Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1857 — Page 1

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‘IT’S ON’ Y A TRIFLE.’ A .Sketch For Beginners In Life. BY CYLVANUS COBB, JR. It was nt the. end of the year, ami John j Hodge sal in his snug little sitting-room ; with a very long face. John was a carpen- 1 ter by trade, eighl-and-twenty years of age, with a good wife, and three good children. He lived in a thriving village, and received ten dollars a week for his! * w< ( r k- He was a good workman* faith- ■ till, industrious, honest, and steady. He hired a small house for which he paid sixty dollars a year. fin t-ueuivaj Uis puv every Saturday evening. We said John had a good wife. And ' so ne had—one of the best wives in the country. She was not a beauty, but ! then she was pretty and intelligent; and ' i her good looks were of that kind which 1 j grow brighter under the influence of love, ' las the wearer grows older. She was a I valuable wife, and not a day passed but j John had occasion to bless the hour that gave her to him sot his companion. The three children were, a bov und ! i two girls, aged six, four, and two respec- ! lively—the boy being the oldest. ‘1 declare, Emma, this is hard,’ said | John Hodge, in a tone of mental pain. ’l' i suppose I should certainly lay up ahun-1 I dien dollars this year; hut I have bten I ■ to-day and paid the last bill 1 owed, and i 1 [ now find rhyself the undisputed owner i of three doll-ark and thirty-four cents!’ ‘ls that all?’ Emma asked this with ■ a show of interest, but not with surprise. In fact, her manner would rather imply that she had expected this. 'le.s. That is all. Now can you tell I me where our money has gone?’ Emma Hodge was a woman of sense. ! .She knew very well that there was little! profit in telling the errors of the past un- ! | less she could point them out plainly’ and ■ I separately. She did know where the ! i money had gone, but she feared her hus- I band would not believe her if she told him, for her own eyas had been opened ! only a few weeks. However, she ven-1 i lured to say—‘John, don’t you think we—(she said [ we out of pure willingnsss to bear a parti of blame which she had incured) —don’t roil think we’ve naiil morn for x,.rr.,. 1 things we have bought than there was j any need of?’ •How? When have I paid more than there was med of?’ asked John, in pure wonder. ‘Well —it seems to me that we have paid so a number of times.’ | ‘But what is one?’ ; ‘Well—there are the two glass l imps lin the parlor. We paid six dollars for i them, when a pair (or two dollars would ‘ I have done just as well. Not one in n; hundred of our visitors know the differ- ' ence between cut-glass and common pres- | sed glass.’ ‘Yes they do,Emma. If we are going to have lamps, let’s have them. I hate [ to see a cheap thing Stuck up in sight. — I’d rather go without money than to be mean and stingy about my tilings.’ Emma saw that John was troubled, ! ! and she resolved not to argue the case i with him then. He was not in a mood to be contradicted, and she would not touch i his feelings for the world; so she simply [ said, ns she placed her arms about bis neck and kissed him — ‘We wont worry about the past, John; but we will do differently in tie future. I Now let’s resolve to save something the coming year.’ •We will,’ said John; and from that moment he looked happier. The new year commenced, and things moved on as usual. When the spring 'opened John wanted a new suit of clothes, i ’ He went to the tailor’s and got samples , I of cloth, with a scale of prices There was I a very good suit to bo had for twenty-dol-' lars; and another for thirty. He pitched > npuu the thirty-dollar suit. i ‘But,’ argued Emma, ‘this suit fori twenty dollars is just as good. When J j the cloth is made up you could never tell I ! the difference; but the difference in price I I we should feel sensibly.’ •Pooh, Emma! You talk like a crazy I woman. I only have a new suit through- [ I out once in two years, and while I am | about it I might as well have a good one. ; What would folks think to see me saving i j money off from my back? Ten dollars ■is but a trifle when we consider how; | seldom I get such a suit.’ ■ ‘But, John, you must remember wlr.it' ■we wish to do. We wish to own a home : ■ of our own one of these days; and to reach ! that end must be economical in all things. Ten dollars is just a week’s pay.’ ‘But the clothes, Emma—you would not have me go poorly’ dressed?’ ‘No, my husband. But see: In purchasing clothes welookfirst tojour comfort ' then tbthe fashion; and then to our means. ' Now this suit for twenty dollars will look well enough, and I know it will wear as i well, if not better, than the one for thirty dollars.’

‘ Our Country's Good, shall ever be our Aim- Willins; to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNT/, INDIANA, JUNE 19,1857.

Lu'. John couldn’t see. He was deter- 1 mined not to appear mean in dress, and he must have the thirty-dollar suit On the following day, Emma went to.” the tailor,’ with whom she had been a.--' quamted. from childhood, and asked if •John had ordered liis suit. She was informed that he had. Emm i examined the various fabrics, and fiualh found some [cloth from which the garments could be, made for twenty dollars, and the tailor I assured her that they would wear better, 'and, in the end, be offur more value tm John, than the thirty-dollar suit. The line broad cloth would be good for noth- j ing for him to ware in his business after it liegun to lose its nrst lustre. • It was at length decided that the r uit* should be made from a meterial which the wife and the tailor bad selected, and ' j for twenty dollars, Emma promising to • bear the responsibility; but John was to j know nothing of it. 'He was to pay the ’ I thirty dollars as he had arranged. [ In due time John came home with bine w suit, and when he put it on, he felt i very much pleased with the effect. The i pan.- weie of fine, strong doe-skin, and the coat and vest of handsome and dura-, I ble materials. 1 hey looked better in the garments—made up—than they did before,’ sain Joi.ii. ‘Only this cloth don’t look quite' ; so fine as it did in the piece; but its firmer. ' But it kind o’ raises the nap in m i , king. 1 suppose.’ Os course Ltnma admired the suit verv ' | much, and her husband was happy when' he -found that she said nothing about tin price, lie wore the clothes to meetings i the following day, and when they were | ! hungup on Sunday evening, he was very . carelui lx) have them turned inside on [and kept from the dust: because, as he! i said, ‘such clothes rnusn.t be abused.’ [ Ou monday hiiirmi went to the tailor,i and got the ten dollars which she had S‘ I surreptitiously saved. I Not lung after this it became necessart [to purchase a carpet for the parlor, Thu, ; far they had had no carpet in that room Hhough they had long been plan I iningto have one. They had been purlchasing gradually. There were some ex ! i penses ot the year before, which woul! | [ not come in the present year, and carpi 11 [ and a sofa hud been set down for the pre' I I On Monday morning John and his wife) i went to look at some carpets. John was | bent upon a threeply. lie knew no dill- j erence between Kidderminister and three- i ply; or between two-ply and no ‘ply* at! , all. But lie knew that Brown, and Jenj kins, and Peters, ami Kopps, all had ■three ply,’ while Emma knew that! Brown’s three-ply was only two-ply; and ' i that Peters, was a second-hand affair I which he lioughtat auction. ‘Now fur our use a good Kidderminis- ‘ ter.’ But John could not do it. He wouldn’t ; be mean,about a parlor carpet. ‘lt’s only a trille —thirty-live cents a yard —that’s all.’ But we are to get five-and-twenty yards John; and that will make a difference of I eight dollars and seventy-five cents.’ | ‘Well—and what is that when we think ; how long we are to use the carpet. It is I something which we shan’t buy again [ for a good many years. No, no, —I mean ito have as good a carpet as any one has of my' means.’ Emma urged—she spoke of the true , independence and the false; and she alltii ded to the lime when they hoped to Lave money enough to purchase a home of tl.eir own. o—John understood all that.. He meant to save; but he would nut be mean. Eight or nine dollars was a mere trifle when we consider that it is for a carpet that must be in their par! r for years. It soon happened that the dealer was j an own uncle to Emma, and she managed |to whisper to him her plans. He had ! two carpets so nearly of the same pattern ! that they could not be distinguished w(ien i apart, save that one was three ply, *mi t the olher two-ply. John bought and paid 1 fur the former —one dollar and twentyfive cents a yard; but the other one was sent home, Emma put the eight dolj lars and three quarters in her batik, i John Hodge admired his carpet when j his wife had made it and put it down.— ;He said, now much belter it looked than ■ ‘one o’ them cheap tilings would.’ Emma j might have felt some compunctions had | she not known that her husband was govi erned wholly’ by’ what other people had, ! rather than what he needed. And then, !a- .iii, be knew no difference between the I various qualities of woollen fabrics, being ! only anxious to have his friends think be had the best. When the carpet was down it became necessary to get the sofa. Even Emma felt that their parlor was rather bare.— They had not seats enough for a small party; and as they must have more seats (they might as well have good ones—■have them on a sofa. ; Up to this time Emma had managed to save quite a respectable um ot money. Since the first of April she had done the

J marketing. Until this John had always ■ bought and seut home the provisions; and n this di'p.'irtment, as in nearly a 1 ! oth lie never looked at ‘trifles.’ Seldom I 'did he ever go into the market without ' repeating the old sentence—‘Well—-I’ll [ iave.it. It’s only a trifle.’ He thought 1 ' t very mean to ask a butcher to cut a leg of l imb. Id - whole only came to fifty cents; [ . ind he blushed scarlet at’the very thought | • 4 refusing early fruit because it was high in price. If Jones not strawberries, of rcourcu be could get strawberries. And ; if his grocer had ‘laid by a few quarts of I Dine fresh . isberries on purpose for him,’ T’ " id a soon '•ave' ’< . i-d lis friend’; f ... to h-.ve ref ; d tlP'm because Tie could not afford it. But. Emma had no such feelings. She 1 felt that she was trading with her hus- ; band’s money, aud she was deter;..med to show him that she was worthy of the trust. On the. previous January they had - reckoned up the grocer's and butcher’s ; b'lls, and found that .the average for the' year had been exactly five dollars and! i forty-six cen's a week; so this .-urn Emma : ; claim'd, and she bad it handed to her each Saturday evening. From this she I managed to save considerable, and vet 1 i.John found no fault with his living. He! ‘i never fared better. As he did none of rhe marketing he taw but little of the early ! hot-house fruit, and so cared nothing; [about it. And, in fact, he never Lad; [but the traders knew his easy, timor-' | ous disposition, and they put upon him | i what they pleased. Let the grocer say,— I ‘Ah—Hodge—you’re just in time.— ; Here are some splendid new blackberiies. [ I I kept ’em purpose lor ye. Jones.wanted 1 I’em, but 1 told him no,—l’d saved cm' for you. I’ll send ’em right over.’ I'erliaps John would venture —‘How high do they come?’ ‘O—only twenty cents aqu irt.. But [ look at ,em, —the first of the season!’ And John was surely stuck fur the her- [ ries—half green, perhaps—out of season ' —small measure—and just worth nothing at all to John Hodge. But these things were not practised up-; [on Emma 'She hiuiglit whal she wanted; Ijust ns little as he Aianted; and never I what she di:l not leant. -tShe exerted lierI self in her cooking; and in their proper I was wi'v!” n trcha»ed as much fruit as I At length Jouu ... [look for a sofa. There, was quite an ex-1 j tensive furnature store in the village, and ; ■there they found all sizes and patterns. — [ Ater looking for an hour John settled down upon a sofa, the price of which was I ihiry-five dollars. i Mr. Barnes has a sofa of this very pat(tern,’ said the dealer, who was a parlic-1 ular frien 1 of John’s, —‘and I believe he [will sell it very cheap. He is going [ awav and has sold every things Ise.’ Pooh! [ said John. ‘1 don’t want any second-hand | stuff in my house. Thunder! what an 1 | ideal’ | I ‘But bow has be sold all but that?’. | asked Emma. ‘Because the family who have moved ! into his house bought all the rest. 1 hey , j had a sofa and chairs to match, so they [ [ did not want his.’ Emma suggested to her husband that I I thev should look at Barnes’ sofa; but he [ would not listen tv it. lie had read about i this second-hand furnature, he said, ami [ didn’t want anything to do with it. The sofa was selected, and John prom-[ ised to pay fur it within three months. —' He had not the money then. Afier this | the husband went to his work, leaving his i wife to go home. But she only went to • ■ the grocer’s, and then returned to the; ; furniture store. We said before that this cabinet-maker' was it pai'ticular friend of John’s. John j had worked for him considerable during | ! the winter months, and he not only liked ; [ the young carpenter, but would have done i ! much to help him. Emma had been ac-1 II quainted with him ever since she could i i remember. I [ When the young wife entered the cab- [ [ inet room H second time she found Lite I dealer alone, and frankly told him her 1 ■ plans. She wished to Leip John to save’ money, ami in order to make him nnderi stand that it could be dune, she must do | -! it. She asked him if the sofa of which II he had spoken was uninjured. i' ‘Just as good as it was the day I sold 11 it to him,’ returned the dealer, who en-. ■ I tered at once into the spirit of Emma’s , i plan, and wished to help her. ‘But he [ , ; ins made up his mind that he must go to ■ > California, and go he will. So he needs ’ ; I all the money he can raise, aud will sell [ > for almost anything before he would leave iit unsold Why not go over and look at >i it now? It is only across the next street.’; J Emma started, and prom ised to meet .[ him there in fifteen minutes. She went, ■ 1 and not onlv saw the sofa, but found the s [owner there. She told him she had but ;' little money, but that she wanted a sofa. ! He said he had paid thirty-five dollars ‘ for it onlv a vast before, aud Lad used it ■ J but a very few times. He would sei! it 5 for twenty dollars. Emma hesitated—

She said she had imped that she coul i hav it taken to the c ibiiiet simp, a few scratches obliterated, hare i’ brushed up. and carried to m i ' ou-e, al! for that -um. ' Mr. Barnes at once said she should have it at that price. ‘Pay Mr. Goodwin the twenty dollars I when be delivers it, and 1 v. ill Luk to him for my pay. The soin came in due season, end Emma paid for it, Mr. Guodwm pronn.'ing th it he would collect this thirty till' do! lars from her husband, and pass it o-! ver to her. Juhu was much pleased with his sola. | He s.ibl it looked darker, and M .vim, and richer ttiau he had thought wh.m !:■ . ; bought n. His parlor was n' . conq-icti , | and lie would have no mure heavy bills; I for the rest of the year. And so time moved on, ami Emma was i at herpost. The traders had lerned that [ siie needed no help in purchasing. V, hen she enter'd the store she kimw what sim came fur, and just the quantity and quality she needed; and she bought j ;st th; and no more. On the first of November the sui t ifas pdd I'r, ..id Emma received the thirty-five dollars from the cabi-' net-maker. One cold, clear, sharp morning John Ilfidge w. hod bis sweet wile a "Hapi'Y New Irm’ Evening came, and the! family were together in their snug parlor, where tfTey resolved tospi nd tl.u candlelit hours. • ‘W !.!, John, how much have you laid up this year!’ the wife asked, with a smile. ‘o—don't say any thing, Emma,’ returned the husband, uneasily, ‘lt’s no, use; I can’t lay up money with my family, i Our children have to be clothed and fed, and a thou and-aml one little things that there’s no help for.’ But surely the children don't take' much, John. You know all Lydia’s I dresses are made over from those which ' Emma has outgrown; and two-thirds of[ Emma’s dresses have been made over [ from mine;'and you know our boy has helped to wear out some of your cast-off I habiliments.’ ‘I suppose so; but yet the money goes. [ There's been five dollars and forty-six cents a week for proviesions to begin with. ‘But you have lived well, John?’ ‘Yes, Emma No man could live bet ‘And yet 1 have naa miry ? .. spent the year before; and you must re- i member that our children cat mure now ■ than they did a year ago.’ ,Yes —1 suppose so. But you’ve man- [ aged to keep ■-quare, haven’t you?’ ‘O, yes. But now tell me, John, how ! much you have saved.’ ‘Well; I have the enormous sum of [ twenty-two dullais and ten cents!’ j ‘Have you so much?’ . ‘There —don’t puke fun at me. 1 tell [ I you its no use.’ •Well, wait a moment, and I’ll show [ i von my savings.’ Emma left the roon, ami when she re- ; ! turned she bore a little paste board box: in her bund, which she gave to her Lus- 1 [ band. Hu took it, and having opened it, lie ’ [ counted out fourteen ten-dollar gold pie- i 1 ces, and one Cve-dollar piece! One bun-1 [ died and forty-five dollars! He weighed I I the bright piece;, in his band, aud then I looked at his wife. ‘Emma,’ he stammered, ‘what is this?’[ ‘Trijics,’ John—only trljles.’ ,Eh? Trljles? But what do you mean '; ! Where’d this come from? Whose is it?’ I ‘lt’s yours and mine, John; and it is the amount 1 have got lov trljles.' Cut John was bewildered. Erumaliad to struggle some to maintain her conipo | i sure, fur tears were filling her eyes in tpile . [of her. This was a moment she had been ’ [ losing forward to for a long while with 1 strange emotions, and now that it had | come those emotions were all brought to [ a climax together. But finally she poke, | though lier voice was tremulous, and her i [eyes bedimmed with tears. ‘John I know you will pardon me. I I own that I have presumed upon your fail- ! ling, but J could not help it. 1 saw that I your ‘trifles’ were eating up our substance A dollar is not much, but a dollar a week ; makes fifty-two dollars a year. 1 knew I that the traders took advantage of your I fear of being thought meun, as you termed it, ami that they were taking your money for things that we did nqt need.— I have furnished'you with all you needed and lam sure we have had enough I 'to spine. Yen had paid tl.e grocer and [ butcher an average of five dollars and forty-six cents a week. 1 have paid them a trifle less than three dollars and forty ] cen' a week thereby savingjust one hun- [ died and eleven dollars and twenty live ' cents. Have I not done well?’ ‘But where do s the rest of this come from?’ asked John, eagerly, showing bv liis looks that he kept his emotions back until lie knew all. ' ‘You will not blame me, John?’ ‘Blame you? How could 1? But tell ire all how.’

•Well, h irst, your best, suit of clothes co 1 1 only tweniy dollars! That trifle of ten dollars 1 got the tailor to give me, while he g ive you a suit us my own se- ■ iecting. But. you know the ciutiies have pleased you.’ John 11>'dgi looked at his wife in blank su‘; ri-se. | ‘Next, John, we have a very fine Kidilei minister carpet on our parlor. 8o I . got eight dollars and seventy-live cents for . ii:At ti.icv ( 'iy. But you kuuw we Lave oeeti [■■ iL e ly atisio'd .’ John siil! !<• ked surprised. I ‘Next, John, 1 buu hi Mr Barnes' sofa for w bn.il 1 | . .liwi iii. doila' -. ca..o. r > I Mr. gau mu the muuty you hiiadi"! him. Bui you i.; >w the «-.f» is u [nice one, and 1 ■ ned a trifle in the pur[ehase. .'I re you odendod?' In a moment more Emiaa was silling [ upon lu r husband’s Knee, and Lis arms ,v. re about her neck. He did not blame . her. He bl . cd her. ami from that Lour ; lie Knew licit lie possessed a treii'ure in ! liis w ile wbieli lie iiad never before aj>pr» iciated. The gold wns in his hand, and ( eVen nftei all was explained lie could hard : ly realize tlr.t it Fas all his—saved from ; ids y ar’’ " iv. .A id John Hodge Lad received a lesson " I it'll lie was not lu lui'get. The ‘nest- < iliu- proem til was not left alone lie began.to look upon ‘lrillcs’ more in ■ their true character—as only parts of a 1 great whole; nnd by a little practice he succeeded in putting on a bold face when i ire entered a store, and if the trader urged that Twas‘only a trifle,'(Jolin could calmly answer, ‘But it is a trifle which 1 du nut need. ■ In four years from that day on which Joi,'i learned hi' first lesson on trifles, , iie had accumulated triiles sufficient to [ buy him good home. And when be had ; become settled down in a home of hisow n [ lie went on laying up trifles still, in the 'hope that some day he mi'dit be able to : work out a vast amount of good from so ' trifling a begining. '•Vivi iiun i y mid hai e children iu A mericai More than four-seventh of tke mai riagus in Massachusetts are among the foreign born. Why is it? For the most simple of reasons —the foreign born can ; aflord to gut married, and the native burn i cannot, and this must bv, So lu:.. as our [ to deeper and more destructive social corruption —and that is most evident from ['he records of all the courts, and the col ! umns of all the newspaper—than Americans. Our fathers us< d to tell of the 'profligacies of Paris; their clilldr'-n to the ; invsicrivsof N.;w Yuik a city nut far bvj hind any in Europe 1 . And making pro-' per allowancs for size, how far is New ' i ork ahead of our other cities and towns? ! Once was the time when a w.fe was a ['help meet;’now in a thousand of cases YOU can change '.lie 'meet to eat,’ aud imalif it read more f lithfully. We boast of onr system of education, i we have female high schools, female medical schools, ai d female heaven . Our [ girls me .refined, learned and wise; they I can sing, dance, play pianos, paint, talk i French and leiiian. ami ail the soft lan--1 gurtges, write poetry and lov " like Venuses. Thev are readv lobe courted at tert years, am/ can be taken from senool and married at fif'-'i n, and diver.-, i at tweniy . They make splendid shows on brita! lours, [can coquette aud flirt nt the watering places, and shine like angvi; at winter parties. But Heaven he kind to the poor ; wretch that marries in the fashionable circles. What are they washing floors’ Oh, we forgot: nobody has bare floors [now—how vulgar that would be! What arc they ate making bred and boiling I beef? Why how thoughtless we are—to be sure thev ai c mending old clothe ? But there we are again: the la-Lions change so often that nobody has old cLthes but th.- rag men and the paper makers now I What are they at washing babies' faces land pinning up theirtr iir ers? And here is cur intolerable stupidity once more; 1 having children, is left to the Irish! \\ hat : lady thinks of having children about her now? Or, it she is so unfortunate, don’t she put them to wet nurses to begin with 'and buaiding schools afterwards? We . repeat, we have come to a point where . i young men'hesitate and grow <.hl before they enn di -ide whether they can marry, and afterwards keep clear of bankruptcy [ 1 and'.'rime. What is the consequence? , There ar.' : . re p. r ans living a single life — aie there more leading a virtuous life.’ It is time lor mothers to know that ! the extravagance they encourage is destructive of the virtue of their children; that all the foolish expenditure making ,'; to rush their daughters to matrimony are. instead of answering Hint end, tending to . destroy the inthution of ruarrige alto- . getlier. ‘M v,’ said a little urchin, 'I think them’s one thing God can’t do.’ 'What 1 is it?’ ‘God can’t make- Bill Jones, mouth any bigger without setting his ears back.

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