Year: 1873

She must be patient and persevering,
and these qualities she possessed In an
eminent degree. 1t was to be the grand
undertaking of the first years Of her
married life, and to do it she would
bend every available energy. She
planned that if possible she would get
hold of that odd fifty cents every day
or, if she could not do, that, she would
do the best she could.


Generous, frank, loyal, loving, Albert
was nm easy prey to the wiles OF wife
as loyal and as loving as himself. He
gave her money when she asked for 1t
and she asked him for it when she
thought he had any to give.


And here let me say that Alice knew
her husband would not run IN debt.
That was an evil they both armed them
selves against in the outset. When Al
bert's purse was empty he bought moth
ing, and when it was full he was apt to
buy more than he needed. Alice knew
all this, and governed herself accord
ingly.


"that I must fix over my old brown
cashmere for the winter. I should like
new one, but I don't suppose you can
afford it" :,


Albert looked grieved. The idea that
he could not afford his wife new dress!


But for such one as she wanted it
would cost twenty-five or thirty dollars.


eff you want it, get i'll" said Albert,
emphatically. az will let you have
twenty dollars from this months pay,
and The balance you shall have next
month.


Alice got the thirty dollars, but did
not get the dress. By the outlay of
five dollars for new trimmings she con-
triyed to fix over the brown cashmere,
SO that it looked every bit as good as q
new one.


And 30 Alice worked. Sometimes
she asked her husband for ten cents,
sometimes for dollar, and sometimes
for more and, at the end OF a year,
upon careful reckoning up, she found
that she had managed to get hold OF
rather more than fifty cents day but
she had dcne it by denying herself OF
many things, some Of which were need
full.


The result of the first years effort in
spired Alice with new life and vigor
She had saved up $3.50, and had in
vested it in Governmentfunds. Through
the influence of dear friend who was
in a banking establishment, and to
whom she had confded her secret, she
was enabled to get the bonds at their
face value.


It was only little at time-some-
times q very ittle-but even penny
dropped into the strong-box was 30
much gained. Only little-but those
Titles, multiplied by other Titles, grew
amazingly. The husbandman who
would sit himself down by a hill OF
corn and wait to see the tender blade
put forth, would be disheartened, but
he knows if he plants the tiny seed and
cultivates it as he ought, that the har-
vest of golden grain will come at length.


Albert and Alice were married in the
spring of 1865. 1t was on an evening
Of August, 1870, that Albert came home
out of sorts. He had been notified that
he must leave the cottage. They must
give up the pleasant home, and lose
the little garden they had cultivated
with 80 much fondness and care.


"The owner wishes to SELL" he ex.
claimed "and he has an offer. He
asks two thousand dollars, and must
have five hundred down."


Alice's eyes glistened with radiant
delight. She had been thinking for
sometime that she must let her husband
into the secret. 1t had begun to wear
upon her. And now the time had come
as though by providential interposition.


She did not make a scene. She
would not add to the denouement by
and by play. She simply got up and
went to her cabinet, and when she came
back she brought little book in hei
hand.


"Albert - said she, "let you and
buy the cottage"


*AIbert looked at her in amazement
and directly it flashed upon him that
there was too much solemnity in hel
look and tone for badinage. Some
thing that he had noticed during the
past months came back to him, and he
trembled with the weight of suspense
that fell upon him.


Alice saw and understood. At first
the great flood almost overcame her.
and she was forced to rest and wipe hel
eyes before she could proceed. Ant
then she showed her book-that hao
more than eight hundred dollars in thu
bank. The ice was broken; she tolc
her story in glowing words. She tolG
how she had saved up little by little
and how she had at length found hersel
able to purchase a fifty dollar bond
And then she told how her uncle in th'
banking house had taken charge of thu
investment and how, under his man
agement, the interest had accrued II
amazing volume.


But the grand result was not the chic
thing. The chief thing was the begin
ning-was the first little which had beel
religiously saved until the second littl
could be added to it.


And now, rs result OF the wife
careful and tireless working, Alber
found something upon which his ambi
ton could take q fair start. He neve
could, himself, from 30 small com
mencement, have reared the pile; bu
with the structure started, and its pro
portions all blocked out, he could he'll
on the work. He could not see how
was done-and not only that, but tn
demonstration was before him that tn
thing could be done. 49,.


One year had ELAPSED since Alber