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VOL. xxxn.. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1858. No. 30. spipn* T^ FDBLBBIDBT , EDWARD C. DABuINGTON, omOK 18 SOftTB QOBW* "TMlT. The BXAWNER & DKHOCRATIC HBEALD 1. poHUhed weekly, al nroooliaw « Tear. ADVERTI8BMBNT8 will t» "WMtad at tho qaarter. balf yearor r«ViS;|j5rl.3i IjZSj. on.6,.^" »?S-*tSS MSS S^joiamn.:::::::::::::.: .j» i?~ gj? /» ., ~ aioo 65 00 so 1» BnSlKBSs'JKJTrCES loeeHed hefore Maniagea and DeShe.doaMetberegniarratee. „,i..,, «3-i!laJ»erUel»8 acconnta are con.ldered collecta- blfjt the expiration of balf the period contracted for. tianHlent adTertleement. oabb. MAREUGE, BusHnra hea'dlong into it, CDAFTKR I, im. ) The inflaecce of these, little things as they ; may seem, is very great. Character is easily ¦ I formtjd and moaldeil in early lifr, and the ''IsiiDDOse tliey do," aMflnt«d Anaie.-* 'lur olet^iDg and'li dnssad ftlmost as soon as rarcdy.qonipledto takeaoab whan an omxd- to.goan'dgiro the plaoe abad name, ont of "Then there wonld be four incapables in- "The wear and tew of fnniilnre, which.must on other days." has or hia own legs woald have served as revenge." atead of two—or what would amonnt tothe be replaced and the breakagea, and the bay- "It is a fortunate thing Mr. Lanoe'a choice well. They began hoaselceeplng nponthree "Can't yoa change the oook?" same," aDceremonionaly observed AantClem. - — ¦ ~ — inir of new clothes, when thoie laid in at the' fell upon yon, Annie. We shoald not like servanis, two maids and a tiger, who eat as "I have ohauged her three times in the last Yon wonld have spent poor Lance out of Discrdiinatio.n- Between- Educatio-v and j language of trees and Dowura, of neatne.^s wedding are worn out. Allthat oome." to be degraded to do tho bnainess of a aer- mnoh aa the whole honse pat together. The year, and each one seema to have leas notion house and home; and Annie would have led Knowledge.—Education and knowledge are : and last**, as spoken by nature, finds a reaily "Ah," aaid Aunt Clem, "there's something vant of all work." house waa larger than that of Mra. Lance, and of ecouomy than the last. They are fair- a weary and wretched life of it, for the entirely differeut, and a greater mistake on interpreter in the h^art of childhood. It ia worse comes. Babies." "There ia ao degradation in it," oried they kept more oompany, but two efficient spoken before my faoe and segjinfi all I aay, captain's expenses out of doors wonld have th« Mtl-JBOt can hardly be committed, than to ] the uniform testimony of Teachers wbo have »'0h—babies," said Annie, in a dubious Annie, with spirit; "what degradation can servants, with proper management might hava but the extravagance lis no^-dlminished." rendered futih) her economy at home. Noi regard them as identical or synonomoas. A ' tried the experiment, that a school in whicb tone,"Ihave beard they bring love with there.bef Were I a nobleman's daughter or done the work well; only It was neceasary, CapUln Conrtenay opened lhe bills, bill by you bave been rightly paired. Youhavenot person may amaaa much knowledge, aud be-j the pupils are interested in the beantifying them." a millionaire's my condescending to know for appearance sake, as both Captain and bill, and laid them in a ataok on the table.— half the comfort npon your five hundred a come the repository of many facts, even a j of their grounds, needs bnt little diacipliiJO' " It is to be boped tbey do, poor things," anything about it. would be beneath me, " Mrs. Courtenay deemed, to teke (not being " Augusta," said he, in a gravely aerions year that they have upon three." walking encyclopedia, and yet bo uneducated. Looking at it from this point, we cannot but aharply rejoined Annt Clem, "or I don't know quite oat of place: but in our olaaa oflife— able to afford a footman) a third maid or ti- tone, " we most retrench, or we shall soon "Go on, goon, Aunt Clem," cried Augusta; In the hands of those whoae minds are un ' .. . . ' . .. . what would beoome of them. But they don't yea, Emily, f apeak of ours, mine and yonrs gm-, and they took the last named article.— be in a hobble," bringmoney." —itia anythingbut derogatory to help in Next dame the babies, and witb tbe advent of "I am willing," anawered bia wife, "but " Well," said Annie, with a glowing cheek, these domestio triflea. Ifit takes me an the Urst, the tiger waa discharged, and a third Whera shall we begin ?" " we bave determined to try it, with all ita hour a day—and it doea not take me more on maid taken in hts plaoe, and now that there " Let ua consider," resumed the captain, bszzards, if only papa and mamma will ap- an average, I don't know wbat it may do in were three children there were four maids. tbougbtfnlly; "where can it be ? It oannot and their shabby living. I don't suppose tools in the hands of one ignorant of their "Go on, go on, Aunt Clem," oried Augusta; ^u .u« utiuua o. xnose wnose minus are un- j think that too little interest is felt by our "why dont you magnify them into angels ? developed, knowledge is neither permanent Teachers generally, and too little effort made. More comfort than we have! Look at onr nor capable of future use. It is lilce water in many caaes tbe fencing placed there by superior home, our mode of life, and com. dipped up in a basket, soon lost for tlie want , Directors is not cared for by the Teacher as pare it with theirs; their paltry two servants of power to retain it; or like a coII-cti6n of jt ought to be. Not a few times have we I prove' time—wbat then? It is an hour well spent; Captain and Mra. Conrtenay alao liked to be in the rent and taxea ; of ooarse tbey ^^^7 taste wine once in a month." ute. The mere shopkeeper who has ou the And suppose your papa and mamma do an hour that I might fritter away If I did not go out of town in autumn, and they were fond j muat go on just the aame, and the insurance, " And no( tasting it, do not feel the want shelves of his warehouse a great variety, of A dazzling gltam of white favors flashed ^j^ approve ?" ^^^^ ** *<* ^°- ^^ ^°^^ °°^ ™^^ "°7 hands ' of gayety, went lo partiea, and Rave them.— ' and I mnat pay the interest of the money o^ >'• But when yon say shabby living, you mechanical tools and implements, cannot for Then we must wait patiently for better coarse, leas fit for my drawing afterwards or , Their hotiaekeeping was on an extensive " we owe, and we must have our meals as *" prejudiced, Aguata. Thougb their din- that reaaon be called a mechanic. The per- into tbe admiring eyes of numerous specta- ^ tora, aa a airing of carriages and horses turn- days," sighed Annis. my embroidery, and it does not aoil my nice scale compared with their income; Mrs ed prancing away from the church of a noted « ^nd live upon hope," said Aunt Clem, morning dress, for I have made a large brown Conrtenay waa no manager, she knew literal- suburb of the metropolis. The gay and « which is abont as satisfactory as living holiand apron to go nearly all round me, and ly nothing of practical domeatio details when handsonirt Augusta Marsli had just become ' ^pon air. Well, Annie, I side with yoa.— I turn up my sleeves; in ehort it does not she married, and she did not aeek to acquire Mrs. Courtenay, and the bridal party were y^^ shall have my helping word for it." render me one whit leas the lady, when I sit them ; her aervanta were improvident and now retuniiuu bome lo partake of the wed- " You are not serious, Clementina I" ex- in my drawing-room and receive any friend j wasteful, ahe conld not shut her eyes to that; ding breakfast. claimed Mrs. Marsh. w^o ™«y °^^^ "P°" ^^- ^° ^ ^°°^ l^^s like but her attempts at remedying the evil only Dr. Marsh, a phyaician, was popular iu hifl «Indeed I am. I should not counsel every, one to you F" amounted to an oooaaional storm of soolding, amall locality, and his five daughters were g£ri to marry npon three hundred a year, but "Psha,AnnieI You picked up these notions and the sending off of oook after oook. They attractive giria, fully expecting to make good Annie and Mr. Lance seems to have well con- of kitchen management at poor Annt Rnt- got Into debt, tbey grew deeper into it every marriages, although it was underatooi that sidered what they are about, and are prepar- tley's, but you ought not to bo forming your month and year, and Captain Conrtenay, be- they would bave no fortnne, for the doctor ed to make the best of its difficullies" ideas npon them." sieged out of hia aeven senses, was fain to lived up lo his income, if not beyond it.— ' "And very glad I am that I did pick them patch up matters by borrowing money of a Tht* fiist tocarry out this expectation waa Au- CHAPTER II. up. But if I had not, if I tad aa little ex- gentleman named lahmael Levi. Of coarse gnsta who married Captain Conrlflnay. In a neighborhood where house-rent was perience in domestic usefnlness as you. I he fleeced him wholesale. The captain waa ouly a captain by courte- cheaper than at Brompton, but within a walk believe they would have come to me with tbe ay. HebaJ riold out of the army and lived ¦ of it, did Mr. and Mrs. Lance settle down, necessity." upou his property, five huudred a year.— por the full consent of Mrd. Marsh was won "Oh, no doubt," said Sophy, soomfully; Quite sufficieut to marry upon, tbooght Au- 0^^^, the wedding took plaoe, and they were "yon were incliBed by natnre to these low gusta ; but the captain, what with his club) ; fairiy launched iu life, for better or for worse, lived notions, Annie." aud hid tailor, and his opera, and hia other j ^po„ tijeij. t^ree hundred a year. Theirrent "There are notions abroad," gravely respon- ^ ^ bachnlor expenses, had found it liitle enongh '• ^^g thirty-five pounds, and for ita size the ded Mrs, Lance, "that for people in oar pre- ^r. Lance and Annie, with their' despised for himself. He met Augusta Marsh, fell in house waa really a handsome looking house, teutious class of society (I cannot help call- ^jj^^g hundred, had been browbeat in society love with her, and determined to renounce which a gengeman need not be ashamed to i»g it so, for we ape the ideaa and manners f(,r daring to risk it; but the despised ones folly and settle dowu iuto a married man.— ^ acknowledge aa hia residence. Income and only suited to those far above ua,) all partio- ^ere canqneror; and the lauded onea had Dr. Marsli had no objection, Augusta had i other taxes amounted to about fifteen, and ipation in, all acquaintance even, with do- f^^^^, q^^ ^^g j^ ? yj^g ^j^g p^^ty jj^^ less ; as a bome was set up at Brompton, and ' the fifty-pounds was a large item out of their meatic duties, is a thing to be a.shamed of, looked their future full in the face, and de- this was the wedding-day. : income: there was also the fire and life in- never to be owned to, but ooutemptuonsly Uberately reaolved to confiue their simple de- It need not be described ; they are all alike; J surauce. Annie aeemed fully determined to denied. They are wrong notiona; wicked ^-^^.^^^ within less than their income, arming if the reader has passed his, he knows j oarry out her scheme of ecouomy: though in notions : false and hollow: for they lead to themselves against temptation; thaotherhad what it is, if not, he can live in expectation. ' jq doing this, she gave great umbrage, in one embarrasament; to unpaid debts, to the ^^^ go looked at it, but had got themselvea Caiitain and Mrs. Courteuay departed at two or two points, to aome of her family. Upon wronging of our neighbors; and the sooner o'clock on their wedding-tour, the gnesta fol- the return of Mrs. Marsh and her daughters the fashion goes out, the more aensible sooi- lowed, and tho family were left alone.to them- from their two-month's annual sojourn at the ety will prove itself. I don't know which ia selves and to Aunt Clem. Auut Clem, a sia- sea-aide, the young ladiea hastened to call the worst: a woman who entirely neglects to ter of Dr. Marsh's, rejoiced inthe baptismal. upon Annie, who had then beeu married about ' look after her household, where her station asnal. We must diamiss one ofthe aervanta." *fThaPi equally impossible," returned Mra. Conrtenay. " Which would yoa dismiss ?— Three ohildren, two of them in arma, as one may say, require two nnraes, and oannot be attended to withoat. Then there must be tivo for the honse: one could not wal , and cook, and olean, and anawer the door—oh, impoasible. nera are plain, thougb they may consiat gen- b°^ deserving that uame, is the one who erally but of one dish of roast beef, or steaks, knows how to use those implements, or who or cutlets, besides tbe vegetables, there ia in the case of necessity, cau even make the alwaya plenty and what more cau people inoplements themselves. So an eddcated want thau their—stomachs—full. It used ni^^d ^ ooi a mere store-house of facts, but to be belly in my days, but I suppose the ^° intelligent agent, witli power to act and present age would be shocked out of its re- perform, independently, the work of life. To flnement to hear that word now." educate is to draw out and develope the The captain laughed, for Aunt Clem had powers of tbe human miud, and to give tliem Captain Courtenay leaned hia head upon i'^^^^"^ ^^^^^^^ »°^» * ^«^t- "^^ ^o wine gvowth, strength aud vigor; to form and bia band ; it did indeed seem aa If their was ! ^*°^« °^^8ht surely manage to allow himself ^^^uld them iu their development, and not not the aUghtest loophole in the domestic ^^Ij^f/'^^ Z^'^^ ?^^'" ^^'\ ^'*- *" ^'"¦'""•''' **'* "'"'''''"" "'^"^ ""'''' ^'''^''^ '"'•'"''' department which afforded a' chance of re¬ trenchment. —¦ found the gates unhinged and lying in tlie mud—the fences torn and raggeri, and the whole scene one of dilapidation and waste. Such Teachers give poor encouragement to Direotors to go on in snch improveraents.— There is too much apathy with Teachers.— i Doubtless the temporary natnre of their en- i gagement has much to do with this; but considerations so selfish as this onght to be beneath the Teacher. It will require only a little effort aud a little labor to secnre the end. It is more dilficult to obtain fencing than to have it planted and improved ; aud I consider that Teacher almost inexcusable, who has taught six months in a achool house fenced in, who has not had tbe grounrls Their real tranbles of Hfe were looming om- l inously near, tbe fruits of their short-sighted union, of their improvident conrse. Captain Conrtenay and hia wife, with their flve hnn^ dred a year, had launched Into marriage, their frsends crowing over their sure proapeots namHofClementiua,whichhadlongsincebeen , five months. It should be observed that Au- ahortened by lier nieces into Clem. She waa nie, being of of a quiet, patient, uaeful dis- ft wonian <;f some jinU'Uient, plirtiwd and pen position, had always been considerably dicta- eiiatiiu, cj'piitially with reiiard to her niecea ted to and snnbbed by her siatera ; and now faults, and whenever Aunt Clem wrote from that she was married they forgot to discon- the country that she was coming on a visit, . tinue the habit. they called it a black-letter-day. " I'm 60 upset!" uttered Mrs. Marsh, sit¬ ting dowu with a half groan. " That'a through eating custard in a morn¬ ing," aaid Aunt Clem. " Ealing nonsense," returned Mrs. Marsh. " Did you see that young man who sat next to?—wbich of the girls was it ?—to you, An- ¦ nie, I think ; did yon uoiice him, dementi- ' na ?" " Yes. A nice looking man." "Nice looking 1 Why be has not got a I tLandsome feature in his face !" j " Such bad management, Annie F" begau ; Sophy at onoe. " Three o'olock in the day ! and yoar cook answered the door to ua.— j Where waa Rebecca f" I " Rebecca ia gone F" answered Mrs. Lance. "I have only Mary." ' " Only Mary!" uttered Misa Sophy, aghast. I " Emily, did you hear that ? Whatever can , you mean, Annie ?" " Well—it happened iu this way," said An¬ nie. "Rebecca did not snit: ahe was care- leas, insolent to Mary, and caused mnoh " A nice countenance for all that," persist- , ed Annt Clem. " One yon can confide iu at i the first glance. "What of him !" " I am horribly afraid he is going to propose ¦ for one of the girls. He dropped some words to me; and now, instead of leaving the houae, he ia down stairs, closeted with the doctor.— Which of yon girls is it that has beeu sotting bim up to do tbis ?" cried Mrs. Marsh, ab¬ ruptly turning to her daughters, "Annie, what are you looking so red for ?" Annie Marsh did look red, and very con¬ scious. Au attachment, bidden hitherto from all but them, existed between her and Geoffry Lance,and tbey had come to the resolntion to make it kuown. Mrs. Marsh's surmise that be waa now speaking to the doctor was cor¬ rect ; and the doctor oame up with the news. " What answer did you give him?" asked Mrs. Marah. " Told him tbat if be and Annie had made up their minds to try it, I shonld not say nay," replied the doctor. " Aud asked him to come in to spend the evening." Mrs. Marsh looked daggers; tbree of the youug ladies looked the same. " Let tbem marry, Dr. Marsh! let them marry upon nothing 1" " Oh, come, it'a not so bad as tbat," said tbe doctor. '• He haa three hundred a year. What did you and I begin life upon, old lady, eh ? Annie, ask yonr mamma if it was not considerably lesa than tbat." " Nonsense!" crossly responded Mra. Marshy as the doctor went ont, laughing. *' The ca¬ ses are not at all alike, Annie ; you must see tbat they are not. Yourpapa'a waa a rising profession ; and Lance will stick at his three hnndred a year all hia Hfe." " What ia this Mr. Lance ?" inquired Aunt Clem. " A gentleman ?" " Oh, of course a gentleman. He was bringing up for the Bar, but his father died, and there was a hitch about money. I be¬ lieve he did eat terms and get oalled, bnt he had nothing to live upon while practice came and waa glad to accept the secretaryship ofa public institution. He gets £300 a year, and he'll never get more, for it is a fixed salary not a rising one. Don't be le I into absurdi¬ ty, Annie." - " Mamma," said Annie,going up to her, and speaking in a low tone, full- of emotion, " I will never marry contrary to your approba¬ tion, neither wonld Geoffry take me on such terms. But I hope you will not hold out against us- 1 have heard you aay how much you liked Mm." " So I do, Annie," said' Mrs. Marsh, some¬ what appeased by the words and tone, " but you never heard me say I liked his income, or thought him a desirable match for one of my daughters. Tiiree huudred a year I It's quite ridiculous, child." -^^r'.^We bave considered it in all points, dear¬ est mamma, and talked it over a great deal," resumed Annie, timidly, " and we feel sure that we shall do. very well upou it, and live comfortably. Yoa kuow I havo had some experience iu keepiug bouse on small meam, at Aunt Rutlley's." " For goodness sake, Annie, don't bring up Aunt Euttley," interrupted Sophy Marsh.— " The poor curate's stipend is but a hnndred a year, with the parsonage to live in, and a flock of children to fill it. You are head oook and bottle washer when you are staying tbere, I expect. They must live upon bread and cheeae half their time, aud pinch and contrive from year's end to year's end." "But do yoa not see that my insight into bow they manage their pinchiog and contri¬ ving will be of great service to me ?" return¬ ed Annie, in a patient tone. " Mamma, I know I conld manage well on three handred a year, and bave everything comfortable.— You sbould deteot no pinching in my house> come as often aa yoa would." "If Lance had a prospect of an inorease— of rising to five or six hundred in tbe course of afew yeara—I would let yoa promise to marry him then, with all my heart, Annie.'' " Bnt the -very faot of his not having it, of bis income being a fixed one, haa induced na to wisb to risk it, mamma. If we wait, it will be no better; and—oh, mamma I pray do not say tbat we must separate I" "Annie, child," interrupted Aunt Clem, "if yoa spend three hundred tbe first year, yott will want four the secoud and five the third " But we do not intend to spend three the first year," aaid Annie, quiokly, " Onr old nurse had a favorite aaying which she always impressed upon ua when we saw the sugar cap fall and aaked for more sugar. I repea¬ ted it.one day to Geoffrey, and made him laugh. ' Spare at the sack's mouth.' It ia what we intend to do with,onr income." ' No unmarried girl oan form an idea how trouble. So I gave her waming. It then oc¬ curred to me that as my wedding visits had been all paid to me, and we were not likely to see mucb ceremonious oompany, I might as well, for a time, keep only Mary. So I spoke to Geoffrey and he told me to try it if I liked, and Mary said she wonld rather be aloue thau have the annoyance of a servant like Rebecca. You cannot think how well it answers. Mary ia a moat superior aervant, knowa her work, and does it thoroughly; and ahe is always tidy. You know her to be the oook, L ut yoa oonld not have told it from her appearance. She is not fine, it is true, but more respectable lookiug than many of the honse aud parlormaids.*' "Bnt sncb a degrading thing to keep only one servant," remonstrated Misa Marsh.— "Like tne common people!" "Oars ia only a common income, answered Annie. I told papa what I had done, one day that he drove here to see me, and he praised me for it." "Oh, papa has audi old fashioned notions; something like your own, Annie. Wait till you hear what mamma says to it. One aer¬ vant! it must tell against yoa with all yoar friends." "No," replied Mra. Lance, warmly, "or, if it could, they would be frienda not worth re¬ taining. If they came here and fonnd my house full of confusion, or discomfort, my servant dirty, myself unrepresentable, they might have cause; but, excepting that they do not see two servants, everything ia as orderly and nice as when Rebecca was here. I aud my husband are not less gentlepeoplei and I am sure they rather respeot us the more for sacrificing custom to right. If we happen to have any oue to dine with us, or two or tbree friends for the evening, Mary aenda round for her aiater, who waits nicely." "But how on earth do yon manage with one servant? Angusta, with her three, com¬ plains bitterly that the work is not half done.'' "There is an impression witb many experi¬ enced people that the larger your number of servants, tbe less is your work doue," smiled Mrs. Lance. "There is really not so mnch to do in this houae, aud plenty of time to do it in. We breakfast at eight which givea Geoffry " "My gracious! Eight! Do you contrive to get up?" "Yes," said Annie, "and like it mucb better thau our lazy houra at home. By niue, soon after, Geoffry leaves; which gives him time to walk in comfortably to the office by a qnarter to teu." "You dou't mean to aay he walks ?" "Yes, aud walks home, except in very bad weather. He says were it not for tbis walk) night and morning, he shoald not have suf¬ ficient exercise to keep bim in health; aud of course it Is so much omnibas money aaved. He laughs at tbose gentlemen wbo ride into town, and ait stewing in their chambers, or in an office or counting-house all day, especially those who have need to be frugal, as we have, and theu ride home again; no exercise, uo saving, and in time it will be no healtb. Well—Geoffry goes at nine, then Mary takea away the breakfaat things, washes them up, puts her kitchen straight, and goes to her np-Etaira work, whicb in our house is not much. Bv eleven o'clock she has fre¬ quently changed ber gown and cap, and has no more to do till time to prepare for dinner at five. One day she asked me if I could not give her some socks of master's to darn, aa she did not like sitting with her handa before her." "Your house is quite a prodigy-house," cried Sophy, iu a toue bordering on sarcasm. "It seems there is never any cleaning going and circumstancea demand it, or one who I makes beraelf a domestio drndge. Both ex- I tremes are bad, and both shonld be avoided." " Do you mean that as a out at Augusta f'' 1 asked Miss Marsh—"the neglecting of her household ?" "No, Bmily, I was speaking generally," re- '-. plied Mrs. Lance ; ''though I do wish Angus- I ta did look a little more to hers. It would ' ; have been well for as, I think, had mamma I brought ua up in a mure domeatio manner. I There'is another fallacy of the present day: j the bringing up yoang ladiea to play and ' dance, but utterly incapable aa the rnlinit of a household." "Spehk for yourself, if yoa pleaae, Annie. ' We wonld rather be excused kitchen rule ?" i "Why, look at Angusta," replied Mrs. Lance, "would it be well for her, or not, to check and direct her hoasehold? Their expenditure must be very large; too large, I fear, for the captain's income." "At any rate, vou aeem determined not to err oa the same side. Take care you do not degenerate into the otber, the domestio drudge Annie." "I shall never do that—at leaat, ifl know myself," quickly replied Mra. Lance. "I have too much regard for my husband, am too soUcitoaa to retain his respeot and affection); a domestic drndge cauuot remain a refined, well-informed woman, an enlightened com¬ panion. We keep up onr literary tastes, our readings; and our evenings are delightful.— No, I shall eacape that, I hope, Emily ; thougb I am learning to iron." "I wonder you don't learn to waah," indig¬ nantly retorted Mias Marsh. "I did waah a pair of lace sleeves the other morning," laughed Mra. Lance, "bnt they turue,d oat so yellow that Mary had to aub¬ mit tbem to aome whitening process of her own, and I do not think I ehall try agaiu.— She washes all my lace thinga and Geoffry's collara, and she is teaching me to iron them. Ironing was an accomplishment I did not aee much of at the parsonage, for I believe every¬ thing in the whole weekly wash was mangled, except my uncle's shirts and bands. His surplice always was: auut used to say he wonld know no better, I am trying to be Tery useful, I assure you. I go to market." "Go to wbere?" "To market. To the butcher's and the green-grocer'a, and to the otber tradespeople. Not every day, but on Saturday always, and perhaps once ia the week besides." "To save the legs of the boys who come round for orders ?" asked Mias Jemima Marsh, who was a very silent girl, and rarely spoke. "No. To save Geoffry's pocket," replied into embarrassment,tbrongh what they would have called sheer inability to keep oat of it. They had not calculated, they began life too expHusively; had not controlled their self- indttlgence; everything was on too large a scale: and now neither knew how to go back to a smaller. They were sitting together one dull winter's day, very dull themselvea, and talking over the aspect of affairs in a very dull spirit.— The aspect waa worse than either thongbt; Mrs. Courtenay really did not know its ex¬ tent, and the captain was careleas aud blind. The captain had received hia quarterly in¬ come, and bad immediately parted with most of it, for sundry demands were preasing.— How they were to go on to the next qaarter, and how the Christmaa bills were to be paid, wa.i bidden in the womb of the future. "They are so much larger than usual," murmnred Captain Courtenay, drawing a china basket towards him, the billa recepta¬ cle, and leisurely proceeding to nnfold some of them. "Each year briugs additional expense," remarked Mrs. Courtenay. " Four servants ooat more tban tbree, not to apeak of the children ; thougb they are but little expense yet." Captain Courtenay had tbe contents of one of the billa under his eye at the time hia wife spoke. " Little expense, did you say, Angusta. I suppose this is for them, aud it'a pretty near £20. It'a headed * Clark'fl Baby- linen Warehouse.'" " I meant iu the matter of food. Of oourae they bave to be clothed; aud I don't know anything more costly thau infants' dreaa— Cambric and lace, aud basainettea, and all the rest of it," "So I shoald think," quoth the captain, "here's thirty ahillinga for six shirta. Do yon put babies into shirts ?" " What else ahould we put-them in ?" "How loug are they—a foot? Five shil- lings a shirt. Why, it's nearly as much aa I give for mine." "Delicate Freucb cambric, trimmed with Valenciennes," explained Mrs. Conrtenay.— " We can't dress a baby in hopsaoking." " Lace is the largeat item in the bill Here's three pounds eighteen shilliuga for lace, Au¬ gusta." " Oh, they are dreadful little things to de¬ stroy tbeir cap borders. When tbey get three or four months old, up go their bands, and away they pall, and the lace is soon in tat¬ ters. This last darling baby has already de¬ stroyed two." "Throw off their caps aud let them pull at tbeir own heads if tbey want to pnll," cried the captain. "That'a how I should cure tbem, Augusta." "Would yoa?" retorted Mrs. Courtenay. A baby withont a cap is frightful. Except Mrs. Lance, "for the first two or three months ^°^ ^'^ *°°S whites, nobody could tell whether we ordered everything that way, but I found *^ ^'^^ * monkey or a child'." it would not do. With meat, especially.— '¦ " ^°°^^ °^ '^'^ ^^°° " charged half a crown We had unprofitable piecea, without knowing * ^^*'^' ^^^ ^°^^ ^^""^^ ^^^ sixpenoe." the price ; for in delivering tbe orders to the " '^^^ ^^^^^ *°** sixpenny was for christan- boy, the butcher of coarse sends what he ^"^- Of courae that had to be good." likea, and charges what he likes. Now that " ^ ^^^ ^^^^ marked up at twopence a yard, I go myself to the butcher's, I choose my \ yeaterday, in Oxford street, quite as pretty aa meat, see it weighed, and know the price of *°^ '*^® ^^^^ ^^ars, for all I can aee. That everything before I buy it. It ia a very great saving." "I don't think Annie is wrong there,"deci¬ ded Sophy, "for many very good families go to market themselves. '•And I wish more did," added Mrs. Lanoe. i "t wish you could persuade Augusta into do¬ ing so. I spoke to her about it, and she aaked j me whether I was out of my mind." "There is leas occasion for Mra. Courtenay \ to trouble herself," said Mias Marsh, loftily ; | "ahe did not marry upon three hundred a ! year." "Well, I am very happy," said Annie, ' brightly, "although we bave but thre^ hun- ¦ would be good enongh to tear, Angusta." " My dear, as you don't understand babiea' things, the remark may be exonsed," aaid Mrs. Conrtenay. " Common mbbish of cot¬ ton lace is not fit " " Hallo I" shouted the captain, with an emphaaia that startled his wife, as he opened another of the bills, " here's £94 for meat this year!" " So I aaw," mournfully replied Mra. Cour¬ tenay. " How can we have eaten meat to that amount ? We can't have eaten it, " I fluppose we have uot eaten it, yoa and I; but it has beeu consumed iu the house," dred a year." ^^ the testy rejoinder of Mrs. Courtenay» "And one servant," interposed Mias Marsh. :"^°^'^ conscience secretly accused her of "And one servant," laughed Annie. "But 3o»"ethingbeing radically wrong in thehouae- I do assure you we manage better without ^«ep*"g ^«pariment, aud which ahe, ita head, Rebecca tban with her: and aa we shall be "^I'l not know how to set to right, obliged in a few month's time to take a seo-| " Besides the fish and poultry bills,-and ond aervant, I thought we onght to do with-1 ^^ta of game we had aent us, and I sometimes out one uutil then." ' dining at the club! How ia It Anguatua ?" "There !" uttered Sophy, "That'a just: " f wish I could tell how it Is," ahe answer" wbat Aunt Clem said. I know it is, and you | ed; that is, I wish I conld tell bow to lessen need not prepare to deny it, Annie. You | it. The bills come in weekly, and I look them over, and there's not a single joint that seems to bave been had in unnecessarily. "I did not say so," retorted Annie. "In a small iionse-amall compared to oure at home —with only three people in it, and the punt, and carpeta, and fumitue all new, there ia not a great deal of cleaning required, but what there is, is punctnally doue. Mary has her days for it, and on those days I help." "With the scrubbing F" asked Mra. Marsh with an impervious face. mean that the babies will be beginniug 1" CHAPTER in. The babiea did begiu. "Tiresome littleoiy* ing creaturea," was Aunt Clem's comment; "they are sure to come whether tbey are wanted or not, and the worst of it is, there's no end to them, no knowing where they'll stop." And the time went on, aud they atill came, went on till Mra. Conrteney had three and Mra. Lance two, tbe former to her unapeak- able diamay. For she could not afford it. No; Captain and Mrs. Courtenay had afforded themselvea too many luxuriea, to leave room for that of babies. They had committed a terrible mis¬ take in marrying npon their five hundred a "No," laughed Annie. "While ahe does j year, and thnt not an iucreasing income. It that, I go into the kitcbeu, wash up the was not only that they bad set up tbeir breakfaat thinga, and ahonld it be required^ houaehold and began housekeeping anon a set forward with the dinner." \ acale that would absorb every shilling of it, •'Set forward for a five o'clock dinner at j bnt the ex-captain accustomed to hia clubs nine in tho morning ?" j and their expensive society, waa not a man "Yes, all that can be done of it, I make i who conld practice economy outof doors any the pudding or the pie, ahould we be going j more than his wife underatoo 1 it in. The to have one that day, if there is auy meat to [ captain conld not put on a soiled pair of be hashed, I cnt it up; those sort of things. \ gloves, he could uot give up hia social habits Then I dnst the drawing-room—aud indeed I j he never dreamt of such a thing aa not going generally do that, for ita ornaments take so i to the opera several timea in tbe aeason^ and long, and on these buay days I doat my own \ to the theatrea ad libitum, his wife being often expenaes increaae after the first few months,'* i bed-room; and, in short, do many UtUe odds ! with, bim ; it never occurred to him to give oontluued Aunt C/em. and ends of work, ao that Mary geta dona " up bia daily botUe of expeuaive.jriiie, «udh« " Mias Marah," aaid tbe hoasemaid, usher¬ ing in a lady. Mra. Courtenay looked aroand for her sis¬ ter Emilys but it was Aunt Clem. "Well," aaid ahe, aa the Captain, with whom ahe waa a favorite, ensconced her in¬ to tbe warmest seat, " and how are you get¬ ting on?" " Middling," laughed the captain. "Look¬ ing bine over the Christmas bills." "Ab," said Aunt Clem, as ahe took off her bonnet, "they are often written on blue paper. You shonld settle your bills weekly; it is the safest and most economical plan: if you let them run on, you pay for it throngh the nose.'? " I wiah these aocounta could be paid, even through the nose," cried the captain. " Oar expenaes are getting the mastery. Aunt Clem, I and we caunot see where to retrench. We I were talking about it now." "la that heap all bills? Let me look at ham. You need have no secreta from an old woman like me." The captain tossed them into her lap, aud the first she looked at happened to be tbe o^e for tbe baby linen. A'ZV't-Ctem studied it throagh her spectaclea, and then studied Angnata's face^ "Never saw anythiug so extravagant in my life. Wbo did you think yoa were buying for? Oneof the little princesses F" Augusta waa too nettled to reply. "I don't aee that a baby onght to coat aa much as a man," put in tbe captain; but Augasta tells me I know nothing about it, I could get balf a dozen shirts for thirty shill¬ ings." " Of courae you could. Aud these ought (o have cost aix." " Now, aunt!" resentfullyejaculated Augus¬ ta, "How pray ?" " Six ahillinga at the very outside. You shonld have boaght the lawn and made them yourself." "Babies' skirts at a shilling apiece !" said AagBsta, scornfully. These are richly trim-- med with Valenciennes lace aud insertion, Aunt Clem." "Trim my old bedgown with Valencieniea!') irreverently snapped Aunt Clem. "It would be just as aenaible a trick. Who aeea the skirt wheu tbe baby lyis got it on? Non¬ sense, Augusta! Valenoiennes lace may be very well in ita proper place, bnt not for those who can't pay their Christmas bills." Augusta was iudignant the captain only amited. "What's thia last ?" comlnued Auut Clem. "Lace ?—four pounds, less two shilliuga, for lace? Here, take your bill; I have seen enongh of it. No wouder yon find your ac¬ couuts heavy, if they are all on this scale.'* "It ia uot dear," fired Augusta. "Half-a crown a yard—the other was for the ehria" teniug—ia cheap for babies' lace." "I told Augusta I saw some yeaterday in a shop window at twopence a yard, and it looked as well," observed the captaiu. "I don't quite say that," aaid Aunt Cl^m; ''twopenny lace would neither look nor wear well. Bat there'a another sort of lace, of medium quality, used almost exclusively for infants' caps; this man, Clark, sella quantitiea of it—" "Trumpery cotton trasb!";inlerrupted Mrs. Courtenay. "It ia a very pretty lace, rich looking and darable," went on Aan( Clem, disdaiuing tbe interrnptiou, "aud if not thread, it looka like it, bat I beliSve it to be thread. It will laat for two children, and it coats about nine- pence a yard. Annie haa never bought any other." "How can you aay so, aunt ? I'm aare her children's capt alwaya look nice." "I know they do. Yon dou't believe in tbis lace becauae you have not looked out for it," observed Aunt Clem. "You go to Ciark'a—stepping out of a cab, I dare say, at tlie door—and aak to look at some good nur¬ sery lace. Of course they ahow yon the good, the real, they don't attempt to ahow youanything interior. But Annie, when she waa buying these thinga, went to Clark's— and I happened to be with her: she did not ask, off-hand, for rich lace or real lace; sbe aaid, 'Have you a cheaper deacription of lace that will wear and anawer the pnrpoae ?' and they showed her what I tell yon of. She bought no other, aud very well it haa worn and looks; it lasted her first baby, and it ia lasting tbia one. I was ao pleaaed with ber method of going to work—not in the -way of caps alone, mind yoa,. but jftf-e^rerjihing— that I sent her four yards of pillow lace from the conntry for a beat cap for her child. At the time you were married," added Aunt Clem, looking at them both ever her specta¬ clea, "I said yoa would not do half aa well aa Lanoe and Anuie, though you had nearly donblo their Income. Yon are the wrong aort of folks." " At any rate, I cannot be expected to un¬ derstand lace," said the captain. " But you might underatand otber thinga, aud give them up," returuad Aunt Clem. " You might give up your West-end society, aud your gayetiea, and your extravagant mode of dresaing—" " I'm sure I don't dreas extravagantly," interrupted the captain. "I'm aure you do," said Aunt Clem ; " in that way you are worae than Augnata, and abe'a fine enongh. It may not be extrava- j addition—but that of courae she could unt j plant them. Herreply was noble—"I'll havo "If Lantie were intern on Uis o«-ngratilica- ble variely „f iuformaUo... To do tUs ,,.„; I'l''"'«'l """''"¦¦est tree. I.,»ke\o a feeble Ition I dare say he would." auBwored A»nt ">i.,d n.u.l .-orfr, a«d work vigoronsly ; aud ' ^°° led^hlt hr', ' "Z ''""'• ""] i Clem. "¦« «-<»-k ¦»>x^' •>» He own. Nothiug l,ut a ! !"?1?.!^ that »hade _trees would be a.gr.at ' "Hoand Anuie might be conilorlable in »»»'"5e ofthe mo3t rigid discipliue ciu enVc ' house-keeping matters on three hundred a '"''"•^ accomplish this work of edno.ttiou.— , „ „,,.,, ^year." Strong work makes stroiie minds. That!'^™; ^".''. "'°''^ "¦*""• ^'-l "'¦¦'"r "Remarkably so, spouse. " Bat the worst of it is, there are other expenses, and plenty of them. Bent, 5„„ ,„ th.^ody, .rue e'ducation d'oirfTrtire I.""" perhaps now dead, for aught I know, mind—for the heart and head. I blessing will be hers from those now unborn, their varied uae aud increasing exorcise, will | *^"'' ""^^^^ '"'''^ attractive sites in the .tonuty give them power. What t!:e gymuasiam 1 ""^^ ^** ^°""^ ^° Drumore. Yer.r.. ago ' was Aunt Clem's re- '^'".'''' ^^^^f ^^'* "'''"'"^ I'^^^^^^ severely, by j CHARITY. Wliao you meoi wnb odb snflpected Or'<()infl ttecret<l«»><I of t>h.ime, And for tliU by all rf-lfciHd As a Ibtni; .if evil r.irae; Oanrd tbluu QV<>ry Imik nml antlna, Specie nu word oDtKtrtl^.'ri M.imfl,] Fnr lho Hiaadirer'it vilo iJiitniciiiia Yat mny aoil thy KO'»dly nnuiH, WliPQ TOO. meet wllh "Do pirmiliig Wny.H Ihfl I'Mt hAv& Hui>trrt'l io, WnrkiflK oni hlu itv* ucdoliii!. With hli r"i-kle^.--UQfV* am) hin: Tliink ir vUcrA iu l\U couditl-ia. Wunld a kiud orord Im iu vuiuV ^r .¦( look >it cold -<i-[(ict<ia Win ihca buck tu iriilii A%:i\n; Thnre iro Kp.,H that hnar n-. fl iwer-i, y.it b«caQ-H tho hoil it hd'l. But IhB hniiir/)-;r'M t;-nrfr.il -h-.w-T-. NflVt-r mik*) Uimr l)l<ii...i[iis a,\:\A: Better li:ir« .tn a'-: ihn'^ kiii.Uy Tfi;at^d homimMiiii!-! wrh d ^dAia. Tliau hy judjjingnih.;!.- t-Ua-lly. Doom the iaaoceixL (" [lAin. JOB PBINTING OF ALL KINDS, Prom tbe largeatPoater to the smallest Card DUN'K AT Tills UKKICK, in Lhe BEST STVLE, wllh (crcat dcnp/itch, aut! M iba luiFoat pricen. t3-HAXDmi,r,Sr..rlh^ -^als «>f llEAt. f/Pi !'i:,t-r.:.-,\i. I'l-.'iPKiiTT. priuted ou from t>SK tu TlIKKi; liOi'lLH NO ICK. nuv I.Vlf-Sy BANK NOTICfJ. ^I'^HK undei-:^i^nu'l citi/.cii.s uf rjiincnster I cnnoty, hnrRhy xiva ooiii;'* tiiiit ih>-y will 'ij'l'ly al th-i nfxt hBrtrtioc «r th« l-JKiilii'uro of iVnu^ylVAUi.*. for thfl urtalidu Hud chkrlrtfur A li.iuir ..r Ourp.iralu H-nly with Ilankiot; or IJi^couuLin;; (triri!c^f>:*, with ;; CA|>iiHl of Oon Huurlred T!i'iH-;iud Uuiinrs. ;iud ivith privilege uf iDcrBasingToTwo llniidrL'd 'I'tiwu^^ud, i-. h,* .i:y(ed lbe Farmsrrt Bauk ul Muiiu'. .I.iy, and l-icattd iu th* lioruagh of .^InuuL Juy, Lauciiur c-iuuty, l'.\. fi»i Baokiui: pari>i>»e. AHDKF-W fiEKr-Ki:. Ml .1-y i!..r. .lM\i>V, 2Sl>^Lt:i'. M'Hiu'. .1,,-,- I'.j. JOtlX IJ. ^Tf¦:ll.M.V^^ IIENJ UliK.NE.M.Ji.S. JOHN .M. HEK^liKV. JlMlM C. DEK-^EILE. l)..u''t:;il " KEUiSfclS GEUliKK. W. HfUij.II^i'i ¦ J. lHiFf.MA.V lli.llr.liliV. il!. .'..ft:-; Ji»ll.V .SHMiK. " ' ' SEM BULTBAKEU, lUpho livp. aui:aham iiEi:--iiEV, lujm., tivj.. .IDHN uintKEi:. ISAAC Hit UUA KE!:, nut () taxes, insurance, lothes, wages, doctors, om- nibases, books, newspapers, and wear aud tear of linen and furniture, besides church and charity, for Lance and his wife bave nothing of the heatltea about them. None of these items come tiuder the head of eata¬ bles and drinkables, but all have to be pro~ vided for out of the three hundred a year.— "What's your butcher's hill annually ?" ab¬ ruptly asked Aunt Clem. TiiosiAs Babbingtos Macadlay.—Mr. Reach, the London correspondent of the Inverness Courant, says: :;. " There is a commou pedestrian of tbe Lon¬ don streets well known to all who are ac- ciuaiuted with their notabilities. He is a short, Stoat, sturdy, energetic man. He ha ¦ I'lii-L^j oaptain. Aunt Clem groaned ing two dinners." "How do you mean dinner a day." " Two dinners," repeated Aunt Clem " That comes bf hav- We ouly eat one I but with ideas ahead of his generation j planted the hill-side about the district .school' i with young locust trees that now form a beautifnl grove. I thank him for his noble dt!ed. There are ranuy handsome sites that need but little from mau to make thetu complete, j Were we to particularize, we should he li-d too mnch iuto detail. One case vre most , meutiou as it is representative of a ola.ss. A - j house was built on a hill-side—iu in open large hazel eyes. His hair is cut short, and } pf^ce of xvaodUmd. TUe ^ite w;is pleasant • bisbatflung baok on the crown of his head, j and the shade of the waving Chestnut and His gait; is, firm; and decided, with a Uttle I Oak exceedingly gra'.ef.il in the long Sumn.»^r ] and Autum'u term. The la^t time we visited Yi " Ninety-four pounds this year," said the * hig, ronnd face, and large, staring, and very j house \7as built on a hill-side tonch of/pomposity. 'He is ever provided with an umbrella, which be swings;and Uonrishos, aud batters for you aud another for the servants. They .**" the pavement with mighty thumps. Ue ought to dine after you." . seen.s geuerally absorbed iu exciting and it thu trees were felled—the house stood solitary and lonely, and not a friendly braiu-h was left to screen It from the sun'.s scorchifg rays.' As we learned afterward, theDirect'irs ' Bnt the servants must dine," said Mrs. ;"JP»^3ive thonghts, the traces of which he j ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^y^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^J^ ^^^^ ^^^.^'^ Courtenay " It cannot signify, as to cost, ' whether they dine early or late." "It signifies everything, and by baving two dinners the meat bill gets almost donb!ed. What are your servants having for dinner to¬ day ?" " To-day—oh, they have a shoulder of mat- ton." " And wbat shall vou hawe 't" " Wo are going to have sohih niincred veal aud a fowl." "Minced veal! the most nnprolitable dish anybody can put upou their table. Yon may eat an unlimited quantity. Three pounds, solid weight, would be nothing to a mau, aud he'd be hungry after it. But that's not my present argument. If you bad hut one dinner, the shoulder of mutton wonld have saved you all; your table first aud thein^ afterwards, aud there'd be oue expense. And the ser¬ vants oannot have their lliug over the meat so uncontrolled; less come.^ into the house; less remains cold ; aud cold me.ai does not go so far as hot, aud wheu hashed and minced it gets half wastedd." Oar servants won't dine ou cold meat above twice a week, I kuow that," said Mrs. Courtenay. "Bat as to their dining after us. they would say they could not wait: they would leave first." "Then tbey sbould leave—and with great pleasure, I sbould say," cried Auut Clei!". **Itisof no cousequence what time people dine, provided they havrt the rt'jrular hour ; their appetite soou accustom itself to it. You might dine at five, instead of your fashiona¬ ble hour of six, and tbey after you. Annie's servants do, and she gets no grumbling." " Well," said the captain carelessly, "we have rubbed ou somehow, with all our mis¬ management, and we must contrive to rub on , still. Perhaps we shall give up our summer excursion this year, and that will be a saving. I am goiug down to the club for au hour. 1 shall find you hero ou my returu, Aunt Clem: you'll atop aud help us out with the minced veal." "AVhat a barbarous plctuivyou du draw of domestic economy, Auut Clem!" exclaimed takes no pains to conceal. His face works, j This case is not atone. his lips move and mutter, his eyes gleam and j Paradise deserves the palm among the ru- fiash. Squat as is his figure, aud not partic- ral districts for attention to grounds. Seven ularly fine the features, there is an unmis-j out of her eightschoolsare euulo:^ed,andse^- takeable air of mental power andenergy, ap-| eral of them have largo grounds—most of preaching to grandeur, about the man. He [them are planted audiu afew y^ars will pn- is evidently under the influence of the strong ex«:i!ement of fiery tlioiight People gaze ctni.)usly at him, and stop to ^ture when he h:iH pa«SHd. But he heeds uu one—.seems, indired, to have utterly forgotteu that he ia uot aloue in his privacy, and pushe.s uu, un¬ willing of the many who stare itud smile, aud look with curiosity and regard npoii ThoTn:i> of our article admouishe; Babbingtou Slacanlay. "Occasionally, howitzer, tin- historian aud ! the poet gives still freer vent to lhe mental impulses which appear to be continually working within him. A frieud of 111111-! late¬ ly recognized him dining in the cofleeroom of the Trafalgar lintel, at Gieeuivich—a fash- ionnble white bait ho»>;e, whiuh, it appears, he fit-qutfUtly patronize.-?. IU was alone, as be geneniUy is, and tbe a'tniiliou of more than one of tiie company waa attracted by his jieuuliar loutterinic and fidgetines3,-and by } the toil of tb-^^e he lov the mute yestur^s with wbich he ever aud t his own childish oUort5 anon illustrated his menial dre.aming. All at ooce—it must have beiMi toward tJiu i;Iiuiax of the verse or prose, which he was working up iu his miud—Mr. Macaulay seized a mas¬ sive decanter,.held it a momeut suspended in the air, and theu dashed it down upon the table with such hearty good will, that the solid crystal flew about iu fragments, while the numerous parties diuing round instinc¬ tively started up and stared at the curious iconoclast. Kot a whit pat out, however, Mr. Macaulay who was weli kuoirn to the waiters, called loudly for his bill to be made out at the bar, and then pulling, with a cou- I pie of jerks, his hat and his umbrella from . the stand, dapped the one carelessly ou his lit>ad, and strode oat llourishiug the other. .-^Miit » rcry haurlriome aud attrafiire apitH.-ir- niiC'.'. Hurt has two very v.-eli ciioHs-n ^ilr^— oiit; is i.'Uulosi^il and plauteii, au'i lim olhei" Js .^urrouuded by a native forest, bcHnlifnl :>ijd clean, but it lacks a front fence and styl*^.— We hope to ^itfe Ihejie soo:i supplied, II:»d we time we coiild nani>* others, hut the lenc'h to b*^ bri-f. Kor some years we must look to t('.''.t:liers .ind pat¬ rons' to do much of tht; work iiiMriu iKinit-l, directors are atti-ndiiig to what UiL-y conceive to be ''the weij^htier iriatter.^ of the law." Co-oper:iti(»!i i.s wli:tl i.-; nee-led—and ^Ti-iy parent will think the more of his si-huol fof] erery ^acriiii-t; lit; makes for it. I'-very tt.*acU-r 1 wili be the miire devoted iu proportion to tlie lahor he has spent and the success with which liK is rewar'l'-'d—and every pupil will estei'Ul , his school HiH more a:; in; sees it hoiinrud by . nnd lieaiililltMl hy We have soiueiinnj.^ t bought that ifit .should bd onr lot to grow old it would he a most intcrestiui; trip to re¬ visit thu Sfdiool hfluSfS of this county .nnd mark the progress of lhe present generation. We are snre our heart would be cheered wiih many grateful sights. Whether we buboM these things or not we will-labor on hopLM'uily and patiently, with thc nob!^b;«id that is now lit'ariiig lie lie.it of the d:^'; .INO- s. ckiTmbaucui, County Superintendent. Problems—^Answers and Solutions. pRoULEJi 10,—Ttro meu, A and B, agree to dig a ditch for $50; and 4 5 of what A digs, increased by 4 rods, equals 2 3 ot what B dig.s, and B receives §30; bow many rods did each dig?—Brookes Normal Mental Arilh- melic. The BxamiaBtioa of Applieuara Jil sCliUOLS. wiil bt; held in tlic- fuliowiuK Ui-ilrittii, fit ilic iii;if.-> ua.l idac^.- Lu!.-- luiit'rcr hpecifiod:— Str!i5l)ur(* liiir., an-l Twii., July lUh,'.' a. m,. High Suhod Sinisljurg. Eden, July Tiii, 0, a. iq.. linarryvillL-. ProviiieiiL-e, July "tb, 2 p. tu , Nf;7 Pruviilenoe- Martic, July Sth, 'J a. ui., llawiiusville I>rumt>re, July Utli, 1) a. ui.. -. Fnlton. July lOlli, U a. m., Ilw=- Hotel. ' Little Brituin, July 12iIj, y 11. iji., l'»ij<Iur i.>ro\.- ecIh.mI hf)U?o. Culeruin, July ]:!lh. 0 ». in , .fni-.n .Scho-.I II.^u^.-. Carl, July l-Uli, i> a. in., (iicctt Treo. frailshury, July I2lli, H a. in.. Cliri.-tianu. Suli.=5)ury. July liJih, 'J. m., W'iiitc Jiur.-t;. Le:u!oi:!:, July ITili.'.l a. in, Intercour.-tf. Kast Luuij.eier, July IHiIi, 11 ii. in., Enterprise, i'araclire. July lilj.b,'J a. m. lilack Burse >i-hiy.A Bou.-e. XcwMiUlown, will thu- DircmDr.i \'\e:\~<f aMen-l with tbtiir CanJiJait-,-;, fithor ib'« Li-.tcc'-k ji Paraiiire o.'caiiiiiiiition ' IV-SUtfii, July -M^t. U a. m., Willi.v,- Sirfci. i:M!if.-tn;;a. July 2;; 1. tl :i. in.. U..Jie>:..tj;a L'l-nlic Sitf't; [larin-r. July 2'J. 7 p. ni .Manor, July 'Z-\ !» .¦«. in.. .M!;^T.-'vi:L-. .Manlicim, July li2, !f a. ni. ^cl)¦-vii^r. l-::ist JlempfirM, July L'.i. ;i a. m-, l:->Iiri-r-!..ni: v.Vrit UeniplirM. July 27. It a. ni.. Columbia, July 2':j 1* a. ni. .Mariellii bor.. July 2'.t, '.1 a. m Kast l>«mep:il. JtiJy V.tt. '.) ;i. ru-, M.-iyi"wn. U'u^hioytittil.or., julv ;;i. '.I n. in. Uaaiar^'t, iinJ. JJi,-t Tiie Lfirciit'/rs v;\t\i tlt-.-ir Cilu'iiliale.-t wil! plea-:!' iitlt-iitl tin,- c.'L-imiii:iii ¦¦! ill IV'Virit'Ufe. ^irl-ctlIr^ iir*> ri"iH'--^-.-: t.. j.r;i-. i ¦!¦ :¦;:!!.;¦¦ ¦ -i-i- 1..«,;;¦(.-¦. f\t:i'i\:;m>i -.tli •>it.<r7 :ip,;ir;ita- tb i: ..;.i_. 1 ¦ tyi->c-t..r^ :i .} -.iUi \l¦¦^lu¦¦>:M i-i ^iv.- i;,.fi-.- i liitir r^-;pi*:!live Dirtrii;:-; tjl' tbtf tita-- nnd :. ¦•¦¦¦'•^ • (io:<fiii<; saiil t-.tii'irnriiiun. In !!i'«-f iii-;-'¦¦¦-; i ivhieli no place bn^' !'';;rii m-'T. ibt-y wil. p^ '¦ appoint a place Jin'I .-i-ml lut- iv..r!. l'leareii')lifs; that my :ipj.ijti!t..ifiit,-f !.¦¦¦ -it ¦.! m. aii<l nut .-i!vt;ial U<-u:.- Ii::i.-i*, ;i-; !;i : vi;. Teachers who avt.jd piil.lic e.\-;uiii'i;.i:":i wiii :- Ij-j i^.yjifnbiO'l priv.'itt'l; . TiiL* pa;iii<- ::]<.¦ ¦:¦ r .1:1.1 iiivit^il lo atteu'.l. j.vo .s cnr.;rn.\!'';[!. .jnoe Hj :!:.2'.' Coma; ^i;i.'[. OIEce BigTrtounTainlmprovumonT i.;-; I'l!ll..\t.l,i.nil.\. .Illih; Htti. ^>')•^. ^uTii';-: i^ ui-:i:t-.KV t::v.:N iti; K OUfi COMEtOlff SCHOOXS. Sketches from my ITote-Book.—Uo, IV. SCUOOL GROUNDS—FESCINU, &C. A |,„ „„ i,„, K„-.i.a«.^ ft»!n^,i n.^ ^nnni Disirids and Number Of School Jlonsfs Fenced. Augusta, as hor husband quitted the room. Rad.'bury, i^t'e^aea, " Nine-penny lace aud couiinou home-made lawn shirU for babies, aud all the bouse din tug off oue joint, and calling minced veal un¬ profitable. Your notions are not suitable to us ; to the captain." " Child," answered Aunt Clem, "I am only thinking what is suitable to your pockets-— With five hundred a year, yoa ought to be able to aiford liberal housekeepiug aud es> in>w.vr.ii:» 1 It lb.! i>inc>}-i iijd (;lie*.tiiit - nj-i;',nl. :,t ¦- ¦ Illi ¦XJl-L"'-J c vif'v-i a- III rii |iU'>no lu ihn lur- ^(\f\ •' OuV 1 will L:.r lui-U- and "ihu.'ifia ju»o.'M:--S ¦fn niKi ' Ai r w- 1-1. > u -.I' ¦I,-.. 'Ill III" _._ ri!,','fM;.h','..''.-;; '' wii.'i.i.U W.'S NTED. K.S .si'iii.Ni; l"i. h i' c t. r.,r w'.rcli -5 r., :.. .M—. z-;-j-, r..ij. ; KKl.l.V [Jitlipr". \V.,i,.l,.iii 111 .¦'-.¦.: I, ¦„;; 1,1, „ ;...,-.i.- 1 jr-.i.'-. I'i.- 1. il •,:¦:¦: i- ;i iCEVK- -1.. Liiui-.,- Bart.. rfJonehlOK*,. C«iaa'-g«, l'.llRaor. Drumore 3'MaubFim Lttactick Upper llLUU , E«,rl East, aiEpLrat-i, , Enrl 7'Stmtilnir§:twp., Satihbory, , l|1.anipator Ea^t Penn l.Loac'ck Ln&CMterlirp 2 Parmltee Ka^t llempBeld f. ToIhI No doubt some of my friends think that enough has beeu said about a subject so triv- penditure ; but it appears you have so many lal as school grounds and surrouudiugs. Aa large expenses that the house must, or ought we have a dilferent opiniou we will inflict a of necessity, to suffer. Your husbaud hint- few more paragraphs. From the ahove table ed at debt, and indeed I dou't see how be it will be seen that but fen disiriots have can have kept ont ot it." made acommencemen; asy.H, in thisdepart- "We are very much iu debt; though how meut of school reform. Some that have mo- much he will not tell me; he says it is euough ved are acting very feebly and in.efficiently, for him to be worried over it, without ray be- The advance m.ide in this direction within ing so." the last two years has not been equal to our " Theu why don't yoa curtail yonr expeu- hopes. In our public talks we have frequent- diture, Augusta ?" ly referred to this subject aud urged it upon "Curtail where? There is nut one ofthe the attention of Directors and teachers.— servants wo could possibly do witbout ; and Some effects have followed—but we have been I am snre I try all I cau to impress saving in disappointed, the kitchen-" This results more trom sifie difficulties than " There has been one fanlt throughont, any real unwillingness or even indifference Augusta. Yon begau on tbe wrong scale: it on the part of Directors. Wheu a youug is very easy to increase a scale of expeudi- man wants to set up farming, or a mechanic lures, but reroarkrbly difficult to lessen it.— to opeu a shop, it is well known that he is The commou mistake in marrying is that peo- put in many straits. Much useful machine pie begin by living up to their income." ry he must at first deny himself of and many "After all aunt, if I could curtail iu petty difficulties must be encountered because of domestic trifles, it would be of little service, narrow meaus. So we find it with the school It is the large outlays that have hurt u,=:: our system iu some of our districts. It is yet going out of town, aud our visiting, aud my young, aud though big and strong for its age. gant in tbe abstract, but it is extravagant in proportion to yoar income. ^Yon might also give up having parties at home, aud going They do eat enormously in the kitchen, but bow is it to be prevented ? We caunot lock np the food." " The servants must be outrageously ex¬ travagant." "I often tell yon so, but yoa don't listen, and I am at continual warfare with the cook. As to the butter that goes, it must melt, for it never oan be used. She makes out tbat' out to them, and yonr wine at your club, yon and I and the children eat foar poands ! and your theatres. Unless a man, who has of fresh butter every week. And they are 1 only a limited income, can resign thefe so exacting about tbeir own dinner. They I amusements, he has no right to marry. Bnt are not satisfied with what remains of meat [ In saying this, I wish to oast no-refleotion on may be in the honse, and making it do, meat those who cannot; all men are not calculated that I kuow wonld be amply sufficient, but j by natnre to eoonomise in domestic privacy: must have something in addition—pork chops ! only let snob keep single." or sausages, or something of the sort. And "I suppose yoa think I was not," laughed tbus the meet bill runs np." Captain Courtenay. Captain Courteuay answered only by a ges- "I am positive you were not. Nor Augusta tore of annoyance. Perhapa hia wife took it either. And you'll have a hard fight and to reflect npon herself. \ tussle before yon oan sabmlt to its hard- "Bat what am I to do, Eobert? I cannot' ships. They will be sore hardships to you: go and preside at their dinner, and portion it to Lance and his wife they are pleasures; yet ont; and I cannot say so and so is enough, he la jnat aa mnch a gentleman as you are, and yoa shall have no more, when oook de-' and was bronght up as expensively. But Clares it Is not. I tell them they are not to yoa are of totally different dispositions." busband's private expenses unless he gives ap his friends. Fancy Captain Conrtenay being obliged to relingulsh hia olubl It's not to be thought of. We mnst rab on, as he says, somehow or another." *' He does not seem to be rabbing ou to hia olub now," said Aunt Clem, who was at the window. " He is stauding to talk." " Aud what-queer lookiug men be has got bold of!" uttered Augasta, followiug her-— "Shabby coats and greasy hats. He is com¬ ing back, aud they with him. ' What can they waut ?" it is generally kept yery bare of change, a very inconvenient condition of affairs, aa the recollections of my youth testify. Mauy things nee>.l fixing—many are not yet estab¬ lished, and the current yearly expenses are about equal to the revenues. Uuder these circumstances Directors are often perplexed to know how to spend any surplus. Among the mauy measures of improvemeut,the above not seeming 30 pressing is put back from year to year; of its need there can hardly bea donbt. A private resideuce without some kind of an enclosure is quite uufrequent and iuattractive 1'koiilk.\i 11.—Two merchants, having a certain number of yards of cloth, bought 30 yards more, then* sold sold | as they had, aud theu had 3 times as many its at first; how many yards had each.if ^ of A'suumb^'r equals .^ of li's?—Ibid. An " Inquisitive Youny Man" at Nell'svilli', ' write.^ that " he has been figuring uinsl con¬ stantly for the last two years to find ont the coutents of a triangular piece of ground, the aides of which are respectively 20, 30, and 50 perches, he would be reliovcil considerably, if some one had the kindness to iuform hiin in the n»^xt Examiner. The Liquor Problem, he says did uot give him much trouble, be thinks the town lost by thn transaction Sfl4,80." The above is a pralsworthy instance of a persKveriug "Pursuit of knowlt'iige umliT difficitUii^s," that deserves a bettf*r fate. But, "Learning by study must be woui; 'lisnot inherited from sire to son." " Labor conqtior.* all things. " Let never despair," W. onr in¬ defatigable frieud's motto, and the uow bid den "sweets of knowledge" will one day ;iil reveal themselves to his iniiairini; mind.— We may remark, however, mert'lr by way of appreciation of " Iuqr>i.-iitive Vouni; M;niV laudable perseverance, that if ht* pro.-eeixtes his investigations far enough, hf will doubt¬ less discover that two sitles of his triai'glc collapses iuto the third, and .111 lliai ihen ^luaius for him to do, is to invent a method for finding the (ircd of a slr.iight /iflc' AVe are sorry to be obltgud to s;iy, that, as to the Llqonr Problem, a little more trouble on his part, will be indispensible, in onler to Hn,ible him lo arrive at a correct result.—Ed. Solution ok pKoni-EM 3, or tub *• Li.juc^n Piioblem:" Caftb rticeiveil from Towa by-Agoat .«(5S,(in Liquor, iW .''if rdd from !¦ Application for Tavern ijlcouse 11'. June Torm, 135S. Elizchclh T,'!r,-st,,p~.>::i'ui'-] 11. Ali;i-^r. HV,^( ;/,'/;i»i/i-/[/-K-d„>rl U.n-it. lliUt r.(-»/iro—I>dcl.*l M-.lil^r. /i.Mja-irr—Kl: .MtL',ti.U->. SUiHibunj~lh'.nry Tiller. To Sell Liquor by tho Quan. I'o/icilor/a—.Uiha Ki"'. l-liju-r /jrti-wti—S,tinij,>l r;ri.-ir. .Jr. r(irt»//sr—i-;i!ioi-l hj'indlur. s.v.Mirsi. t:vAN>. jaae2-i!7-:lt Clerk tln^irier -r-->i..u-. Parmers. Look to Your Interests! GitALV \VA.\TKii:a tiur{ii:x;:s!:!: MllJ.-^.iUlfl.. I!..r..,i::h ..r l...\,Ti..ll WIIK.VT, UYl-:, CORN. O.VVrS. In any ijn.iaiity. for wliii-h Mm' l:ii:li. -i nnt'; i i r:. ¦ will lirt ir-iul iu f,-i-h by tint iiu.lor-iKti.-il ¦,..-..pi;.; -: • 'I'li-'v liav^alivavs "a baaJ a liiri:-- -iic!; i'^ STONE COAL .iND S./f.r, rtri>vi.Ty v.trieiy. miI: *!»',! f.)r 11.-' r. -.¦ •¦{V.i:::i. ¦•.<¦¦¦•:• they -cll xt tli-i Joiro-t rtt'." iii«rt;i,i-|7-lti .MVKll-i .V >!!"; 1: 5,000 Ag V iWK.VTiU.V.-.— -.--¦r .52.'j.iiiTl *'ti .;;;.¦.— '.¦¦.¦-; all •flbt^rHiiailsr ;ii.'t'£i(.-n^-;. .-en^ f-cr r-t.i:'-.:'- :. j 1 i;>;t SO I'ligo^ i',irti.'ul;:r. ^r-ili' Ei'UKAiH in-.ow::. rpo .SKI. tliiti all'flb<^r' K^t SO l>:iSO^ i-.i FE!:!1I-E-.M1>' \/u I-RlKXnS OF [MS iiEi> rnll.iM:EN circnLir- firs'.lin .'f Dr. GE'.'il i.t.iv^n. ;lI 832 in One Day~S52.50 in Two Uiiy.s. WF.llK uU-arcd l-v A.::.,':ii ^. ..•:¦.¦!..,,. my {i.tttiiil:- 5-':.J ¦¦¦n: -t-n.-; -,'¦'¦,'"¦¦;". ¦ - '• Auut Clem drew her lips ominously, bnt As aoou as a mau begins to feel a littlo proud she said nothing. Mrs. Courtenay waa only of his horae, the old fence gives place to a surprised, for tbe men had entered with her new ono and paintless slabs disappear before husband. She opened the room-door, and neatly colored pailiug or iron railiug. The aaw the captain advancing to her with a white traveler through a rural district is very prone f^'^9* to judge of a man's taste aud refinement by "My dear Augusta—dou't be alarmed, or the fencing of his house-enclosures. A house —or put out; Aunt Clem can tell youthere's ^^^^^ q^ j^ commons would make a cheerless no occasion, for these trifles happen every ^^^^ privacy, retirement aud quiet all in day: but—I am arrested. gome measure seem attaiued hy enclosure.— "Arrested 1" shriekeu Angusta, ilyiug to eat meat at supper, but I may aa well tell the "What a pity we were not differently j f "¦" —- Ban not lo shine, for I know they do. I would paired, since tbey are the two clever jonea, i „ ™^. tarn them off to-morrow, all the lot, ifl and wethe incapables; I with Lance, and LeaiSJ^gTtr ma?rTa^e l"\w^^^^^ aud bordered with flowers aud shrubbery thongbt I ooald ohange for tho better, but I Annie with Eobert!" exclaimed Anguata,' Aunt Clem. but few children would hate to make the ex- might only get worse, for they woold b« sni« saroastic«Uy. ' C^o ^s coMxunrxn.] periment of school going. cling to his arm. Will they drag you off to prison f" " For to-day I fear they muat, but " "Ain't no fear about it^sir," interposed one of the men; " it's certain. "Aa well out with the troth, sir, to the lady ; it answers beat with 'em." " Yon'U stop here, and take care of her, Aunt Clem," aaid the crest-fallen captaiu, aa Augusta burst into sobs ; "don't let ber grieve. I dare say I sball get it all settled and be at morrow." " This comes of such folks as yoa rnshing That our churches should be as comfortable as onr dwellings has become almost an axiom; aud the place where our children epend S hours in study aud amusemeut, out of every 2i for a great part of the year, aud for 10 years of tbeir early life, should at least pos¬ aeas aome of the attractions of home. The bleak aud uniuviting aspects of oar sohoal precincts and school bouses has, no dt uht, much to do in prejudicing tbe minds of be¬ ginners agaiust all school duties. Were our grounda neatly enclosed—and planted—the houses pleasantly sheltered—the walks clean AmouDtof ca-sh atid IJqnur r Cash p;ild by Ak«qI for lienor. Add lh;u<it receivott from toivn . &il7 Total of li<iKi>j biljuor ynbl AtU'iuut sold aud rtitiirtiud,... al.iHI ....... Ss-.i.V, ... .'i>.iio Vrow cJi."b ((iiblfiirliijuur, Ptiduct cnhli rcceiveil I'ruiu town '. llalHUi'ft duo for lliiuor ...S-Jjl .-r Krotit Htuuunt of )i<iuor sold and roturued $.i74..'i- TftlCtt btilaucu duo for liquor, '. ,* 'ij : b: Babiucolu Agent's hiiads, SI W ~" Rpcoived from tiiwu, ca^b aud liquor UTci ProUttf, $:i-J-;ii Krom salary, gtjftmi T«ksprbfiiH, ;(J'.'t» Deficit or loH.4to town -fritf-bi' LANCASTER TOWNdUIP- [This is correct as far as it goes. The auiouut due the ageut hy the towu (UOc^uts) is omitted. Next week we shall give a solu¬ tiou under double entry book-keeping.] Second Sotirriox of- Prodlem 7.—Last week we published a correct solution of Problem 7, by K. He sends this week a more concise solution of the aame problem :— As the widow wonld have, in the event of the daughter's death one share to the sou's two; and two to the daughter's onu, if tbe sou dies, it follows tbat as the widow has two to daughter'a oue, aud the sou two to the widow's oue, the son would have fonr shares to daughter's one, and tbua the S5 000 must be divided into five shares, of which the sou will have $4,000, and the daughter Sl,00a E. bu.ik> jnuit 2:'.' T^^T ui-:r!-: 9} i,A.':i:!; V.'lMTK .¦oi,K..ri:;M'KM:::it, TO .PARTfXEHS. ¦KlVi:!' :i M'iM'Iv Kur S ll" iPrn^.-ud i .IiMLN r. l.*^\i LOWHY'S EATING SALOOrT. I'nc'rr Jicse'.'' Cinj Holrl. m-ir I.'-.- ri'uy.m depot, North <lncen .«/.. I.'i'io'-!'-r. 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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
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Issue | 30 |
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VOL. xxxn..
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1858.
No. 30.
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; may seem, is very great. Character is easily
¦ I formtjd and moaldeil in early lifr, and the
''IsiiDDOse tliey do," aMflnt«d Anaie.-* 'lur olet^iDg and'li dnssad ftlmost as soon as rarcdy.qonipledto takeaoab whan an omxd- to.goan'dgiro the plaoe abad name, ont of "Then there wonld be four incapables in-
"The wear and tew of fnniilnre, which.must on other days." has or hia own legs woald have served as revenge." atead of two—or what would amonnt tothe
be replaced and the breakagea, and the bay- "It is a fortunate thing Mr. Lanoe'a choice well. They began hoaselceeplng nponthree "Can't yoa change the oook?" same," aDceremonionaly observed AantClem. - — ¦ ~ —
inir of new clothes, when thoie laid in at the' fell upon yon, Annie. We shoald not like servanis, two maids and a tiger, who eat as "I have ohauged her three times in the last Yon wonld have spent poor Lance out of Discrdiinatio.n- Between- Educatio-v and j language of trees and Dowura, of neatne.^s
wedding are worn out. Allthat oome." to be degraded to do tho bnainess of a aer- mnoh aa the whole honse pat together. The year, and each one seema to have leas notion house and home; and Annie would have led Knowledge.—Education and knowledge are : and last**, as spoken by nature, finds a reaily
"Ah," aaid Aunt Clem, "there's something vant of all work." house waa larger than that of Mra. Lance, and of ecouomy than the last. They are fair- a weary and wretched life of it, for the entirely differeut, and a greater mistake on interpreter in the h^art of childhood. It ia
worse comes. Babies." "There ia ao degradation in it," oried they kept more oompany, but two efficient spoken before my faoe and segjinfi all I aay, captain's expenses out of doors wonld have th« Mtl-JBOt can hardly be committed, than to ] the uniform testimony of Teachers wbo have
»'0h—babies," said Annie, in a dubious Annie, with spirit; "what degradation can servants, with proper management might hava but the extravagance lis no^-dlminished." rendered futih) her economy at home. Noi regard them as identical or synonomoas. A ' tried the experiment, that a school in whicb
tone,"Ihave beard they bring love with there.bef Were I a nobleman's daughter or done the work well; only It was neceasary, CapUln Conrtenay opened lhe bills, bill by you bave been rightly paired. Youhavenot person may amaaa much knowledge, aud be-j the pupils are interested in the beantifying
them." a millionaire's my condescending to know for appearance sake, as both Captain and bill, and laid them in a ataok on the table.— half the comfort npon your five hundred a come the repository of many facts, even a j of their grounds, needs bnt little diacipliiJO'
" It is to be boped tbey do, poor things," anything about it. would be beneath me, " Mrs. Courtenay deemed, to teke (not being " Augusta," said he, in a gravely aerions year that they have upon three." walking encyclopedia, and yet bo uneducated. Looking at it from this point, we cannot but
aharply rejoined Annt Clem, "or I don't know quite oat of place: but in our olaaa oflife— able to afford a footman) a third maid or ti- tone, " we most retrench, or we shall soon "Go on, goon, Aunt Clem," cried Augusta; In the hands of those whoae minds are un ' .. . . ' . .. .
what would beoome of them. But they don't yea, Emily, f apeak of ours, mine and yonrs gm-, and they took the last named article.— be in a hobble,"
bringmoney." —itia anythingbut derogatory to help in Next dame the babies, and witb tbe advent of "I am willing," anawered bia wife, "but
" Well," said Annie, with a glowing cheek, these domestio triflea. Ifit takes me an the Urst, the tiger waa discharged, and a third Whera shall we begin ?"
" we bave determined to try it, with all ita hour a day—and it doea not take me more on maid taken in hts plaoe, and now that there " Let ua consider," resumed the captain,
bszzards, if only papa and mamma will ap- an average, I don't know wbat it may do in were three children there were four maids. tbougbtfnlly; "where can it be ? It oannot and their shabby living. I don't suppose tools in the hands of one ignorant of their
"Go on, go on, Aunt Clem," oried Augusta; ^u .u« utiuua o. xnose wnose minus are un- j think that too little interest is felt by our
"why dont you magnify them into angels ? developed, knowledge is neither permanent Teachers generally, and too little effort made.
More comfort than we have! Look at onr nor capable of future use. It is lilce water in many caaes tbe fencing placed there by
superior home, our mode of life, and com. dipped up in a basket, soon lost for tlie want , Directors is not cared for by the Teacher as
pare it with theirs; their paltry two servants of power to retain it; or like a coII-cti6n of jt ought to be. Not a few times have we
I prove'
time—wbat then? It is an hour well spent; Captain and Mra. Conrtenay alao liked to be in the rent and taxea ; of ooarse tbey ^^^7 taste wine once in a month."
ute. The mere shopkeeper who has ou the
And suppose your papa and mamma do an hour that I might fritter away If I did not go out of town in autumn, and they were fond j muat go on just the aame, and the insurance, " And no( tasting it, do not feel the want shelves of his warehouse a great variety, of A dazzling gltam of white favors flashed ^j^ approve ?" ^^^^ ** *<* ^°- ^^ ^°^^ °°^ ™^^ "°7 hands ' of gayety, went lo partiea, and Rave them.— ' and I mnat pay the interest of the money o^ >'• But when yon say shabby living, you mechanical tools and implements, cannot for
Then we must wait patiently for better coarse, leas fit for my drawing afterwards or , Their hotiaekeeping was on an extensive " we owe, and we must have our meals as *" prejudiced, Aguata. Thougb their din- that reaaon be called a mechanic. The per-
into tbe admiring eyes of numerous specta- ^
tora, aa a airing of carriages and horses turn- days," sighed Annis. my embroidery, and it does not aoil my nice scale compared with their income; Mrs ed prancing away from the church of a noted « ^nd live upon hope," said Aunt Clem, morning dress, for I have made a large brown Conrtenay waa no manager, she knew literal- suburb of the metropolis. The gay and « which is abont as satisfactory as living holiand apron to go nearly all round me, and ly nothing of practical domeatio details when handsonirt Augusta Marsli had just become ' ^pon air. Well, Annie, I side with yoa.— I turn up my sleeves; in ehort it does not she married, and she did not aeek to acquire Mrs. Courtenay, and the bridal party were y^^ shall have my helping word for it." render me one whit leas the lady, when I sit them ; her aervanta were improvident and now retuniiuu bome lo partake of the wed- " You are not serious, Clementina I" ex- in my drawing-room and receive any friend j wasteful, ahe conld not shut her eyes to that; ding breakfast. claimed Mrs. Marsh. w^o ™«y °^^^ "P°" ^^- ^° ^ ^°°^ l^^s like but her attempts at remedying the evil only
Dr. Marsh, a phyaician, was popular iu hifl «Indeed I am. I should not counsel every, one to you F" amounted to an oooaaional storm of soolding,
amall locality, and his five daughters were g£ri to marry npon three hundred a year, but "Psha,AnnieI You picked up these notions and the sending off of oook after oook. They
attractive giria, fully expecting to make good Annie and Mr. Lance seems to have well con- of kitchen management at poor Annt Rnt- got Into debt, tbey grew deeper into it every
marriages, although it was underatooi that sidered what they are about, and are prepar- tley's, but you ought not to bo forming your month and year, and Captain Conrtenay, be-
they would bave no fortnne, for the doctor ed to make the best of its difficullies" ideas npon them." sieged out of hia aeven senses, was fain to
lived up lo his income, if not beyond it.— ' "And very glad I am that I did pick them patch up matters by borrowing money of a
Tht* fiist tocarry out this expectation waa Au- CHAPTER II. up. But if I had not, if I tad aa little ex- gentleman named lahmael Levi. Of coarse
gnsta who married Captain Conrlflnay. In a neighborhood where house-rent was perience in domestic usefnlness as you. I he fleeced him wholesale.
The captain waa ouly a captain by courte- cheaper than at Brompton, but within a walk believe they would have come to me with tbe
ay. HebaJ riold out of the army and lived ¦ of it, did Mr. and Mrs. Lance settle down, necessity."
upou his property, five huudred a year.— por the full consent of Mrd. Marsh was won "Oh, no doubt," said Sophy, soomfully;
Quite sufficieut to marry upon, tbooght Au- 0^^^, the wedding took plaoe, and they were "yon were incliBed by natnre to these low
gusta ; but the captain, what with his club) ; fairiy launched iu life, for better or for worse, lived notions, Annie."
aud hid tailor, and his opera, and hia other j ^po„ tijeij. t^ree hundred a year. Theirrent "There are notions abroad," gravely respon- ^ ^
bachnlor expenses, had found it liitle enongh '• ^^g thirty-five pounds, and for ita size the ded Mrs, Lance, "that for people in oar pre- ^r. Lance and Annie, with their' despised for himself. He met Augusta Marsh, fell in house waa really a handsome looking house, teutious class of society (I cannot help call- ^jj^^g hundred, had been browbeat in society love with her, and determined to renounce which a gengeman need not be ashamed to i»g it so, for we ape the ideaa and manners f(,r daring to risk it; but the despised ones folly and settle dowu iuto a married man.— ^ acknowledge aa hia residence. Income and only suited to those far above ua,) all partio- ^ere canqneror; and the lauded onea had Dr. Marsli had no objection, Augusta had i other taxes amounted to about fifteen, and ipation in, all acquaintance even, with do- f^^^^, q^^ ^^g j^ ? yj^g ^j^g p^^ty jj^^ less ; as a bome was set up at Brompton, and ' the fifty-pounds was a large item out of their meatic duties, is a thing to be a.shamed of, looked their future full in the face, and de- this was the wedding-day. : income: there was also the fire and life in- never to be owned to, but ooutemptuonsly Uberately reaolved to confiue their simple de- It need not be described ; they are all alike; J surauce. Annie aeemed fully determined to denied. They are wrong notiona; wicked ^-^^.^^^ within less than their income, arming if the reader has passed his, he knows j oarry out her scheme of ecouomy: though in notions : false and hollow: for they lead to themselves against temptation; thaotherhad what it is, if not, he can live in expectation. ' jq doing this, she gave great umbrage, in one embarrasament; to unpaid debts, to the ^^^ go looked at it, but had got themselvea Caiitain and Mrs. Courteuay departed at two or two points, to aome of her family. Upon wronging of our neighbors; and the sooner o'clock on their wedding-tour, the gnesta fol- the return of Mrs. Marsh and her daughters the fashion goes out, the more aensible sooi- lowed, and tho family were left alone.to them- from their two-month's annual sojourn at the ety will prove itself. I don't know which ia selves and to Aunt Clem. Auut Clem, a sia- sea-aide, the young ladiea hastened to call the worst: a woman who entirely neglects to ter of Dr. Marsh's, rejoiced inthe baptismal. upon Annie, who had then beeu married about ' look after her household, where her station
asnal. We must diamiss one ofthe aervanta." *fThaPi equally impossible," returned Mra. Conrtenay. " Which would yoa dismiss ?— Three ohildren, two of them in arma, as one may say, require two nnraes, and oannot be attended to withoat. Then there must be tivo for the honse: one could not wal , and cook, and olean, and anawer the door—oh, impoasible.
nera are plain, thougb they may consiat gen- b°^ deserving that uame, is the one who
erally but of one dish of roast beef, or steaks, knows how to use those implements, or who
or cutlets, besides tbe vegetables, there ia in the case of necessity, cau even make the
alwaya plenty and what more cau people inoplements themselves. So an eddcated
want thau their—stomachs—full. It used ni^^d ^ ooi a mere store-house of facts, but
to be belly in my days, but I suppose the ^° intelligent agent, witli power to act and
present age would be shocked out of its re- perform, independently, the work of life. To
flnement to hear that word now." educate is to draw out and develope the
The captain laughed, for Aunt Clem had powers of tbe human miud, and to give tliem
Captain Courtenay leaned hia head upon i'^^^^"^ ^^^^^^^ »°^» * ^«^t- "^^ ^o wine gvowth, strength aud vigor; to form and bia band ; it did indeed seem aa If their was ! ^*°^« °^^8ht surely manage to allow himself ^^^uld them iu their development, and not not the aUghtest loophole in the domestic ^^Ij^f/'^^ Z^'^^ ?^^'" ^^'\ ^'*- *" ^'"¦'""•''' **'* "'"'''''"" "'^"^ ""'''' ^'''^''^ '"'•'"'''
department which afforded a' chance of re¬ trenchment. —¦
found the gates unhinged and lying in tlie mud—the fences torn and raggeri, and the whole scene one of dilapidation and waste. Such Teachers give poor encouragement to Direotors to go on in snch improveraents.— There is too much apathy with Teachers.— i Doubtless the temporary natnre of their en- i gagement has much to do with this; but considerations so selfish as this onght to be beneath the Teacher. It will require only a little effort aud a little labor to secnre the end. It is more dilficult to obtain fencing than to have it planted and improved ; aud I consider that Teacher almost inexcusable, who has taught six months in a achool house fenced in, who has not had tbe grounrls
Their real tranbles of Hfe were looming om- l inously near, tbe fruits of their short-sighted union, of their improvident conrse. Captain Conrtenay and hia wife, with their flve hnn^ dred a year, had launched Into marriage, their frsends crowing over their sure proapeots
namHofClementiua,whichhadlongsincebeen , five months. It should be observed that Au- ahortened by lier nieces into Clem. She waa nie, being of of a quiet, patient, uaeful dis- ft wonian <;f some jinU'Uient, plirtiwd and pen position, had always been considerably dicta- eiiatiiu, cj'piitially with reiiard to her niecea ted to and snnbbed by her siatera ; and now faults, and whenever Aunt Clem wrote from that she was married they forgot to discon- the country that she was coming on a visit, . tinue the habit.
they called it a black-letter-day.
" I'm 60 upset!" uttered Mrs. Marsh, sit¬ ting dowu with a half groan.
" That'a through eating custard in a morn¬ ing," aaid Aunt Clem.
" Ealing nonsense," returned Mrs. Marsh. " Did you see that young man who sat next to?—wbich of the girls was it ?—to you, An- ¦ nie, I think ; did yon uoiice him, dementi- ' na ?"
" Yes. A nice looking man."
"Nice looking 1 Why be has not got a I tLandsome feature in his face !" j
" Such bad management, Annie F" begau
; Sophy at onoe. " Three o'olock in the day
! and yoar cook answered the door to ua.—
j Where waa Rebecca f"
I " Rebecca ia gone F" answered Mrs. Lance. "I have only Mary."
' " Only Mary!" uttered Misa Sophy, aghast.
I " Emily, did you hear that ? Whatever can
, you mean, Annie ?"
" Well—it happened iu this way," said An¬ nie. "Rebecca did not snit: ahe was care- leas, insolent to Mary, and caused mnoh
" A nice countenance for all that," persist- , ed Annt Clem. " One yon can confide iu at i the first glance. "What of him !"
" I am horribly afraid he is going to propose ¦ for one of the girls. He dropped some words to me; and now, instead of leaving the houae, he ia down stairs, closeted with the doctor.— Which of yon girls is it that has beeu sotting bim up to do tbis ?" cried Mrs. Marsh, ab¬ ruptly turning to her daughters, "Annie, what are you looking so red for ?"
Annie Marsh did look red, and very con¬ scious. Au attachment, bidden hitherto from all but them, existed between her and Geoffry Lance,and tbey had come to the resolntion to make it kuown. Mrs. Marsh's surmise that be waa now speaking to the doctor was cor¬ rect ; and the doctor oame up with the news. " What answer did you give him?" asked Mrs. Marah.
" Told him tbat if be and Annie had made up their minds to try it, I shonld not say nay," replied the doctor. " Aud asked him to come in to spend the evening."
Mrs. Marsh looked daggers; tbree of the youug ladies looked the same. " Let tbem marry, Dr. Marsh! let them marry upon nothing 1"
" Oh, come, it'a not so bad as tbat," said tbe doctor. '• He haa three hundred a year. What did you and I begin life upon, old lady, eh ? Annie, ask yonr mamma if it was not considerably lesa than tbat." " Nonsense!" crossly responded Mra. Marshy as the doctor went ont, laughing. *' The ca¬ ses are not at all alike, Annie ; you must see tbat they are not. Yourpapa'a waa a rising profession ; and Lance will stick at his three hnndred a year all hia Hfe."
" What ia this Mr. Lance ?" inquired Aunt Clem. " A gentleman ?"
" Oh, of course a gentleman. He was bringing up for the Bar, but his father died, and there was a hitch about money. I be¬ lieve he did eat terms and get oalled, bnt he had nothing to live upon while practice came and waa glad to accept the secretaryship ofa public institution. He gets £300 a year, and he'll never get more, for it is a fixed salary not a rising one. Don't be le I into absurdi¬ ty, Annie." -
" Mamma," said Annie,going up to her, and speaking in a low tone, full- of emotion, " I will never marry contrary to your approba¬ tion, neither wonld Geoffry take me on such terms. But I hope you will not hold out against us- 1 have heard you aay how much you liked Mm."
" So I do, Annie," said' Mrs. Marsh, some¬ what appeased by the words and tone, " but you never heard me say I liked his income, or thought him a desirable match for one of my daughters. Tiiree huudred a year I It's quite ridiculous, child." -^^r'.^We bave considered it in all points, dear¬ est mamma, and talked it over a great deal," resumed Annie, timidly, " and we feel sure that we shall do. very well upou it, and live comfortably. Yoa kuow I havo had some experience iu keepiug bouse on small meam, at Aunt Rutlley's."
" For goodness sake, Annie, don't bring up Aunt Euttley," interrupted Sophy Marsh.— " The poor curate's stipend is but a hnndred a year, with the parsonage to live in, and a flock of children to fill it. You are head oook and bottle washer when you are staying tbere, I expect. They must live upon bread and cheeae half their time, aud pinch and contrive from year's end to year's end."
"But do yoa not see that my insight into bow they manage their pinchiog and contri¬ ving will be of great service to me ?" return¬ ed Annie, in a patient tone. " Mamma, I know I conld manage well on three handred a year, and bave everything comfortable.— You sbould deteot no pinching in my house> come as often aa yoa would."
"If Lance had a prospect of an inorease— of rising to five or six hundred in tbe course of afew yeara—I would let yoa promise to marry him then, with all my heart, Annie.'' " Bnt the -very faot of his not having it, of bis income being a fixed one, haa induced na to wisb to risk it, mamma. If we wait, it will be no better; and—oh, mamma I pray do not say tbat we must separate I"
"Annie, child," interrupted Aunt Clem, "if yoa spend three hundred tbe first year, yott will want four the secoud and five the third " But we do not intend to spend three the first year," aaid Annie, quiokly, " Onr old nurse had a favorite aaying which she always impressed upon ua when we saw the sugar cap fall and aaked for more sugar. I repea¬ ted it.one day to Geoffrey, and made him laugh. ' Spare at the sack's mouth.' It ia what we intend to do with,onr income." ' No unmarried girl oan form an idea how
trouble. So I gave her waming. It then oc¬ curred to me that as my wedding visits had been all paid to me, and we were not likely to see mucb ceremonious oompany, I might as well, for a time, keep only Mary. So I spoke to Geoffrey and he told me to try it if I liked, and Mary said she wonld rather be aloue thau have the annoyance of a servant like Rebecca. You cannot think how well it answers. Mary ia a moat superior aervant, knowa her work, and does it thoroughly; and ahe is always tidy. You know her to be the oook, L ut yoa oonld not have told it from her appearance. She is not fine, it is true, but more respectable lookiug than many of the honse aud parlormaids.*'
"Bnt sncb a degrading thing to keep only one servant," remonstrated Misa Marsh.— "Like tne common people!"
"Oars ia only a common income, answered Annie. I told papa what I had done, one day that he drove here to see me, and he praised me for it."
"Oh, papa has audi old fashioned notions; something like your own, Annie. Wait till you hear what mamma says to it. One aer¬ vant! it must tell against yoa with all yoar friends."
"No," replied Mra. Lance, warmly, "or, if it could, they would be frienda not worth re¬ taining. If they came here and fonnd my house full of confusion, or discomfort, my servant dirty, myself unrepresentable, they might have cause; but, excepting that they do not see two servants, everything ia as orderly and nice as when Rebecca was here. I aud my husband are not less gentlepeoplei and I am sure they rather respeot us the more for sacrificing custom to right. If we happen to have any oue to dine with us, or two or tbree friends for the evening, Mary aenda round for her aiater, who waits nicely." "But how on earth do yon manage with one servant? Angusta, with her three, com¬ plains bitterly that the work is not half done.'' "There is an impression witb many experi¬ enced people that the larger your number of servants, tbe less is your work doue," smiled Mrs. Lance. "There is really not so mnch to do in this houae, aud plenty of time to do it in. We breakfast at eight which givea
Geoffry "
"My gracious! Eight! Do you contrive to get up?"
"Yes," said Annie, "and like it mucb better thau our lazy houra at home. By niue, soon after, Geoffry leaves; which gives him time to walk in comfortably to the office by a qnarter to teu." "You dou't mean to aay he walks ?" "Yes, aud walks home, except in very bad weather. He says were it not for tbis walk) night and morning, he shoald not have suf¬ ficient exercise to keep bim in health; aud of course it Is so much omnibas money aaved. He laughs at tbose gentlemen wbo ride into town, and ait stewing in their chambers, or in an office or counting-house all day, especially those who have need to be frugal, as we have, and theu ride home again; no exercise, uo saving, and in time it will be no healtb. Well—Geoffry goes at nine, then Mary takea away the breakfaat things, washes them up, puts her kitchen straight, and goes to her np-Etaira work, whicb in our house is not much. Bv eleven o'clock she has fre¬ quently changed ber gown and cap, and has no more to do till time to prepare for dinner at five. One day she asked me if I could not give her some socks of master's to darn, aa she did not like sitting with her handa before her."
"Your house is quite a prodigy-house," cried Sophy, iu a toue bordering on sarcasm. "It seems there is never any cleaning going
and circumstancea demand it, or one who
I makes beraelf a domestio drndge. Both ex-
I tremes are bad, and both shonld be avoided."
" Do you mean that as a out at Augusta f''
1 asked Miss Marsh—"the neglecting of her
household ?"
"No, Bmily, I was speaking generally," re- '-. plied Mrs. Lance ; ''though I do wish Angus- I ta did look a little more to hers. It would ' ; have been well for as, I think, had mamma I brought ua up in a mure domeatio manner. I There'is another fallacy of the present day: j the bringing up yoang ladiea to play and ' dance, but utterly incapable aa the rnlinit of a household."
"Spehk for yourself, if yoa pleaae, Annie. ' We wonld rather be excused kitchen rule ?" i "Why, look at Angusta," replied Mrs. Lance, "would it be well for her, or not, to check and direct her hoasehold? Their expenditure must be very large; too large, I fear, for the captain's income."
"At any rate, vou aeem determined not to err oa the same side. Take care you do not degenerate into the otber, the domestio drudge Annie."
"I shall never do that—at leaat, ifl know myself," quickly replied Mra. Lance. "I have too much regard for my husband, am too soUcitoaa to retain his respeot and affection); a domestic drndge cauuot remain a refined, well-informed woman, an enlightened com¬ panion. We keep up onr literary tastes, our readings; and our evenings are delightful.— No, I shall eacape that, I hope, Emily ; thougb I am learning to iron."
"I wonder you don't learn to waah," indig¬ nantly retorted Mias Marsh.
"I did waah a pair of lace sleeves the other morning," laughed Mra. Lance, "bnt they turue,d oat so yellow that Mary had to aub¬ mit tbem to aome whitening process of her own, and I do not think I ehall try agaiu.— She washes all my lace thinga and Geoffry's collara, and she is teaching me to iron them. Ironing was an accomplishment I did not aee much of at the parsonage, for I believe every¬ thing in the whole weekly wash was mangled, except my uncle's shirts and bands. His surplice always was: auut used to say he wonld know no better, I am trying to be Tery useful, I assure you. I go to market." "Go to wbere?"
"To market. To the butcher's and the green-grocer'a, and to the otber tradespeople. Not every day, but on Saturday always, and perhaps once ia the week besides."
"To save the legs of the boys who come
round for orders ?" asked Mias Jemima Marsh,
who was a very silent girl, and rarely spoke.
"No. To save Geoffry's pocket," replied
into embarrassment,tbrongh what they would have called sheer inability to keep oat of it. They had not calculated, they began life too expHusively; had not controlled their self- indttlgence; everything was on too large a scale: and now neither knew how to go back to a smaller.
They were sitting together one dull winter's day, very dull themselvea, and talking over the aspect of affairs in a very dull spirit.— The aspect waa worse than either thongbt; Mrs. Courtenay really did not know its ex¬ tent, and the captain was careleas aud blind. The captain had received hia quarterly in¬ come, and bad immediately parted with most of it, for sundry demands were preasing.— How they were to go on to the next qaarter, and how the Christmaa bills were to be paid, wa.i bidden in the womb of the future.
"They are so much larger than usual," murmnred Captain Courtenay, drawing a china basket towards him, the billa recepta¬ cle, and leisurely proceeding to nnfold some of them.
"Each year briugs additional expense," remarked Mrs. Courtenay. " Four servants ooat more tban tbree, not to apeak of the children ; thougb they are but little expense yet."
Captain Courtenay had tbe contents of one of the billa under his eye at the time hia wife spoke. " Little expense, did you say, Angusta. I suppose this is for them, aud it'a pretty near £20. It'a headed * Clark'fl Baby- linen Warehouse.'"
" I meant iu the matter of food. Of oourae they bave to be clothed; aud I don't know anything more costly thau infants' dreaa— Cambric and lace, aud basainettea, and all the rest of it,"
"So I shoald think," quoth the captain, "here's thirty ahillinga for six shirta. Do yon put babies into shirts ?" " What else ahould we put-them in ?" "How loug are they—a foot? Five shil- lings a shirt. Why, it's nearly as much aa I give for mine."
"Delicate Freucb cambric, trimmed with Valenciennes," explained Mrs. Conrtenay.— " We can't dress a baby in hopsaoking."
" Lace is the largeat item in the bill Here's three pounds eighteen shilliuga for lace, Au¬ gusta."
" Oh, they are dreadful little things to de¬ stroy tbeir cap borders. When tbey get three or four months old, up go their bands, and away they pall, and the lace is soon in tat¬ ters. This last darling baby has already de¬ stroyed two."
"Throw off their caps aud let them pull at tbeir own heads if tbey want to pnll," cried the captain. "That'a how I should cure tbem, Augusta."
"Would yoa?" retorted Mrs. Courtenay. A baby withont a cap is frightful. Except
Mrs. Lance, "for the first two or three months ^°^ ^'^ *°°S whites, nobody could tell whether
we ordered everything that way, but I found *^ ^'^^ * monkey or a child'."
it would not do. With meat, especially.— '¦ " ^°°^^ °^ '^'^ ^^°° " charged half a crown
We had unprofitable piecea, without knowing * ^^*'^' ^^^ ^°^^ ^^""^^ ^^^ sixpenoe."
the price ; for in delivering tbe orders to the " '^^^ ^^^^^ *°** sixpenny was for christan-
boy, the butcher of coarse sends what he ^"^- Of courae that had to be good."
likea, and charges what he likes. Now that " ^ ^^^ ^^^^ marked up at twopence a yard,
I go myself to the butcher's, I choose my \ yeaterday, in Oxford street, quite as pretty aa
meat, see it weighed, and know the price of *°^ '*^® ^^^^ ^^ars, for all I can aee. That
everything before I buy it. It ia a very great
saving."
"I don't think Annie is wrong there,"deci¬ ded Sophy, "for many very good families go
to market themselves.
'•And I wish more did," added Mrs. Lanoe. i "t wish you could persuade Augusta into do¬ ing so. I spoke to her about it, and she aaked j me whether I was out of my mind."
"There is leas occasion for Mra. Courtenay \ to trouble herself," said Mias Marsh, loftily ; | "ahe did not marry upon three hundred a ! year."
"Well, I am very happy," said Annie, ' brightly, "although we bave but thre^ hun- ¦
would be good enongh to tear, Angusta."
" My dear, as you don't understand babiea' things, the remark may be exonsed," aaid Mrs. Conrtenay. " Common mbbish of cot¬ ton lace is not fit "
" Hallo I" shouted the captain, with an emphaaia that startled his wife, as he opened another of the bills, " here's £94 for meat this year!"
" So I aaw," mournfully replied Mra. Cour¬ tenay.
" How can we have eaten meat to that amount ? We can't have eaten it,
" I fluppose we have uot eaten it, yoa and I; but it has beeu consumed iu the house,"
dred a year." ^^ the testy rejoinder of Mrs. Courtenay»
"And one servant," interposed Mias Marsh. :"^°^'^ conscience secretly accused her of "And one servant," laughed Annie. "But 3o»"ethingbeing radically wrong in thehouae- I do assure you we manage better without ^«ep*"g ^«pariment, aud which ahe, ita head, Rebecca tban with her: and aa we shall be "^I'l not know how to set to right, obliged in a few month's time to take a seo-| " Besides the fish and poultry bills,-and ond aervant, I thought we onght to do with-1 ^^ta of game we had aent us, and I sometimes out one uutil then." ' dining at the club! How ia It Anguatua ?"
"There !" uttered Sophy, "That'a just: " f wish I could tell how it Is," ahe answer" wbat Aunt Clem said. I know it is, and you | ed; that is, I wish I conld tell bow to lessen need not prepare to deny it, Annie. You | it. The bills come in weekly, and I look
them over, and there's not a single joint that seems to bave been had in unnecessarily.
"I did not say so," retorted Annie. "In a small iionse-amall compared to oure at home —with only three people in it, and the punt, and carpeta, and fumitue all new, there ia not a great deal of cleaning required, but what there is, is punctnally doue. Mary has her days for it, and on those days I help."
"With the scrubbing F" asked Mra. Marsh with an impervious face.
mean that the babies will be beginniug 1" CHAPTER in. The babiea did begiu. "Tiresome littleoiy* ing creaturea," was Aunt Clem's comment; "they are sure to come whether tbey are wanted or not, and the worst of it is, there's no end to them, no knowing where they'll stop."
And the time went on, aud they atill came, went on till Mra. Conrteney had three and Mra. Lance two, tbe former to her unapeak- able diamay.
For she could not afford it. No; Captain and Mrs. Courtenay had afforded themselvea too many luxuriea, to leave room for that of babies. They had committed a terrible mis¬ take in marrying npon their five hundred a "No," laughed Annie. "While ahe does j year, and thnt not an iucreasing income. It that, I go into the kitcbeu, wash up the was not only that they bad set up tbeir breakfaat thinga, and ahonld it be required^ houaehold and began housekeeping anon a set forward with the dinner." \ acale that would absorb every shilling of it,
•'Set forward for a five o'clock dinner at j bnt the ex-captain accustomed to hia clubs nine in tho morning ?" j and their expensive society, waa not a man
"Yes, all that can be done of it, I make i who conld practice economy outof doors any the pudding or the pie, ahould we be going j more than his wife underatoo 1 it in. The to have one that day, if there is auy meat to [ captain conld not put on a soiled pair of be hashed, I cnt it up; those sort of things. \ gloves, he could uot give up hia social habits Then I dnst the drawing-room—aud indeed I j he never dreamt of such a thing aa not going generally do that, for ita ornaments take so i to the opera several timea in tbe aeason^ and long, and on these buay days I doat my own \ to the theatrea ad libitum, his wife being often expenaes increaae after the first few months,'* i bed-room; and, in short, do many UtUe odds ! with, bim ; it never occurred to him to give oontluued Aunt C/em. and ends of work, ao that Mary geta dona " up bia daily botUe of expeuaive.jriiie, «udh«
" Mias Marah," aaid tbe hoasemaid, usher¬ ing in a lady.
Mra. Courtenay looked aroand for her sis¬ ter Emilys but it was Aunt Clem.
"Well," aaid ahe, aa the Captain, with whom ahe waa a favorite, ensconced her in¬ to tbe warmest seat, " and how are you get¬ ting on?"
" Middling," laughed the captain. "Look¬ ing bine over the Christmas bills."
"Ab," said Aunt Clem, as ahe took off her bonnet, "they are often written on blue paper. You shonld settle your bills weekly; it is the safest and most economical plan: if you let them run on, you pay for it throngh the nose.'?
" I wiah these aocounta could be paid, even through the nose," cried the captain. " Oar expenaes are getting the mastery. Aunt Clem, I and we caunot see where to retrench. We I were talking about it now."
"la that heap all bills? Let me look at ham. You need have no secreta from an old woman like me."
The captain tossed them into her lap, aud the first she looked at happened to be tbe o^e for tbe baby linen. A'ZV't-Ctem studied it throagh her spectaclea, and then studied Angnata's face^
"Never saw anythiug so extravagant in my life. Wbo did you think yoa were buying for? Oneof the little princesses F"
Augusta waa too nettled to reply.
"I don't aee that a baby onght to coat aa much as a man," put in tbe captain; but Augasta tells me I know nothing about it, I could get balf a dozen shirts for thirty shill¬ ings."
" Of courae you could. Aud these ought (o have cost aix."
" Now, aunt!" resentfullyejaculated Augus¬ ta, "How pray ?"
" Six ahillinga at the very outside. You shonld have boaght the lawn and made them yourself."
"Babies' skirts at a shilling apiece !" said AagBsta, scornfully. These are richly trim-- med with Valenciennes lace aud insertion, Aunt Clem."
"Trim my old bedgown with Valencieniea!') irreverently snapped Aunt Clem. "It would be just as aenaible a trick. Who aeea the skirt wheu tbe baby lyis got it on? Non¬ sense, Augusta! Valenoiennes lace may be very well in ita proper place, bnt not for those who can't pay their Christmas bills."
Augusta was iudignant the captain only amited.
"What's thia last ?" comlnued Auut Clem. "Lace ?—four pounds, less two shilliuga, for lace? Here, take your bill; I have seen enongh of it. No wouder yon find your ac¬ couuts heavy, if they are all on this scale.'* "It ia uot dear," fired Augusta. "Half-a crown a yard—the other was for the ehria" teniug—ia cheap for babies' lace."
"I told Augusta I saw some yeaterday in a shop window at twopence a yard, and it looked as well," observed the captaiu.
"I don't quite say that," aaid Aunt Cl^m; ''twopenny lace would neither look nor wear well. Bat there'a another sort of lace, of medium quality, used almost exclusively for infants' caps; this man, Clark, sella quantitiea of it—"
"Trumpery cotton trasb!";inlerrupted Mrs. Courtenay.
"It ia a very pretty lace, rich looking and darable," went on Aan( Clem, disdaiuing tbe interrnptiou, "aud if not thread, it looka like it, bat I beliSve it to be thread. It will laat for two children, and it coats about nine- pence a yard. Annie haa never bought any other."
"How can you aay so, aunt ? I'm aare her children's capt alwaya look nice."
"I know they do. Yon dou't believe in tbis lace becauae you have not looked out for it," observed Aunt Clem. "You go to Ciark'a—stepping out of a cab, I dare say, at tlie door—and aak to look at some good nur¬ sery lace. Of course they ahow yon the good, the real, they don't attempt to ahow youanything interior. But Annie, when she waa buying these thinga, went to Clark's— and I happened to be with her: she did not ask, off-hand, for rich lace or real lace; sbe aaid, 'Have you a cheaper deacription of lace that will wear and anawer the pnrpoae ?' and they showed her what I tell yon of. She bought no other, aud very well it haa worn and looks; it lasted her first baby, and it ia lasting tbia one. I was ao pleaaed with ber method of going to work—not in the -way of caps alone, mind yoa,. but jftf-e^rerjihing— that I sent her four yards of pillow lace from the conntry for a beat cap for her child. At the time you were married," added Aunt Clem, looking at them both ever her specta¬ clea, "I said yoa would not do half aa well aa Lanoe and Anuie, though you had nearly donblo their Income. Yon are the wrong aort of folks."
" At any rate, I cannot be expected to un¬ derstand lace," said the captain.
" But you might underatand otber thinga, aud give them up," returuad Aunt Clem. " You might give up your West-end society, aud your gayetiea, and your extravagant mode of dresaing—"
" I'm sure I don't dreas extravagantly," interrupted the captain.
"I'm aure you do," said Aunt Clem ; " in that way you are worae than Augnata, and abe'a fine enongh. It may not be extrava-
j addition—but that of courae she could unt j plant them. Herreply was noble—"I'll havo
"If Lantie were intern on Uis o«-ngratilica- ble variely „f iuformaUo... To do tUs ,,.„; I'l''"'«'l """''"¦¦est tree. I.,»ke\o a feeble
Ition I dare say he would." auBwored A»nt ">i.,d n.u.l .-orfr, a«d work vigoronsly ; aud ' ^°° led^hlt hr', ' "Z ''""'• ""]
i Clem. "¦« «-<»-k ¦»>x^' •>» He own. Nothiug l,ut a ! !"?1?.!^ that »hade _trees would be a.gr.at
' "Hoand Anuie might be conilorlable in »»»'"5e ofthe mo3t rigid discipliue ciu enVc
' house-keeping matters on three hundred a '"''"•^ accomplish this work of edno.ttiou.— , „ „,,.,,
^year." Strong work makes stroiie minds. That!'^™; ^".''. "'°''^ "¦*""• ^'-l "'¦¦'"r "Remarkably so, spouse. " Bat the worst of it is, there are
other expenses, and plenty of them. Bent, 5„„ ,„ th.^ody, .rue e'ducation d'oirfTrtire I.""" perhaps now dead, for aught I know,
mind—for the heart and head.
I blessing will be hers from those now unborn, their varied uae aud increasing exorcise, will | *^"'' ""^^^^ '"'''^ attractive sites in the .tonuty give them power. What t!:e gymuasiam 1 ""^^ ^** ^°""^ ^° Drumore. Yer.r.. ago
' was Aunt Clem's re- '^'".'''' ^^^^f ^^'* "'''"'"^ I'^^^^^^ severely, by j
CHARITY.
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