Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-09-20
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It Is an absolute cruelty for any man who
owes another, iii ll:5sc times, to permit money
TO lie idle in his hands. There are times when
a single dollar may lift a mountain weight
Iiq m the heart of a man who is worth thou
s.,ud@ A publisher narrated in our Office, not
long ago, at incident in reference 10 himself 3:
For long time had been preparing 10
meet bank debt ii was u very large sum to
nc-the only note in the world had against
me Payday cumc, and was not prepared.
My wife aud had talked it over many times.
She bravcly denied herself even reasol a ,le
clothing, and arranged things in the Kitchen
so as to diminish the Indispensable outlayS to
the smallest possible amount. Various per
sons who were owing me had promised to dJ
all in their power to help me in the emergency,
for went so far as to plainly state my case
and almost plead with them, to do their best.
But when the morning of the dreaded day
came. the sun shone bright and beautiful, but
there was no brightness nor beauty in it to
me or mine. When the little children came
to the breakfast table there was such an ON
inous silence that, without any reference being
made 10 the all absorbing question, even they
seemed to feel the incubus. AS is too often
the case in such Emergencies, one reliance fails,
then another, and finally what man can't do
himself must remain uudOne. However, there
at length remained only one dollar, a single
dollar literally was wanting, after gathering
up every penny in the house, even trenching
on the little savings Of the children. Three
O'Clock was rapidly approaching, and the
dreaded protest.
What inlaginings of ruin crowded my brain,
coming AMI going with each successive turn
I of e%Gnts l could have borrowed the miser-
able dollar from any one of Il multitude of
friends, but l didn't borrow money; that in
wolves rccifrocities, maguifcd with Lord Ross
telescope besides, to ask a friend to lend me
dollar, to have to confess l needed a single
dollar so much, I could not stand il. 4 neigh
Dor had owed me dollar for a small book; it
had been ,lue a year; he has often told me, to
send for it, but l did not cmplyy collectors,
and to go myself to collect dollar was "infar
Dig" could not stay in the house any Ion yer.
The mind wanted relief. l went out into The
street as aimlesS as any loafng sauuterer that
ever disgraced, manhood. Would you bclie~e
ii, met the very man who owed me the i'm
mensely desired dollar, and, before he came in
hailing distance, he began to feel for his pocket
EboOk, and with apologies for his remisIness, he
handed me the amount. And what do you
think did? Why, like many "a don't
knew what - before, made out Us if it WIS
no sort of consequence that any other time
would have done as well-in fact, if it had
never been paid, it was Of no moment what
ever; and no actor on the stage could have ex-
ceeded the inimitab!e indifference with which L
put out my h IN to receive the rag. Bat as
soon Us he turned the corner ddl't I clutch
that paper ,llar! Didn't heel it down to
Wall Street ut 2:4O, and "beiter" by a ball-
er's dozen? 1itfi!St take up that note, and
vow most religiously that 1 never would give q
note in bank again the longest day lived p
Nor have I yet. But every time think of it
there is a sinking within my bosom, and an
lablsement of the remembrance that l was still
full of poor, weak, human nature, in that Il
made believe didn't care about that con-
tenlptible dollar"
Render, there ere multitudes Of similar
cases, taking place in New York, and other
large cities and towns, every day. If every
subscriber TO a newspaper or magazine, would
nave out the honesty TO remit due subscrIp'
/ ton the instcpt he lays down this paper, nay
more, if every person who has the amount in
his pocket, Or at home, would do this at this
jnncture, an amount of depression, if not Of
agonizing anxiety, would be removed from a
large class of Industrious, lard-worlling, indul.
gent and honorable publishers Of newspapers,
of books and of magazines, that is utterly in
calculable. Not Il solitary subscriber owes us
dollar: on the contrary, we owe them four
more Journals of Health, but we are urging a
pea for our exchanges, some Of whom heye
stopped, others are in deadly drag, and many
more must fall in deadly condemnation, some
of them losing the products of the labor of g
lifetime, and all this because the men whom
they have done SO much to amuse and instruct
and crafty withhold the pittance Of dollar
or two or three, which they could certainly