The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-09-30

small shop in an obscure street; wherein he
vended a small stock Of dry goods. From
the beginning he succeeded; slowly indeed,
yet he succee ed. And the maiofity may
succeed in precisely the same way. What
ever ones income may be however triHing,
let him liDe wittin IL, and he is even then
prosperng; and to prosper in a great city
frugality never finds itself at fault. Sdbsis-
tence and a home may be procured, meeting
to any quality Of means; and he who casts
false pride out of doors, and indulges rather
in that more ennobling satisfaction, the con
sciousness that he is wronging no fellow being
by unjust self indulgence, is laying founda-
ton for prosperity that nothing can shake;
though the goods of earth may gather slowly,
the soul will be heaping up treasures. Ex-
travagnce is a comparative term; and he who,
with an income of few hundreds, exceeds
its bounds in his expenditures, is more extra
VACANT than the possessor of millions, whose
lavish hand scatters thousands upon thous-
ands from his revenue. Jacob Flagg had a
| little something LETT of his first years. gains,
and yet larger sum at the close Of the
second-tenfold at the third. a sa,oa ssob|
/; As his condition improved, he cautiously
and advisedly improved his mode of living.
He removed to more gehteel boarding
house-and then a better stiil-ever careful,
however, not to deceive himself and run
aheud of duty. d sa1iur
The second change was rife with momen-
teus influences upon his destiny; for there
was in the same houses widow and her pref
ty daughter, the last an heres worth thou
sand dollars! The widow, named Watkins
mot her real name, by the by, for on our
veracity we are telling a true story, and it
might give offence tobe too particular
not over stocked with wit, and piqued herself
as much on her slender jointure and the
thousand dollars Helen was to possess on her
wedding day; as though her hundreds had
been thousands, and her daughters thousand
million. Helen was sensible, very sensi-
BILE, and resisted in good degree, the un.
happy influences, of her mothers weakness;
but most women, not being conyersant with
business, do not appreciate the value of mo-
ney; and il is not amazing that Helen, when
| it was constantly theme Of cxultation and
pride with her mother, should imagine at
least, her thousand dolars-7a fortune,
Flagg, after atime, loved her--loved her
with his whole heart, and was TEL derly loved
! in return. He had always determined, with
an honest pride, never to fall in love with a
woman who had money; cit should never be
cast in his teeth by his wife's grumbling rela-
tons that he was supported by hiss" and
there are few who will accuse him of swerv-
| ing from his principles, although he did love
Helen Watkins, and she had thousand dol
/ lars.sil7Hl b aus3pHl alf ,..yia 9til Ed 95
He married her; and on the wedding day
pursuant to her fathers will, the thousand
dollars we're placed in Flagg's hands. Do.
ing as he thought best for their mutual adj
vantage, he invested it in his business, and
| instead of dashing with an establishment,
remained at the boarding house. For a time
all went well. A loving bride thinks little,
for months, of anything but love and happi-
ness, and Helen never spoke of the thousand
dollars. Flagg furnished her with money
sufficient for her wants, and indeed for her
desires-the engrossment of her thoughts
f otherwise limiting her wishes. But when a
! year had gone by, she often asked for arti-
1 cles of dress or luxury-luxury to them
| which her husband could not afford to give,
and gently but fesolutely denied her. "Itis
very strange," thought Helen to herself, "that
when he has all that thousand dollars oi
mine, he won't let me have what want" ,
}, Her mother fostered these complaining
thoughts, and on ain occasion when she had sci
her heart on something which he refused to
purchase, she ventured to vent her disap-
pointment in reproaches; and referred to the
thousand dollars, which she was sure she
ought to be at liberty to spend, since it was
all her own. Flagg was astonished, indig-
nant but restraining himself, kindly reason
j ed with her, and represented to her how pal
try sum, in reality, thousand dollars was
n how long ago it would have been spent, had
i it been in her own possession, by the pro
! curement of half the articles she had solic-
f tied. But her pride prevented her from lis
n tening with calmness, and she only gathered
enough of his explanations to excite, in hel
j morbid judgment, the suspicion that it was
j only given TO excuse himself for his mean.
f ness. '89'!lA
J, in a short time the thousand dollars came
f up again--and again-and again; the las,
time Immediately after breakfast. Flagg
, could bear it no more. Without a rejoindel
II he suddenly left his house. His wife saw
4 that he was more than ordinarily moved
i his face wore startling expression, and, re-
f gretfal, penitent, alarmed, she called earnest
" and tearfully for him TO return, But il
was too late! 1t was sullen, stormy, win
u try, chilly day, when Flag left his home thai
I morning. 1t was, too, at the very climax o
u one, Of those mercantile crises when the
7 rich feel poor, and the poor, beggars; ant
4 Flagg, breasting the storm bravely thus far