Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-09-19
A LIFE LESSON.

Do not tell me it is the same old story
and therefore C no account. There is nc
lesson of real life that is not as old as life
itself. The blessing which came Of the
first throb of loving heart has been daily
and hourly re-echoed for thousands o.
years, ano.it is as sweet and fresh to-day
as it was in that morning hour when the
sun first shUnc upon the love scepe o
Eden. And those lessons of life which
lead to the true living, though they may
have been preached and expoundcd over
and over again, can never be preached toe
much. They cannot be worn out. The
need of their guidance will cease only
when this life shall have been swallowed
UP in the life eternal So, though this
same lesson has been often illustrated and
enforced deem it no unseemly repetition
to tell the mple story which shall illus
trate AGAIN. knaw Albert Moore well,
i have known him from his boyhood, -
ard knew Alice in The other years, also
and the lesson Of their life which | nov
write down eliminated under my own
observation.
Albert Moore, at the age oftwenty- five
took Alice Warren for his wife and fancied
that h. was going 10 be as happy as it is
gwen to ordinary mortals to be. Albert
has been in the army-had gone in at the
AGE Of twcntv-fousht through from Balls
Bluff to RIchmond-had come out with q
captains mSSiOn.-apd had found his
way, i'm lAediately upon bis discharge, tC
his early love and demanded the helping
band N the commencement of the peaceful
life. Alice old not refuse him. She had
held hm in her heart through the dark
wears and now, in the glow of the glad
light, she j)ined hands with hrm happily
AMI hopefully.
Albert had come from the armv with
but little money but he nad good
trade stout heart, and strong pair OF
hands and he borrowed no trouble toT
hundred dollars from her wages as q
teaCn"r and when the twain bad become
man and wife they found. upon careful
inventory. that they had enough to furnish
a small house comfortably. ALBEIT pro
posed that thev should hire tenement
in the cat, but Alice thought they had
better secure a pretty cottage IN the
suburbs "A cottage which they might
perhaps, in time make their own. Albert
ha@ TO disposition t" argue the question
so the Cotragc was iound and secured. II
was a pleasant, rural location, and 50 con.
nected with ;he city by rali, that Albert
found no difficulty in going TO and fom hi
work shop.
During her five years experience il
schOo. teaching Alice had learned many
things, and having beer an orphan from al
earIy ace she mad made the problems o.
real hfe enc of her chief studies and what
she had learned in this latter department
served her vel in her n,w station. Alter
h,r marriage she found Albert t. be Just
the man she bad known hm to be in the
other Years He was kind to a tault
Iec-heartcd and generous ready AWAY
70 answer tic call of friendship; and
prone to pluck the fl DwcrS that bl omed tc.
dav, regardless OF what might be nmrueC
to boom on the morrow.
They had teen married but few
months when All"c f0unu that her huSbanr
was cutting uIS garments from day to day
exactly acc riding to his daily supply o
cicth. Not a shred was be likely to save
up Tor the cutt,r OF an extra garment fol
ala,nv dav 10 come.
&" Albert she SAID to him, one evening
Dc you know We ought tn be laying VI
httie something 2"
Albert looked up from his paper, anc
waited for | IS wife to euclcate.
- think heard tell Mr.. Green
ough that You had n" nel,-tbat vol
bad paid away your last dollar this very
afternoon P'
Exactly, nv dear but you know
tomorrow is pay-day.'
And YOU have spent your last month
earnings r.
" :"
A brief silence ensued, which Al6er
broke:
Come, Ahc3,--yon've got something
on your mind. Out with It. l will listen.
And th,n Alice, m a smiling; pleasan
way. went on 10 tell her husband tha
they ought 10 be laying up something.
Albert snlled IN tuIn. and asked hoV
kucD thing was to he dune when 1t Cos
all lie could earn TO live.