Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-25
[SS GOLDEN'S LODGER.


[SS GOLDEN'S LODGER.
bney Is Not the Only Thing on
Earth Worth Having.
After Mr. Golden had failed, and he
Miss Golden took to letting out
rooms in their house to dodgers,
she found it necessary to work
I'd at embroidery besides, and to
re up all those pretty luxuries she
q been used to. there came one day
the door sparely-built man,
bher handsome, but not very young,
d just little shabby. who asked if
ey had room to spare for him.
.lt must be very cheap one," said
'for can't afford good one.
MT care how high up it is. and /
mt want it to be furnished. l have
nv good furniture of my own-good
ough for me; plenty good enough
la | don't wish to die in the poor
buse. No; don't wish to die in the
or-hous
Miss Golden opened her eyes as. the
& man OF five-and-forty said this, but
Eere was little hall bedroom on the
ID floor which stood in place of the
additional garnet, and thither she
bnducted the gentleman who dreaded
lie poor-house so much. The room
ited him. the rent suited him, he gave
well-known bankers name as refer
ice, and he declared himself to be
[r Moss
The banker to whom Mr.. Golden
Tent smiled peculiar smile and
lid:
"Highly respectable, and feel sure
81 Il pay his rent
And the next day Mr.. Moss came
18th his furniture. A boy brought an
ld-fashioned cot. and straw bed, and
wooden stool. and little three
egged table, and wanted fifty cents for
Is trouble, and took twenty-five in
hsh, and took the rest out in bad Ian
llagc on the doorstep, after he had
zen shut out Then Mr. Moss ar
Rnged his room himself, and drew one
easpoonful of tea in little tin tea
lot, and had one roll aud one radish
pr his supper The roll he bought;
he radish he took from bunch on the
rocer's counter.
"What are your radishesp" he said.
y Then he nipped one off, and walked
way like an absent-minded gentle.
man.
81 Poor SOUL" said Ellen Golden, al
10 feel so sorry for him."
Il SO she smiled and nodded to hin
Then he went out next day, and was
always very careful to be civil to him.
6he knew what 1t was to be poor her
elf. And what was cup of coffee
pow and then, or just wedge of pie
Pr bowl of soup? 1t wasn't missed
md one could do it in a neighborly
ashton, for a man must be We Y poor
10 live So
And Miss Golden, who often laughed
y the idea of owning such name
Me whose life was so little OF IA colder
pne-did a thousand such little kind
hesses. They had enough to eat ant
drink, her father and herself
b Then, when the nights grew cold
their tenant. who could have no fire
In his room, often warmed himself a
that of his landlord. He was no
Sxwithout ideas and he was by no mean
plain; but his brain was full @
*thoughts of one order thoughts O
money; how people made it and los
~; how they got high interest for ii
now they specialized with it and los
8&Aat how unexpected legacies were lei
&c some people, and how others waite
IN vain for dead mems shoes; an
Asometimes when Ellen Golden. VIII
mad touch of romance in her, hinte
3 mat, after all, money was not wort
&every thing else in life, he would sto
short in his serious. solemn way, an
Bay:
My dear young lady, you don
mink enough of money. 1t would b
terrible thing if you were so cdreles
ol 1t as to come to the almshouse
your old age. Many worthy peopl
nave come to the almshouse in the
old age"
Ills grave. dark face, the little touc
oi foreign accent there was in h
voice, his curiously earnest name
ail gave his words curious weigh
ami meaning.
Ellen could not laugh at them.
But it is such pity, papa. " 81
used to say, "such terrible pity TIL
poor M. Moss should have let his mi
,ortnnes warp him SO. If he woul
out talk of something else"
A'c MIR. Golden would say:
"Ah, you don't know how it hurt
man to have had all his schemes ar
"oitions come to an end in his M
'ure years Youth can rise agai
a''er fall; middle-age can not
'ouot poor Mr. Moss has failed"
ana Ellen Golden supposed TIL
nis must be SO. and that night ask,
''r tenant to tea and made a wo
ueriul cake with a view to his comm
nc oia not refuse to eat the cake. b
gave her little sermon on g
"a aVaganee, and begged her to rene
what eggs cost