The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-08-02

sort of way. He was 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 flourish. He
was not one of the stiDgy kind: he liked to
spend money: and when Nettie, who was the
most spirited Young lady of his acquaintance,
ra,ne 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
wanted them to feel how much they depended
upon him, lie would have felt aggravated if
any one had left his wife Il legacy, thus allow
Ing her to he independent in her purse. The
idea of her earning money, as his other work.
folks did, never entered his mind. lie ''>up-
ported her. that was his idea of their rela-
tons. lie 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 pay for doing it. lie had
even thought himself very generous for allow
ing her money to get things to make the family
comfortable. Things began to look differently
TO him now.
Could it be that he was not generous. not
even just. to his wife: Had he paid her so
poorly for her fifteen Years of faithful labor
for him. that if she had been obliged to begin
the world for herself that day. il would have
been a. Il pcnni!eSS woman. notwithstanding
the houses. the lands and mills that he had so
often tod her We're all hers? for he knew As
every one else did. that not one dollar of all he
had would the law allow her to call her own.
How fast he thought, standing there at the
oiilce window 'uokfn" down at the little houses
where the mill-hands lived. Could it be possi-
Die that his wife enried them anything: Could
IT be that he was not AS good man as he
thought:
He had felt deeply the wrongs of the slaves.
whose lahors had been appropriated by their
masters. and when negro who had worked
twenty years for his master before the emanci-
In fri
less and pennies. the heart of the proprietor
swcl!cd with indignation at such injustice. He
was eloquent on the subject. at home and
abroad, and wondered how any one could be so
cruel and selfish a> to commit such an outrage
against Justice lie had called him robber
many time. but now Donald Jarvis looked to
himself Very much like the old Shareholders
Ma>>a Brown had taken the proceeds of Cuff
fees labor for his own. without even "thank
YOU for it. True. when Culee ate he had
given him food. when he was sick he had given
him medicine. and he had clothed him. too.
Just as he himself had thought best. Mr.. Jar
Wis had married Il lovely, conscientious woman.
and for fifteen years had appropriated her la
borS. Her rcconpen>e had been food and
clothes. such as he thought best for her: il little
better than Cullee', perhaps. hut the similarity
OF The eases did not please him. He had eX-
ilectcd his wife to be very grateful for what he
had done for her. but now he wondered that
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