Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-02-09
PoMERoY, MEIGs COUNTY, OHIO,
Bfs--look me.
than YOU, have

SHY man, now ury up your. .+3ifS--i0Dk at me.
j have more cheerful fa09 Than, you have
seen me wear for many d ',,3'i 'e 4, >.
20, yes" answered the WI n You have been
a changed man ever since last New Years;
Something happened then. ou didn't fail be-
cause had new bonnet and dress then that
cant be- You don't know how Thave grieved
to see you so changed. feared something
might have done, made you SO, and / have
prayed to know what it was, but have not
been informed-I dared not ask you--you
looked so forbidding l,.l 49,, t51.7 a,
Would that you coald haye said this three
months ago--it would have saved me much
trouble-we' We both been very foolish. No,
myideaf, il have not failed because you had
New Year presentssSbut,gbdfore that time we
sba, had sssn good nsh stys as as
company--too many carriages came to our
house--they cost us great deal of money,
and they didn't stop at my store often enough:
or if they did, the fine ladies didn't buy enough
to make up what it cost us to live iii style
corresponding to their ideas; so my business
affairs became embarrassed. was afraid to
tell you'll could not change my style of liv-
ing without doing SO, and kept on becoming
more and more embarrassed, and more and
more miserable till, finally, I was driven to
desperation and now I'm broken merchant.
I've given up everything, and we must take a
cheaper house, and let our rich friends cut
our acquaintance.
With burning kiss the wife assured her
husband that his plan met her entire approba.
tion, and he acknowledged how foolish he had
been in not giving her his confidence when his
troubles began. ...
"Well turn over a new leaf" said he
"You'll never again think I'm richer than
am. Hereafter I'll know what my income is,
and we'll live within it. Rich ACC 9uaintances,
balls and concerts-costly suppers, or none of
them-just as we can afford. I'm not the first
man who's failed from the same causes |
have some friends yet and think can rise
again. Anyhow, I'd rather be clerk than
such merchant as have been T"
''When must we move?' inquired the wife
calmly
"Next week." Mr. Farley answered, off we
can find such house as we can afford"
The broken merchant had been settled in an
humble home but few months when New
Year came again. He was well satisfied with
his experiment of living according to his
means, to suit himself, not other poople--to
crafty his own tastes consistently with his cir
cumstances, not to please other people con-
sistently with their cxtravagant notiuhs
On New Year $ day Mrs. Farley received a
plain gold ring, inside of which were engraved
these words: "Our mcac legt-pay as you
Co."
The once broken merchant has found this
profitable motto. He is now able to pay as
he goes, and, at the same time, make his wife
a more costly New Years gift than the dress
and the bonnet which the money of the usurcr
bought. ...,...... ..-.
To those who would turn over a new leaf Oh
next New Years day, recommend the mcr-
chants motto, Pay as yon 60; it will never
allow duns to perpley nor bailihs to harass you
compared with the man or woman WHO runs
up bills at the grocery the stote OF the bake.
shop--or who INDUCES fancy in any particular,
on credit--you will be most happily indcpen-
dent.