The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-12-02
OUR SATURDAY NIGHT.
A Happy Husband.


ticed passing our door well dress
ed workingman. One Of those men
who are observed. Prompt of
look, neat but not richly dressed,
as marks the Unborn gentleman.
His face fresh and earnest look
ing. In his hand little tin pail
in which to carry his dinner
When he passed our Office he look /
ed as il he was going somewhere !,
and going right along, for a def
mite purpose, and going Willingly.
So we came to notice him the
more. as several times at nightfall,
when he passed on his return. he
carried carefully rose, little
bouquet or q few sprigs of verbe-
ma and geraniunl. Who could he
be2 Where did he liver How could
a workingman afford to buy bou-
qncts9 The strange sight Of la
borer carrying with his dinner pail
| q bouquet caused hundreds 10 turn
their heads and look the second
| time. a 7o3 H8
Called upon to address grow
ing young temperance organiza-
tion one night, for the first time. we
found the man who had excited
our curiosity. He was the efficient
secretary OF the society, an earn-3
est young worker in more ways
than one. A tinsmith by day and
a help to humanity by day and
night =
After the meeting, and pleasant
chat with the officers, and few
active members of the organiza-
tiOn, the man of whom we write
said he would call some evening
at our private rooms, and see it he
could learn anything after obtain
ing book promised him for read
ing and reference.
Tonight he came. Nearly an
hour have we been talking over
workingmen and their interests-
the way others abuse them, and the
way they abuse themselves and
each other. Like the rest Of us,
he too hail . history. Do you ev-
er think that all Of US have histor
les? We have. Well, he told his
1t ran this wise:
Il never found any great trouble
about getting along. I could al
ways find place to work, and
when man has that he can snap
his fingers in the face OF a king,
The great, great trouble is that
men do not always know whan
they are we'll off. They see some
| body doing little better than they
t are doing, and then throw away q
certainty for an uncertainty, and
that makes trouble.
Some men are never satisfied.
! They choose trade when a boy,
3 then instead Of working at it to
. make themselves better workmen,
they are always trying to get out
!. of it-into some new business, in
] to some speculation, or into poll :
tics. and then they are gone, for
, they don't know how to take care
; Of themselves.
eleven years ego l finished
> my trade, o, my time as an ap-
3 prentice. ! had tried to learn il
G oil, and thought l had, but every
o day l learn little more and dc
my work little better. When a
man gets so he don't know my
more and can't do any better, ]
think he is about dead.
"One day I was married. Ny
Q wife is the very best woman evel
!, saw. She believes in me, AMI
L believe in her. Our faith in eact
!. other is perfect, and each Of nj
are bound to keep it so. We hav.
q been married ten years and low,
g each other as we'll or better to day
II than when we first began life to-
gether. Sometimes I am sick ant
. tired and go home little cross
for the annoyances of shop an.
le men WHO do not slways do thei
work well cannot be thrown off q
you would an old jacket. The,
'e, my wife says it is all right. ant
ey that with my good example in th,
m shop all the men will soon be per
feet. That encourages me, and
- think I have no right to fill he
head with block tin, timers tools
and careless workmen's mistakes
+ 50 I look at her and think hov
or good she always is to me when
ne am q OK, and how she takes car
>. of the babies, and the little thing
:. about the house, and feel ashame,
. to think l ever thought Of worry
rs ing her with the little troubles q
n- the day which passed ct the time
10 II earn moro than it costs us t
n. live, for we always live within ou
:, means. That's the best way.
= don't cost half as much to live q
10 people think. for it is not what "
u want SO much as what we dom
" want, that eats np the money.
know it is easier for US to keel
out OF debt than to get in and pa,
10 out.
le I'VE have enough to eat and t
,e live on We don't squsnder mon
J. ey foolishly. That is what hurt
folks the most. We have ell ",
. want, too. I never lose . day
y time getting drunk, then anothe
"a day getting over it. You &c,
> when man does that be must ru
ID behind, for his expenses run on n
matter whether he earns anythin
or not.
$50 I can afford to buy . bool
D nr q honnnot tn Aekn hn,v,o =. -