Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-08

nv Walk gives me just the exercise [ need.
Every man, who is coofined ir a store or
counting-room during business hours,
should walk at least four miles a day.-
Taken in installments of one mile at time
at good intervals. three intervals, there is
surely no hardship in this exercise, Four
rides at sixpence a ride, and we have an
other item of twenty-five cents day
You go down town nearly every even
"Yes"
"And ride both ways"
"Yes."
- shilling more. or thirty seven and
half cents daily. for car and stage hire.-
Now for another little calculation. Three
hundred days at three shilliDgs day
There it is"
And Hamilton reached slip of paper
to bis friend.
Impossible w The latter actually star.
ted to his feet. "a hundred and twelve
dollars and fifty centsl"
I'll JON spend three shillines day, you
will spend that sum 10 year. Figures
are inexorable."
Hoffman sat down again, in troubled
surprise, saying:
Have you got to the end ?"
Not yet" replied his companion.
VERY we'll. Go on"
81 often notice you with candies or ether
CONNECTIONS ; and you are. sometimes, quite
free in sharing them with your friends -
Burnt almonds, sugar almonds, jim Crows
candied fruits, macaroons, etc. These are
not to be had for nothing; and besides
their cost they are positive injury to the
stomach. You, of cours, know to what
extent you indulge this weakness of appe-
tite. Shall We say that 1t costs all average
Of ten cents day"
add fruit in and out of season, and call
it fifteen cents" replied Hoffman.
Very well. For three hundred DAYS
this will give another large sum-forty Eve
dollars2"
Anything more?" said Hoffman, in a
subdued, bel Fless kind of way, like one ly-
ldg PROSTATE from sudden blow.
i've seen you driving out occasionally (;
sometimes on Sundays. And, by the way,
l think you generally take an excursion on
Sunday. Over to Staten Island, or ID Ho-
boken. or u? the river, or--but no matter
where; you go about and spend money on
the Sabbath day. How much does ali this
cost? A dollar a week? Seventy-fi FIVE
cents? Fifty cents? We are after the ex.
act figures as near as may be. What does
it cost for drives and excursions, and their
spice Of refreshment?"
Say thirty dollars year"
Thirty dollars then, we will call it
And here let US cluse, in Orde- to review
the ground over which we haye been trav.
cling. all these various expenses, nor one
o! which is for things essential to health,
comfort or happiness, but rather for their
destruction, amount to the annual sum of
four hundred and two dollars and sixty
cents-you can go over the figures for your
self. Add to this three hundred aud eighty
four dollars, the cost of boarding and
cl thing, and you swell the aggregate to
nearly eight hundred dollars and your SAL
airy is but six hundred !"
A long silence followed.
you are like nundred--nay, thous-
ands," replied the friend, ito whom a six
pence, shilling. or even dollar spent
daily has very insignificant look and
who never stop TO think that a sixrence a
day amounts to over twepty dollars in q
year; shilling day to over forty aod D
dollar day to three hundred and sixfy@
five. We cannot waste our money in trifes
and yet have it to spend for substantial
| benefits. The cigars you smoked in the
past year; the games of billiards you play
| ed the ale and oysters, cakes, confections
and fruits consumed the rides 10 cars and
stages the drives and Sunday excursions,
! gave only the briefest pleasures and left
new and less easily satisfied desires behind.
1t will not do, my friend, to grant an easy
| indulgence to natural appetite and desire,
| for they seek to be our masters. If we
would be poised, self-controling
| self-possessiug men-we must be wise
prudent, just and self-denying and from
| this rule of conduct will spring order, tran
! guilty Of mind, success and true enjoy
ment. | think, Hoffman, that am quite
as happy man as you are far happier
| am sure, at this moment; and yet | have
| denied myself nearly all these indulgences
| through which you have exhausted youi
means and embarrassed yourself with debt
| Moreover, have a hundred dollars clear oil
everything, with which shall take long
desired excursion, while you will be COM
! PEELED, for lack of the very money which
has been worse than wasted, to remain &
! prisoner in the city. Pray. be counselleC
TO different course in future"
II would be knave or fool to need fur
Their incentive" said Hoffman, with much
bitterness. "At the rate l am going on
debt, humiliation, and disgrace are befor,
me. l may live up to my income withou
actually wronging others-but not beyond
it. As things are now going, | am tive
hundred dollars worse off at the END o
each year than when began, and, wors,
still, weaker as to moral purpose, while TIT
animal and sensual natures, from constau
indulgence, have grown stronger. mus
break this thraldom now; for, year henc,
it may be too latel Thank you, my frienC
for your plain talk. Thank you for teach
ing me anew the multiplication table.
shall, assuredly, not forget it again."