The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-03-31
now 70 PAY rIf.s RrSr.
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90 +" | don't see how ! am TO get through
this Year and pay my rent and sup
port my wife and children" said o
young manlto afriend as they were
walking 4home together at nightfall.
IT looks darker and darker every
day, Ny receipts are not half what
they used 70 be, and my expenses are
great deal higher Mhry is capital
though, and IL anybody can
steer the ship safe o through in doors
she will Such contriying, and cutting
over Of old things TO make new ones
for Frank and little Fan beats any
thingI ever saw. But the rent is
what plaques me. This house just
suits US, and l would mt move, i be-
lieye, unless i was turned out = and
the young man tossed his cigar into
the street heaving sigh and quick
ening his pace, as troubled people
are wont to do.in1 4ig.l 80 -
"There goes part of your rem"
said his friend pointing to the cigar
just thrown away.
Aipretty small part you wouldsay
| guess, if you had fifty dollars to
make up every quarter, when you
could not see where five oft were to
come from.
II can put you in the way Of pay
ing one Quarter with case.P
4 Be so kind as to do it, then-the
| quicker the better" it....-,. s,t.
.Just step in here, and let me draw
upa pledge for you, in which you
promise TO leave off cigars, and then
when YOU are tempted to buy one,
slip the paper ont Of your pocket and
read il over. That would save you in
! the course of year over fifty dol,
lars" lt- .'a t.' '-'+
"Bnt then cigar Is such comfort
to a fellow, when he is perplexed and
worried to death with his nffairs. L
feel wretchedly without one after DIM
ner."
"IIow will yoh manage when you
4 fifty, if you are such slave to q 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, and throw off this
tyrant Are you going to let your
wife bear all the sacrifice and self
/. denial while you sellishly stick to all
your old luxuries? You are more ola
, man than that, know. I'll draw up
, the pledge for you apd bring it over
to-night-what do you sayg'
|, "1'll think about it, and perhaps
, will try for a week" said Tom, who
, was beginning to be half-conyinced.
4" That will never answer. 1ou mus
commit yourself to the fight if you ar'
going to break up a bad habit Of sew
eral years standing. You must 90 in
! toit body and soul, determined to wiz
or YOU will be weaker than ever
p Come, it is fully worth the effort;
/, chance to make fifty dollars shoult
n not be thrown away these times"
Some panoramic pictures passe'
> slowly before Toms mind. He say
his wife and childron in o narrow
a uncomfortable home, brought ther
), because he could not give up his seltisI
, indulgehcies; he thought ofthc pleas
ant, elegant home from which he ha
brought his Mary, when she frs
!, placed her hand In his and promise
IS to walk through life by his side. IL
: saw her slowly wearing herself out t
;, provide for the little ones, while h
. put no shoulder to the wheel, and tn
y vision reused his really generous n;
?, ture which TOO much case had coverc
/ up with rubbish.
- I'll do it, Wilson" he said with cr
" ergy." l will cut off that, and all Il
; other superhuities, aiid see if | cah NJ
:. help Mary in the retrenchihg bus
. ness .....
His friend warmly seconded IL
: resolution, for he knew Tom we
:, enough to understand that the CHI
), thing he needed was to be fully arouse
> The good resolutions were well ca
:. ric,l out, and the end of the year four
,s the household still In the pleasant o.
n' = home, nut of debt, aud never mo-
: happy apd comfortable in their live
! Cut off the superhuities this yea
q and see if they do not 60 q long ws
a. toward paying the rent. You will
" ali the happier for it. That is one
the surest first fruits of self-dcnial.
or A Pazzied Justice.
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