American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-01
VOL. XVI.
may rest assured we shall be very happy

NAV rest assured we shall be very happ.
to accommodate you"
Now this was fiattering to young Mat
thews' feelings, to think that the trade
had such confidence in him, and he wen
away with an exceeding good opinion o
| himself and of his credit and of the store
keeper in particular.
Only a dollarI Yes-Only dollar OF
the traders ledger-that's of no account
But a dollar right out of ones pocket
that was different. Charles would no
have bought them had he been obliged Il
pay the cash at the time.
aAh. Matthews, look here, I have some
thing nice to show you" This was sale
by the trader to the young man the very
next morning after the purchase of tn
pickles. And so Mr.. Waldron led on
hero to the back store and opened
box.
There Matthews, amt those nic'
afhsyusnce,- replied Charles. Ant
so they really we're. va o..
"I knew your wife would, like some o
these. / carried some home to my wifi
and she wanted me to save her three OF
four DOZEN" Fa
"They are nice. How high are they p
Let me see; 1 can send you up three
dozen for q dollar. got these very cheap
You know they are retailing at five cents
apiece" = '
g Yes. Well you may send me w
three dozen Just charge it, if you
"Certainiy Anything else this morn.
ing,"
And so Matthews went on This morn
ing it would be dollar-to- morrow per-
haps fifty cents-and then again perhaps
only twenty-five cents. 1t didn't. seem
much. The young man had justas much
money iF his pocket as though he hadnt
saw e Mmsef. mat isn't much ont of
twelyeldolIhrs week .i,ss AUiikmiGltn pt
be, but the trouble was that the next dollar
wds called one dollar, Ind he would f6r-
'gey 70 add il to the former dollar nd call
ltfjse dAIlars; and With AAg Dat dollar
.spd eall II three dollaEs, and solon.s
One evening Charles, came homo with
q new gold chain attached to his watch.
"WA8fe did you get tlats" asked his
wife,. - Ssaa = -1ss,fsa nj
"Ah," returned the husband, with an
impressive shake of the head, :" made a
bargain on this chain. Now guess how
much paid for it.n
ann sure could not guess"
Oh, but try-guess something"
well, perhaps ten dollars ?"
=" Ten dOllarsi'' echoed Charles, with a
disappointed look. Why, what are you
thinking Off Jack Cummins bought this
chain two months ago, and paid twenty
dollars for 1t. WHY. lust heft it and see
how heavy it is. Eighteen carats fine.
Jack was hard up for money and let me
have it for thirteen dollars"
1T is cheap, to be sure,'' returned Ham
nah, but yet with not such pleasurable
surprise as her husband had expected.
(" But" she added, Z" you did not need it,
+" and fear you viii feel the loss of the
money" tiaii=s5
Pooh; I have money enough. You
know have spent but yery little lately.
I have been pretty saving,
But you forget our things, Charles.
The money which. you have on hand is
not YOURS n - 81
Not mineYn he exclaimed. -
!" No; it helonm TO the storekeeper, and
to the butcher, and to our ianQiofd. You
know thew must be paid x u =
- Hea't yon Sres abaut them. II know It
don't cost nowhere near twelve dollars a
week to live, for have made an estimate.
There Is Wilkins. Who Norkg sbesfde me
at the 5A6uSfie hss, fourchikircu and only
cats the .sama. wages Z do. and vet he Laws
IN two or three Idoflafs each week.
tsfYes,, sai1Hanssb seI know he does.
7 vas IN RI Is Mo VIE the other dav and
she waa TELLING ne how thew eet along.
Mr., Wilkins takes his basket twice week
and gets his meat and vegetables, and
trades for cash, and so gets everything to
the yery hest advantage. So he does at the
atore ne laws in : cood ouant;tv of these
articles which will Keen. and buys butter
.pos annies and such fhinos nv The oman.
TIN when the marked il full and thew are
cheap. and he always buys enough to last
his family over the season of scarcity,
when such things are high. His butter
for instance. he bought for TWENTY-FIVE
cents per hound. a firkin of it-and it is
much sweeter than that for which YOU paid
fortv- eight cents yesterday.''
"Forty -eight eentsr' repeated the Young
man in surprise.
Eyes asked Mr.. Waldron,s man
when he brought it up, and he said it had
risen to forty-eight cents. Mr.. Wilkins
for twenty cents a dozen, and his wife
packed them down, and they keep we'll.
You will have to pay MIR. Waldron forty
five cents for those he sent up yesterday"
Charles Matthews was somewhat aston
ished at this view of the case, but It could
not be helped now, and the subject was
dropped. His gold chain had lost its
charm. It did not look SO well, even in
his own eyes, as the old black cord which
he had worn before. 80 lfuG Q e''t
! AZ Ian 9th the end of the so,arter came
around The first hill was the rent. which
amounted to thirty one dollars. -The next
was the butchers hill or thirty-sfx dollars.
Charles was astonished to see how his
meat bill footed up. But when, he saw
how many steaks he had had at thirty
cents per pound the cause of the wonder
Next he maid the bakers
hill which was thirteen dollars When