Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1856-08-21
LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.

The Maine GARNER breaches very good discourse
from this common sense maxim:
1--WE don't like stinginess." We don 'tlike 'econ-
omy,' when il comes down to rags and starvation.
W have no sympathy with the notion that the poor
man should hitch himself to post and stand still,
while the rest of tho.world moves forward It is no
mans duty to deny himself Of every amusement,
luxury, every recreation, every comfort, that he
may get rich. 1t is no mans duty TO make an ice
berg Of hmsef-to shut his eyes and ears to the suf
ferings of his fellows-aud to deny himself the en-
jeyment that results from generous netions merely
that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel
about.
But there is yet an economy whichis every mans
duty, and which is especially commendsble in the
man who struggles with poverty--an economy which
Is consistent with happiness and which mnst be prao
tced, II the poor man would secure his indepen-
denos 5t,.l-, ,
It is every mans privilege, and becomes his duty
to live within his meansi not up to, but within them
Wealth does not make the man, admit, and should
never be taken into the account in Judgment OF
men, But a competency should always be secured
when II be, and il almost always can be, by the
practice of economy and self denial to only tolera-
BILE extent. 1t should be secured not so much fer
others to look uEon, to raise in the estimation
of Others as the consciousness Of indepen-
dence and the constant satisfaction that is derived
from its requirement and possession. We would
like to impress this single fact upon the mind of
every aboring man who may peruse this short article
that is possible for him to rise above poverty and
the path TO Independence, though beset with tolls
aud self sacrifice isDuch Dleasanter to the traveller
thau any one can enter upon. The man who feels
that be is earning something mOretsa he is spend
ing will walk the street with much lighter heart
and enter his home with much more cheerful coun.
tenance than he who spends as he goes falls grad
ualy behind his necessities in acquiring tho means
of meeting them. Next to the slavery of intetnpe-
rance, there is no slavery on earth more CALLING
than that Of poverty and Indebtedness The man
who Is every bodys debtor is eyoIybody's slave and
Is IN a much worse condition than be who serves a
single master Fer the sake OF the present then as
well as for tho sake Of the future, we would most
earnestly urge upon every working man to live within
his means, Let him lay BY somethiAg every day
if but penny, let il be Penny-Iti is better than
nothing Infinitely better than running in debt, a
penny a day, penny week. II he can earn dol.
lar let him try, fairy and faithfully the experiment
of living on ninety cents He will like it. "PeOpls
"They will call me st!ngy." Better call you stingy
than to say that yeu do not pay your debts "They
will wonder why do not have better furniture live
in finer house and attend concerts and the play,
house" Let them wonder for while 1t won't hur
them and it certainly won't hurt you, By.and.b By
you can have fine house, hne furniture of youl
own, and they will wonder again, and come billinS
and cooling around you like 80 many pleased fools
Try the experiment. Live within your means,
"DAyY JoNEs' LOCKER" must contain an i'm,
mense amount Of treasure. In 1854 twenty. fiy,
millions of dollars were sunk in the ocean; IL
1855, which was comparatively free of storms
only fifteen millions, making an average o
twenty millions per annum for two years.
GAS WATER ON WHEAT. MIR. @. Branch, @
Sandal, near Doncaster, England, has now, i
is said, growing on his farm large bres dth O
wheat which has been irrigated with gas waite
with the most satisfactory result. The farmer
in the neighhorhood say that the effect is sur
prisingly good.