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Show fee THE II K B E R H ERE RA LD , OvcrJiiils and through valleys, cross- been computed that but one in twenty ing rivers and plains, they stretch out of these achieves a pecuniary success. For my own part and I speak from and woe to the person who was m thp" sad experience -- 1 would rather be a way when a stampede dame.' convict in state prison, a slave in a rice1 to he continued. swamp, than to pass through life under . Let no yonng man the harrow of misjudge himself unfortunate, or truely. poor, so long as he has the full use of suhstant-all- y i Among the many good things which his, limbs. and faculties and is I lorace free from debt. . Greely wrote for the New York Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, conLedger the following vivid article on : are the misery of being indebt. reproach, suspicion, unjust tempt, To be hungry, ragged and penniless disagreeable; But debt is infinitely Is not plesantf but this is nothing to the worse than all. And if it had- pleased horrors of bankruptcy. All the wealth God to spare either or all of ni)r sons of Kothchikls would be a poor recom- to be the support or solace of my dewhich I should pense for a five years struggle, with clining years, the lesson the conciousness that you had taken the have earnestly sought to impress upon Never run into debt! A money or property of trusting friends them is: obligations as you promising to return pay for it when void pecuniary required, and had bretrayed their con- would a pestilence of famine. If you can get no have but fifty cents and fidence through insol vencvrr t, 1 dwell on this point, forU, would more for a week; buy a peck of corn, deter others from entering that place of parch it and live on it, rather than owe torment. Half the young men in the any man a dollar! " Of course I know-- that some men country, with many old enough to know Letterrwould go into buisness" that must dp busin ess hat involves risks, if they could. and must give notes and - other pbliga-titonis,,intodebt and I do not consider him reslly are so ignorant as to ? Most poor men epvy. the merchant or manufacturer in debt who can lay his hands directly whos life is an incessant struggle with on the means of paying at some, little pecuniary difficulties, who is driven to sacrifice on the one side,' obligation I constant shining, and wibj for month and dependence on the other and to month, barely evades vthat insolvent say, from all such let every youth humever- him. which later or sooner God overtakes to bly.. pray cy preserve most men in business, so that it has more. d-b- t. - v . ( i s; to-morro- w, s. , r . i f |