let me have
it. You just hang on to it for yourself and
the children, and don'tlet me speculate with
it.n
The wife, with proper gratitude, took the
bonds, and for time nothing more was
said about them. Mr. NJ. in time had run
of hard luck, and just at the time when he
was on the edge of serious financial veXa-
ton friend, who was on the inside gave
him straight zip" by which he could
have made a brilliant investment. Casting
about for funds which he might embark in
speculation WHICH pTOtllSet So Wcll, MT.
NJ remembered his wife's $4,000 and re-
quested loan of them for a short time that
ne might deposit them as collateral secur-
itv His request was met with quiet re-
fusal At first he thought his wife was
testing, but he soon found that she was
in serious earnest. He represented the
unusual advantages of the scheme in
which he wished to embark; he talked of the
"tip" and of the enormous returns prom
ised
But YOU told me when you gave me
those bonds" Mrs. NJ. replied, that was
not to let you have them, no matter what
you said. You warned me against just this
sort of thing"
Mr.. NJ. was naturally little disconnected
by having his own words brought up against
him, but he set himself pluckily to demon
strate that this particular contingency was
entirely different from anything he had
foreseen, and that he had meant nothing Of
this sort He urged that it was madness 20
let sure thing like the present go by with
out taking advantage of it; and with ali his
powers of persuasion he endeavored 10 make
Mrs NJ realize that while she was undoubt-
eddy right in holding a conservative policy
toward speculation IN general, this was
one of those cases where she would be
throwing away money by neglecting the
chance.
Ana Dy all Hlb eiOqueHce ne nOVeu Hle
wife not whit She remained firm in her
determination to hold fast to what she had
rather than to risk losing it in the hope of
gaining more. Even when he came nearer
to losing his temper than had ever before
happened in the course Of their welded life,
Mrs. NJ. would not yield. Sac developed a
firmness of character which was astonisb-
ing, and in the end he was forced TO &C
knowledge himself utterly batfied by her
quiet resolution.
A lucky turn in transaction from which
he had hoped little enabled him to invest in
the desired scheme a sum much smaller
than he wished, but which was still consid-
cradle BY all laws Of poetic justice he
should have lost, but as a matter-of fact his
gains we're proportlonately enormous. He
had the satisfaction Of demonstrating 10 his
wife that ifshe had let him have her $780,
600 he would have more than doubled 1t,
but he had the good nature and mapliness
10 add:
"But you did perfectly right, my dear.
That money is safe where it is, and it is
safegard against want for You and the
children. Don'trisls it. Don't let me have
it next time" And, he added with conf
cal face II don't think you will"