The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-09-27
BEER BOUGHTA HOME
WHAT A WORKINGMAN DID WHEN
HE QUIT DRINKING.

of country life for city bred people has
written to tell me his experiences as a
home builder, and they are so interest
ing, considering the present general
tendency to get away from the city,
that | cannot resist the temptation to
give them wider publicity, says Ora.
ham Hood in New York Globe.
OF course it is true that the expert
ences of other people count for very
| little with US these days. This is I'M
fortunate, for life would be ever so
much easier if everybody would but
| profit by the mishaps of others. Sue
cess would be much easier of attain
ment and countless errors, and some of
them are costly errors, too, would be
avoided if We would but learn to take
! advantage of the warnings of those
who have preceded us along life's path
way. As ii is, however, it seems as if
each and all of us are obliged to 90
through the school of life for ourselves.
| And while those who are older and
| wiser than we are may try their best
to impart some Of this wisdom to US
we are slow 10 take advantage Of their
experiences. rs the old adage ex-
| presses it, it is only the burnt child
who breads fire.
In this case, however, the story that
is told is such an entertaining one and
the results attained are SO practicable
that they certainly ought TO aDneal to
al
who occupy similar nositious +, thot i'm
which this man was placed
Like countless thousands he was q
| workingmau. a DAY labofer who earned
good WAGES ana who sDeat the greater
part Of his earnings Ia maintaining
and educating his bows and Girls
While he had steady claplovine9t he
saved little ii anything. and when the
day came that he decided that the
health Of his children REQUIRED their
removal from the small ANA dark
rooms "a tie tenement which had al
vays been their home lie had M r3nan,
Of CARRYING that good idea into e,zacr-
ton.
There are some men who in such
case, would have dropped the matter
entirely but the father love in this
mans heart was so STRONG that he
kept thinking about if. II wns during
the winter that the idea first occurred
to him. and as soon as the weather
began to be a little warmer he CON-
mencel to take surreDtitious trims into
the country" Of which he had been
dreaming ever since the DAYS when
the ground was white with snow. for
In the meantime he had evolved
plan by which he believed it mfcht be
POSSIBLE for him to bring his dream TO
Il realization
The plan Itself was d very simple
one. For years this man had been a
Grlnker of beer and a smoker Of cigars.
Not that anybody could have accused
him of being q drinking man He did
not drink to excess, and the number
Of cigars he smoked each day was
very small. Yet as he had figured.
the cost of these Injuries would be
amply sufficient to pay for that home
in the country. During the winter,
therefore, he stopped drinking beer,
and instead of smoking cigars he
bought pipe and tobacco
There can be no doubt that this
course required considerable self de
uial, for a man does not drink beer
and smoke cigars for twenty years
without acquiring taste for them,
but as he was a man of courage he
determined that he would conquer his
craving for such things for the sake
Of his family, and, as it is probably
unnecessary to state, he succeeded in
the achievement of his ambition
With few dollars he had saved dur
ing the winter, the money that would
otherwise have gone for the beer and
the cigars, he paid the first installment
on three lots of land in the country.
Upon his agreement to pay the balance
In the form of rent the company from
which lie purchased the land built him
house according to his requirements,
and there he has since lived both win
ter and summer
OF course such an arrangement re
CURED him to assume the role of a
comm utter, and there have been many
but. if he needed any argument to show