Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-25

o'"on' Dut ne makes me |
80 nncomfo table. Being so moor |
himself | can't feel hurt at his re-
m nding me that am poor, too but
! wish he wouldn't"
In return for the kindness of tho
Ioldens, poor Mr. Moss was alwavs
ready to do thousand things He
was handy with hammer and nails. /
ana had a wonderful faculty for mend /
ing shoes. Once or twice Ellen
thought he must have been a sboo-
maker, he SO ably cobbled her dis
carded walking-boots; and she had
iancled him a carpenter when he put
the kitchen closet door on its hinges.
and 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 manv
thingsp'
And he answered:
"Nothing saves a man 80 much
money as to be Jack -of-all-trades.
Still he was not saving himself
money when he dug her garden and
put new bricks in her range. And he
ala 1t with the same alacrity with
which he sponged and pressed his own
clothes, and recovered his own UNI
brella.
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 is penny GOT
said Mr.. Moss. And Mr.. Golden, who
never yet had found himself quite
able to pour himself cup of coffee,
or find his own slippers, and who,
though he had been prosperous
commercial gentleman once, would
have been as apt to sweep his own
chimney as to mend any thing about
the house, stared in amazement.
HE appears to be gentleman by
education" he said she is we'll 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 l ever
met. What an invaluable man he
would have been to me in my business.
l would gladly have had him for nv
head clerk. He might have saved me
from failure; yet see to what pass
he is reduced himself"
| Mr. Macs oorfo;n1x, MN, r.
but since he did not choose to ez plain
himself, the Goldens were too polite to
ask questions; and whether 1T 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.
"If he only would forget money, or
the sound of it, how nice he would be"
said she.
And one day--but this she had
never told to any one--he had said to
her:
IF man were rich enough he would
be so much happier married-so much
happier-but it is unwise to marry il
one can not afford it. 1t is so expen.
sive thing. Don't you think SOP"
And she had said:
"Oh, yes. it certainly Isl" anG
had not known whether to laugh OF
cry.
Somehow, she thought to herself
knowing Mr.. Moss is like meeting tn.
enchanted Prince of the Arabian
Nights seemed flesh and BLOOD
Prince, but who proved to be one-hal
of stone. So there were soft, ant
gentle. and kindly things in Mr.. Mos
almost loving things at times-bu
when he spoke of money the petrifet
half of him came 10 view.
yet it is trouble that has made hin
so," said she. The enchantment-o
perhaps | should say the disenchant
ment-of loss and disappointment. l
hurt papa. but not in the same way
1t was queer life that the girl le
with these two men, one old, on
middle aged, and yet it was not an I'm
happy one.
Mr.. Moss had no other friends, saw
a portly, bald-headed gentleman VIII
came now and then with important
looking papers and envelopes in hi
: hands to spend half an hour in hi
room.
: "His EMPLOYER, doubtless said MI
Golden.
And once in going away, this gentle
man had said aloud:
.Excuse me. Mr. Moss, but yo
should have a room with a fire. 1t
dangerous to sit so much in the colo
) / am nearly persisted, | assure you.
And Mr.. Moss had answered meel
, ly:
sDo you know the rent they charg
=, for rooms with CRATES, and do yo
.. know the price of coal per ton, M
!. MacklinP"
And Mr.. Macklin had laughed Ii
= tie, cruel laugh.
a "He is paying Mr.. Moss almost notl
h ing for his toll, suppose" said M
n Golden.
d And, dear papa" said Ellen. &c
Won know | really think poor M
4 Moss must have some claim on his Ii
q tie earnings-some poor relative
- support for whom he dep"ives hlf
: aIf ,f oon fortand we must be vel