The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-23

ID HARD TINES KEEP OUT or DEBT.
Keep out 81 debt and you are rich; not rich
z all senses, butin most richer than many who
have The reputation. me-. As. who drove past q
moment aeo, is taxed a. though he WINS worth
hundred thousand but his liabilities are ahur-
dFed and nifty thousand He viii fail in Lees
than mound aud retire upon the profits Of the
failure, md bs hereafter broken merchant
with money enough and shabby reputation.
You owe not cent and have hardly cent %
show after buying your next dinners but nobody
looks on you Is Gle cause 81 biz ruin, nobody
lails because Of your failure t. meet you en-.
Engagements, 40 widows turn thef rebukine eyes
81 you; 10 orphans charge you with tie author
ship Of their want With your empty pocket
you are richer than he ii his fun comfortable
esirement with money enough that does not
belong to him.
Out Of debt, every sixpence yon get IS your
own; you may look on it with a. unaIloyed sem
aation Of right 70 save or u spend i, 70 turn it
into fashion d pleasure d enjoyment TINT Il i
panaI 10. But IL debt, your money is not your
own. Il belongs 70 your baker, butcher, gro
Ger, tailor--Or the old uncle that was silly enough
70 lend # to you.
f Is not hard f0r man who IS making liY-
ing who gets decent wage Keen out Of
debt, and generally be ought Is o. Is Ifhe
does not make living wages, It is different
thing. For borrowing IS better than debt, is
less to Be dreaded than no bread. And again,
when one has IS capital, good trade d proIita-
bic profession, 81 stock On hand that is not
Immediately convertible into cash he Is foolish
not ID take hundred dollars If he can have use
Of il for Six dollars year, and yet be sure Of
the principal TO repay when il 4 demanded
Butto 90 in debt for luxury 81 : mere con
venince, 81 Tor any other than absolute nscei-
u, Is always i matter 81 doubtful pIopnety.
Some borrow and make fortunes 81 heir Dor
'ial before pa But i0r
49, 4U Qre c0n-
science are resl4ed, and mere one
ten fail.
In these tight times when Wall street Is like
ones mouth after eating persimmons, when rents
fan City per cent and tie safest men are shrinking
II behooyes al small dealers to look sharp to their
accounts Let them owe no man if they are sol
unfortunate as to be thus far out Of debt be secu
red BY the most undoubted security. For il these
times whoever has lent is around looking up the
borrower with the most assiduOus preservance.
and II Is distressing to note how many borrowers
ere not st home when such cal. Let the orna-1
ments 90 unbought this season. Let the amuse-
ments BE- foresworn. Let the coat-We talk to
unpreteuding people be coarser than last year;
and ladies, Iet Che bonnet Be dollar Or two plain
e.. Put what you meant to spend Tor . wreath
into the coal bin. and what ycu designed for q
velvet that should surpass Mrs Smiths into the
-four barrel BE hard up for weeks together;
wear . patch on your garment: wear 9 napless
hat; eat sirloin instead Of porter house beef
steaks: rent 3 second floor instead Of Z whole
house, live comfortably instead Ofkeepiug up ap-
pearances; DO any thing that Is honest never
mind whether it Is respectable rather than in
times to run ia debt
II