Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-07-28
As TO LOSING MONEY,
A Case Showing the Importance a Ten
Dollar Bill May Reach.

"To some men," said n man now OF
RmpleSt means. THE loss OF $4,000
might be 4 joke. and then 10 some the
loss OF zen dollar bill might be q
tragedy.
Poor: Why, we were so poor that
we had to count every cent, every pen
ny. Not that we were miserable. We
were very far from that. As matter
Of fact. we were happy. but we GER
tainly did have all the time TO sail
very close to the wind
There were four OF us-wife. two
children and myself-and, bless you,
how we did have 10 figure and scrimp
10 make both ends meet. I've seen
the time. many time, when a nickel
was Of great Importance to us, when
IL was the last cent for caTfare.
often think what a blessing IL was
that we were none OF us ever sick:
that nothing ever happened TO us. /
don't know what we'd done IL there
had.
II was going to tell you what it
might be To some folks 10 lose n ten
dollar bill
Ten dollars was the amount or our
monthly rent, and whatever else we
did We always saved out OF my weeks
pay the weekly proportion OF the rent.
10 have 1t ready when It was due. 1
always used 10 get ten dollar bill in
my pay envelope. and when IL came to
the last Saturday in the month we just
used TO take the ten dollar bill out Of
the envelope to pay the rent with, and
then we had the amount we'd saved
out OF three weeks to go on for cur
rent expenses.
"Well. one last Saturday that hap
| pened 10 come three days before the
end OF the month we took the ten dol
lar bill out of the envelope as usual
for the rent and as usual my wife put
It away-she always looked after the
finances-and there we were all com
! Portable and happy. with the next
/ months rent all ready, and then on
| the last day OF the month, when she
went TO get It out 10 have 1t handy
when the landlord came She couldn't
end it,
IF that wasn't a tragedy l don't
know tragedy when l meet ii.
don't suppose 1 took it quite so hard SIS
she did, and I'd have shown IL as lit
tie as l could anyway on her account,
but to her II was nothing less than a
calamity.
"When the children had gone to bed
we tore the house apart. We looked
md looked and looked into every nook
and corner over and over again, but
that ten dollar bill, with all that IL
meant 10 uS-and | doubt II you eau
imagine how much It did mean-was
gone. That was the first thing we had
on our minds when we woke up in the
morning, and gloomy enough for us
that morning was. And then when
was eating my breakfast In our mod
est dining room she looked In at the
door from the kitchen, and I've found
IT. she said. and so she had. JUS
where three days before she had hid
den II away. and so was our great
gloom changed to joy-to JOY with 8
large. large J.
Yes. sir. We got more now. by con
siderable, and now she has what sh,
wants: now she doesn't have 60 skimp
In these days / take her home myseli
now and then ten dollar bouquet
We can afford &C. But l never shal
forget as long as l live how we Tel
when we thought we'd lost that ter
dollar bill or the Joy that came TO u:
when we found II, for, you see, how {
loss strikes you depends so much oil
how much you've got."-New Yorl
Sun.