Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-10-18
Laying up Something for Old AE?
A LESSON FOR THE YOUNG.

Albert Moore, at the age twenty
five, took Alice Warren for his
wife, and fancied he was going to
be as happy as it is given to ordi-
nary mOrtals to be. Albert had
been in the army, had come out
with a captains commission, and
had found his way, Immediately on
his discharge, to his early love, and
demanded the helping hand in the
commencement of the peaceful life.
Alice did not refuse him. 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 he had a
good trade, a stout heart, and a
strong pair of hands; and had bor-
rOwed no trouble for the future.
Alice had saved up a few hundred
dollars from wages as teacher, and
when the twain had become man
and wife, they found upon a care
full inventory that they had enough
to furnish a small house comforta-
bly,. Albert proposed that thoy
should hire a tenement in the city,
but Alice thought they had better
secure a pretty cottage in the su-
burbs, a cottage which they might,
perhaps, in time make their own.
Albert had no disposition to ar
que the question; 30 the cottage
was found and secured. 1t vas a
pleasant, rural location, and so con-
nected with the city by rail that
Albert found no difficulty in going
10 and from his workshop.
During her five years expert
encc in school teaching Alice had
learned many things, and having
been an orphan from an carly age
she had made the problems of rca
life one of her chief studies; and
what she had learned in the latter
department served her well in hel
new station. After marriage she
found Albert to be just the man she
had known him TO be in other years
He was kind TO a fault, free-heart
ed and generous, ready always t
answer the call of friendship, anC
prone TO pluck the flowers tha
bloom to-day, regardless of wha
might be hurtured 10 blossom to
morrow.
They had been married but fey
months when Alice found he wa
cutting his garments according t,
his daily supply of cloth. Not
shred was he likely to save up TO
a rainy day to come.
albert, she said to him one even
ing, do you know we ought to b
laying up II little something
Albert looked up from his pape
and waited for his wife to eluci
date.
i think l heard you tell Nj
! Greenough that you had no money
that you paid out your last dOlla
this afternoon
Exactly, my dear, but you knov
tomorrow is pay day
'And you have spent your las
months earnings"
Yes
A brief silence ensued, which \
bert broke.
Come, Alice, you have got SOM
thing on your mind. Out with it
I'll listen
And then Alice, in smilin
pleasing way, went on to tell h,
husband that they ought to be la
ing up something!
Albert smiled in turn, and askC
h how such a thing could be don
1, when it cost all he earned to live.
; You earn three dollars and ha
a day. said Alice.
Yes
George Somers has only thr
dollars q day
you are right
'And yet he lives, and does n
run in debt
But he is forced to deny hims,
many little comforts which we c
joy.
'And the one great comfort viii
we might enjoy we are thrown
- away.
Z How is that, Alice?
The comforts of 4 little sum
$, the bank, which we would see gro
l. ing towards the answering of
r ture wants
s Albert could not for the life
ID him see how it was to be done; a
m Alice feared that a lesson Of cmT
Il words might be wasted. She kn
m shat his ambition needed a subst;