Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-10
A LIFE LESSON.

Albert MOOrt, III Iuo aSO oA ~, eooN
Alice Warren for his wife. and fancied
he was going to be as happy as it is
given to ordinary mortals to be. AL
bert had been in the army, had come
out with a captains commission-and
had found his way, Immediately upon
his discharge, to his early love, and de-
manded the helping hand in the com.
mencement 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 good
trade, a stout heart, and strong pair
of hands, and had borrowed no trouble
fer the future. Alice had saved up
few hundred dollars from her wages as
teacher, and when the twain had become
man and wife they found upon a careful
inventory that theyhad enough to furn.
ish small house comfortably. Albert
proposed that they should hire tene-
ment in the city; but Alice thought
they had better secure a pretty cottage
in the subrubs, cottage which they
might, perhaps, in time, make their
own.
Albert had no disposition to argue the
question 80 the cottage was found and
secured. 1t was pleasant, rural loca.
ton, and 80 connected with the city by
rail, that Albert found no difficulty In
going to and from his workshop.
During her five years experience in
,chool.teaching Alice had learned many
things, and having been an orphan from
an early age she had made the problems
of real life one of her chief studies
and what she had learned in the latter
department served her well in her new
station. After marriage she found AL
bert to be just the man she had known
him to be in other years. He was kind
to fault; free-hearted and generou9,
ready always to answer the call of friend
ship, and prone to pluck the flowers
that bloom to-day, regardless of what
might be nurtured to bloom tomorrow
They had been married but fen
months when Alice found he was cut
ting his garments according to his daily
supply of cloth. Not q shred was ht
likely to save up for rainy day tt
come. Albert" she said to him one
evening, edo you know we ought to bt
laying mp little something?"
Albert looked up from his paper ant
waited for his wife to elucidate.
81 think I heard you tell Mr.. Green
ough that you had no money-that yol
had paid out your last dollar this after
noon ?"
Exactly, my dear but you know
tomorrow is pay day."
"And you have spentyourlast stmonth'
earnings?"
eyes"
A brief silence ensued, which Alber
broke.
"Come, Alice, you've got eomethinl
on your mind. Out with it'll listen.
And then Alice, in smiling, pleas
ing way, went on to tell her husbant
that they ought to be laying up some
thing.
Albert smiled in turn, and asked HOY
such thing could be done when it cos
all he earned to live.
"You earn three dollars and half
day." said Alice.
"Yes."
George somers has only three dol
lars day
"You are right"
"And yet he lives, and does not ru1
in delt."
"But he is forced to deny himsel
many'little comforts which we enjoy"
"And the one great comfort whic
we might enjoy we are throwing away.
Glow is that, Alice ?"
"The comfort of q little sum in tn
bank, which we would see growing to
ward the answering of future wants:
Albert could not for the life OF hir
see how it was to be done; and Alic
feared that lesson of empty word
might be wasted. She knew that hi
ambition needed q substantial prop
Never, on his own accord would he com
mence to save by Titles. He did nc
estimate money in that way. Had som
kind fairy dropped into his hand q five
twenty bond for $500, he would hav
put it away gladly and with such
nest-egg in the start. he might haV
sought to add to the store. Bu
he could see no hope in dollar bill
and much less could he discover the nj
cleus of grand saving in ffty-cer
scrip.
With Alice it was different. Frol
her meagre earnings rs school-teachel
she had in less than five years, save
$500; and the first saving she had pr
by was q silver dime. She.knew whit
little by little could do, and she was d.
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