The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-09-25

concerned, II we only manage our afhirs as
e ought to. Pay your debts, indeed! l suppo'
# every contemplate cook and barrel maker, po
I ter and book-keepcr, will have to be paid, an
. your :smily left to deprive themselves of thei
carriage and jeweIry. That's your idea OF ju'
t tice? No. Sic charity begins at homel Pr
getting too fieshy to walk, and / intend I
keep my carriage. As long as do, and max
as many calls, and give as many parties, ant
spend as much money as ever, there isn't on
friend that will drop US; but we might a
we'll 60 into the Toombs as into that three sto
ry brick, as far as ever seeing their faces aga
is concerned. Think we ought to be grateful
under the circumstances II we save So much?--
shan't be grateful, and shan't live in it,
you do get it back. Come, my dear, know
something about business, II lam woman
You told me you only failed because them tina
owed you couldn't pay you in time to enable
you to take up your notes; that your business
was really worth as much as ever, and your as
sets were worth eighty cents on the dollar, al
least. Now. if you can get your creditors tc
compromise for iorty cents on two hundred
Thousand dollars, and give youa year to pay
that in, who you'll. have made money Ike dirt
and we can live better'n ever. Cheating?-
Nonsence. tell you everybody does it; it's a
well understood game, and highly honorable,
or else fashionable iclks wouldn't do it The
Flashers and Lampois did it. heard Lamp.
oil myselfsay thata man had to fail once or
twice to learn how to do business. They're
getting on better than ever. Mrs. Lampol had
more diamonds than any other woman at New.
port. Ifyou havn't regard enough for your
wife, at least have some consideration for your
daughters. Here they are, just pausing on the
threshold of the best society; can you have the
heart to turn them away from the brilliant
prospectus before them to the dingy parlor and
sitting room of the three story brick? Can
you call yourseFa father and be guilty OF il,
Rasher? 1t would break Cerntha's heart
know it would; the roor girl would never hold
up her head again. Don't see why they can't
learn to get along as well as their mother did.
'Twon't hurt 'em to comb their own hair and
make their own frocks? Oh, Rasher, what a
brute yon are. Honesty! honestly I'm sick Of
the word; it's a low, vulgar word, and I'm sick
of it. Poor people have 1t always in their
mouths, they seem to think It gives them some
kind OF claim on us. Do wish to be dishon
est? Ofcourse not What do you ask such
provoking questions for? All want Of you is
to do as other peCple do; people in our station
who know what isproper don't think you
need to set up to better than folks who will
hardly bow to us. There it goes at last!
knew you'd poke a hole in that curtain be fore
morning. Well, it makes no difference to me-
Il even the very bed rsleep on is to be sold for
the benefit Of fcreditors you may take all the
comfort you can out OF it. I'd rather the cur
tains would be torn than not; they were such
a lovely pattern, perfectly exquisite The per
son bought them of said the pattern was in
vented for the bridal chamber OF Queen Victor
las eldest dau. hter, and now you've kicked a
hole in them and Pm glad of it. Nobody else
shall glory in the idea tnat they are sheltered
by my best curtains; III SET fire to 'em frst!-
II there's any little articles like these that set
particular store by, you'll bid ep in yourself, {.
md save 'em from the general sale? My gra,
,ious are YOU talking about sale, after all I've
aid? Let me tell you, Rasher, won't bulge
IN inch, not il the very Sheriff himself comes
nd tpta To mt If Al
.hings are sold. itll be because they are old
ashioned and / want new ones in their place
I've calculated TO have new furniture about
he first Of November; this'll be year old
hen, and quite oct Of date; but ifyou are real.
y not going to be able to get new this fall, |
'an put up with this till after hristmas,ard Pm
lure you can't ask anything more reasonable
han that. I'm willing to be reasonable ifyou
viii only be; tut when you ask me to pack UP
ny duds and take my unmarried daughters
'aek into the old hoase, jast because you have
allied In business, II think you're decidedly,
decidedly wrong. There's the Flashers "a led
i've times, and now they're building new
house way above ours, and they're going to
france to select their furniture. and Fhshe, Is
redit is bigger than ever. II you go down the
adder, you'll only get kicks on the way; uobo
y'll trustyou nor give you time, nor show
'ou mercy. nor help you up again. II you had
lot been fool, as it were. you wouldn't have
ent for US to come home from Newport, but
would have furnished us with means to dash
ut more than ever, and the world would have
more confidence in you, and. your creditors
Eould. have made better terms 1t was very
nwise, our coming home. I don't know how
Q retrieve the bad effects Of such step but by
wing tremendous party the very first week
ur friends get back, next month. 1t must be
splendid affair or nothing at all; ,everything
lst as expensive as lit can be- It's the only
curse that will save us, and keep our places il,
ocie'y. five make light ef our misfortunes, !,
ther people will do the same. AS long as we
an entertain our friends handsomely, we may \
xpect 70 be entertained ia torn. Are you a. i
leep? Yesr No, you amt either, or you'd not
nswer. want your consent to the party this
cry Rieht. II you say Imay have it, I'll have
hat to take up my mind; il will be some con.
olation Tor staying at home, instead of being
Newport, and it will save the girls from mo-
ing about in such melancholy manner. Il
ont be any, common affair. but something
nat will make everybody that's invited eager
Come twill be worth twenty thousand
ollars TO your credit, and It won't cost over
wo thousand, besides the chance Of the girls