Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-08-29

obliged to pay the cash at the time.
sAh, Mathews, look here, I hav
a something to show YOU" VA &
; This was said by the trader the yer
!, next morning after the purchase Of tn
: pickles, and so Mr., Weldron led on
: hero to the back store and opened
box of oranges.
'There, Mathews, amt they nice p
They are nice," replied Charles am
so they were. fas
II know your wife would like some Q
them I carried some home to my wifi
and she wanted me to save her three 0
four dozen of them at least" Qc
''How much do they cost ?"
"Let me see-I can send you VI
three dozen for a dollar. I got thes'
oranges very cheap. You know the,
are retailing at five cents piece"
eyes. Well, you may send me three
dozen, and please charge them."
ST, will, certainly. Anything els
this morning?" i-sI e 1s
II believe not" So
| And so Mathews went on. Thi'
| morning it would be dollar-to NOR
row perhaps five cents. 1t didn't seen
much. The man kept just as mucf
money in his pocket as though he
hadn't bought them. ~. Isl
''Only a dollar" he would say te
himself. s'That isn't much out of the
twelve dollars week" agHoia
And it might not be, but the trouble
was the next dollar was called one dol
lar, and he would forget to add it to the
former dollar and call it two dollars,
/ with the next dollar and call it three
dollars. .s5, -.
One evening Charles came home
with new gold watch-chain.
sWhere did you get that ?" inquired
Mrs. Mathews.
"Ah," replied the husand, with an
impressive shake of the head, 81 made
a bargain on this chain. Now guess
how much paid for It.'
Pm sure I could not guess
''Oh, try. guess something"
well, ten dollars" -sa
''Ten dollars ~ echoed Charles, with
a disappointed look. ''Why, what are
thinking of? Jack Cummings bought
this chain two months ago and paid
twenty dollars for it. just heft it and
see how heavy it is. Eighteen karats
fine. Jack was hard up for money,
and he let me have it for thirteen dol
lars" .-Ie
II suppose it is cheap enough, re-
turned Hannah, but not with such
pleasurable surprise as her husband had
expected. But" she added, you
didn't need it, and I fear you will feel
ssFook have money enough. You
know I have spent very little lately. l.
have been pretty saving"
''But you forfeit your bills. The
money you have Is not yours"
"Not mine ?'
mo it belongs to the storekeeper,
to the butcher and landlord. You know
they must be paid"
Don't you fret about them. know
that it don't cost anything like twelve
dollars week to live, for 1 have made
an estimate. There is Wilkins, who
works beside me at the shop he has
four children and only gets the same
wages do, and yet he lays up two or
three dollars week. d
Eyes" said Hannah, Il know he
does, I was to see his wife the other
day, and she was telling me how they
were getting along. Mr.. Wilkins takes
his basket twice a week and goes over
to the market and gets his meat and veg
etables and trades for cash, and SO gets
everything to the very best advantage.
So he does at the store. He lays in a
good quantity Of all those articles which
will keep, and buys butter, eggs, apples
and such things by the quantity when
the market is full, and they are cheap,
aud 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 a pound-a firkin of it-and it is
much sweeter than that for which you
paid forty-eight cents yesterday"
"Forty-eight cents ~ exclaimed the
young man in surprise.
eyes. asked Mr.. Waldron's man
when he brought it up, and be said 1t had
risen to forty-eight cents. Mr.. Wilkins
got twenty dozen of eggs some time ago
for twenty cents dozen, and his wife
packed them down, and they keep well.
You will have to pay Mr.. Waldron
forty-fve cents for those he sent up
yesterday"
Charles Mathews was somewhat as
i tonlshed at this view of the case, but il
could not be helped now, and the sub
lject was dropped. His gold chain had
lost its charm. 1t did not look so well,
even in his own eyes, as the old black
cord which he had worn before.
| At length the end of the quarter came
around. The first bill was the rent,
which amounted to about thirty-one
dollars. Next was the butchers bill o.
thirty six dollars. Charles was aston.
i ished to see how this bill footed up
But when he saw how many steaks he
had, at thirty cents pound, the cause
q of the wouder disappeared. Next he
paid the BAKERS bill, which was thirteen
dollars. When he came home in the
evening he paid all his bills except bis
| grocery bill.
: ssMr, Waldron sent in his bill to