The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-05-08

trIved TO Tx over the brown cashmere,
SO that it looked every bit as good as
new.
And so Alice worked. Sometimes she
asked her husband for ten cents, some
times for fifty cents, sometimes for a
dollar, and sometimes for more; and at
the end of year upon ca ~eful reckoning
up, she found she had managed to get
hold of rather more than fifty cents
day; out she had done it by denying
herself of many things, some of which
we're really needful.
The result of the first years effort in
spired Alice with new life and vigor.
She had saved up one hundred and fifty
dollars, and had invested it in Govern
ment funds. Through the influence of a
dear friend who was in banking estab-
lishment, andsto whom she had confded
her secret, she was enabled to get the
bonds at their face value.
1t was only little at a time-some-
times a very Ettle-but even a penny
dropped into the strong box was so much
gained. Only Iittle-but those Titles
multiplied by other Titles grew amazing
ly. The husbandman who would SIT
himse,f down by bill of corn, and wai5
to see he tender blade put forth, would
be dlsheartened but he knows if he
plants the tiny seed, and cultivates it as
be ought, that the harvest of golden
grain viii come at length.
Albert and Alice were married in the
spring of 1865. 1t was on an evening of
August, 1870, that Albert came home
oct Of sorts. He had been notified that
he must leave the cottage. They must
give up the pleasant home, and loose the
little garden they had cultivated with SO
much fondness and care.
THE owner wishes to SELL" he ex-
planned, "and he has an offer. He asks
two thousand dollars, md must have five
hundred down.
Alice's eyes cleaned with radiant de-
light. She had been thinking for some
time that she must let her husband into
the secret. 1t had begun to wear upon
her. And now the time had come as
though by proyidential interposition.
She did not mako a scene. She would
not add to the denouement by any by
play. She simply got up and went away
to her cabinet, and when she came back
she brought little book in her hand.
" Albert!" said she, "let's you and I
buy the cottage
Albert looked at her in amszement !;
and directly it flashed upon him that
there was too much solemnity in her
look and tone for badinage. Something
that he had noticed during the past few
months came back to him. and he trem-
bled with the weight Of suspense that fell
upon him.
Alice saw and understood. At first
the great flood almost overcame her, and
she was forced to rest and wipe her eyes
before she could proceed. And then she
showed her book-that she had more
than eight hundred dollars in the bank.
Inc ice YVES broken, she told her story in
glowing words. She told how she had
saved up little by little, md how she had
at length found herself able to purchase
a fifty dollar bond And then she told
how her uncle in the banking house had
taken charge OF her investment; and
how. under his management, the inter-
est had accrued in amazing volume.
But the grand resnlt was not the chief
thing. The chief thing was the begin
nlng-was the first little which had been
religiously saved until the second little
could be added to it.
and now, as the result of the wife S
careful and tireless working. Albert
found something upon which his ambi
ton could take a fair start. He never
could himself, from SO small a commence
ment, have reared the pile but with the
structure started and its proportions all
blocked out, he could help on the work.
He could now see how it was done--and
not only that, but the demonstration
was before him that the thing could be
done.
One year had elapsed since Albert
Moore, received the lesson from his wife,
and joining hands with her, and bending
his energies in the same direction, he
has accomplished during the twelve
months what would have seemed to nm
a marvel in the earlier times. He Las
laid by more than fifty cents day and
the cigars, and the beer, and the other
condiments of life which he had snrren-
dereG to the work are not missed
rather, he holds they are so many enc
mics conquered. And Albert can i'm
prove his home with cheerful heart, he
can set out new trees and vines in his
garden with bright promises, because he |
sees, day by day, the pretty cottage
growing more and more his own. The |
end approaches little at time-little
D. little it approaches. surely. neverthe-
less; and there is great, and satisfying
oy even in the labor and in the antici-
patton.