Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-12-21
6be Dream Of
The Pauper.

1t was after an unusually hard
days work, few nights ago, went
to bed early, but could not sleep for
a long time. Finally | dozed off
into a troubled sleep, and had the
following dream:
My wife and we're alone. All
the children had grown up and left
us, even the baby. She was II
years old, and had worked herself
up until now she was a servant girl
for Mrs. Boozee, the wife of the
Hon. Sidney Boozee, a saloon
keeper who had been elected to the
legislature on the bamboozle ticket
of Silver Bow county, Montana.
She was getting two dollars and six
bits week and some old clothes,
and | thought that was splendid.
OF the other four girls, two of them
were working in department store
some place. but did not seem to
know where; and it did not worry
me much. They were getting three
dollars a week-three dollars apiece
mind you-and that, thought, was
all any girl could expect. OF the
other two girls, one of them was
working in a sausage factory, and
the other was cooking some place on
a ranch. They were all working
and doing well, / supposed.
One of the boys was working in a
shingle mill for someone somewhere
the last time had heard from him,
which had been a long time. l did
not Know where the other one was;
hadn't heard from him for years;
but nothing seemed strange about
that. supposed he was doing well,
as / had heard Senator Graball say
a few nights ago in a speech that
there we're two jobs for every man
in this country who wanted to work.
We'll, Mary" | said to my wife.
the kids are all gone and left us
and here we are all alone again: and
l am proud to say we have given
them all good education; that is,
they have all passed the eighth grade
and that's plenty education for any
workingman's kids. But" | said,
we have been very extravagant; we
haven't saved any money; and you
bet if had to do it over again /
would do different. Just think of
all the shoes we have bought for
them children in the summertime,
when they might just as well have
been going barefoot. You bet |
never had any shoes in the summer
when was kid. Now, Mary"
l said, let us start in and save
something. Let us make million
dollars. We can do it all right If
we just think so. Let's wade in and
work and save every cent, and we
can soon make a million"
I'VE are pretty old to start in for
the million mark" said Mary.
odd" | yelled; why, Pm only
81. I'm just kid; just the right
age to have little sense"
Mary said she thought it was
about time was getting some.
Well, we started in to roll up that
million. / was working in the
mines-never lost shift, and Mary
was washing. went around among
the boys at the mine and got all
their dirty clothes, and would pack
them home at night and bring the
clean ones back in the morning, and
so on.
We kept this up for a year, and
then we counted up. We had been
living pretty cheap. We had one
small room and a kitchen, which
only cost S. per month; and we had
saved one thousand dollars in the
year.
Just look at that" said; a
thousand dollars in a year. Why,
it will only take us a thousand years
to make a million dollars, and then
we'll take a trip around the world
and see the children" Everything