The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1875-09-29

Sne regularly uepos1teu "HaeeSe
money she had not occasion to us'
in one of the institutions-she founs
| that she had one hundred and fit.
dollars, besides reimbursing hersel
for the money during the frs
month, and having enough to las
another.
We'll, Elizabeth, have you KEEP
within your allowance?' asked h.
husband at this time. Gguess yor
have not found it so easy to save al
you thought it would be-
Z have saved something, howev
er,' said his wife. But how is il
with you?'
That's more than I can say
However, I have not exceeded my
income, that is one good thing
We have lived fnll as well, and
don't know but better than we die
last year, when we spent five hun
dred.'
| It's knack, Ezra said his wife
smiling. She was not inclined te
mention how much she had saved
She wanted some time, or rather tc
surprise him with it when it would
be of some service.
she may possibly have saved uE
S25 or so,' thought MIR Newton, %,
some such trife, and so dismissed
the matter from his mind.
! At the end of the second year.
Mrs. Newton's savings, including
the interest, amounted to three
hundred and fifty dollars, and she
began to feel quite rich.
| Her husband did not think to in,
quire how she had succeeded, sup
posing as before, that it could be
but a very small sum.
However, he had a piece OF good
news to communicate. His salary
had been raised from a thousand to
twelve hundred dollars.
Here he added: AS I before a.
lowed you one half my income for
household expenses, it is no more
| fair than 7 should do so now. That
will give better chance to save
part of it than before. Indeed, I
don't know how you have succeeded
in saving anything thus far
As before, Mrs. Newton merely
said that she saved something, with
out specifying the amount.
Her allowance was increased to
six hundred dollars but her ex-
penses we're not proporGonally in
creased at all; so that her savings
for the third year swelled the aggre-
cate sum in the savings bank to six
! hundred dollars.
MIR. Newton, on the contrary, in
spite of his increased salary, was
| no better off at the end of the third
| year than before. His expenses had
increased by a hundred dollars,
though he would have found it diff
fcult to tell in what way his COM
fort or happiness had been increased
thereby.
In spite of his carelessness In re-
gard to his own affairs, MIR. New
ton wasa excellent man in regard to
his business, and his services were
valuable to his employer. They &C.
cordingly increased his salary from
time to time, till he reached sixteen
hundred dollars. He had steadily
preserved the custom Of assigning
| one-haf to his wife for the same
purpose as heretofore, and this had
become such a habit that he never
thought to inquire whether she
found it necessary to employ all of
| it or not.
|. Thus ten years rolled away.
During all this time Mr.. Newton
lived in the same hired house for
which he paid an annual rent of
one hundred and fifty dollars.
Latterly, however, he had become
dissatisfied with it. It had pass
ed into the possession of another
landlord, who was not disposed to
keep it in repair which he consider
ed desirable.
About this time a block of excel
lent houses were erected by a capi-
talist who designed to sell them or
let them as he might have an op-
portunity. Theywere more modern
and much better arranged than the
one in which Mr.. Newton now lived,
and he felt 8 strong desire to move
into one of them. He mentioned
it to his wife one morning.
what is the rent, Ezra?' inquir-
ed his wife.
Two hundred dollars for the
corner house; one hundred and
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