Show headed he die dle d of Brok broy broger broker AsSir s y he she did not die dle ie 0 of f cholera r he al died led 0 of brokers sir sir said a man miln to us yesterday speaking death of his bisi friend lle ile lie projected an unwise improvement of a piece of real estate made loans covered himself with bonds and mortgages sand and finally incurred a street debt 0 of two thousand dollars which rapidly rolled u up to eig elg eight ht thousand and crushed the life right out of him he borrowed canda canada money on call to be paid in current funds got paper discounted payable in seven days in in the city ot of bev new york borrowed ohio and kentucky currency for one day returnable in notes of boffilo banks shin ned tied it from street to street and friend to friend to keep the debt ahead of him I 1 why sir I 1 could not sit down to consult coi col sult suit with him or do any any kind of business with him with the least assurance that he would not jump up suddenly to go out and give another shove totham to that accursed debt the memorandum book of his obligations bli bil gatio s was always in in his bosom and sir it burned to the poor mans mana mans heart he was brokers he worked for them lived fl nor for anthem them and died for them he did not die of cholera at all sir sir he lie died of a street debt upon which be he expended his strength every week in throw throwing 1 ing it ahead from one day to even days we thought of haydon hay don the historical painter and the puddle of black blood that ran out from under the door of hi his sr studio where at the foot of one of his pictures the weary artist dis embarrassed himself at once of debt ald ard and life ilie with the friendly pistol what a rightful frightful record of the consequences of debt deb was the whole history of this brilliant and enthusiastic i English mans career it was waa to be su sure re need lessly aggravated by one of the curses of dri bri ish society the london attorney executing the law of contracts and with his costs doubling the weight of every obligation atlon aaion put into his hands for collection yet no man roan can read haymons Hay flay dons life ilfe without the conviction that his misfortunes and his suicide were due to the debt the rolling of which while he could roll it was th the poison of hs irs lire life and which finally grew too great for fon or his hia str strength erlath eriath it rolled back on him and killed him tle the pistol ball hall which shattered his noble head was wa but the minister of his debt there is now at our hand the written ilfe life of the great areat orator sheridan how flow its shipwreck and 1 its closing sorrows and shames were the conS consequences consequent ces of his lifelong life tife long iong indebtedness it cost him his seat in him out of drury lane cast him into prison sent him to the pawnbroker s showed sowed bowed the tile seeds of domestic discord drove him to hard drinking and finally broke down th taj ornament of the british Senate and utterly ruined the great man whom byron pronounced to be the author of the best oration the best opera the best address and the best comedy ever produced in england the table companion couns counselor elor eloe associate and and ard friend of princes prime ministers alint and dukes debt carried him bedridden to the dis grace and horrors of an arrest while he was dying in 9 A brutal officer in in the very act of carrying him in the blankets upon which he laid to a sponging house was deterred diet riet erred from his purpose only by the suggestion of the physician physics an that he would be hung for lor murder if sheridan died on the way the youth of this country should be taught to avoid debt as the bane of their lives PAY AS YOU tou GO is a golden maxim it should be the rule of private life true economy would make it the governmental practice its wisdom could be profitably inculcated in incur our institutions of learning in lieu of a portion of the worthless greek upon which american scholars waste wasted so much time and money buffalo democracy |