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Show Tin: i'u.M)t(ir. in' I'Hir. A MAN who hai ronounrod opIiAona anleiprwaealhem Inelrong tenntla generally regarded at a ra Ileal whoaa enunciation! ar lo b taken with much allowance. If a thing ought lo beialJ, however, It ll Utter bl eUte II with aufllclent earneetnea! to give It weight, rather than liedie It around with iHiellflcklloM which git the ar-aranon ar-aranon of doubtful alncerlty. Men differ lu their characteristic!, and their utterancea ar generally an ludex to tha atrenglh ef their aenllmenta and eoavlcllona. lloraradreely waa one of thoa forceful men who do not no-ognlieany no-ognlieany half-way hout In atallng what they roncelv lo bo right and true, lutheeo 1 1 ilea of comparative builneae reckleaancea, the following from hi! powerful in may be uaeful aalt It, oa account of 1U ttreugtb, lu tereatlngi "To be hungry, ragged and nnllM U notpleaaaotl but thla U nothing I the horror of bankrui try All the wealth of the llotharhllde would lie a poor re eotiipenMluthonvoyaara atruggle, with the oonaeloutneM that you had uken Iho monayor proterty uf trutlug frlend proinletog lo return or pay for It whan requlrad, anl hat batrayet llielr oun II lence through inwilveucy. I dutll on Oil point, for I would deter othera Irmn eiitinng tlut plar if torment. tor-ment. Halftheyouuginon In throun Iry, wltb intoy old euougti lo know bet tor, wouM "go Into builneia, that la, Into debt tomorrow If Ihey eould. Moal poor men are e.) lenorant aalo envy the marrbanlor manufacturer who llnila an lttoeant atruggl with rreunlary dinioulilee, who la driven to conatant 'ihlnlng,' and who, from month to month, barely evaloi that lueol teury whlrh aooner or later overuyea moat men hi bulneu, a. that II ha been computed that but one lu twenty eflheae achieve! jiceunlary auoree. Tor my own part -and I apeak from aedexperitneo- I would rather l a convict con-vict In riute prlm, a elave In a rloo awauip, than to paaa through life under the harrow of debt. I.o! no young man lnlJudge hlmeolf unfortuuite, or truly poor, as long ai he baa 11 full me of hla llmbiandfHCUltlvi and la aubatanllally free from debt. Hoogir, cold, rag, bard work, con tempt, euiplelon, lilduat reproaoh, aro dlaagranable, bill debt ll Inllnltely worn lhau Ihem all. And, If II had pleawj llnltoapareeltheror alt of my eoni to btboaupMitoraolap of my declining yeara lb loii whleh I ahould have earoet.y Bought to Impreaa upon them lai "Never run Into dcbtl Avoid pe cunlary obligation! ai you would u IIoiko or fnulne. If ytm hav but fifty cent and i an set no muro for a week, buy a (Mick of corn, arch It and lh on It, ratliar than owe any inau adol larl' "Of eourie, I know that aouie men itiuat do baalnili that Invohei rlki and mulglvuute! on their obligtttlonai and I do not rioil lor blm really In debt who cn lay hli handa dlreitly on the meani of paying at aouie little eaorlllco all he owe! I epok of real debt 'that which InvoUri rlak of aaerlfli-e on the one al le, obligation an I depeudenc ou the other and 1 aay from all aueh tot every youth humbly pray (tod to preaerve him evermore ever-more I" |
