Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12

ing the first month, and having enough
TO last the other.
"Well, Elizabeth, have you kept with
in your allowanceP" asked the husband
at that time. "I guess you have not
found 1t so easy to save as you thought
for.n
"I have something, however," said
his wife. "IIow is it with youP"
"That's more than l can say. How
ever, / have not exceeded my income,
that's one good thing. We have lived
fully as well as last year, and l don't
know but better than when we spent
$780,"
"It's knack, Ezra" said his wife,
smiling. She was not inclined TO mention
how much she had saved. She wanted,
some time or other, TO surprise him when
it would be a service.
"She may possibly have saved up
S26," thought Mr.. Newton, cor some
trifle," and so dismissed the matter from
| his mind.
At the end of the second year Mrs
Newton's savings, including the inter-
est, amounted to $3.50, and she began to
feel quite rich.
Her husband did not think to inquire
how much she had saved, supposing as
before that it could be but very little.
However, he had piece of good news
| to communicate. His salary had been
raised from 81 900 to $1,000.
He added: Gas / before allowed you
one-half of my income for household ex-
| penses, it is no more than fair l should
do so now. That will give you better
chance to save part of it than before. :"
As before, Mrs. Newton merely said
that she had saved something, without
specifying the amount.
Her allowance was increased to 5000,
but her expenses were not proportion
ately increased at all, so that her savings
for the third year swelled the aggregate
sum in the savings bank to 5000.
Mr.. Newton, on the contrary, in spite
of his increased salary, was no better off
at the end of his third year than before.
His expenses had increased by 300,
though he would have found it difficult
to tell in what way his comfort or hap
ness had been increased thereby.
In spite of his carelessness in regard
to his own affairs, Mr.. Newton was an
excellent man in regard to his business,
and his services were valuable to his
employers. They accordingly increased
his salary from time to time, till it
reached $1,000. He had steadily pre-
served the custom of assigning one-half
to his wife, as heretofore, and this had
become such a habit that he never
thought to inquire whether she found it
necessary to employ the whole or not.
Thus ten years rolled away. During
all this time Newton lived in the same
hired house, for which he had paid an
annual rent of $3.50. Latterly, how
ever, he has become dissatisfied with it,.
| 1t has passed into the hands of a new
it in the repair which he considered de-
sirable.
About this time block of excellent
houses was erected by a capitalist, who
designed to sell them or let them as he
might have an opportunity. They were
modern and much better arranged than
the one in which Mr.. Newton now lived,
and he felt strong desire to move into
one of them. He mentioned it to his
wife one morning.
"What's the rentP' inquired she.
"Two hundred and twenty-five for
corner house; 5000 for either of the
others"
"The corner house would be prefera-
BILE, on account of the side windows"
"Yes, and they have large yard be-
sides. think we had better rent one
of them. 1 guess III engage one of
them to-day you know our year is
out next week.
"Please wait till tomorrow, before
engaging one"
% For what reasonPn
81 should like TO examine the house. :"
every well, suppose tomorrow will
be sufficiently early"
Soon after breakfast, Mrs. Newton
called on Squire Bent, the owner of the
new block, and intimated her desire to
be shown the corner house. Her re-
quest was readily complied with; Mrs.
Newton was quite delighted with all the
arrangements, and expressed her salts
faction.
care these houses for sale or letP"
she inquired.
"Either," said the owner.
"The rent is, understand, two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars"
eyes. 1 consider the corner house
worth at least twenty-five dollars more
than the rest"
"And what do you charge for the
house for a cash purchaserPn asked
Mrs. Newton, with subdued eagerness.
-Four thousand dollars cash." was
the reply, ''and that is but small ad-
vance on the cost"
"Very well, l will buy of you, )" added
Mrs. Newton, quietly.
"What did understand you to sayP''
asked the Squire, scarcely believing his
own ears.
al repeat that 1 will buy this house
at your price, and pay the money within
q week.
"Then the house is yours. But your
husband did not say any thing of his IN
tention, and in fact did not know"
"That he had money to invest, 1 sup
pose you would say. Neither does ne
know it, and l must ask you not to tell
him for the present"
The next morning Mrs. Newton IN
vited her husband to take walk, but
without specifying the direction. They
soon stood in front of the house in which
he desired to live.
"Wouldn't you like to go IMP" she
asked.
"Yes. It's pity we haven't got the
key
4 have the key" said the wife, and
forthwith she walked up the steps and
proceeded to open the door.
"When did you get the key of Squire
BentPn asked her husband.
Yesterday, when / bought the