The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-03-29

portaut tone. I'm of for Boston | wish
you were going too"
Good bye, John" callcd back Charlie
"l wish you success"
81 guess he'd like to be going with me-"
said John to himself, comploccutly. Ii
must be dreadfully dull in old Flames shop.
As for me, I'm going to sec life-that's what
I'm going to do. lou don't catch ne drag.
CLING olong in this villiagO when eau do
better"
If John meant doing better in pcsuna-
ry way he was mistaken. Tho wages ho
was to have tho first year would not one
half pay his expenses, however economical
he might be. With Charles it was differ
eEt llo was boarding nj home. llls cx.
penses for clothing and other things were
necessarily much less than they would
have been in the city. So instead Of cost.
ing his father two hundred dollars the first
year as John did he cleared his expenses
aud thirty dollars additional. This his
father placed at his disposal. aud he at
once deposited it in tho Savings Bank.
So the first year passed
John and Charles were each allowed va.
cation of u week 10y their employers.
One evening they walked together down
the village street, when their respective
Siul'iNg'uNN hFNlll CAlllo up lpl NlSNhNStol'
"Well, Charlie, you must have had
enough of carpentering by this time. Just
agree to come to tho city aud | will get
you place in our store. I'm promoted
am to have soventy-Gvo dollers u year more
than had last year
"Will that pay your cXpcnscsP'
| mot by long shot"
| "Ipaid my expenses last year, aud have
| thirty dollars over in the Savings Bank"
20 no doubt. But you see we have to
dress in the city" said John, glancmg at
his neatly fitting clothes and patent lcath-
ers complaccntly.
$50 We do here said Charlie with n
smile.
Yes, of course, but | Aatter myself there
is some difference between my appearance
and yours. A country tailor don't under.
stand the style. have all my clothes
made on Washington street, at tip top
establishment"
Charles acknowledged that his suit was
not as stylish as johns However he con
soled himself by relecting that he had paid
for it himself. o..
Another year slipped by, and again the
boys met
"Well, Charlie. how's carpontering ?
Made your fortune yotS' asked John care
lessly. .
I've got hundred dollars in the Bank.
"Iou don't say So
How is it with you q
O., it's pretty expensive living in tho
city. didn't como within two hundred
dollars of paying my expenses
You didn't! And yet you had seventy
five dollars a year more than at first
%, well, my expenses have increased
| have good many friends, and have tc
treat EN- to oysters aui cigars OCCASION
ally, or they would thinl; mo mean Be
sides I've just learned to play billiards
You'd like it first rate, Charlie. But how
arc you ever to know anything of life
while you're buried M here in the country,
is your father willing to make up the
deficiency in your expenses, John?"
We'll to tell tho truth, he growls con
sidcrably about it, lin to have a hundred
dollars more this year, AMI he wants mo tt
pay my expenses without calling on him
I'd like to see him try it,
III. after working two years, you cam
do that, John, | don't think your position
is a very desirable one. Id rather be q
carpenter. lin afraid you're getting lit
tic extravaganza
Nonsense, Charlie. You don't under
stand it, stta. ,
"Well, each to his taste. Only I'm glaG
didn't so into store. Though if had
should have felt it my dnty to bo rs econ
onical as possible, until | could pay my
own expenses H' .-,-
We'll, am economical-a good deal more
than want to be. A fellow must dress
you know, or people won't think anything
of him in the city,
Two years more passed. At tho end o
that time, Charles had two hundred anC
seventy-fye dollars laid aside. As lol
John, he had continued to fall behind hand
every year, Notwithstanding his salary hai
been raised regularly. In vain his father
demonstrated, telling him that ho could no
afford such drain upon his purse. JOIN
insisted that it could not be helped.
Bnt there was something worse than cx.
tIavagauce which Johns friends had to In
meht in him. lie had learned TO smoke, L
play billiards, and as they had reason tt
suspect. to drink. His laudlady could
have told them that hs had more than once
been brought home III state of intoxica
ton. As yet his employers had not found
il out One day however, he rccled into
the store in state which ut once revealed
to them the truth They acted promptly
discharging him at once, /.
Misiortunes never come singly. JOIN
went homo deeply mortified only to Learn
that hiS father, whom his extravaganza had
had helped to enbarass. had just become
bankrupt lie had lost his situation at the
worst possible moment.
So at least it seemed But perhaps il
was this which was needed to redeem him
from his fOlles, lie was naturally of a
gool disposition. and his fathers distress
made him reproach himself keenly for What
lie recognized AS his own work With
considerable difficulty he succeeded in re-
covering bis old position. and resolutoy
turned over Eew leaf. counSelled and en-
couraSed thereto by Charles Ashton, who
had never lost his interest in his school
friend .te r.... l..f s
1eii years have passed since Charles is
in business for HIMSELF and isthe owner of
a fine place, which he has paid for out of
his own earnings. John is doing well.
but his expenses in the, city are so much
greater than Charles ,Ashtons that he is left
bchind in the race fof prosperity. But lie
is, at all events, cured Of all his foolish ho-
tions US to the responsibility of mechanics.
IncIdents OF General SheeITsl N 8
March Through North autl
4 South CarOlinn. 4.,....
A correspondent Of tho New York Tti5-
uae. writes thus of the incidents iH Sher-