Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-09-06
Charity's Home, and How Il
was Paid For.

When / came to New YORK, a lew
wears ago, my wife said to me one
morning; "'Isreal. We must have
home of our own"
Said |: "Charity, its just impossi-
Bile; we haven't the means"
Said she: "Israel, we haven't the
means to pay the rent these people
charge that's clear.
She began washing up the breakfast
things, and off 1 went to duty.
In the evening Charity said to me,
as we sat down to supper: ''Israel, I've
bought lot. "
sprang up from my chair and ex-
claimed:
"You've bought what?"
''A lot ~
ga lot?''
ga lott"
'"Well, said I, and sat down again
and went for the tea and biscuit.
When / came to, 1 said to my wife:
s'Just explain yourself, Charity.
'I've bought a lot, " said she. "Mr.
Dodd says that fifty dollars down Is
satisfactory and the rest may run at
six per cent. Twenty feet front, one
hundred feet deep-twO thousand feet
at ten cents foot, two hundred dol
lars. Fifty paid, one hundred and
fifty due"
"But Charity, how about a house?'
HAli right. Israel. I've made a con
tract with Chipps & Collins; house
shed and fence, fifteen hundred and
fifty"
"Charity, you are
'rDeranged, eh? No, love, not bit
One hundred dollars, cash. when pos
session is given
'sStop a minute. You know, Israel
we can never get our large bureau
nor our high post bedstead, nor oul
large dining table, nor our large sec
retarv, nor our large wardrobe, int
this little four-room house. That
clear isn't it?"
"Well?"
"Well, then, we'll sell them all, AM
She cash proceeds will meet these tW'
cash payments.
''But how can we do without thes
things?"
"As easy as you will do withou
cigars; as easy as you will be your oW
barber and boot-black; as easy as W
will both take our breakfast wlthou
half dollar butter; as easy I'll max
NV winter clothes carry me throug
next winter; as easy as I'll carr
YOU through, nice and genteel, on til
l same principle; as easy
Charity =
! "Well2"
e GAS easy as I'll do without moor
err and might cap, and my cigars
n and threatre tickets, and
Exactly, old glOw-worm y
d ''Well-well. Suppose We shoul
= do without these things, and l shoul
be taken away before it is paid, whel
= would eur Own-my Charity's home
be then?"
"Oh, you can get your life insure,
Y and make that all safe. y
Darling, here's with you -
I never saw debts squraed off {
d soon. Two hundred and fifteen hu
ID dred make seventeen; and one hu
$ dred fifty, cash off, paid by procee'
n of surplus furniture, leaves Iifter
of hundred and fifty. Fifty dollars
W month pays this eff in-no not
- thirty-one months, because the int
E, est and insurance payments put 1t
a, somewhat, and the taxes and
TO couple of omissions 1t running Ion
er, say for three years; and when
had a home of our own, every fC
It's of it worth fifty cents, making Gle
eu gain of eight hundred dollars; q
we we're
NJ ''Stop, husband, let me tell 1t.
have a home-a sweet, beautl
- home and have husband who M
"A er knows that his sOul-debasing
:, Idulgences brought him down so
Is that none but his own wife denied
Ir- fallen state. We have three d
rec children, of whom we are pro'
nd and"
Charity"
wW39 ''What, love?"
hat 81 have Just been thinking-tha
ON il"
Nothing more is needed, Isra'