Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-14

disliked 10 borrow for one dollar and ten
cents each. and accidentally the globe had
been Knocked off from Susans solar lamp
and broken, and in the nlomentary confusion
which followed muslin curtain had been
brushed into tho flames and hopelessly ruin
ed. Four dollars certainly would not repair
tho loss occasioned by the accident, So
nearly half Of their thirty dollars was gone
and Harry and Susan reluctantly admitted
that the pleasure Ito use hackneyed and
not very elegant expression) had " cost more
than 1t came to-" But they had done their
duty by their friends, and they might as we'll
60 on and enjoy the round of pleasures
through the winter.
Spring came and Harry Roberts and his
wife went TO work with new ardor. The
interest was paid, and with many regret
that the first payment could not be met also,
they determined to be very economical in
future. When the next New Years day
came the column of" income from produce"
footed three hundred fifty dollars, but the
notes for the horse and wagon were to be
paid out of this amount, leaving only one
hundred and one dollars with which TO pay
original debt, and twelve dollars interest on
the last years payment which was unpaid,
and, consequently. now drawing interest.
Well, they must make the best of 1t. Next
year there would be no notes to pay for
horses or wagons, and they would make up
the interest which was now running behind
and also make a payment.
But with the summer came little blue
eyed stranger, new claimant on the affec-
tons of the newly made parents, but, also,
rs they soon found source of increased ex-
pense. Susan's pride, OF course. led her to
prepare wardrobe for the infant quite be-
| yond their means, but this was not the worst.
| Her health was poor all summer, and she
was obliged to hire n girl. The girls wages
for five months at two dollars per week was
no inconsiderable item, but If girl could
have been found who could really have
earned two dollars and half or even three
dollars week it would have been much
cheaper help, for Ann knew but little of but
ter making, and though Susan tried her best
to have the dairy work properly done, the
butter sold at from three to five cents per
pound less than formerly. Neither could it
be denied that for lack of proper attention
the weekly product of butter was several
! pounds less than It might have been, If un-
der the more direct management of the
skillful little woman who, for the past two
years, had been the only presiding power
in the dairy room. The poultry. too, had
little or no care, and in consequence amount
ed to nearly nothing"
| IL will be seen, without resorting to figures,
that again payment became due for which
there was found no money in the purse, nei-
Their was there sufficient to liquldate the in
terest. The holder of the notes began to
threaten foreclosure, and Harry and Susan
struggled on another year, making frantic
efforts at retrenchment when it was too late,
but working without courage and feeling as
though every days work was thrown away.
And so it proved. The next spring found
them no better off, and the mortgage was
foreelosed.
Thus after four years of hard work Harry
Roberts found himself minus the original
five hundred dollars invested In his farm
together with nearly five hundred more paid
rs interest, for which he had received mere
ly a support for himself and family. Ills
credit impaired, his courage gone, he sold
his stock and farming implements, and with
the proceeds purchased house and garden,
and tried to reconcile himself to the pros
pect of working out when he could oh
tain work Susan is a skIllful dressmaker
and without doubt will be able to assist con
sderably in providing for the necessities o
the family, while Harry endeavers to lay b.
the greater part of his wages.
Their ambition is to save enough in q few
years, with the money already invested in
their cottage home, to enable them to pur
chase another farm, and if they succeed they
will, as it were, commence life anew
Though their progress with an increasing
family will necessarily be much slower thar
at the time of their first setting out, let u
hope that, profiting by the stern lessons o
experience, they will step cautiously anC
prudently, and finally be rewarded in tn,
possession of q comfortable home.
IN
The most successful temperance organi
zation in California is that Of the Dashaways
: 1t is entirely independent, having no con
, nection with any Of the large orders. l
was founded at an early date in the histor,
of San Francisco by knot Of volunteer
, fremen. Becoming disguised with themselve
| after prolonged spree, they made a sudder
resolve to "dash away" the cup from theil