Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24


Z" If you keep on in that way, trouble,
worry, humiliation and final disaster are
sure TO come. You must stop, turn
around and go the other way. Every step
you take in this new way will lead YOU
toward pecuniaTy case and comfort of
mind. 1t will be better with you in three
months from to-day, If you have cut down
your ordinary expenditures--which may
be done-$250, than if you had not cut
them down at all. You will not only
have lightened the burdens of debt Just
so much, but have laid the foundation
of a new order of things that will lead
you to pleasant and prosperous fu-
ture." e n'- F sf
Mr.. Ellis sat in silent thought for
long time. Then, looking up, he said,
with deep sigh: ''I shall not have dol
lar of ready money to begin with. Every
thing | can raise will have to. be exhaust
ed on these bills, or / shall be tormented
out of my life. ! must pay a little here
and little there; put this one off with a
promise, and that one with frowning
denial. Oh, dear, what miserable life
it is! And l must still keep the grocer's
pass-book going, or starve."
Cash down! II must be cash down !"
exclaimed the neighbor. There is no
| other hope for youl'
+" But where is the cash TO come from ?'
Reserve enough from the payment
of bills to keep your table and pay your
servants wages Take your wife fully
into your confidence. Lay your affairs
all open before her. Put the money
needed for expenses into her hands, and
ask her to make it go as far as possible.
| Spend nothing yourself. In fact, don't
carry money about you. 1t is tempta.
ton"
Mr.. Ellis drew long, deep breath
"If had clear one hundred dollars
10 start WITH" he said.
The neighbor understood him, and
would have cheerfully placed that sum
at his disposal; but he did not think it
well. 1t would be best for Mr.. Ellis, in
the end, if he worked out his own pecun.
iary salvation.
To meet the difficulties and overcome
them" he replied, "gives us discipline
and strength. II isn't the hundred dol
lars you want, but the courage and reso-
luton to turn about squarely and go in
new direction. It will be easier to walk
therein than in the old way-a hundred
| times easier"
And so our friend found it. Let us see
how it is with him twelve months after
ward.
" Happy New Yearl" A bright face
looked into the chamber, as it had looked
a year ago. a sweet voice rang through it
in tones of music
Happy New Year, darlingl" answered
Mr.. Ellis, in CHEEKY voice, not now
stopping in sort of mechanical way to
kiss the child, but catching her up in his
arms and hugging her tightly.
Happy New Year, met him on the
stairs and at the breakfast-table; and he
flung the greeting back with a heartiness
of enjoyment and lightness of spirit
never felt before
The door-bell rang as he sat at the
table. But the sound Jared no nerve,
awakened no troubled feeling, brought no
image of an unpaid bill. True, there
were unpaid bills, but none of recent
date; none but that had been adjusted to
mutual satisfaction. Their aggregate, in
stead of being 81 500, was scarcely 5000,
and this sum he expected to wipe off in
less than six months.
=" Happy New Yearr'
How swiftly time flies. Twelve months
had come and gone again.
a." 1t is a happy New Year! the happiest
| have ever knownw responded Mr.. Ellis
to the New Years greeting of his little
wife, and he kissed her in wild, trolic.
some way. 81 feei like a twelve year-old
boy. Happy New Year, darlings l' catch.
ing up his little ones and dancing about
the room with them in his arms. Happy
New Year to everybodyr'
Z" Not bill on his tablet Not dollar
owed to any one Mr.. Ellis was indeed Il
happy man.-ATthur's Magazine.