The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-07-31
she was watching Tom Green's wife,
who was just gong TO take aride out 10
Harlem in A Jerrav waguon

VINO was just gong 70 Iake q rice Out 10
Harlem 10 Jerrey Wagon.
The landlord this year clapped fifty
dollars more rent on the ouse, and old
Brown again stood security, for will
tell you secret.-Though he oontinu-
ed to talk as he used 10 do, from the
mere force of habit, he began 10 act diff
teTently, from the force of example, See
ing every body selling their property for
three or four times what it would have
brought before paper money became so
plenty, and specializing, and grow ing SO
1Eich that they all set up their carriages,
and visited Saratoga Springs and the
falls of Niagars, the old man began to
feel such aditcbing to have finger in
the pie, that he could lilifdly keep his
hands ost. of il. Every day he saw his
ueigbbors selling their little houses for
the price Of big ones, and buying vhole
squares out Of town with the money, or
rather on credit which old Brown by de
grees began 10 think was much better
than cutlingthe coat according the cloth
and saving something Tor a rainy day.
He was offered such price Tor his
house and loi, as made his hair stand
on anG fairly turned his brains. In fine
such is the3dificuIty Of resisting the ex-
ample Of al'around US, that in an evil
hour he disposed o! his property to Tom
GreeD, wholnobody knew how, had all
at once got possession Of don't know
COW much property, and rode in coach
With gold mounted harness, The Sc,
cret was that he had become Bank di.
rector, and manufactured his own mon
ey out of nothing. He paid the old man
IN Bank notes, for be had got over biz
dislike to "Shin Plasters;'but the mo.
ment he gotit, he felt,it as il were bur.
ming mis- fingers.
What to'do with il he did not know
He had become suddenly as mad as hi'
nelgbbors. Tom Green became his orr
acle and adviser, for | have often obser
we'd that Successful blockhead always
passes for a Solomon. He had taIket
of nothing but great specula,ions. ant
was at lastpersuaded by Tom Green t.
go halves with him in purchasing ,
great swamp, about five miles ou, o
Town, for NE fret payment of which h,
parted with al his money and for iht
remainder ioinsd wuh Tom " heeom
ing responsible. The swamp being val,
ued at two hundred thousand dollars, oil
Brown now considered himself worth a
least hundred thousand, which fifth,
him about ss we'll as a shirt. does
broom stick. He went about with hi
hands in his breeches pockets, talked @
nothing and thought of nothing bu
great speculatons, and il any body hac
offered to sell him a tract of land in tn,
moon, he would have caught at it 10 ,
certainty. There never were two .mer
so unlike as Peter Brown The Shoema.
ker, and Peter Brown the speculator.
| He began to be ashamed Of his sor
Joon's being a joulneyman printer, ant
resolved in his own mind to make ger
rlemau of him as soou as he had reali.
zed-l believe that is the word-bi,
eat speculation IN the swamp. Johns
wife also began to be in the fidgets e,
seeing Tom Green's lady cut such a
dash, and was always DINING in his ears
how shameful it was for the son Of such
rich man to be printing Bibles.
But old squire Brown, as the neigh
bors now called him, like Johns Boss,
though mighty rich man. had special
iiltIe morey, and in fact was as poor as
a raj; for The swamp, though immensely
valuable, as every body said, did not
bring him apenny year. So far from
this, it was continually bringing him in
debt, for taxes, assessments and the
Lord knows what-for don't pretend
TO understand these thngs, moi |. For
this reason the old mans wealth was Of
no service to. John, who could never get
anything cut Of him, not even one ofhis
old sayinss, and the poor fellow conlinu
ed TO labor necessarily, TO mako both
ends meet, while they grew farther than
ever from each other every day. The
poor fellowbegan TO feel his spirits flag,
and is,strength failing, under present
toll and d'futere hopelessness, for though
young man he had sense, enough 10 see
that it waO impossible for SO many peo>
pie all 10 glow rich of sudden; ,,ha,
so money made out of nothing would
come to nothing at last, and that the old
man vas onlv following Jack o'lan-
tern INTO great swamp where be would
stick fast the few remaining years ofhis
life z
People like old Brown, are generally
the lastto be infected with any prevalI>
ing notions and if they fall into them at
all 1t is generally only TO become their
victims. They get hold of.he fag end,
like thuse whoscome last at a feast Of
rogues q, atayeru, get nothing but the
crumbs sand arc left to pay ali the reck-
oning. just so it was with old Daddy
Brown. He had come too late to the
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