Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-20
MORNING LEADER.
THURSDAY moRNING, OCT 90, 1859,
Bely~ For City News sec third page.
For Market Reports and Marine News see fourth
From tho Independent
WILL 1T PAY?

/ hNNh n hlltNuiu mouse as budN over lnG way
All don't wish was rich!"
"Well go ahead, Jack, be rich il you want to-
| don't see anything to hinder. I've heard my
father say that boy not unidentified, with
| good health and a fair start, can do almost any
| thing be wants TO DO ia lifetime"
"Well, said Charley. suppose we set out
together You have two years the hotter ofme,
| but by the time l am forty, lets SEQ who'll
be tho best off Come, one, two, three, and
away.
81 don't know, Jack as I care about being so
pery rich. II costs too much il don't pay"
"Costsl Why, you dou't buy money with
money do youl"
No, but sometimes with something that is
far better than money Do You know the owner
| of that house over therel lie is not an old
man--about forty believe, but his hair isquite
gray and his head bent down. He is almost
always muttering TO himself when he walks tot.
tering through the streets and his face is gloomy
as thunder cloud They don't call him crazy;
it is hypo- something or other with a long
name. They say he is in continual fear of be.
coming poor aud his family going to the aims
house;-somo of them deserve il enough, TO be
sure. But | say, Jack, what's the use of hav
| ing wealth ifyOu can't take the comfort of i'll
| Here's my father, now, with nothing in the
world but his salary, and four boys to bring up
on that; yet never word of the aims house
have heard My father is freer aud happier,
and as far as good living goes, richer than Judge
Stone with his splendid house and half million
in the banks "
"Oh, well, Charley, I'll risk the gray hairs
aud the hypo' for either you or me lie must
have been gloomy old cove TO begin with
What do you say to eN-mayor Jones over therei
whole streets of houses, anl feels himself rich
enough too guess
"llo, ho!" laughed Charley, ''you would like
TO be rich ON his plan would you. Just let me
tell you a story Mrs Jones and INV mother
wore school girls together, and loved each other
very dearly, as school girls do, you know
Well, after they were married, they settled down
beside each other, as it happened; Mr. Jones
living in an old farm house that belonged |
suppose, TO his grand-grand ather and
we in a dear cottage that has been pulled
down now, 10 make room for his great block of
brown stone. Very good friends we all were,
and Mrs. Jones is really dear good lady yet
Well, one summer | remember their long rows
Of currant bushes were covered with fruit that
rutted and fell off because there was no one TO
use it, and we had none. Mrs, Jones urged
mother to let us come and pick just many as
she could use, for pies, jellies, or whatever, so
as to save them, sho said. so ono afternoon
Harry and took our little tin pals to get some
for tea Just as we were starting for home,
who should come along but Squire Jones;-
take us into the kichen. measure out our cur
rants with his own hands, in the quart cup, and
then charge mother the SUN of nine cents as
the price thereof"
20, ho," cried Jack, "you don't intend that
| should believe that"
sit is a fact" returned ChaIlcy "Ofcourse
mother was happy to pay for the currants, and
didn't mind the trouble of picking. 1t inst
anything worth telling Of only you zee I've
| ,,,i., Conirn Inpoe, ;V f,ct I haya h.s
pticd him ever since" .t..' III
"Well, Charley, that isn't the kind Of a rich
man you aud will be. Bnt there's Colonel
Smith no enjoys life, dosen't he! He gives
away money free as air lie drives the finest
horses, and each of his children has n beautiful
pony, all to themselves. And then such a
splendid house! Beautiful pictures, and yases,
and bronzes and statuettes, grand piano and
harp, and all sorts of musical instruments, and
then the finest conservatory in the citY--a real
winter garden, with fountains always playing.
and little birds flying about among the choicest
fruits and flowers. Alb, Charley you can't deny
that it would be delightful to liyein such para
disel"
'Did you ever hear how he got his wealth. ,
said Charley in hall strined yoico.
"No; how was itl'
''By iquor-sellug, lie began with little
drnm-solling shop, aud worked his way up to a
fashionable restaurant; and then that was not
enough, so he went into the wholesale manu-.
featuring business They say a man died Of
delrlum tremens an his house Once;--lhat was
when he lived in tho dram shop. The wife had
been TO Mr.. Smith, and begged and entreated
him, with tears, not TO sell the poison TO the
poor infatuated man; but he turned her out OF
the door with brutal blow. IL is too horrible
10 tell of JAG and then he does mt ouch things
now, now that he il rich enough to retire from
the business. But don't wonder that he has
to drive fast horses to get away rom the
thought Of it. Ughl l should think thlt beau
tifu house would be haunted i should think
h would want harps, and pinos, and singing
birds too, to drown the echo of that woman 5
prayers, and her husbands insane howlings
when the iiand spirits had him in their hold 49,
Sooner than he rich in that way"
"Oh! we'll, well Charley, VIC won't he that
sort Of rich men neither. Surely there are
enough honest ways Of getting money!"
81 don't doubt il Jack lfyou don't sell your
very soul for cash, you may make it pay; il you
do, its heavy speculation, to say the least"
"But Charley, you're really too hard You
can't ray there are not honest whucsouled men,
that are wealthy"
"No, don't say any such thing / only say,
they must hav5 paid in one way or another,
for their suce ,ss--if not in health or good
conscience, at least in time that could have
been used for other purposes II wouldn't be
honest, you know, TO get the thing without pay
ing for it, Isn't that in TO Cousin F---ln
continued he, as the eavesdrOpper now appeared
honestly at the window.
at certainly IL, Charley, and whether the
thing is worth having, depends upon the price
you have 10 pay. II you would rather have
good education than great fortune, aud choose
TO give your time In exchange for the one, you
will not complail Of lacking the other II Jack
chooses the great fortune and gats it, you and
| will not envy him what VIC had not the will
or the industry 10 acquire for ourselves In
this busy age thero are a thousand ways by
which you can acquire wealth; and wealth hon.
orablY gained is not to he despised. Ii is a vast
power in the world, and we are TO believe that
'GH the powers thit be are ordained OF God
The only danger is Of sacrificing treasures more
precious than gold in the hasLy pursuit lfyuu
can gain the goal, and not lose the pure fresh.
ness Of heart with which you began the race;
and if you can use the power ATTAINED Tor culs
ture to your selves and blessings to others. as
good stewards Of the manifold gifts of God -
then / think Il iDM pay. Butifyoursouls have
10 shrive away in the process, blighted by sci
iishness, or eorroded by crime, and you must
change from healthy and happy boys to little
withered, eroaking old men, nominal owners OF
some earth, brick, aud mortar, aud a quantity
Of musty paper but completely spuied for tho
enjoyment OF the free sunlight aud sweet air
aud beautiful earth, then you will certainly
make bad bargain Well may We ask; What
is man rruftsd, il ho shall gain the whole
world, aud lose his own soul"
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CoUNTEKFEITERs ARREsrgD Five counter
ieiteTs, three men and two women. were arrest.
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