Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-11-25
LOOKING OVER KErcHEM's SHOULDER.
Experience, wounded, is the school
Where men learn piercing wisdom"

LOOKING OVER KITCHENS SHOULDER.
Experience, wounded, is the school
Where men learn piercing wisdom"
So said Ketchem to himself as he laid on
The desk before him his fine gold spectacles
and closed with a hasty slam his large
ledoer. And then he continued solloqW-
zingly : m
6Extravacance! Extravaganza! 70 what
4 ends pride, vanity and extravaganza Will
lead US! Here is five thousand dollars per
annum for ball dresses and opera boxes
alone. four thousand for excursions to fash
ionabe watering places, two thousand tor
new carriage and horses one thousand Tor
e private parties and entertainments, thou
sand for this and thousand for that, until
t I am on the brink of bankruptcy. This
y will never do; my expenses must be cur
tailed or am ruined nay that Is lnevlta-
ble now. Nv wife and daughters have
/" been leading too high life, they have
= }bay have sduandered money as II fr cssfrf
70 ns Tho leaves. and that curse has been M
'n;n as we'll. alas as that of my poor, dea
c1,nom B But there shall be no more
this foolish extravaganza in future by JOY
no thnra % shall not Why it seems that slnc
nv daughters have grown up and receNt '.
,vs +beir education, that they think money Il
in nv path like paving stones, and that
+b- = +be;r duty to spend it as fast as L G
r;u o,otber # by the most judicious system
Sor centum and note shaving But 1t ste
,em here. Let me see, here is due Welch
,ino Watkins ten thousand dollars, winch LII
he drafted to-day the same amount
ond Scorchem and Fleecem, which must De
o is ,nediatelv met or will be branded G.
10 Of Med duck; and if a few OF my 1aihl
y baI Hills Of extravaganza were to come III
no ,anry there would be but little lett IN
,oaas nAice Well, really the renowned nrn
$ Ketchem and Skinem has fallen to a
tIfrl nbh # # were only known, which, tt
and Sortpne. It is not; but am determines
''nN "nI aPardon nv intrusion" said Cr(
On "bore is a bill Just sent in from Dr
ouros Cave 4 Co., silk merchants, for two
. NJ S"mddoIlars. due for silks, laces, shaWls,
ithful, 1.-TWO thousand oeVno 49, : +oC
P'' Tot me see this last bill Of folly. l
re and Ditto!! dozen times over anu d
times of something else lmmod
atkins confounded' consuming 1,s 'A'"'
Isn't it, Crocus" a.,
vr Inns 9Cash the bill, Mr.. Ketchem Z"
money. "Cash the devil"
Crocns 81 don't owe you anything"
,ks and "You vagabond." -:
nd;nrn (which is better than ban poh'
rowing "Have you any sense at all, Croc
;, "a few to lend on good security
enough fof-vou; this bill calls for
tI1o,,sond cents YOU see and have n
than twenty two and hall Oh
dime and worn levy" =
uGo cash the bill, Crocus. =
nw confound it, cash it if it takes
Oon Jo1lor IN the Office; never let it be
: +;mo1n a hill or draft was returned from q
''' w. ter Of Ketchem and Skinem's Ofh'
change unpaid for that getting
would at once blast the reputed
; do Won nv business. Yes, go away, gro
the bill, take receipt, count the
,o+ n;tv if der on the cash book and report
ne crave" mediately.
Crocus mods.
a;o Mr. Crocus was absent but a few
49, With when he returned and stood beto
EN-.
o you keep 'have you cast up inc i'li'''
GUS
hold head Crocus mods.
o osHow much left Z"
"Twenty thousand, five hund
and three cents"
1ly dividing Iake ten 1noasanu anaUn+ " esS Sec
IN ont of the Fleecem Pinchpenny, dlschaI
'" ~ bilities there and make haste
uetude than office"
"Umph y
"Did you hear, Crocuss"
tho memory He mods.
burns deeper "Wel, 1t wants ohiy hVe ~
r over it." o'clock, and that is the hour y
oralize," said away with you"
"Five hundred dollars al
o1ded Crocus. cents for Office use to-day,
the tenants for slowly spelling the word cent
ayl" ] Crocus o'o not "@'' A'A