Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-05
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WILL 1T PAY.

" ell, 60 hneauI JACK, Oe run III you WANT 10,
I dom, sec any thing to hinder. I've heard my
father say that boy not unidentified, with good
health and a faitStart can do almost anything be
wants to do in a lifetime"
"Well," said Charley, suppose we set out to-
gether. You have two years the better Ct me, but
BY the time | am forty, let's see who'll be the
bcs. Of. Come, one, two. three, and away"
~ don't know, Jack, as l care abou, being go
pery rich. 1t costs too much it don't pay"
"Costs' Why, you don't buy money with mon
ey do you ?" ws
mo, but sometimes with something that is far
better than money. Do you know the owner of
that house over there lie is not an old man
about forty | believe. but his hair is quite gray
aud his head bent down. lie is almost alw Ways
muttering to himself when be walks toterlng
through the streets, aud his face is gloomy as q
thunder cloud. They don't call him crazy it is
hypo-something or other with a long name.
They say be is in continual fear of becoming
poor and his family going to the almshouse -
some Of them deserve it enough to be sure. But
] say, Jack, what's the use Of having wealth il
you can't take the comfort Of it 2-IIero's my IA.
ther, now, with nothing in the world but his sal
sry, and Tour boys to bring up on that yet never
aword of the aims house have | heard. My IA
thor is freer and happier, aud as far as good liv-
ing goes, richer than Judge Stone with his splen-
did house and half q million in the banks. Ga
"Oh, well, Charley, I'll risk the gray hairs and
The hypo' for either you or me. He must have
been a gloomy old cove to begin WITH. What do
you cay to ex-mayor Jones over there I whole
streets Of houses, and feels himself rich enough
too, | guess
"IIo. Ho :" laughed Charley, "you would like
to be, rich on his plan would you. just let me tell
you a story. Mrs. Jones and my mother were
school girls together, and loved each other very
dearly, as school girls do, you know. Well. af-
ter they were married. they settled down beside
each other, rs it happened Mr.. Jones living in
an old farm house that belonged, l suppose. to his
great-grand-father, and we in a dear cottage that
has been pulled down now, to make room for his
great block Of brown stone. Very good friends
we al were, and Mrs. J,res is really a dear good
lady yet. Well. one Summer, | remember, their
long rows of current bushes were covered with
fsuit that rotted and fell off because there was no
one to use it, and we had none. Mrs. Jones urg-a
ed motberto let us como and pick just az many as
she could use, for ipies, jelles, or whatever, 90 as
to save them, she said So one afternoon Harry
sod I 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
kitchen, measure out our currents with his own
hands, in the quart CUP and then charge mother
the sam Of nine cents as the price thsreofl"A II
Tso, boz cried Jack, you don't intend that 4
shuufdt tefie We that ?n h!4" {tNsJu eui CINa 2sco'
~, is a fact" returned Charley. "Of course
mother was, happy to pay for the currents. and l
didn't mind the trouble Of picking. 1t isn't any
thing worth, telling Of, only you see I've never en-
WED Squire Jones in fact, have rather pitied
him ever SINCE" sH- .Tsrrm rI5 aid
-"Well, Charley, that isn't the kind Of a rich
man you and | will be. But there's Colonel
Smith-he enjoys life, doesu't be He gives away
money free as air. lie drives the finest horses,
and each of his children has a beautiful pony, all
:sthsmselves. And then such a splendid house !
Beautiful pictures, and vases, aud bronzes, and
statutes, grand piano and harp, ard all sorts Of
musical instruments, and then the finest conserva-
tory in the city-a real winter garden, with foun-
taina always playing, and little birds flying about
among the choicest fruits and flowers. Alb, Char
ley, you can't deny that il would be delightful to
live 10 such q paradise 2" ,-e. s 4rs-
-t'Did you ever hear how he got bis wealth p
sAid Charley in q half s.ifcd voice.
mo how was il"
e"By liquor-selliug. He began with a little
dram-selIiug shop. and worked his way up to u
fashionable restaurant; and then that was not
enough. so he went into the who lesale manufac.
turing business. They say a man died of deliri-
I'm tremens ia his house o%nce;-that was when be
lived in the 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
mnn but he turned her out of the door with a
brutal blow. 1t is too horrible to toll of Jack :;
and then he doesn't do such things now that he
isrich enough to retire from the business. But
don't wender that he has to drive fast horses to
get away from the thought ofit. UghI l should
think that beautiful house would be haunted. ]
should think he would want harps, and pianos,
and singing birds too, to drown the echo Of that
woman's prayers, and her husbands insane howl
ihss when the fend spirits lad aim in their hold
Sooner than be rich in that way"
"0h'l well, well. Charley, we won't be that sort
Of rich men neither. Surely there are enough
honest ways Of getting money!"
II don't doubt it Jack. If you don't sell your
very soul for cash, you may make it pay ; if you
do. its a heavy speculation. to say the least"
-rsBut'eharley, you're really too bard. You
cant say there are not honest wholesoGied men,
that are wealthy" ai.G ..I
st.No,I don't say any such thing. l only, say
trey mus have paid, in one way or another. for
their spccess-if not 10 health or a good consci-
ans. in time that could have been used
for other Purposes. 1t wouldn't be honest, You
know, roget the thing without paving for il. Isn,tl
that in TO Cousin F-?" continued he, as the
nasssdroPPer now appeared honestly at the win
Tat csrtAisly'is. Charley, and whether the thing
is..xoftH having, depends upon the price VOC have
tapsyusH gysl would rather have a good educa-
tion than a great fortune, and chooss to give your
TN N eie saage for the one, you will not com
plsfd, ofi Ackin4g the other. If Jack chooses the