Accounts.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1437, 17 September 1881, Page 3

Accounts.

The following accounts were passed for p.iyment : — A. Graham, £1 l'2s; H'tuhato Tunes, £1 us (Jd. Tina terminated the business.

If the meu were aa .silent about their ages as the women, we shouldn't hear &o many army reminiscences as we now do. Tho l.idies are worthy of being patterned alter in this regard. O.nk of our young men bought a horse the other day that trotw a mile id an hour and ten miuutes. The horse is now for sale. Jf ojjody likes to be nobody ; but everybody is pleased to think himself somebody. And everybody is somebody ; but when anybody thinks himself somebody, he generally thinks everybody else is nobody. An American Paper says : — Austria's rapid road t6 ruin is chiefly caused by her inordinate thirst for military glory, for which she never had the meins to pay. Since 1840 there ha* not been a single year in which her revenue has come up to the expenditure. The accumulated deficits from 1851 to 1866 amounted to £130,000.000, and it is still going on. The deficits between 1870 and 1877 have amounted to nearly 1 £170,000,000. Her debt Ims grown from £125,009,000 in 1848 to £391,000,000 in 1880. She still keeps up her show of military grandeur, and is re-organising hbr army with a view of having its war footing amount to 1,064,065 rank and file, with 31,808 officers and 188,107 horses. The new pure cash system now being initiated by G. and C. will certainly prove a benefit to the public. It has been a great success in bydncy and Melbourne and when strictly carried out . the customer J who buys at an establishment where the ' goods are marked low to ensure a. rapid_ sale must ! be a_ great gainer. G. and C. sell their drapery millinery, and clothing at such prices for cash as {jives the buyer the advj.nt.iges of a -shareholder in a coiopcrativosocicty,wit;noutthe risk of being called upon to bear aportion of the loss should the year's business prove unsatisfactory. Garlick and Crah'wcll wilt aim to retain the confidence which the public have hitherto shown them, and , are determined to give tho pure cash system a iair trial; whether they gain or lose the first year. Country buyers on remitting' cash with order will be supplied with goods at co-operative prices ; just the same as though they made a personal selection,. Furnj*hing gpods, such , as carpets, floor , cloths, bedsteads, bed J3uip and general house furniture, the largest portion of wHich r ss turned oilt at our owrt factory, will bo marked at the lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of ■ five pc)r fceht. v/t\\ be allowed to those who p^y>at the time of purchase. G. Bc',C. .having realised the entire value of their stock duYi'rig their late cash s'ale.jtlje pjresont'stock,,is new and cheaply hough r. Ah inspection is invited.— Garuck and, Ciunwkix, City HallFuroisaing Arcade QuqonHrect, Auckland

, * ', < 'it its' ''rt Romance in Real Life.— Two chums, one rich and the other poor, graduated in the class of '53 »b Autberat College. The rich man's son "Went into business with his father in Hew York and took his friend with him as an employe. Soon the two young men fell in lore with the same young woman — a not unusual occurrence by the way — and the poor one, thinking he could offer but scant induce- , ment by the side of his rich rival, went West. After experiencing varying for,tuues, he became rich, at last, and. the other day set out for the East after an absence of 24 years. One Friday, while i on a train in Western lowa, he noticed \ ,woman trying to open a car window. He offered to help her. She was his early love. They talked just as one might expect them to do under the circumstances, especially when each found the other not married. She Was^'a school teacher in lowa, poor and 'dependent upon herself. Love still lingered in their middle aged hearts. The old story was rehearsed. They became Mr ' and Mrs on that very day, notwithstanding the ominous fact that it was Friday: A meaner, husband than a young physician of Chicago, as shown by testimony in Court, it would be hard to find. He had a wealthy father, but dissipation had cut him off from money in that quarter, and his professional practice amounted to nothing. He married a girl who earned 20 dols. a week in a millinery store, and allowed her to snpport him. Whenever she was ill, he sent her io her mother's house in Michigan, and his letters during these periods were curious, lie advised his ' precious darling ' to come back as soon as possible and demand an increase of pay fiom her employer; he urged her to try and get a railroad pass so as to avoid expense ; ho thought it hard that his own 'precious wifey' couldn't re-engage at a higher salary, adding, ' I do not hope for wealth, b\it God knows, I do think we deserve a living ;' he assumed her that her ' longing and loving husband' had pawned his overcoat, and was in a great hurry to see her. She worked on patiently, when able, while he made no advance in his profession. At length his father died, and he came into his inheritance. He immediately deserted his wife, got a fraudulent divorce, and married a prettier girl.

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