The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-08-20
NUMBER 10.


J charge me quite so much as he would i'll
employed him less frequently"
The old man looked round and sighed.
: The apartments were in sad disorder, for
f the servants, overcome by The fatgues of
the previous day, had followed the exam
pie OF their master, and stolen from the
morning the sleep they had been denied
at night. A bottle lay shivered in one cor
ner OF the supper room, the champaign
with which it had been filled soaking in
to the rich carpet--a piece Of plumb-cake
had been crushed by some needless foot
INTO the snow-white rug which lay before
the drawing room fire, the sweeping dra-
pcrles of one of the curtains was still drip
ping with something which bore mar
yellous resemblance to melted ice cream.
aud the whole suit of apartments wore that
air of desolation which usually characters
ICES "banquet hall deserved"
"Do you calculate the destruction of
furniture in counting the cost of your par
ties, Charles ?" asked Mr.. Waterton.
"Oh no-that of course is expected
furniture, you know, becomes old-fashion-
ed, requires to be renewed every three
years, and therefore one may as well have
the use of it while it is new.
"I on must have vast addition to your
fortune ifyou expect to pay for all these
things.
"My dear sir" replied the nephew,
with most benignant smile at his uncle's
supcrlativc ignorance Of his affairs my
dear sir, you do not seem to know that in
the course Of abont three years, l shall bo
one Of the richest men in New York"
ado YOU sell on credit" asked the old
man Significantly.
"CcrtainIy; every body does so
now"
"Wcll, then, my boy, take an old mans
advice, and don't count your chickens be-
fore they are Matched; don't live on ten
thousand year, when the sum EXISTS on
Iy in your ledger. Call in your debts,
and when your customers have paid, then
tell me how much you have gdinedr
"My dear uncle, you are quite obsolete
in your notions. | wish | could induce
you TO enter with me into new scheme
it would make your fortune"
81 am content with my present condi-
ton, Charles my salary of eight hundred
a year is quite sufficient for the wants of
| bachelor, and leaves me little for the
wants of others nor would sacrifice my
peace of mind and quiet of conscience for
all the fortunes that will ever be made by
speculation"
at is not necessary to sacrifice either
peace or principle in making fortune,
uncle
"Iou have not seen the end vet, my
dear boy; have lived long enough to
behold several kinds ofSpecUlaiire mania,
and all terminated i'll similarly uniortu-
nate manner. 1t is a spirit of gambling
that is abroad, and | am old fashioned
enough to believe that money thus obtain
ed never does good to any one. l! is like
the price OF a soul: the devil is sure to
cheat the unhappy bargainer."
GLOW hate to hear people talk about
business" lispcd Mrs. Waterton, as she
safe llstlcssly in her loose wrapping gown
at the breakfast table :" | think no one
ought to mention the word before la
dies
The old man looked at her with ill-dis-
guiscd contempt
at will be well for you, young lady"
said he, III YOU have never TO learn the
necessity of knowledge of business"
Laura put up her pretty lip, but was
silent, for she was much too indolent, and
rather too well bred to get angry.
Charles Watcrton had given his uncle
what he believed to be an accurate view
of his circumstances. Excited beyond
the bounds ol his sober sense by his seem
ing success, he was as sanguinc dupc as
ever bed beneath the lccch craft Of spe-
cuIaton. His real estate, which he very
modcstly estimated at quintuple its cost,
formed, al such prices, an immense for
tune. His book debts were enormous,
for his money was scattered cast, west,
north, and south, and, in consequence of
giving long credits, he was enabled to
obtain cXorJi,ant profits. But the Edo
RADIO, whose boundaries seemed so accu-
raicly defined on paper, became exceed
ngly indistnc, as he fanced himself about
to approach its shores. The following
year began to afford tokens of coming
trouble. Credit was still good, but mo-
ihn
community, and men who had learned to
make notes in order to acquire fortunes,
, were now obliged to continue their manu-
mcturc in order to avoid ruin. Rumors
Of approaching distress arose in the mo-
l ncy market; men began to look with dis
t trust upon their fellows; Ind as unlimt-
ed confidence in each ether had been the
: foundation of the towering cdlficc of UNI
stable prosperity, Tie moment that was