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THEODORE H, CREMER,
cubcptruciaas.
The will be published every Wed
meshy morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance,
and if not paid within six months, $2 60.
No subscription received for a shorter period than
din months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar
rearages are paid.
Advertisements not exceeding one square, wilt he
,inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subm-
Auent insertion 25 cents. If no definite orders ore
given as to the time arm advertisement is to be minium
it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac
cordingly.
TO Purchasers—Guarantee.
fTnit undersigned agent of the Pattentee,
of the Stove, The Queen of the {Vest,"
Unierstmuling that the owners, or those
toncerned for them, of other and different
patedt Cooking S.oves, have threatened to
bring suit against all who purchase and Use
*OE of GUILD 4 PATENT Con EINI" iTOVE
—The Queen of the West." Now his is
to infni•m all and eVt . ry person soh anal
purchase and use said Stove that lie , •11 itch
glemnify them from all costs or datn age • rom
any and all suits, brought by (thee f en
tees, or their agents, for any infrtngritt -tc of
their patents. He gives this notice so "tat
pert:'?'brneed not be under any fea'•s because
they have, while consulting their own inter
ests and convenience, secured the superior
ftdvantagea of this Queen" not only of the
West, beet of the East.
ISRAEL GRAFFIUS.
July 24, 1844.
"QUEEN OE"TAM WEST"
ar•CCDasacno X 33 ®.'z) 4
For sale by I. GRA PIUS Sz. SON, Alex
andria, Iluntni;01011 county, Pa.,
cheap fur cash or country
produce at the
market price.
Tie "Queen of the West" is an im
provement On Hathaway's celebrated
clot Air Stove. There has never yet np
peanut any plan of a Conking Stove dm!
pi,sheg.ies the ad vantaecs that this one
has. A much less quantity or fuel is re•
q.'hired for any amount of cooltioo• or (a
kin.." by this stove than by any wrier.
per s ons are requested to and see
before they purchase elsewhere.
July 3, 1844.
D R
ran a) lag' z - 3 I M U -I. , -cr 8
I. GRAFIUS & SON,
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E:VECTFULLY inform the citizens
14.1 of Huntingdon county, and the public
generally, that they continue to carry on
the
Copper, 7'in and Sheet-iron Business,
in all its branches, in Alexandria, whet,
they manufacture and constaetly keep on
hand every description of ware in their line;
such as
New and Splendid %irood Stoves
22, 24, 26, 23 and 30 inches long,
R.9nIA7'OR STOWES,
New Cooking Stoves of all kinds. ond
Also four sizes of Coal Stoves,
ALSO STOVE-PIPE, AND STOVES FINISHED
All kinds of castings clone, for Forges, Saw
mills and Threshing-machines. Also WAG
ON BOXES, MILL. GUDGEONS, AND HOLLOW
WARE ; all of which is done in a workman
like manner.
Alm), Copper, Dye, ['rash, Fuller, Pre.
serving, and Tea kettles,
,for sale,
wholesale and retail,
Persons favoring this establishment with
their custrm may depend on having their
orders executed with fidelity and despatch.
Old metal, copper, brass and p.•wter ta
ken in exchange. Also wheat, rye, corn
and oats taken at market price.
Alexandria, July 3. 1844.
NOTICF..—The subscriber respectfully
reloests all persons indebted to him for
wnr, done at the old establishment, pre
vious to the lot of November last, to call and
settle their accounts without delay.
ISRAEL GRAFIUS.
July 3, 1844.
sK3K2'oamacti) da a
A good FOUNDER, to take clvorge of one
or two Furnaces, situated fire miles apart,
in a healthy and pleasant part of Ohio. He
must come well recommended.
Apply to A. BKELEN, Pittsburgh
a - "Kittstoing Free Press and liollidays
birg Registel please copy to amount of one
dollar and fifty cents each, and charge and
vend papers to advertiser.
Farm For Sale.
The subucribers effer for sale a well im
proved farm, centaining
..IQ.c - totrataas a
with allowance, about 126 iteleS cleated and
under go( d fence. The improvements are
a large and convenient two story hruse,
bank barn, and other out buildings, with se
veral good springs of water convenient; an
orchard of choice fruit. '1 here are also
a quantity of peach and plumb trees. Said
farm is situated in llewiers , in township,
Huntingdon county, Pa., 3 miles from the
Warm Springs, 7 miles from Huntingdon,
and 6 miles from the Pennsylvania Canal.
Persons wishing further lamination con
cerning the above property can obtain it by
calling on S. R. Boggs, residing on the pre,
mines, or from James Boggs, at Mill Creek.
N. B. The subscribers are desirous of
g „.;,,,, ; west—persons would do well to call
and See for themselves.
SAMUEL R. it JAMES BOGGS
June 4,1844.
r—t. — 127 Zsc3`.3-5' Uz) Iz3 cul
COME THIS WAY:
EZT=NDIVM
Carriage .7 1 ante ftsetory
.11EliTRW SIVZITIIL
linOS I' respectfully infornis the citizens
Qii," of the borough and county of Hunting
don, the public generally, and his old friends
and ciisOmers in particular. that he still
continues the
Coach Making . lauxiocgs
in all its various branches i at his old stand,in
Main street ht the borough of Buntingdi
nearly opposite the 'Journal' printing t flier
where he hay constantly on hand every
description .1
Coaches, Carriages,
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C ' l4P ‘'ar 13n. ,, ies Sleighs,l " 9
...=...i.;Ugaigilia CS . Dearborns,
which , he will soil low fet c ash or i n
able terms.
All kinds of wm k in his line made to or
ler, on the shortest notice, in a
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WOli KM A 1 I.IKE M MN ER
And all kinds of repairing done n tient
aess and clespatcW.
Country produce will betakenin exchange
for wot k.
Any persons wishing to purchase are re
spectfully invited to call rnd examine and
udge for themselves.
Huntingdon N0v.29, 1893.
Moctariat ffounZivg.
THE subscriber would respectfolh inform
the citizens nt Huntingdon and the adjoin
ing counties, that he stilt comb - s to car
r7, on business at the Rockdale Foundry, on
(lover Creek, two miles from ‘Vi'hams
burg, where he is prepared to execute all
orders in his line, 01 the best materials and
wiiikinanship, and with promptness and de
spatch.
He will keep constantly on hand stoves of
es erydescription, such as • -
Cooking, Ten Plate,
PAULO 11, COAL, ROTARY, Itild WOOD
SfOVES
LIVIDIGSTON PLOUGHS, Anvils,
ii mono. rs, Hollow Ware, and every kind of
castings necessary for forges, w ill s or ma
chinery of any description ; wagon boxes of
all descriptions, Lke., which cat be had on
as good terms as they ran be had at any
other foundry in the county or state.
Remember the Rockdale Ftnodry.
in , Old metal taken in exchange fot• any
castings.'
WILLIAM KENNEDY.
re' Mr. K. has recently purchased the
patient right nt a co . . king stove for Hunting
don county—the stove will be set np by hint
awl warranted to the purchaser to be as good
as any in the State—orders furnished.
July 17, 1844.—tf.
Jewelry ! Jewelry ! ! Jewelry
1...ie0. 7ffIJST received, a strek
i ....1 V of the most magnili
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Jewelry
. IX7".r .L t;r
i , • came ji the Pike. ..11
.I o ) s' , l * ,, Consisting of GOLD PAT
;4§ TENT LEVERS, Ladies
, A . ,
,4 - Y2; C.
„.. Gn L D ANCHOR LE
VERS, full jewelled,
Si Lv ea PATENT LEVERS, omdile sod single
caiecl ,Sll.ll ER A wetion LEvElts jut !jeweled,
double and single eased ENGLISH WATCHES,
Inilation Levers, QUARTIER and FRENCH
WATCHES, &C. &C. Also
Gold Fob Chains, and Seals,
of the most fashionable patterns. Gold
Pencils, Spectacles, Guard Chains, Key's,
Breacelets sett with topaz, Mu cialions, Fin
ger• Rings, Ear Rings, Breast Phis, sett with
topaz. amethist. &c. &c. Mineattire Cases,
Silk Purees, Cu•ral Beads, Pocket Boi ks,
Musical Boxes, Mathematical histrumoits,
Silver• Spectacles, Table Spoons, Tea and
Salt Spncios, Sugar Tongs, Lc - mends p::ttc•nt
Silver Pencils, Razors of the finest quality,
HENRY CLAY penknives, a superior anti •
de, Steel Pros, Spy Classes, Hair Brushes.
Tooth Brushes, Matins Points, &c. &c. All
the above articles will be sold cheaper zhan
ever heretofore.
Clock and Watch repairing done as usual,
very cheap for cash.
X large . assortment of eight day and thir
ty hour Clocks will be sold very cheap.
All watches sold will he warranted fin• one
year, and a written guarrantee girl a. that
it not found equal to warranty it will (during
that period) be put in order without expense.,
or it injured, may be exchanged for any
other watch of equal value. The warranty
s considered void, should the watch, with
which it is given, be put into the hands of
another watch maker.
D. BUOY,
Huntingdon, April 10, 1844.
CAUI'IIOI.
We the subscribers, hereby caution all
persons against purchasing, or in any way
taking a note given by us to - George Smith,
of Henderson township, Huntingdon county,
dated on or about the 19th day of February
last, for three hundred and fifty-five dollars,
payable in blooms, in Huntingdon, one hun
dred days after• oate—the said Judgment
mite:having been obtained from us by fraud
and with. et ,n,idt ratien, and will there•
fore not be paid, and the law will not com
pel us to pay it.
SAMUEL FICKES,
JOHN FICKES.
March 26. 1845.-3 t.
LIST OF LE'FFI.iIIS, miming in the
Post Office, at Alexandria, Huntingdon
on the Ist clay of July, 1845—which if not
taken out within three months will be seut
to the Genera. Post Office as dead letters.
Baker John Lnitd James & Co.
Barry James J. IN,PClure \Villiam
Brubacker Abraham Quieter John
.....
Crytlet John giiffor William F.
S:imw I Shively Daniel
Fookler Messrs Sprinkle John
• Fockler Messrs J. & ('o.
JOIIN GEi‘INIII.L, P. M.
July, 9,1.344.
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POOR 179716 PROUD,
'But, my dear ,' said Afro. Simpson totter hus
band, 'it will ;lover do for Ellen to begin the world
in that way. She is our only daughter, and now
she is going to be married, we mot make on effort
to give her a docent set-out.'
.Well, in not the furniture I propose suffi
ciently decent! You know I can hardly get along
as it is, and every cent I take for this purpose comes
out of the capital. A plain two story house, with
single sofa, cane-bottomed chairs, and a chamber
comfortably furnished, is a set oat as good tts I can
afford. Besides, I don't think Merivale would like
to go into a large house; I'm aura his business would
riot warrant it.'
'You talk as if my daughter were going to marry
a beggar, Mr. Simpson. Recollect how I have toil
ed and slaved to bring Ellen up respectubly, and
now, when she is about to marry apromising young
man, a doctor, too, you wish to give her a mean set
out, like that of a common mechanic's wife. When
I married, my father gave me means to begin life
like a lady.'
Mr. Simpson shrugged hie shoulders. As usual,
his wife's volubility was too much for him. He
scarcely knew what to say. A merchant in a small
business, ho had struggled all his life without get
ting ahead; and of lute, since times had grown so
herd, was glad to make both ends meet at New
Year's. Had he, when beginning in life, instituted
and adhered to a rigid system of economy—had he
been contented to live in a smaller house, to sport
less furniture, to give fewer expensive parties, he
might by this time have been in comparatively com
fortable circumstances; but the bane of Iris life was
pride. and to keep up appearances he had eacriticed
wealth; so that now, instead of possessing at least a
moderate fortune, he was kept continually on the
rack, lest, to some of the many convulsions of the
times, ho might become a bankrupt. Hie wife was
even more foolishly proud than himself; and r nee
or twice, when Mr. Simpson, more alarmed than
usual, would have retrenched, she would not hea:
of it.
'True,' she would any, 'business may be bud, but
it cannot always remain so. It must get better, and
then every thing can ho made square again; in the
mean time, if wo retrenched, people would talk,
and your credit would suffer. No, no, appearan
ce. must be kept up; something might be eased from
the expenses of the table. The upper roome could
go without carpets; leave it to me—l can shaft along,
and don't think of losing position by moving into
a smaller house.'
The whale snanied lie of Mr. Simpson, canoe
fluently had been a struggle between pride and pov
erty. A splendid party was atoned for by weeks of
self-denial at the table; the cost of a new bet of mir
rors for the parlor was made up by staining the fur
niture of the upper rooms; and a thousand little
comforts were sacrificed to supply the means of go
ing to the shore once a year, with the rest of their
fashionable neighbors. Nor had time taught thorn
a lesson. On the man loge of their eldest daughter,
this ill-judging couple were about to:commit the
name error for her which had embittered the whole
of their married life.
The dispute between Mr. Simpson and his wife
terminalpil as such disputes usually did, the lady
gaining her point against her husband's better judg
ment. It was resolved to furnish their daughter's
house In a style, as the mother soil, proper for res
pectable people. Bruesela carpet and Imaltogany
chairs in the parlor, with common stained pine
bedsteads and cheap bureaus bought at auction for
ell the upper rooms except one, which was furnish
ed in a moat costly style were to constitute the np.
pointments of the new household. The intended
husband had scarcely thought the Simpeons would
give their daughter so handsome a set-out, and was
almost inclined to remonstrate against it as unnec
essary, for he saw it would entail'on him the rent
of a larger house than he expected, or indeed was
willing MM.. But ho too, was not withoutpride;
and ho resolved, since her family woe so generous,
to strain a point in order to commence housekeeping
in a befitting way. Accordingly a handsome resi
dence was selected, which was furnished according
to the projected plan; and certainly when the young
couple moved into it after they marriage, the ele
gance and style of everything in their spacious par
lor, made the husband quite forget his uneasiness
respecting the insufficiency of his income to keep
up such an establishment. And when the bride's
friends called at het new house and leaded it with
praises, her gratified husband wondered that he could
have hesitated about the expense.
The honey moon passed amid a euccession of
parties and-other enterteinments; and not until the
excitement of this male of life had subsided, and
Merivale and his wife had settled down in quiet, did
the-young husband think of looking at his account.
book. How was he astonished at the enormous
outlays, so far exceeding the moat liberal of his cal
culatione! Like most young housekeepers he had
supposed that the increased house rent was the only
additional expense to which he would be subject;
but he found that every other necessary disburse
ment had increased in the same ratio—as there was
more company, the entertainment had to be better;
in a thousand ram indeed, money had been laid
out, of which he nod never thought. Merivele was
frightened. lie saw his income would not be more
than sufficient to meet two-thirds of his outlays.
But he disliked so .011 after marriage, epeaking to
Linen on the ucceosity of economy. Mn received ,
first to see what he could do in the rank of re
trenchment; and by way of beginning, lie gave up
the contemplated purchase of a gig and horse, and
made up his mind to visit his patients on foot.
This would be very fatiguing, but there was no oth
er help far it.
'My dear, aaid • his wife, a few months alter mar
riage, 'Agnes Diddle is going to be married; and as
she was one of ow bridesmaids,l abouldlike to give
her a party. Don't you think it would be no more
than right!' .
'lndeed; my dear, I can't say, said Marivale,
hesitatingly..
, It's the custom, you, know.'
'I believe it is,' said hlerivale, and though he
wished. he could not muster courage to tell hie Aife
ho could not afford the expense. .Certainly, my
dear, we moot give Agnca a party.'
.1 knew you would say so; and now I will go and
see A gam'
Merivale heard no more of the party until next
week. In the mean time Agnes had been married.
think I shall send out, to-morrow, the invita
tions for Agnes's party,' said his wife. thought
Tuesday evening would answer best; I would have
preferred Monday, but you know it is so difficult to
get the ice creams and other refreshments on that
day. Will Tuesday suit you?'
'Oh, yes, quite as well tunny other day; but how
many have you invited!'
have about eighty on my list.'
'Eighty!' ejaculated Merivale; and then he added
with hesitation, 'why, my love, is it necessary to
have as large a company?'
Ellen saw that her husband did not like it, and
she answered with some embarrassment—
'You know Agnes gave us a very large party,
and it would look mean to return it with a small
one. Besides I have so many acquaintances. I
don't see how I can ark less. I expected at least a'
hundred, for there are no doubt soma persons you
may wish to ask, whom I have not thought of.'
*WeNovell,' said ?tredvele impatiently, 'let us
have them all and be done with it. But after this,
we must have no more parties till we get richer.
This was the first time her husband had spoken
to her thus, and she pondered it long and deeply,
She could scarcely keep from tears, and she resolved
to be very economical, so as to make tip for the ex
pense of the party. She was oven on the point of
renouncing it altogether, for she had not yot spoken
to Agnes on the subject; but when she reflected
how nicer she would be considered by their acquain
tances she had not the heart to do this. So the
party went on; and every one pronounced it a most
brilliant aflitir. The rooms were said to he just full
enough, without being too much crowded; the only
thing missing was champagne, but this expense and
unnecessary article hlerivale hod insisted on omit
ting, and his wife had consented, glad of any op
portunity to conciliate him.
Ellen carried out her design of being economical.
She told her mother of her difficulties, and Mrs.
Simpson hod a dozen methods to suggest by which
a penny might , be saved.
'You can economise a deal yet in the table.—
year me, how outlandish expensive you ere in your
poetry. Now. there's lemon pies—did you ever
make any? Mrs. Stewart let me into the secret
after you left us; they can he made for half the cost
of other pies. I'll give you the receipt. Nothing
but lemon grated, and made up with either molasses
or sugar--though the former is much the cheaper.
You must learn, Ellen, to make a little go a great
way.'
So Ellen tried the lemon pies. She made some
of both kinds, and her mother, who came to chow
her how, pronounced them very good.
'What have you got there, 'my dear?' said her
husband, when the meats had been removed; 'that's
something new isn't it?'
'I hope you will like it, it is so cheap end very
nice, I do assure you,' said Ellen, smiling, as she
proceeded to cut the pastry.
qlumplit' said Merivale, who had always ken a
good liver, and never found very cheap dishes re
markably good.
'I have given you both kinds, to see which you
like the best,' said his wife.
•\l'hat are they?' said Merivale, cutting a piece
out of the whitest pie. 'flu) next instant his brow
clouded, and he pushed the plate away. Ellen
looked vary embarrassed. •
'Sour as aqua fortis.'
.Try the other piece, dear, it in sweeter,' she said
coaxingly.
After a moment ho complied.
'By George—here's a piece of lemon akin as big
ns a shilling, and as tough as a shark's skin,' he ex
claimed, putting the plate angrily away.
, hly dear! really thought they were good,'
'What in Heaven'. name are t h oyl
'Lemon pie.; they are very cheap,' said Ellen de.
precatingly.
'Confound cheap eatable./ Is there nothing
Ideal'
There was nothing else to Ellen's great sorrow;
and the husband rose from the table end went out
in a pet. She, poor thing flew to her chamber and
cried heartily. It was the first time Merivale had
used angry worths to her.
A snore than usual excellent evening meal
led Manville when he returned; co ho wee once
more in o good humor. No allusion wee made to
to the past, but lemon pies were forever after ban
baniehed from the young wife's kitchen. She had
to return to other quarters to retrench.
The fatal year's exyetisca exceeaed ivale'a re
ceipts; and to. make up the deficiency he was forced
to sellout some stock which ho lloitt and iv hich
formed a part of a little capital that he had rergia6-
ly resolved never to touch. By this time, he and
his wife had talked over the necessity of economy
more than once; and now they had again a serious
conversation on the subject.
'Suppose we move into a smaller home,' said
Elk*.
"(hut would never do,' replied the husband,
'With a physician. every thing elepeng's on appear-
sues, arid I should lose all my hest practice if I
wee to take that method of retrenching.'
'Well--we won't have any parties this year, no
there will be a saving there. And then you know,
they all say the first year of a married life is the
moat expensive.'
The second year, however, proved as costly as the
first; for after the birth of a lovely little daughter, it
was found memory to keep 'nether servant, a half
grown girl who might attend the baby and help in
sewing. Then the other servant refused to wash
for tip increased family, and the washing had to be
pet or•.t; so that at the end of the your, notwith
,tanding they gave no parties, the expenses of the
young married couple were found to be no great es
during the preceding year. It is true, Alerivale's
business had increased, but not sufficiently to make
up the deficiency; anti then he had been forded to
sot up a gig. Accordingly, it became necessary
again to trench on his little capital. The third
year, in spite of a hundred shifts resorted to for
economy, proved more costly than either of the eth
ers; so that when, at his close, Merivale cast up
his accounts, lie discovered that, since hie marriage,
he had sold out more than a thousand dollars' worth
of his stock, and owed besides several small billa,
which he had managed to tltrow over into the fourth
year. his income from hie little capital was now
just one hundred dollar,' less than it had been when
Ito married. And as it went on, year after year
until nearly every shine of the stack had been sold
out; for though Meanie'. bushiest; increased, so too
did his expenses.
My dear,' said Mr. Merivule to:her husband one
day, Caroline is now six years old, and it is time
else went to the daacing school. I have been going
to speak to you about it for several days.'
But I really can't afford it, Mrs. Module," said
her husband.
You wouldn't have Caroline be the only one in
her class at school who refuses to take lessons.—
All the rest have joined, and Mons. Deschampes is
very reusonable.'
But I don't know where the money is to come
from:
Wo must try to save it off something else then.
It would never d. for your daughter—a physician's
child—to refuse, under the circumstances ; every
one would gay immediately we wore poor.—We
must be respectable, end educate the poor dears de
cently. As it is, the children are dressed rather shab
bily, hut it can't be helped.'
'Rave it your own way, said Merivale, rising
hastily ; though he was really as sensitive to the
world's opinion as his wife, only he took this way
of venting his irritation at the narrowness of his
income.
As tho children grew up new expense. were con
stantly presenting themselves, all of which Mrs.
!Activate declared to be absolutely necessary ; and,
to contess the truth, her husband felt the forco of
her representations almost as much as she did ker.
self. For Merivalo, too, was proud; and to keep
up appearances, he Wed willing to sacrifice almost
any comfort.
But why pursue the history of this family's pri
vations? To enter their parlors, or to eat at their
table on gala days, you would think they hod ev
ery thing their hearts could desire, but a sight at
their private chambers, or of their usual fare would
have opened your eyes to the shifts to which they
were put to keep up appearances. Too poor to live
in the way they wished to, too proud to descend in
to a plainer style, they mini speht a day that Was
not marked by some privations or meanness, which
comfort ought to have repudiated or self-respect de
spised. And, at the end of several-years, in spite
of every effort, Merivale found himself without a
cent of his capitol left.
The next year proved a very unfortunate one.—
It was a season of great tnonitary distress, and Mer
ivale found it impossible to make his collections.—
He had now no caplet to fall back on ; and money
was nowhere to ha borrowed. But hid wife, who
had become what is called a very nianaging wo
man,' succeeded in getting along, with the hopo
that the next year would prove more propitious.—
But the next year true oven tease ; the grocer be-
canto clamorous; tho shoo bill was now due a
twelve month ; arid the baker's wife had said public
ly that Mr. Merivule must be pushed for money, ae
he did not eettle up punctually any longet, 'end
for her part—other people might do as they liked—
she would not trust him any longer.'
Things were now really at a crisis. The hus
band and father knew not where to turn. Rumors
were increasing every day. People said that there
was some excuse if a merchant in hard tittles, wax
I little slow in paying his bills, because, probably,
he had mado nothing in spite of every exettion;
but it was too bud if a doctor outrun hW income,
when he hod a comparatively certain annual income
and got his nioney before any body else. But Dr.
MeriVale'e funnily was very extravagant.
Such was the common goisip. and at length it
reached his eare. But what could he do I Ho hail
now got considerably behind hand, and there wan
no out to whom he could apply far a loan. An !
Cl>o 4a ZS
execution on his furniture was threatened• Ai
length he be-thought him of an, uncle ; a wealthy
bil.li'efc'r, w:iti had ;lira)? Wired of mokilig
Heavele his heir, rod C;hbrer.lly loved hi 3
A letter was accordingly value's, (for his relative
resided in another city,) in which a frank exposition
was rrii.cfie of Meriviile's toilditiosi;with u statement
of what amount wotrld reqVired to ieliexo hlin
from-difficulty. In a few wive Mr. f.; oreott arrived
in person. He came and took tea With Merivale
the very evening of his arrival, and then invited his
nephew to accompany him to his hotel. . .
. .
Wt I, but how ati. I to know I thall over be pao
said tho old merchant, !Mei. he had herd a detailed
account of his nephew's ditricUltie...: 'lee what
you ask of me. Here is a man deep'y in debt and
spending every year more than he malice, -with no
property to give es security, who asks a loan. What
sort of a fool would you Ache me to In; if a third
party sought to borrow money of me oh such
grounds 1
Motivate colored up and half rose from his chair:
Nay, nay—don't ho cillkided. Yc;ii arty the mi..
ly child of my only sister, and I haveldwaya triton:
tended you for my heir. But I wish you to seu
that this is no loan you ask, but a gift.'
My practice may increase; it to increasing ev:
cry year. We will retrench----,'
Ah ! that's the !wrist sensibly woid I've 'heard
you speak to-night. I wonder yMi did not do it loni
ago.'
Illerivalo saw his uncle really felt for him, in
apito of strange manner, so he frankly told the many
unavailing elliirts that had been made to economize:
'lt was impossible we foui7d,' ho added deiPoU.:
dingly. We could not save tho iiiuF,ey end keep
up appearances.'
'Keep up optima:lces ! Humbug, humbug
My dear nephew, you huge been wrong all througfi
this business. me ask you if you ever received
a service from any of these many friends, to secure
whose good word you pti t Yourself to a!! these shifts;
denied so many solid cOmfOrts; and Yet spent no
much money V •
Mer was forced to confess hi had not; Mar's
over they had all been shy of him since his ditca:
Did it do your daughters any good to go to Mrs:
Poole's expensive school V
Except that all the kshionablea sent their Chit:
siren there.'
. .
! and I will venturo to soy nono of these
fashionables have invited your daughters to Omit
children's Inirties since yoitr difileulties.'
lferivale was forced to confess they had not.
Are not pins daughters Sao to desist in thd
house 1'
Oh no—they never had time to learn. Wiled
they were not at school, they were takiiig muck
lessons al home, or doing fancy work.'
Humph ! And what use will either be to them
Dut how much could you have saved by cutting
off those unneasing accomplishments, to say no
thing of the wages of et beast one servant that you
could then have retrenchel' .
Merlynle mentioned the own:
And auppose, when you began life, that yeti bed
moved into a house fur two-thirds the rent of your
present one, how much would that have saved an- .
nually, not only directly in the rent of your present
ono, but indirectly in other oitpilseei'
' Now look here. I Will calculate all thbo litth
matters together: We will add their iiiterest, more=
over, every year. There--you have bewt mauled
tvrelve years, and if you had bcgini life as you
ought to, you would have bei3n worth twenty thou
stud dollars, instead of being a beggar. And fUr
ther, the interest of that sum, added to your prac
tice, would have supported you handsomely in the
etyle in which god now live.'
Merivale looked aghast! lie had never eien eo
keen a calculation; brit there it was, in black and
White:
. , .
, No* my dear nephew, you see you have dono
Wrong, and floundered from bad io worse ; the mo
ment I heard you had moved into that big house, I
now how all would cod; for I knew your means,
and felt assured that, sooner or later,you must come
to me. You have held out lcinger thin I thought
you could. Now take my advice. I will pay your'
debts; move into a smaller house. I have One itt
—street, just the thing. You shall have it
tent free, and then yoUr Meanie Will More than sup
port you, especially if you abandon Mrs. Nola'i
fashionable academy, and bring your ilaughler
like sensible girls, intended for citizens. Yet—
mind--I don't object le accompli,hinents in the ob.
street, any more than I object to living in fine hou
ics—only those who can afford neither, ought not
to aspire to thent. Believe me; three-fourths of
the difficulties of getting lilting, come front being
proud as well es poor:
Merivale took his uncle's advied land rigidly ad
hered to it, notwithstanding his wife, at first, pomp
tad by her another, was continually suggesting new
expenses rat ordea to be ropectutle. The conse
(pence woo that he lost none of hie practice, gain.
ed the respect of all honest men, and is now rapid
ly attaining a compete , ce. lie often soya there aro
mote families than one iinaginoe, who stiffer daily
privations became teey aro r oon ANA r n or n.
03:_r Arran a marriage in Connecticut the
bridegroom look the patron aside very myetei iously
arid whispered to him can't you take the pity in
trier,
WHEN inert speak ill of thee, do us Plato snid
he would do iu that ease:—. Live tit) as that nut',
dv 1,1. v belivve lit m'