Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-02-27
Live Within Your Income.

Live Within Your Income.
If it were possible to beat bar of fu,
gold into letters, no better or more instruc
tive words could be formed with those let
ters than the four we have just written.
The present is an extravagant age
Luxuries are daily multiplying. The temp
tations to spend money, were never so nu
merous. You eau buy more for dollar
now, than you could five years, three years,
even one year ago. The puryeyors who
fill the various departments of trade, are
shrewd fellows. They know Just how to
hit the fancy: and so to reach the pocket.
Manufacturers are an improving, an ad-
vancing class of society. Every new pat.
tern is sure to throw its predecessor into
the shade. Silks, laces, embroideries, and
all sorts of tinery, were never SO elegant,
SO superb, as they are this year-anl mex:
year these will be supplanted by those still
more elegart and superb.
II requires no little moral courage to re-
sist the Establishments of shop keepers and
the brilliancy of their displays. The man
or woman who has the Dcrve to resist these
successfully, would not fear to face lion
The act requires the same quality and de-
gree of firmuess and resolution, that would
lead one to walk alone in graveyard at
midnight, or attack Il city single handed.
There must be no hesitaucy-no calcula-
ton. TO hesitate,is to yield. If the wal
let is once opened for the purpose Of "see-
ing if you can afford it," the wallet is
pretty sure to lose its rotundity, and its
owner is pretty sure to 60 home with
bundle under his arm.
The custom of gift giving is venerable
one, and delightful one, and he who can
not conscientiously engage in it is indeed
to be pitied. But we should beware, at
such time, that we do not spend the mo-
ney that belongs to another. If We owe
anything to any man, is it right to invest
it in gifts, leaving an honest debt uncan-
eelled ? Clearly not There is a species
of larceny which is not named on the sta
tute books, and to that species do such
transactions belong.
Debt is monster We never saw it
painted, but can readily imagine how it
would look on canvas 1t would hayo
head ike a crocodile, and teeth like
shark hands like those of an ourang- out
--e. and nyas l'k. those of a snak" ear.
like the ears of donkey, and tail like
that of scorpion. Upon its broad back
it would carry chains and manacles, and in
its train would stalk lean Penury, and
moaning Misery, and fiery Desperation,
and blank eyed Suicide Who could fancy
the guardianship of such a custodian?
Keep out of debt. Live within your
income. A man in debt, is not half
man. He is haunted continually by spec
tire; he is weighed down continually by
ruthless imp that sits heavily upon his
heart, aud will not leave him His sensl-
bilities become dulled his affections become
soured, his manners become changed, his
business responsibilities become irksome,
the world looks leaden, and life is burden
and not blessing.
Pay your debts first, and then dive to
the bottom of the fairy sea of Pleasure if
you will. Shuu the first symptoms of ex
travagance. Extravaganza should never
be INDUCED in except by abundance. Get
on, of debt keep out Of debt so that you
can enjoy the money you earn. This work
ing for other people-being the agent, in
stead Of the owner, of the money that is
wrung from daily tolls the next thing
to PurgatOry. Keep out of debt. Live
within your income -.Syracuse Journal.