Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-02-23

JOLIET. IILIN(
saves tolls and the profits. This is barrel
Of wheat. ! buy the I;est, snd anl enre
that u ~ clean and good. Icc0sts lass than
three csRts pound and pound Of wheat
day, y0u know. is food cough for any
man. We make it iatp bread. mush, pies
and cakes. Here rs barrel Of potatoes =
This is bominy. Here are come beans. 9
bog at taplcs. macar0ni. Here Is barrel Il
apples. tie bes, ! Can get IN Fnlton Mar
ket. Here is q bex Of sugar, and fhk u
our butter jar We take a quart Of aiik
day; | buy the rest down tow0 blythe
bog. or barrel, where I can get the bert
aud cheapest. Making wheat--eaten es
nush or bread, and 81; made coarse. with-
Uut bnItipg, and potatoes. or h0miOy. OF
dice the static. ynn can easily see that .
dollar y week for provisions 10 not only
Hn,Die. but slows Of healthy, and even
luxurious variety. For the rest we eat
greeus. vegetables, fruit and berries IN
their season. Ia summer we have sltaw
berries and peaches. Ha Roon a. the3 are
ripe and good. Mary VIII get up dinner
from these msteriaIs sc . Gust Of shfll
ing. better shan the whole bill " szte =
the AstUF.
] vas satisfed Here was comfort, fn-
te,ligence, taste. and modest IuSnrse ell
enjoyed by humble mScbanic, IN, fne~
bow to live at the cost have menSIened
How much useless complaining might be
saVed-huW much genuine happiness be
erj1yed-how much evil and suffering
might be evaded-if ell the working men
in the Country were half as economical 90
William Carter.
never shook man or woman By the
band with more hearty respect than when
l said good night to this happy couple,
who. in this expensive city. are living in
luxury aud growing rich on eight dollars
week. and making the bench of shoe ma
her chair Of practical philosophy.
The Wine Merchant aud Cob
bier.
A poor cobbler lived next door to q retail
wine seller. who. the better to draw the
sous out uf the pockets Of his neighbors.
pus sulendid gilt sign. with the names of
the most famous wines upon it az full
length. NV this WAS terrible tempta.
ii TO the cnbler, whu. however, the better
resisted it, as be did not know how TO read.
But not content with the gilt sign. the
vine merchant had two punches of ripe,
tempting grapes, painted to the lifs,. and
just beneath twO gnilstS running over with
wire. This il readable ard the poar cob
5ier's N 'uth water cd. 1t was, however, in
vain 60 resist, far he found himself every
mu,Eent trying 10 fad q me excuse for tur.
ming his eyes EDWARDS his neIghbur'e shop,
aid at last IN he ed Fur srus can't
HI . bpdy. thought tIP, an! iva tumblers
10 of vine were soon under his Jacket
S is vac the next day aud the next, but
Que day be happened to have No mon
ey
SO ntighbOr.' said the vine seller, "gou
don't take drop TO day2'
Why. to tell yon the TRUTH reT lied
the cnbhler, i would if had the spare
change
Never mind said the wine SELLER, come
and take drink, you can pay me some
other time
But the cNbhler's paying time never
came, and the wine seller dunned him over
and over again. and gnt Dothing but prom
Uses; the cotLler drinking every dag as
usual, for it is q pity 20 lose 50 go ID .
customer. thought the ne-seilsr. Every
body knoss (which every body Dears all
ones sGauaintance) that On Sunday Ill
PArisians. high aud ". dress in their
hest. aud find amusement where they can.
Vow our c"bbler's hest suit was q gray
coat with plated buttons. skv blns paDrs-
lnnps, shining bonIs. and q white bat ; and
the merciese wine eel er found means 20
get the latter. tngether with the gray coat
with plated buttons into his possession,
and swnre that he ~nul nOi give them up
until he was paid every sons. The cOhbler
prayed, begged, entreated him TO release
them hut for that day. far he had cuntrsc-
ted to dance the first cntillinn with his
sweetheart, and was engaged 10 dine ut his
cnuRin'R. but it WuUl Il do; the wine eel
Ter bid bin, go about his business, which
the cnbbler literally did for be went home
and began To work and sing xith all his
might, to drown the mise OF his peivhbor's
Vi"iin; and at night he went TO bed "a
melanch Ply az any cnbhler in Paris. In
vengeance est le Dldsie des deiur,' rays tina
prOSerh. and our cobl,lsr aWoke the uext
NOM 'ng a. gay N ever, for he had thou ybt
y way TO avenge himself He threw uut
before his door few bites of bread. which
his neighbor's fowls very kindly picked mn,
The next day the same thing, with the
same surcess. and the third and Fourth
days the fowls were willing TO enter the
shop, and to save him the trouble of feed
ing without. M sooner all within. than
the fowls were pris 'uers. and the cobbler
fell to work and filed piilIw case with
feathers, which he plucked of the poor
creatures. one by one, and then sent them
perishing home. naked as they were burn
One sleeps we'll on good conscience but
the cob5ler found his pillow Of revenge
quite as snnthing, for be slept snundIy
upon it. The Wine-s seller, however. sno3
Weakened him with q loud knocking
'HallO. DeighboT somebody has been nick
ing my tow g, and they we're seen coming
out ut your shop
fray. nsigbbOr who told you so p ask ID
the cobbler
Why, the apViewumsn aud bakers
wife,
They ere right said the cobbler.
Nay presume 20 ask who pluuked my
fOW Is asked the vine seller.
M presumptinn at all, replied the cob
bier. Won may ask
And can you tell NE who plucked
them?'
'Nathing easier. did it,
What, your
'Yer.'
And may ask why you took tie liber-
~ to undress nv f"wts 2
'Cer,ar ly yr'u may. and ! will answer.
You must know that something less than Q
~eek. y".r fowls have iiVei At nv EXPENSE,
~Ith"us psy'ng s'us and that Is the rea-
son why l undressed them, az Won call il.
when l get nay for my bread, they shall
have thtir feathers