Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-17
Building Houses for Others.

- | declare, I'm almost discouraged :,
grOaned Philikins to his friend Smith.
ats nothing but dig, dig, from morn
ing till night, week in and week out, and
nothing gained by it"
you don't mean to say. with your
wages, that Won don't lay by any
thing?"
Yes | do. | think myself lucky
when the year is up if am clear of
debt"
"Why, you have been working on
good wages for more than fifteen years.
You ought to have snug little home
stead by this time"
But | haven't; and what is more, |
never expect to have. hear that Jones
has bought the Widow Carleton place.
Yes, and he got it at bargain, too.
With what Improvements he can make
at odd hours, it will be worth double
what he paid
''For my part l don't know how he
did it-he earns no more than !, and he
has larger family"
"Ah, my friend, it isn't by what he
earns, but by what he saves
'Well, / wouldn't be SO mean and
close listed as he is to own dozen houses.
Only last week | asked him to join our
excursion-whichw would only cost him
one dollar-and he said he couldn't af-
ford it. For man that can buy a fifteen
hundred dollar house that is putting it
rather strong, | should say.
"That's just the way he does it.
"What! by saving the expense of
the excursion 2"
"By saving that one dollar-and a
COON many more, that, with you, go the
same way.
"a man must have some pleasure"
eyes, but was it such? By your own
account, you were tired to death-more
so than if you were working. You not
only lost that day, but was not fit for
much the day following. As for Jones
being mean and close, | can't agree with
you. His wife and children are always
well dressed and cared for and | have
noticed that his house is well supplied
with books and papers. And when Law
renee was burned out, anda subscription
was started for his benefit, he put down
FIVE dollars. But where are you going
to now 2"
"Only in Blatherem's moment, just
to get glass of ale. You walk along:
III OYerbak6 you.
In a few minutes Philikins rejoined
Smith, and they walked along together.
The latter noticed the ends of two CT
CARS that Philikins had thrust into his
vest pocket.
Soon they came in front of "a fine
looking building, evidently just COM
pleted
Philikins surveyed it with an envious
look.
"Tnat's Blatherem's now house :" he
said, biting off the end of one of his
cigars.
eyes, and you have helped to build it, z
said Smith.
Philikins stared at his friend for a
moment. without speaking.
ct? Why, how do you make that
out?"
You patronize him. don't your"
s'Oh, my patronage don't amount to
much"
"Don't it? How many glasses of ale
do you buy of him in day? ?"
mot more than three on the average.
''Well call it three, then, at ten cents
a glass. 1t amounts to thirty cents. l
believe you get your cigars there? How
hitSLN " LAY
Not more than coupel, and ten cent
ones at that
THAT makes fifty cents. Fifty cents
day amounts to three dollars week,
and three dollars week to one hundred
and fifty-six dollars year.
s'Well. [ declare. / didn't suppose it
would amount to half that 2" said Phil
kins. little soberly
. You forget that it is the dimes that
makes the dollars. By your own show
ing, what you have spent for the last
ten years, for ale and cigars, if put out
at interest. would not only enabled you
to buy the Carleton place, but left you
quit surplus besides. Now, do you
suppose what you have drank and
smoked has done you any good ?"
Il don't think it has done me any
harm.
- Now, don't you feel that spending
an amount of money like, on what you