Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-18
One Place Where the Leak Is.

During the latter part of 1871, as I
sat by the evening fire, moodily pom
dering over the hard times, my wife
said:
Club, I wish you would buy Dolly
and a new dress for a Christmas pres
ent."
I felt as though this little request
which my wife wished to construe as an
act of iberality and kindness, was
nothing more than duty on nay part,
and, under this feeling, I could not
money made it almost impossible to
comply with this very reasonable and
modest demand upon my purse. My
salary was good, and, in years agone,
had furnished my little family with all
the necessaries and many of the luxu-
ries of life. I was, in the general ac-
ceptation of the term, a temperate man;
my morning call, MONDAY lunch, and
evening social took only pittance of
fifteen cents each, while my fragrant
Havana drew upon my purse for only
ten cents after breakfast, dinner and
supper. These were small outlays, and
seemed necessary to my health, COM
fort, and social standing they were
mere trifes, and could not possibly
amount to much, one way or the other.
It is true I was out of debt, but, what
was worse, out of money, and the mod
est request of my wife seemed to har-
rass me to degree unimaginable to one
not in exactly the same fix. The old
adage. "the mickles make the muc-
kles," came to my mind very forcibly,
and, under the peculiar circumstances
to act upon it for the next twelve
months. I could remember very well
that it was considered, in my younger
days, rather disgraceful for boys to be
caught smoking or chewing tobacco, or
drinking whisky; consequently, these
little habits must contribute their mites
to the money-box, which I procured for
the purpose of catching the stray
nickles spent for unnecessary articles.
In few weeks imagined T felt bet
ter without the toddy and cigar, and
thought of them only as discarded vices,
: as each day I deposited the little
! amounts in my savings bank.
i just twelve months after the time ]
: resolved to do away with the unnecessa-
> ry expenses, I opened my money-box,
and, to my surprise, found just ts0o
hundred and seve'aty-tlaree dollars and
, seve,aty.fUe cents ! It may be well to
e state that the new dresses, with many
| lhAuI1CS 4OA G1O duu
for my little home, were now procured
4 without any difficulty whatever. Ole
i Santa Claus was also more lavish witt
3 his toys and good things when little
) Dolly hung up her little stocking OF
l. Christmas Eve. I felt happy-rot moo
l. dy-under the good influences that wer'
+ brought about by the price of bad hab
!, its and, what is better, I have foun'
r out the cause of hard times and "wher
l. the leak ."-Southern Temperance
Organ.
is New Mexico.
r. The bill introduced in the House G
r Representatives, March 26, providin
ID for the admission of New Mexico int
ee the Union as State, has brought OF
sp sn some interesting facts concerning tha
OF Territory which are not general
eT known. New Mexico was acquired fro1
Mt Mt Mexico in 1848. By the act of Sept.
es 1850, it was constituted Territory
I'd I'd with an area of 215, ,807 square miles
Is. In August, 1854, the territory acquire
aSdi ad from Mexico by the Gadsden treaty wa
81 annexed, making the total area 261 "a
or miles. In 1861, $4,000 square mile
ii we're set off to Colorado, and, in 1865
Ii. 126, 141 square miles were cut off an
Of Of organized into the Territory of Arizon.
ng leaving 121 POI square miles as th
Al present area of the Territory. The Gel
e. e. sus of 1870 gives New Mexico the SCI
He ond position among our Territories
81 en- with population of 91,7S4.