The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
Money to Mako OUT
OR, THE EVILS OF DEBT.
BY MRS. II. NJ. DODGE.

/ and must meet nun Ut CEoss ONeI tilc street,
which, by the by, can do, with very good
/ grace, as there is table on the opposite
| walk, covered with fine flower pots arranged
| for sale. Really, that's too bad lie is cross
ing too, and must meet him after ALL /
began to hope that | should reach home this
! morning, without the honor of another dun"
Good morning, Mr. Hall, how are you?"
quite well myself, Colonel, but-but my
child is rather i'll. so you will please excuse
me, as | must be in haste"
with all my heart, Mr.. Hall; but when
you have little leisure, we will look over our
accounts, as | have large sum of money TO
make out within week, and shall therefore
be under the necessity of calling in all my
dues. Good morning"
money TO make out This is the univer-
sal cry. Now, there is not in the whole
| English language, another combination
of words which can Gil my mind with
such strange gloom and terror, as that same,
money to make outn Should bold assas-
sin enter my chamber at midnight, present a
dagger to my bosom, and bid me fight for
nv life,it would not horrify me half SO much
as the entrance Of kind friend, whom | ow-
ed and could not pay, if | guessed he had
money to make OUT Were in a frail YES
sci, in the midst Of furious tempest, and
should hear the captain say, after long
and desperate struggle Of effort, that all was
over, and we were sinking into the dark bo-
som of the deep, it would not unnerve me
half so much as that dreadful money to
make out Nor if hung on the tallest spire
| of St. Peters church at Rome, and saw the
whole vast building a mass Of red flame, be-
meath me, methinks should not feel one half
the strange uneasiness that maddens my brain
when l am told, with peculiar nod, there
is money to be made out. Yes, and what
would be, if possible, still worse, were fas-
tened TO the fatal table of the Inquisition,
watching the slowly descending swinging
knife, as it came OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN
til it whizzed my very hair, ! am sure a cold
er horror would not then curdle my life-blood
than that which comes out Of that most fear
! full of all arrangement of letters, money 10
make out. "
Thus unused our gcnteel and richly dress
ed city mechanic, as he passed rapidly up
| Broadw ay, looking neither to the right hand
nor the left lest he should meet some too ia
miIiar countenance. Just as he turned into
the street which led to his own house,he met
woman, who was selling early Strawberries.
| She asked him to buy. lie Thought he could
not afford it, but the fruit looked delicious
| He fumbled his pockets, and finally succeeded
in bringing out fifty cent piece. This would
purchase enough for fine desert; and, any
way, it was only fifty cents, if lie was in debt;
and certainly, such trifle could not affect
him; so he gave the woman the only piece of
coin he possessed and directed her where to
leave The fruit. He had walked on but few
rods, when ragged, half-starycd looking ne
gro boy stepped Into the path before him,and
very impertinenily said his mother wanted the
money he owed hef for washing.
'.Very well, my little man." said Mr.. Hall,
who was sometimes rather complimentary
when unexpectedly dunned; ''but have no
change to-day, though shall have some this
week."
"Mother says she must have it now" per-
severed the boy, in a louder tone Of voice
ITS only fifty cents, sir; she has some mon
ey to make out to pay her rent, and if it amt
paid by tonight, we shall be kicked into the
street in the morning"
Money to make out agaiul" groaned Mr..
Hall, with strides which left the blackey far
in the rear, and soon brought him TO the mar
BILE steps of his dwelling. "Who could have
believed that even the mouths of the very
negro boys in the street, would open to pour
upon me these words Of shame and mad
ness J"
He entered large and handsome back
parlor, threw himself upon a sofa, and COW
cred his face with his handkerchief, he charg-
ed the maid TO admit no person to that room,
and to answer all enquiries after himself with
a mot at home
We do not know exactly what passed in his
mind during the hour which he remained in
that position; for he gave no other signs of
life than a wild whisper of the word ''debt,"
followed by a convulsive SILVER, when the
Joor-bell was once heard to ring; but we will
take his own text, and thus innocently fill up
this painful blank of time by imagining what
the sermon might have been; and If our
words are not precisely the same as those by
which he expressed his feelings in his own
mind. still, we doubt not but that there may
be very striking similarity between the
ideas.
"Debt." Who is nursing scorpion In his
bosom, until the poison will faint his whole
blood. and madness or death will ensue! 1t
is the man in debt Who is clinging TO the
ton of the unsheltered, eternal rock, gazing
with bursting eve on the vast and wide ex-
panse of ocean around him, and exposed to
the pitiless vengeance of the wild elements,
with no hope Of escape? 1t is the man IN
debt. Who is sailing on the calm waters, far
above Niagara, and delighting himself by
gazing into the clear depths beneath him,
knows not his position, until the changed mo-
ton and the staggering rapidity of his boat
startles him with the dreadful truth that he is
in the rapids, and is nearing with increased
speed the frightful chasml 1t is the man in
debt! All! and who is leaning over Etna's
crater, and while he gazes far down into the
depths of boiling fame, feels his foot slip. his
balance lost, and finds himself sinking-snk
ingl 1t is the man in debt!''
At length our man in debt sprung upon his
feet. with an energy so wild, and yet SO deter
mined, that one might well have imagined
that he believed himself suspended over the
warning fires of the volcano, and fully design
ed to make good his escape His eye gleam-
ed with new fire. and his countenance glowed