The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-05-02
apITY HIS FAMILYn

ultimately oyerwhelm him in bankruptcy or
drive him into roguery and crime. He was
yesterday respected, influential and suppos.
ed 10 be affluent and his family was treat
ed and treated themselves accordingly; but
to.dayshe is disgraced and steered clear Of
without resources or prospects--very likely
in prison and exposed to ignominous punish
ment. vile wretch say the million lit is
good enough for him, but we must pity his
family"
Certainly, we must pity them--pity all
who suffer-still more all who sin and suffer.
They need pity, and there is no danger, that
we shall pity them to much. But the impress
sion conveyed of the innocence Of the fallen
mans family and their unmerited exposure
to want and ignominy, is often very far from
the truth.
In fact, half the men who are. Ioathed as
dragging down their families to shame and
desttulion are really themselves dragged
down by those families-driven to bankrupt
cy, shame and crime by the thoughtless and
basely selfish extravaganza of wife and chill
dren. Let man be in the way of receiving
considerable sum of money, and having
property in his hands, and his family can
rarely be made 10 comprehend and realize
that there is any limits to his abilities 10 give
and spend. Fine dresses and ornaments for
wife and children; spend money and broad
cloth for hopeful sons-costly parties every
now and then, and richer furniture and more
of it at all times-these are a few of the
blind drains on the Governors means which
are perpetually in action 30, what's hum
dred dollars TO man doing such a business!"
is the indignant question in case Of any de-
mur or remonstrance on his part Not one of
them could bear to disgrace him by earning
dollar; they couldn't go out shabbily dres.
sed, for fear his credit would suffer. They
can't see how man who gets discounts in
Bank need ever be short of money or stingy
in using it. All his talk of difficulties or
hard times they regard as customary fables,
intended 10 scimp their drafts ON his purse
or enhanse their sense OF his generosity.
When it is so easy 10 fill up a check. why
will he be SO hoggish? Let him give fifty
dollars to any philanthiopist object, or inv.st
five hundred, however safely, in any attempt
to melorate The sufTerings of the Poor, and
they now see clearly that he has boards of
gold, and can just as well give them al dres.
ses and jewels as not, Thus the man of
means or Of business is too often regarded by
his family as sponge to be squeezed, a
goose TO be plucked, an orange TO be sucked,
spring TO be drank from when thirsty with
out al all diminishing its flow. The stuff is
there in profusion-the only trouble is to
make him give it up.
In vain he ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
down his foot He cannot eternally be con-
tending with those he loves best-he wants
quiet at home in order to mature his plans
and perfect his operations. If he resists
importantly, the pumps are SET a going, and
who can stand the April showers of feminine
sorrows? He gives away at last and throws
down the money demanded, hoping that
some great news. by the next steamship, some
turn ofluck ic his business, will make it up
to him. Perhaps 1t does, and he floats on
perhaps it don't. and ibis last feather has bro
ken the elephants back. The end, however
near or distant, is morally certain. Treated
always as mine to be opened at will, he fl.
nally grows desperate and rushes into reck-
less speculation or blasting crime, and is o.
verwhelmed with; min. Selfish william !.
say the ignorant crowd; hoT could he run
such a career? How we pity his familyH
No doubt of it But if you knew more, per-
haps you would pity him.-N Y. Tribune.