The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-08-28

and haufiy u-eebacd fgr thousands az
years, and Is is us sweet aud fresh to-day
a. it was Go that morning hoar when TIE
san frat ,bono upon tde love scene Of
Ejeu Aud those lessons Of life which
lead TO lbe lmc living, though they may
have been preached and eEpauuded over
and over agaju. can never bc preached
too mBeb, They canuot be worn out.
The need Of their guidance win cease
only when thls BE shalt have been swai-
lowed Up iu the Iife eternal. So, though
tbi. same lesson has been 80 often iilus-
tratcd and enforced, deem It no un-
seemly repetition to tell The simple story
which shall illustrate Il again. / know
Albert Moore wcIl and | knew Alice IN
other years, also, and the lesson Of their
life which now write down, eliminated
under my own observation,
Albert Moore, al the age Of twenty
Eve, took Alice Warren for bis wife, and
fancied that he was going TO be as happy
as IL Is given 70 ordinary mortals TO be.
Albert had been in the army-had gone
in at The age of twcuty-fought through
from Balls Bluff 10 Richmond come
out with captains commission and had
found his way, Immediately on bis dis
charge, to his early love, and demanded
the helping hand in the commencement
Of the peaceful life Alice did not refuse.
She had held him in her heart through the
dark years, and now in the glow OF the
glad light, she joined hands with him
happily and hopefully.
Albert had come from the army with
but little money; but be had a good
trade, stout heart and strong pair OF
hands, aud he borrowed no trouble for
the future. Alice bad saved UP a few
hundred dollars from her wages as a
teacher, and when the twain had become
man and wife, they found, upon care
ful Inventory, that they had enough TO
furnish a small house comfortably Al
bert proposed that they hire a tenement
in the city, but Alice thought they bad
better secure a pretty cottage In the su-
burbs-a cottage which they perhaps in
time might make their own. Albert had
no disposition 10 argue the question, so
the cottage was found and secured. 1t
was a pleasant, rural location, and so
connected with the city by rail that Al
bert found no difficulty in going to and
from bis workshop.
During five years experience IN school
teaching, Alice had learned many things,
aud having been an orphan from an early
age, she bad made the problems Of real
life one of her chief studies, and what she
had learned in the latter department
served her In her new station, After her
marriage she found Albert to be just the
man she had known him to be in other
years. He was kind to fault, free
hearted and generous; ready always to
answer the call Of friendship and to pluck
the flowers that blossomed to-day, re-
gardess Of what might be matured to
bloom on the morrow.
They had been married few months
when Alice found that her husband was
cutting his garments from day TO day ex-
actIy according TO his daily supply Of
cloth. Not a shred was he likely to save
up for the cutting Of an extra garment
for a rainy day to come, .....
Albert, she said to him one evening, do
you know we ought to be laying up
little something?
Albert looked up from his paper and
waited for his wife to elucidate.
think heard YOU tell Mr.. Greenough
that you had no money--that you had
paid away your last dollar this afternoon,
| Exactly, my dear; but you know to-
morrow Is pay day.
Aud you have spent your last months
eaningsl
Yes.
/ A brief silence en.ucd, which Albert
broke; w.. ass. .......r
Come, Alice, you have got something
on your mind Out with it, will listen,
Aud then Alice, IN smiling, pleasant
way, went on to tell that they ought to
be laying mp something.
Albert smiled in inrn and asked how
such thing was 70 be done when 1t cost
al he conld earn 70 live.
! You earn three dollars nnd half a
day, said Alice.
Yes.
/ George Somers only three dollars2
You are right.
And vet he lives and does not run IN
debt.
Bat be is forced to deny himself many
/ litHe comforts we esjoy.
I Aud the one great comfort which Wa
might enjoy we are throwing away.
How Is that, Alice5
The comfort Of little sum Ia the bauk
which wc could see growing towards The
answering Of tulure wants.
+ Albert could not for the life of him see
how it was 10 be done, and Alice feared
thai lesson Of empty words migit bf
wasted. She knew her husband wen
She knew ii.at hi, ambition needed sub
aaulial prop Never, of his own accord
wonii be commence t5 save br little
he did not estimate money Ia that way
Had some hind fairy dropped iBto d.
baud age.twculY bond iol five haudre.
dollars be a0ald have put it away alsd
ly, anl with snch aesl-egg in tbs Star
be might Aaye sought 10 sdi 90 ,he store
Bul se could sce no Aope ln dollar bid
aaa mach Ices could be discover lbl
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