The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07
HOW SHE MANAGED IT.

| and gets S3U week. With this salary the
family ought to get along well aud save
money, but they do not. Mr.. Maroouey
has cousin, shoemaker, who gets only
Sl5 week, yet who sails right along in
! lightning express, while Marooney comes
| tagging along in freight with hat-box
GLOW do you manage it, Jack ?" he
| would frequently ask, "to get along the way
you do? Here you actually keep your
family and save money on SIS week, while
it takes every cent make to live, and |
get double the pay!'
"Oh, | don't manage it at all, says Jack !;
81 just take my money home to the old
woman on Saturday night, and she takes S5
to run the house with, ard puts the rest
carefully away'
''Do you give her all the money!" asks
MIR. Marooncy, musing.
"Oh, no. not quite; keep out little
for tobacco during the week, and triAe to
keep me from feeling lonesome. IF I kept
it all in my pocket would spend it sure,
but Mary keeps it tight aud safe"
Mr.. Marooney talked it over with his wife
that night, and they concluded to try Jack 8
plan. Tho following Saturday night he
brought home his $50, and keeping back
one, put the rest in her keeping, and she
promised to do her level best to set the ia
BILE on but SIS. The first week she squeezed
through somehow, and got along with
$3.50 Mr. Marooney was quito pleased,
and began laying awake at night thinking
| about what kind of house he would build.
| He thought plain rustic cottage with a
| bay window would be about right The
| >kol
$3.50, and Mr.. Marooney changed his de-
sign for future residence from frame to
brick. The next week she brought it down
thirty cents more, and he added wing,
with wash-housc. Then she made su-
pcrhuman struggle, quit buying milk, and
came within two shillings of the goal for
which she had been striving. Mr.. Ma
rooney decided on an iron fence in front of
his premises. The next week she lost
ground, slipped, and came out at che Sc
post Mr. Marooncy thought neat railing
fence was good enough. for anybody, but
when the ensuing week she came in with
flying colors aud struck the So mark in
both eyes, Mr.. Marooncy had the iron rail.
ing reinstated, and granite steps running up
to the door.
The next week she took the money she
had saved, and went and bought her Il love
of hat, too cute for anything, black silk
dress, and chcrub of cloak, that made
the woman next door cry with envy till her
nose got sore, and Mr.. Maroonev came to
the conclusion that it didn't pay to live in
ones own property, keeping up repairs, in
surance, etc, and the worry and stew in
dread Of fire and earthquakes more than
countcrbalanccd any triaing disadvantage
there might be.-EHsJmyh Gazette.
THE RESPONSIVE CuoRD.-Tho Rev. j.
William Jones, in an address before the
National Sunday School Convention, At
lanta, Ga, related the following incident
"In the early spring of 1868, when the
Confederate and Federal armies were con-
fronting each other on the opposite hills of
Stafford and Spotsylvania, two bands chan
ced one evening, at the same hour, to begin
to discourse sweet music on either bank of
the river. a large crowd of the soldiers
of both armies gathered to listen to the
music, the friendly pickets not interfering,
and soon the bands began to answer each
other. First the band on the northern
bank would play "Star Spangcd Banner" ,"
"Ilail Columbia" or some other national
air, and at its conclusion the 'boys in blue"
would cheer most Justly. And then the
band on the southern bank would respond
with "Dixic," or "Bonnic Blue Flag" or
some other Southern melody, and the "boys
in gray" would attest their appreciation
with an cold Confederate yell" But pres
emily one of the bands struck up in sweet
and plaintivc notes, which were waited
across the beautiful Rappahannock, were
caught up at once by the other band and
swellcd into grand anthem which touched
every heart, ''IIome, Sweet Home " At
the conclusion of this piece there went up
n simultaneous shout from both sides of the
rivcr-chcer followed cheer, and those hills,
which had so recently rcsoundcd with hos>
tile guns, echoed and re-cchocd the glad
acclaim A chord had been struck, re-
sponsivc to which the hearts of enemies
enemies thcn-could beat in unison, and
on both sides of the river,
Something down the soldiers check -
Washed off the stains of powder"
a PLUCKY BUSINESS WoMAN.-Gov-
crnor Randall, of Wisconsin, who died sew,
eral years ago, left his wife with from S15,-
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