Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-07-08
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Live Within your Means.

We don't like stingne>s. We don't
like economy when it comes down 10
rags and starvation. We have no SYM
palhv with the notion that the poor man
should hitch himself to q post and stand
still, while the rest of the world moves
forward. 1t is no mans duty 10 deny
himself every amusement, every luxury,
every recreation, every comfort, that he
may get rich. 1t Is no mans duty to
make an iceberg Of himself--to shut his
eyes and ears 10 the sullerings Of his lc.-
.lows-and to deny himseIf the enjoyment
ItbatrcsuIis from generous actons--mcrcIy
that lie may hoard wealth for his heirs TO
quarrel about.
But there is yet al economy, which Is
every mans duty, and especially COM
mendabie IN the man who struggles with
poverty-an economy which is consistent
with happiness, and which mus, be prac-
Used. if The poor man would secure laao-
.penjanca.
1t is almost every mans privilege, and
it becomes his duiy, to live within his
means not up To, bat within then.
Wealth does not make the man, we admit
and should never be taken iulo the ac-
count in our judgment Of men. But
competence should always be secured
when it can be; and ii almost always can
be, by the practice OF economy and self
denial 10 only lolcraJIe extent. Itshou!a
be secured, not so much for others to look
upon, or to raise us in the estimation 0!
Others, rs 20 secure the consciousness OF
Independence, and the constant satisfaction
which is derived from lis requirement and
| possession.
We would like to impress this sinqIe
fact upon the mind OF every lsborius man
who may pcruse ibis short arucIe--lhal IL
is possible for him to rise above poverty :;
and that path to independence, though be
set with tolls and sell-sacrilices, IS mach
pIeasantur 10 the traveller than any one he
can enter upon. The man who feels that
he is earning something more than he is
spending, will walk the streets with d
much lighter heart, and enter his home
with a'much more cheerful countenance,
than he who spends as he goes, or falls
gradually behind his necessities in acqUir-
inc the means of meeting them. Next to
the slavery OF intemperanCe, there is no
slavery on earth more calling than that
of poverty and Indebtedness. The man
who is evcrybody's slave, is much
worse condition than he who serves q sin
ole master.
For the sake of the present, then as
well as for the sake of the future, we
would most earnestly urge upon every
working man, TO live within his means.
Let him lay by something every day--il
but a penny, be it a penny, is better
than running i'll debt a penny day, or
penny a week. If he can earn one dol
lar, let him try, fairly and faithfully, the
experiment OF living on ninety cents. lie
! will like it.
"Peope will laugh" Lettbem laugh.
They will call me stingy. Better call
you stingy than say you do not pay your
debts. "They Will wonder why do not
have better furniture, live in finer house,
and attend concerts aud the playhouse. y
Let them wonder, for a while 1t won't
hurt them, ana it certainly won't you.
BY and bye, you can have fine horse,
and fine furniture of your own, and they
will wonder again, and come billing and
cooing around you, like so many pleased
fools. Fry the experiment. Live with
in your means.--Nainc Farmer.