The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-09-27

And MIR. tsolucn would say:
''Ah. you don't know how il hurts
a man 70 have had all his schemes and
ambitions come 10 an end In his ma
turo years Youth can rio again
after a fall; middlc-age can moi. No
doubt poor Mr.. Moss has failed.
And Ellen Golden supposed that
this must be 30. and that night asked
her tenant 70 tea. and made won
derfnl cake with view 10 his coming
lie did not refuse 20 eat the cake. but
he gave her little sermon on OK
travagance, and begged her to reflect
what eggs cost
1T Is certainly quite DISTINGUISHED. :"
said Ellen Golden. ''but he makes me
50 uncomfortable. Being so poor
himself ! can't feel hurt az his re-
minding me that am poor. too but
wish no wouldn't.
In return for the kindness OF the
Goldens. poor Mr.. Moss was always
ready 10 do thousand things. He
was handy with hammer and nails.
and had a wonderful faculty for mend
ing shoes. Once on twice Ellen
thought he must have been shoe
maker, he 50 ably cobblcd her dis
cardcd walking boots; and she had
fancicd him carpenter when lie put
the kitchen closet door on its hinges:
and a jeweler when he reset the
amethyst in her dead mothers ring
which she now wore in memory OF
her. Once she said
How did you learn TO do so many
things"
And he answered:
"Nothing saves man so much
money rs TO be Jack-of -all-tradcs \
still he was not saving himself
money when he dug her garden and
put new bricks in her range. And he
did II with the same alacrity with
which he spongei and pressed his own
clothes. and recovered his own UNI
brell;L
When he came home at night he al
ways went TO work; and they learned
that he made his own bedstead. and
his three-cornered table. and stuffed
his own straw mattress
"A penny saved i penny got. :
said Mr. Moss. And Mr.. Golden. who
never yet had found himself quite
able 10 pour himself cup OF coffee.
or find his own slippers. and who.
though he bad been a prosperous
comm crcial gentleman once. would
have been as apt to sweep his own
chimney as 70 mend any thing about
the house. stared in amazemcnt.
"IIe appears to be- gentleman BY
education. he said; 'he is well read
in the classics; he understands music
as few save professional folk do: and
stocks my dear. think he knows
more about stocks than any one ever
met What an invalua BILE man he
would have been TO me in my business.
] would gla,lly have had him for my
head clerk. He Nigh, have saved me
from failure; yet see 10 what a pass
he is reduced himself"
Mr.. Moss certainly was a mystery;
himself. the Goldens were too polite to
ask questions; and whether II was the
fact that there was something to
wonder at in him. or whether his
dark skin and black eyes were the
proper contrast to her complexion and
blue orbs. Ellen Golden found her
self thinking Of him great deal.
III he only would forget money. or
the sound OF ii. how nice he would be. 7
said she.
And one day-but this she had
never told to any one--hc had said to
her:
III a man were rich enough he would
be 50 much happier rnarried-so much
happier-but 1t is unwise TO marry II
one can not afford it, II is so expen-
sive a thing. Don't you think SOP
And she had said:
''Oh. yes. il certainly isl and
had not known whether 10 laugh or
cry.
Somehow. she thought TO herself.
knowing Mr. Moss is like meeting the
enchanted Prince Of the Arabian
Nights who seemed flesh and blood
Prince. but who proved TO be one-half
Of stone. SO there we're soft and
gentle. and kindly things in Mr.. Moss
almost loving things at times but
when he spoke Of money the petrified
half OF him came 10 view
Yet II Is trouble that has made him
so.' said she. The enchantment-of
perhaps should say the disenchant-
mcnt-oi loss and disappointment. II
hurt papa. but not in the same way"
II was queer life that the girl led
with these two men. one old. one
middle aged. and yet Il was not an un-
happy one.
Mr.. Moss had no other friends. save
a portly. bald-headed gentleman who
came now and then with important
looking papers and envelopes in his
hands to spend half an hour in his
room.
Ills employer. doubtless" said Mr..
Golden.
And once. in going away. this gentle