Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-04-21

as JoneS Was icChtFfhSUs even, IleSe
we're not paid for
i"Bus with good health, industry,
prudence, and good wages, all might
have been well and prosperous. Jones
had good health and good wages, and
he was an. Industrious, hard working
man; but both he and his wife lacked
prudence and sef-denial-and so Il
has not been we'll with them. Instead
of renting two rooms as Mary and |
did, they must take whole house, and
60 in debt for the, furniture. So they
started in DEBT, and debt has hung over
them ever since. Twice ia ten years
they nave been sold cut by the sheriff
Jones thinks himself a very unfor-
tunate man, and is always complaining
about hard times !"
''Does he driuk?''
Not to excess, as they say-that is
he never gets tipsy But he has his
glass of beer two or three times day;
and that is draft on a small income
that tells heavier than most men
think"
"How much does Jones spend IN this
way?"
'If he limits himself TO two glasses
a day, at six cents glass, the cost in
one year will be forty-three dollars -
But | imagine that between himself
and his wife, the annual expense win
not fall short of hundred dollars"
HDoes his wife drink beer alsn?" !
asked,
"She's good deal ran down-weak
ly as they say--and both she and her
husband think that a glass or two of
bitter ale every day gives her
strength
"Do you think so?' f
NO, sir. Ny wife has had her
spells--got run down two or three
times in her life; and the doctor has
said, "Let her have bitter ale" But
found that rest. and change, and good,
. nourishing food soon brought her all
right again" a..a
"But every poor woman cant get
the rest, and change, and good, nour-
ishing food you speak Of"
81 know it, sir-poor tbings!-and
my wife couldn't have it either, ii |,
strong, healthy man, had spent forty or
| fifty dollars year for drink, that did
me more harm than good; or if we had
spent everything as we went along,
and laid by nothing for rainy day"
"It's bad case for the Joneses,"
said 1.
very bad; and quite as bad for
most of the people living about here.
In eight cases out Of ten, their beer
money, if saved during the last FIVE
or six years, would have bought them
houses. I'm sorry for them, but more
sorry for their children, growing up
neglected, and with no right home in
Auence. I talk to some of the men,
and they see the better way, but are
such slaves to habit. If it wasn't for
tempting saloons right at their doors
these largest and best houses in the
place, built out of the wasted hard
earnings of these poor people there
would be hope for them. But, with |
appetites perverted and craving, self
denial with most Of them is next to
impossible. 0 dear! l don't like to
think of it, for it gives me kind of
heartache' -
''Your example ought to help some
of them to see and do better"
"Well, sir, [ think it has. The lit
tie white house over there and he
pointed down the street, with the
newly painted green shutters, is case
in point William Fleck was going on
like the rest of them, spending every
thing he made. and getting nothing to
show for it. When | moved in here
about three years ago "a little set up,
as you may believe, at being the owner
'of a house, though it wasn't all paid
for then--of course, there was some
talk about it among those who knew
me. William Fleck and l worked in
the same shop; and he took the thing
a good deal to heart. 4 can't see how
you've done it, he said. you don't
get any better wages than | do; and
yoxr family is, if anything, larger than
mine "Where there's will there's
a way said be, knitting his forehead,
and looking almost fierce in bis new
resolution. "Join Building Associ-
ation," saidE They're getting up one
over at Hendricks among The men -
Take five shares--you can do it as easi-
ly as not, if you will deny yourself a
little. Five shares viii take five dol
lars month. In about nine years,
if you go on paying regularly, when
the association winds up, you will have
just one thousand dollars clear, al
though you have only paid in five hun
dred and forty dollars
s'FIe opened his eyes wide enough. .
But, said he, there isn't safe look
about that. How are five hundred and
forty dollars going 10 increase TO one
thousand?" It's all plain enough
when you look into the workings of
these Associations No capital any
where is invested more proftably or
safely than in well-managed Bald
ing Associa ton, which may be truly
called the poor mans friend. But
nine yoars is a long time to wait for a
house. siad he, with little disap-
pointment in his manner. Just so,' [
replied; 'and its here where the Build
ing Association comes in to he lp. AT
ter you have paid in for two or three
years, or even less time, the Assoeia-
ton will let you have loan, and take
security on the house you wish to buy.
All you have to do then is to keep
on paying your FIVE dollars a month,
and the interest on your loan until
the end of The nine OF ten years from
the time the Association started, when
it will wind up, and the funds on hand
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