Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-07-23
THE FRUGAL UNCLE AND PET

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NEPHEW.
A. B--was a youth of high PROMISE
| While child, he became q tavorite of bach
elor uncle who lived in the family. This uncle
was frugal, and it was said, a penurious man;
and having no dependents to draw upon his re-
sources, he accumulated much property
Though protessedly religious, and deacon in
the church, he gave for charity or religious
| purposes only the smallest amount possible,
| regulating all his expenses by the maxim,
| Keep what you have, and get what you can.h
BY the time he came to die, and as he could
not carry his money with him, he beaueathed
| all to his tavorite nephew.
TINS nephew became an heir and an orphan
nearly at the same time his father died, and
he and his infant brother were left alone with
the widowed mother. Being now informed by
} evll-mmded, thoughtless men OF his prospect
i've wealth, and piled with the 1attery and gra.
tultous advice too often given in such cases, he
was made to think that he was not obliged to
work and ought to feel above it, that his re-
sources We're inexhaustible, and he might
spend without restraint or fear of want He
became dissipated, not as drunkard, for he
| was an g advocate Of temperance but as an
| idler, a spendthritt, and gambler. His books
and studies were neglected for klate suppers
and amusements and having entered college.
he was soon expelled for his Irregularities.
Arriving at adult life, he W as without definite
ann or hablts OF industry yet, as il disposed
iVi q tliiO " Holcu, yOutnIul Hercules.
to the voice of virtue, he married and settled
on the farm which his uncle had occupied,
with blooming wife and his widowed mother
as the light of his home.
Yet his character was not changed. His
business was planned without Judgment, afsSt
the execution being left to iitfu impulses of
such intervals of time that were not consumed i
inthe pursuit OF pleasure, the good seed and
lovely plants We're choked in the evil as were
right principles and habits in his own charac-
ter and the end of the season, instead of
greeting him with harvest of joy, brought
him only barrenness and disappointment.
Thus during two seasons he struggled with |
himself; or rather the tender claims of his
young wife and fond motherappealing to what
ever sense of dHty had survived his evil life, |
struggled against his downward course, but in |
vain. Too long had he been sowing to the |
fesh to reap auglt but corruption. The prop |
erty so carefully boarded by his frugal uncle !
was rapidly diminishing and the better wealth |
which he might have possessed in himself, in
strong hands, u sound mind, and faithful |
heart, was also wasting. Under the pressure
of this twoiold pOverty-the one keeping pace
with the other, according 10 the law of sin,
which disables while guilt increases-he FELL |
fed from home and loving ones, and made his
abode in the haunts Of dissipation in the great |
metropolis. There his career eliminated in
his becoming panderer to vice.
From this time his ruin was speedy and COM |
pete. In two or three years every manly
quality was prOstrated, and he was carried, a /
miserable wreck, to the public hospital. There
awaking ut last to u vivid sense OF his cond
ton, his pride and hope smitten, and his guilt
rolling heavily over him, he exclaimed, with
almost his last breath, ss And mnst l die in a
hospital i'' 's Must die in a hospital -
What words to be the last from him, as they
were, which should ever reach his iriends.-
He died in hospital ut the age Of twenty-five
| years.
The widowed mother had already died with
| glief, and was buried without one OF her kin
dred present TO weep over her the deserted
| wife fed broken hearted the younger brother
was ruined by the example and influence OF A.
B.; the family became extinct, and the
property PASSED to strangers.
Who can compute the amount of ruin which
directly and indirectly spread from that uncle's
Golfers, which he spent his life in SO carefully
filling and guarding-the ruin and wreck Of
character, Of earthly hopes, and eternal pros
poets CT
WHERE THE MoSEY GOEs.-A lady recently
passed through Baltimore en- route to Wash
ington, expecting to spend two days ut the
capitol; in the rush of travel, two trunks, con-
tang her wardrobe, We're missed, and as she
held checks for them, she was requested to
forward list of the articles they contained,
when she astonished the comany with a bill
amounting to 81 ,765, and the next day added
$500 more. Fortunately, the trunks were
found with all their contents safe. The cata-
loguc of contents numbered los pieces, valued
as follows: jewelry, S77l; skirts and dresses,
S490 under-clothes, S43i handkercheis, laces'
and collars, $40; opera cloak, fnrs, and glass,
Sll3; fans, parasols, and flowers, $685. toilet
articles, S44 gloves, S2l CATERS, S23. Quite
an assortment for young lady
A SAD SroRY.-The following br efbut tel
ling paragraph is from the obituary announcei
ment in the Montreal Gazette of Wednesday
| last -
Perisbed on the steamer Montreal, June 86ths
Bryce Hall, Brydkirk village, Dumfries-shire,
Scotland, aged 43 also, Jane, his wife aged
A. William, their, son, aged %; Simon, IA !;
Robert, 10; Peter, Catharine, their daugh-
teraged IS Mary A mn, II.