Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-04
III am going to do nothing. onlv no

your credit ought to be good. You
are drawing your wages every Satur-
day, and your only expenses are at
present for provisions"
The credit idea struck Job very
favorably, and he went directly to
Mr.. Woods, to try how it would
work. He had found brand of -four
that suited him, and when he came to
speak of having it delivered, Mr.. Wood
asked him about the pay.
"Oh, I'll pay you for it, Mr.. Wood.
| can't do it now; but you know |
get my wages every Saturday, and I
can soon bring it up"
Really, Mr.. Gamlit, l should like
to accommodate you. but that is rath-
er too steep for the first mark"
Goodness mercy don't We call me
good for sixteen dollars p
"If did l should not hesitate to
let you have the -four"
"Well, by glory! I'd like to know
if my wife isn't good for it ?"
"Yes, perfectly. If she will come
and order it, you can have it at once"
"Wal, ant she bound, I'd like to
know, if order it?"
Il don't see it, JOB. A husband
may be bound to pay debts Of his
wife's contracting; out | never heard
of wife's being bound for her hus-
bands debtS-at least where the huS-
band attended to his own business"
"Eh! Has my wife been here
preschin' ?"
Il have not seeu your wife for three
weeks; but | have heard you, night
after night, telling about how you had
taken charge Of the domestic expen-
ditures."
Then you won't let me have the
-four ?'
Not without the pay, job"
Very well-then that's the last fa-
vor Jon Gamlit ever asks of your
And Job went away in high dudg-
con-
At the store of Adams q TOwle he
selected another barrel of -four, and
told Mr. Adams that if he would send
it to his house he would pay him for
it in two weeks.
Mr.. Adams shook his head.
Il declare, Job | should really like
to accommodate you, but we have our
rule, and we pever depart from it"
Nv hat is yer rule ?"
"Nevt! - deliver goods until we
have satisfactory assurance Of imme-
diate payment. "
oval, ant good for that sum, I'd
like to know ?"
you may be good for ten times
that amount, JOB; but have no evi-
dence. | am sorry; but -four is a
CASH article with US, and we cannot
have our money lying idle in other
peoples pockets"
"S'poS'n my wife should come and
want a barrel of flour, would We let
her have i, ?"
THAT would depend altogether
about the pay"
Jobs face frightened.
oval, s'pos'n she should say jest
as I've said ~
Mr., Adams hesitated; but present
ly he said:
"Job, you force me to tell you the
truth, and | must tell it, If your
wife should come here, and ask me to
send her barrel of -four, and tell me
that she would pay me in two weeks,
or in two months, | should send it to
her"
Then you don't consider me so
good as my wife ?"
'In some things | think you are a
grand good man, job; and | don't
know OF d man at the Falls that Id
sooner put myself out for than you.-
In truth, Job, you are one of the very
best men here-a vast deal too good
, to keep company with some of them
that I've seen you with during the
past week. But when it comes tc
business, Job, your wife is ahead of
you; and [ should say you were very
) foolish if you throw away her help
? Have you ever been to the homes of
: Pipkin, or Hiram Judkins ?"
"Once-night atore last | was in
there"
"Aud what sort of homes were
they ?"
Job had not thought of it before
but he thought of it now with shud
der.
Goodness mercy!" he cried, bring
ing his fist down upon the counter
''if Ruth should go out and find hel
hog-pen lookin' like them mems hous
en- did, she'd go to scrubbin' quick.
) "Well, Job, let me give you wcrd
of advice; and In consideration of
your listening and obeying, III make
} you present of ten pounds OF flour
That will last you the week out, and
4 more too"
Job consented, and Mr.. Adams
| went on:
"To-night, job, when you are al
alone on your watch, think over mat
ters with an eye to your own good
, Look at your companions, and then
look at your own home. Throw
away all empty-sounding ideas and
phrases that have been ringing i'll your
ears, and stick to the truth; and un
, der the lead of your own good sense
run on until you come to the end of
, the path into which these dlssipated
: weavers and spinners would lead you.
t And remember they make more than
you do. Judkins sometimes earns his
twenty dollars a week; but where
does it all go? Will you do this ?"
ayes, by .gloryl | will"
And Job took his ten pounds of
-four, and went home. He simply
told his wife that that was all he
could get, and, as she asked no ques-