The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-02-25
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s ss;S JS Charity It's Just impossible
hain't the means" -, 10
Said She: "Israel, we halnt the
means 10 paw the rent that the peo-
nle charge, that's quite clear"
She began washing up the break
fast things, and of ] went to duty
In the evening Charity said to NC
A. We sat down to supper, lsr"'''
have bought q lot ~,
1 sprung up from my char SAVING
You've bought what:
"A lot" saws she.
"A lot says /.
"A lot" saws she.
well" said /, and sat down
again. and she went for the tea ana
biscuit. When came TO, / SAID TO
nv wife: Just explain yourself,
Charity"
II bought a lot, said she. DIR.
Dodd saws the fifty dollars down are
satisfactory, and the mortgage may
run at six per cent. Twenty ieet
front. one hundred feet dcep-two
thousand feet-at ten cents q foot,
two hundred dollars. Fifty paid, and
one hundred and fifty due"
But Charity. dear, how about the
new house
IAN right, Israel. I've made a
contract with Chips & Cuttings
house she'd and fence, fifteen hundred
and fifty.
Charity"
Israel, don't talk, please. You
men"
Charity, are you"
"Derangad, eh? No, not bit
"One hundred dollars cash wher
possession is given"
But, Charity"
Stop a minute. You know, Is
rael, we can never get our large bu
reau, nor our high post bedstead. no
our large secretary, nor our wardrob
into that little four room house
That's clear, amt it?"
well ?"
"Well, then, we'll sell them all
and the proceeds will meet these tw,
cash payments"
Exactly so; with little indiiier
ence maybe"
DO YOU see =
But how can we do without thcs
articles -
LAS easy as YOU viii do withou
cigars; as easy as you will be you
own barber and bootblack; as cas-,
as well both take our breakfast with
out half-dollar butter; as easily a
I'll make all my winter clothes carr,
me through next winter; as cas-,
as III carry YOU through nice az,
yenteellooking on the same princi
pie; as easy as"
Charity"
"As easily as III do without
'nooner, and night cap, and m,
cigars and theater tickets, and
Exactly, old glow werm.r
"Well-well. Supposs We shoul,
do without these things, and / shoult
be dead before tits paid; where woult
our home-my Chsrity's home-b
then Z"
"Oh, you can get your life insure
and make that all safe"
Darling, here's with you!'
| never squared debts of so soon
Two hundred, and fifteen hundred
make seventeen hundred, and on
hundred and fifty cash of, paid b,
proceeds Of this surplus furnitur
leaves lifteen hundred and fifty. FIJI
ty dollars month pays that off in
no, not in thirty-one months, becaus
the interest and insurance payment
put it off somewhat and the take
and a couple of commissions keep
running longer, say for three wears
and then we have home of our own
every foot of il worth fifty cents
making clear gain Of eight hundred
dollars and we are
Stop husband; letme tell it. W,
have home-a delightful home
and j have a husband who neve
knew that his soul debasing indul
gences had brought hin down so ia
that none bat his own wife deniet
his fallen state, or hoped to lift hin
up again. We have three children
ofwhom we are proud, and"
Charity !"
What, lovey"
II have Just been thinking tba
if?n
Nothing more is needed Israel
Let me say it out, dear. fyo,
were only single, how I'd like t
court you over again"
Not for long, for | would drol
plump into your arms at the first tim
for asking" And Charity suited ac
lion to the word
Its all, no doubt, very natura
for young men to love the girls" sai'
Israel, but no girl was half SO love
able as this young wife, who has Civ
en- more than half the years Of be
life to make me happy; and leadin,
me out Of the way Of folly and sin
and our darling babies are all liz,
her.
And Charity broke in with al
Amen so emphatic that little Al,
sbo ted from his chair
This meetin are dismissed +"