Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-23
stlunth's Column.
Doughnut Business

the Loru meant poor IOlkS TO De So
'fraid of doing wrong said Jimmy
petulantlv. ''I'm sure if we were
rich, had plenty to eat and to wear,
and keep US warm, 'twould be easy
enough to keep all the command
nents, but 1t seems as if poor folks
have got To break some of em.
Now by doing this work-easy you
know-you'd just stay there in the
shop all day where its awful warm,
an nice, and I'd help pack the stuff
an then when the two months are
up, we'd have enough to get away
from this big, bad city. We'd 60
iii the spring out west, an hunt up
fathers half-brother on that farm
some'ere in Minnesota, an then
'twould be clear sailin' this gettin'
a living" And Jimmy waxed ear
nest in his arguments. He well
knew that the one desire of his moth
er's heart was to leave forever the
great city, wherein she had found
so much misery, for a home in the
rcomy west.
This man offers us such big wag-
es, cause he's just got to get hands, :"
continued Jimmy. "Some of the
old ones struck yesterday, an if he
can't fill their places running his
machines Sundays, he looses lots o
money. He seemed real pleasant
an kind, and when l told him
didn't know bout workin' on Sunday.
for | thought you'd object, he said
he didn't like the idea of wOrkin ON
Sunday any more than anybody, but
he'd got to hev 1t done now or lose
lots o money. He wanted me to
report in the morning if we'd come.
If you wont go, mother, l believe
shall, for i can't stand it to be 50
hungry. Why, when l go by those
bake shops, l just have to clutch
my hands together for fear of break
inc the commandment about stealing.
l just can't b'lieve that passage you
read so often in the Bible, bout the
righteous never beng forsaken, an
his seed never begin bread. Father
was a good, righteous man if there
ever was one, and we are forsaken
of the Lord, and would be begging
if you wern't too proud to let folks
know how we're suffering. Now,
mother, you know I've always been
good boy, an minded you; but L
can't hold out much longer. You
can go without victuals better'n /,
cause you amt growing as l be :;
just see how tall I'm getting for a
boy only fourteen and Jimmy
stretched his gaunt frame to its full
height, nearly reaching the top of
the door. "But, mother, | tell you, .
he said, bitterly; "Im going out
once more to hunt up job, and if
nothing better turns up, I'll hire out
to this man for these two months,
Sundays in the bargain, for l can t
starve, and that's all there is about
it." And he stalked from the cold
room slamming the door behind him.
To the poor mother this trial seem
ed greater than all others combined.
Hitherto her son had been Obedlent,
and she had thanked God daily that
none of the numberless pitfalls of
city life had caught his stumbling
feet. But now that he should resist
her authority, and go to labor on the
Sabbath was sad blow to her.
She fell upon her knees beseeching
God to come to their relief, and to
open at once some honest way for
the gaining of their daily bread
The calmness which followed her
PRAYER assured her that she had not
called in vain upon the Lord. and
Jimmy returned in the afternoon
with a face radiant with hope.
Mother he exclaimed, 81 b'iieve
something's turned up at last About
noon to-day l saw two spruce chaps
90 into lunch room an | followed
'em, though l expected I'd get kicked
out by the proprietor, an | got be-
hind the big stove an he didn't see
me till one of the men got through
his lunch an threw me doughnut
twas so hard it struck the stove witt
a thud, an l picked it up an ther
the man drove me out. Well. l re-
memebered you always wanted mt
to thank a body, so | waited, an
when they come out | stepped up an
thanked the man for the doughnut
but he said 'twant worth a THANH
you, for it wasn't good enough TO
q dog to eat. i just wondered how
he could think so, for it tasted ST
good to me. Well, followed along
an they kept right on talking 'bou
doughnuts, or nutcakes, one of ZEN
called 'em. He said he didn't SCI
WHY they couldn't be made as hi
mother used to make EN-. An
tother man said the hard, dry, taste
less doughnuts of to-day were no
at all like those his mother, down IL
New England, made when he was
boy. Then they both agreed they''
give a deal of money to get tast
of such doughnuts. All to once
remembered grandmother made 'en
when / was little shaver, that white
YOU an father took me there for
visit. Then | followed the men an
got the street an number wher
they have their business, an nov
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