Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-10-27

| IL IutO tuetT uou'us unu cueW u dpu sP''
as man does that chews tobacco. This
is 10 all circles, rich or poor, aud it is the
most disgusting thing ever saw. Doc.
How to hslp pay the Rent.
III don't see how am to get through
this year, and pay my rent, and support
my wife and children" said young mau
to friend as they were walking home
! together at nightfall. at looks darker
and darker every day. My receipts are
not half wha, they used to be, aud my
expenses are great deal heavier. Mary
is capital manager though, and if any
b1dy can steer toe ship safely through in-
doors, she will. Such contriving and cut
ting over of old things to make new ones
for Frank aud little Fan, beats everything
| ever saw. But that rent is what
plaques me- This house just suits US, and
wouldn't move, believe, unless ! was
turned out !" and the young man tossed a
cigar out into the street, heaviug a sigh
and quickening his pace, as troubled peo-
pie are wont 10 do.
"There goes part of your rent" said
his friend, pointing to the cigar just
thrown away.
"a pretty small part, you would say, l
guess, if you had Fifty dollars to make up
every quarter, when you could not see
where five of i, we're to come from"
81 can put you 10 the way Of paying
one quarter Of i, with perfect ease"
"Be so kind as to do it, then-the
quicker the better"
"Just step in here and let me draw up
q pledge for you, in which you promise to
leave of cigars, and when you are tempt
ed to buy one, slip the paper out Of your
vest pocket and read it over. That would
save you in the course of the year over
fifty dollars"
"But then cigar is such comfort TO
fellow when be is perplexed aud worried
to death with bis affairs. l feel wretch
edly without one after dinner"
"Hou will YOU manage when you are
fifty, if you are such slave to bad habit
at thirty? Be assured, Tom, it will
bring with it seven others more mighty
than the first, aud you will be bound hand
aud foot Come, Tom, shake yourself,
aud throw OF this tyran.. Are you going
to let sour wife bear all the sscrisce and
self-denial, while you selfshly stick to all
your old luxuries ? You are more of a
man than that, know. I'll draw up the
pledge for you and bring it over tonight
what do you say :"
"PlI think about it, and perhaps will
try for q week." said Tom, who was be.
ginning to be half convinced.
"That never will answer. You must
commit yourself TO the fight, if you are
going to break up . bad habit Of several
years standing. You must 60 into it body
aud soul, determined to win, or you will
be weaker than ever. Come, it is fully
worth the effort; . chance to make fifty
dollars should nos be thrown away these
times"
Some panoramic pictures passed slowly
before Toms mind. He saw bis wife and
children in narrow, uncomfortable home,
brought there because be could not give
up his selfish ipdulsences; he though, Of
the pleasant, elegant home from which he
had brought bis Mary when she first
placed her hand 10 bis and promised to
walk through life BY bis side. lie saw
her slowly wearing out herself to pro-
vide for the little ones, while he put no
shoulder to the wheel, and the vision
reused his really generous nature, which
too much case had covered up with rub
bisb.
"I'll do il, Wilson," be said With ener-
gy. 81 will cut of that and all the other
superauities, and see il can not help
Mary in the retrencbing business"
His friend warmly seconded bis resolu.
tion, for he knew Tom we'll enough to
know that the chief thing be needed vas
to be fully aroused.
The good resolutions were we'll carried
out, and the end Of the year fouLd the
household still 10 the pleasant old home,
out of debt, and never more happy aud
comfortable in their lives.
Cut off the superAuities this year, and
see if they do not 60 a. long way towards
paying the rent. You will be all the
happier for it. That is one of the surest
6rst fruits of seli-denial.-Arthur's Home
Magazine. .
pI Kings Sale of Stock &C., Friday,
of this week.
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