Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-15

wrong. If had paid for everything as
bought II, should have hit IL. You
were right. | see II all now. have not
estimated the value of money as ought
Let me once get up again TO where be-
gan, and l will do differently. l must
step down to the store this evening, and
pay part of the bill and the rest as
soon rs get it,"
"That matter is easily settled, she re-
piled, for have money by me that
had when / was married."
He protested most earnestly against
taking his wife's money, but she insisted
on giving him the money. 1t was her
will, and he must submit. SO he went
down and paid the grocery bill, and on
his way home he sold his gold chain for
thirteen dollars. lie felt happier now,
and was ready to commence the next
quarter.
On the next Monday morning the young
man went into the meat store to send
home a piece of beef for dinner.
How much will you havc| asked the
butcher.
"Oh! three or four"
Charles got thus far and then he stopped.
He had always been in the habit of or
dering an indefinite quantity and leaving
the butcher to cut off the highest figure
and charge the highest price; and then
he remembered how much was usually
wasted.
Let me have two pounds" he said
He stopped and saw it weighed and then
paid for it.
When he went home at noon he found
that his two pounds of beef was enough
for a good dinner. The next morning he
went to the store. Mr.. WaldTon had
some nice figs just come in which he
showed. They were twenty-five cents q
pound. For moment Charles hestated,
but as he remembered that he had got to
pay for all he bought he concluded not to
take them. He found that things were
not so enticing as when the payment could
be postponed. lie paid for what he
bought and went his way; and thus
! things went on through the week. When
il came Saturday night he knew all the
money in his pocket was his own, after
deducting the rent. That evening he
went over to the market, with Wilkins,
and bought as much vegetables and meat
as he thought would last through the
week. He found he had made saving
of at least 30 per cent, and when the
opportunity offered he made the same
saving in other matters.
! At the end of that quarter Charles
Matthews did not have to get slate,
| He paid his house rent and then found
he had thirty five dollars left in his pock-
ct. That was hs-he did not owe pen
ny of it.
"Ah, Hannah, said he, as he held the
money in his hand and looked it over,
"now l see how easy it is for man to
be wrong and his wife right. This
money all comes of paying as l go along.
1t is very easy and simple to say: just
charge it, and man can easily buy
things under such circumstances, but
when the day of reckoning comes, these
simple words, that sound so innocent
when spoken, are found to be costly
things. / did not believe it until tried
it. / could not have believed that a mar
would purchase so many useless articles
simply because he could have then
charged. But see it now, and if | re
fused to follow your advice at first Ihavt
gained experience enough to follow i
} more explicitly now"
Charles Mathews never again allowed
himself to be led away by the credit sys
ten, but has followed the cash rule, anC
J the consequence has been that he coul'
buy produce, coal, etc, at cheap prices
and he has now cut off the expense o
! house rent, for he owns snug littl
| cottage, and it is all paid for.