The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-09-02

aud his wife looked mad as a wet nen,
and he seq in axents cold as i~cesuckles,
Madam. | don't understand you"
oh" SEE /, you're a little def, are
your" And hollered up louder, "One
of your hired girls is dyin' OF starvation,
not a quarter Of a mile from here"
They all hearn this plain and come
back as if to hush me up, and some
guests who had jest come in stopped on
the staircase as if listenin', and the serv-
ants KEEP nigh enough to hear
seemed to enjoy it.
my hired girl! What do you mean,
woman?"
why. one that has starved herself
most into the grave maxim shirts at
eight cents apiece, and come here to-
night thinkin' you didn't know 1t, or
wuz as poor as poverty yourself or you
wouldn't scrimp her down to that price.
And | come prepared to give some work
to o and pay you in advance so you
could pay your help more. And jest
see," SEE l, wavin' my hand round, the
place I've got into, a palace richer nan
Mr.. Divees ever owned, to say nOthln
of Solomon and the wilder Sheba. And
| want to know" SEE | sternly, what it
means to spend $4,000 in flowers for
idle eyes to glance at a few hours ana
then give eight cents apiece for maxim
shirts to a starvin' girl
Are o crazy?" seq he, lookin' at me
coldly.
No" seq l. but l guess I've got
among crazy folks, for nobody but lungs
or them whose hearts are harder than
granite-stun would act so heartless."
Madame" sez he, you will see my
name in yesterdays paper as one who
gave $40. 000 to help the sufferers in Fur
Their Injy."
Further Iniy?" sez l, that's fur
enough. but if you give $4,000 to suffer
ers you never see, SO fur away they
can't git no further. you hadn't ort to let
your hired girls starve to death On youf
back doorsteps, SO to speak"
SEE he, kinder raisin' his voice, Ma
dam. you will see my name among the
contributors to every worthy charity
that is mentioned in the public papers.
You will see that | am a large contrlbu-
tor to the Fegee missions, the Hotten-
tots. You will see my name
But / SEE, Il dino as l care about SEEM
vcur name. What I'd love to see would
lie v0lr heart, and see it sot on relievin'
| sufferin' right here to home. 1t is all
we'll enough to set your telescope on re-
mote heathens and send EN- help, but
why not use your naked eye and relleVe
sufferin' right srder your nose? There
is Helen Noble, your hired girl, not a
mite 10 eat. not q speck OF fire this bit
ter cold weather, she toiled away till she
dropped at her frozen post OF labor,
She's been tempted by starvation and
by her V bleeGin' heart. She WIZ
starved bodily and. with the keeneT
crawin' CT heart starvation, and
| through it all has KEEP her divine limo
cence and hasn't cursed God and died
as SO many would. and God has not Tor
| got her. she will be tocE care OF and SD
will them that brought her to where she
is. And as for the young Teller that
w7onced her 50. that won her love and
then turned it into 4 dagger to Woond
and destroy her with, may God have
mercy on him, for I'm afraid l shouldn I
il l got hold of him"
noticed how deadly white the young
chap looked then, q good lookin' felier,
but sort O. dissipated and weak lCokin'
But lust then / heard Miss Co speak tc
Miss Crindem-DoWne in q dretful con-
tenptous way. as if it wuzn'to Of any con-
sequence what became Of that class
as she called Helen and other tOilers.
She said they wuz always cOmplainin
and duty made me turn to her and say:
You jest try it for a spell maxim
shirts for eight cents apiece. Why, SCI
I Il wouldn't set in a gusset for that
And you try maxim pantalOons for tel
cents and live on the profit and support
q young brother"
81. try it," She acted fairly stupe
fed with amazement at the idee.
Eyes" SEE l, Helen is jest about
your age and she's had to try it"
"She." Oh. how contemptous thai
"she" wuz. l never hearn a meanei
soundin' "she" in my life. 'She is diff
ferent from me; don't you dare com
pare her to meme"
I looked full at her. She WIZ a hum
bly c~reeter. l didn't like her looks a
all. and | knowed Helen wuz as mucf
her superior as the moon is above
grass-hopper, and as she SEE agin
Don't you dare, woman. to compare he
to mel" l seZ:
Eyes. | see l wuz wrong, Helen i
made of finer clay, her flesh is softer
delicater, her eyes deeper, purer, he
mind brighter, her soul is as much abov
some others as light is above darkness
But that dainty flesh has had to be al
most frozen with cold, wasted by sloy
starvation, destroyed with overworR
The bright mind has had to crop
through the shadders of Loneliness
hopelessness, despair, the tender VIC
man heart wrung by bitter wrongs re
, ceived from one she loved better thai
herself. And the sweet soul almost go