Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-06-01

COW. your chickens, and your pigs, would MAKE
sufficient saving in your expenses to pay fog
all additional charges in entering your children
at better schools. In three years more, laying
by hundred and fifty dollars q year. which You
could easily do; would give you enough to buy
another cottage ana acre OF ground which you
could easily rent TO good tenant for eighty dol
lars year. In three years more with the same
economy YOU would have seven hundred dollars
more to invest, which could be done in property
that would yield you seventy or eighty dollars a
year income. BY this time the viage would
have grown out towards your grounds, ana per
haps double, may be quadruPled their value for
building lots, some of which YOU could sell and
adding the amount to the saving of couple Of
years, be able to build one or two more com
Portable houses your own lots
Going on this way, year after year, by the time
your ability TO work ourneyman began 10
fail you, the necessity for work would not e,ist,
for you have comfortable property the regular
income from which would than support
you. Now all this may be done by your sim u
giving up yoar tabacco, beer, and oysters, and
your holidays month.
+ not the result worth this trhing sacrifice -
1T certainly is the serious reply. = \ on
have presented very attractive picture, and
suppose il is a true one"
at is, you may depend upon it. Every jour
neynan mechanic, if he be industrious and have
prudent and economical wife, as you have. may
accumulate snug little property ana live quite
at ease, and when he passes the prime OF lie
Is not all very plain to yoa2'
at certainly is and am determined that |
will try and get ahead just in the way you de-
scribe. If you twenty-five dollars a
year, there is Z good reason why should DO the
same
None in the world Only perseverc in your
and self-denia, and you are certain OF
accomplishing all have set forth"
W are sorry that cannot give as good an
account Of Johnson we could wish. lie tried
to be economical and to break himself of his bad
habits Of chewing Drinking and other self in3ui-
gences, for little while, and then sunk down
into his old ways aud went on as usual.
Ten wears afterwards the friend who had striy
e 50 hari to make him his true interest, and
act accordingly, was doing fine business as any
master workman in the village. Ills children
were going shool, and his wife now mistress of
a neat comfortable, well furnished house, was
IGFeG from the Edf.cSl GulIcS, p} Il strung, it
tive, faithful domestic.
Poor Mrs. Johnson, the contrary, had to
work much harder than before, for her family
lad increased from three TO six children; while
Ter husband, instead of drinking one glass day.
now INDUCED in two three, anG in various
ways spent upon himself, nearly double what he
lid when his friend strovc hard to make him give
Up his tobacco, ale, oysters and holidays. His
ices ana self ndu gcnce ha! grown upon him.
Hopelessly his poor wife, in III health, is
oilirg on. and VIII have to toll on until she sinks
rom mere exhaustion into the grave, and her
hldren become scattered among strangers to
,ear the hard lot of the orphan.
How many hundreds are there like Johnson,
Who spend they go, in self indulgence. what
property boarded, would make their last days
rieh, with LIES declining sunshine. He was
90 weak, and loved to indulge himself too we'll
o take the good advice given him; but we hope
here is not a single Journeyman Mechanic who
eads this viii not prove himself to be wiser