The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13

CONCERNING TIE UNCERTAINTY OF
RIcHEs-This is fruitful theme. Peo-
pie of limited intellectual capacity can ap-
preciatc it. All have their failings, both
man and vomankind. Mankind, particu-
larry. are not infallibe We are not ; i. e.,
In MANY things-fuancial matters being
parti .ularly referred to. Some OF our
friends think We are great on finance.
They are mistaken. If we were in the
habit of talking after the style of the gay
ard festive Mantilini, We should say they
were " demnibly" mistaken. Never use
such language. Never felt like it but
once That was short time ago. We
explain:
Some two or three years ago We mad e
the acquaintance, in Chicago, Of nice
young man, in the lumber and single line
of business. That is, his uncle was, which
is the same thing. He stayed in the of
fee and entertained customers. We were
one of the customers. The manner in
which he entertaine US was peculiar Very.
He had friend who assisted, and we
matched pennies, -three-banded, you I'M
derstand, fair and square. Didn't success
very well. Lost, if anything, Odd pen
ny took the pile. Our penny persisted in
being even. Very entertaining game.
Not very lucrative, however. By siu-
sular coin incidence, whenever we lost, they
won and when they won, We lost-inTa-
r;abiy. Peculiar game. Saw the chances
were against Us and quit. Our friend was
Z" a fellow of infinite jest, aud me It ride
ulous fancy" and one Of his front teeth
vas filled with gold. With sorrow do we
recollect that oth,-the one with tie
gold filling. We lost sight Of our friend
Tor long time. Wish it had been longer
which it wasn't He called on us in our
Office, three or four weeks ago. We say
three or four weeks" advisedly. Peo-
pie shouldn't be too exact it knocks the
poetry out Of thing, you know. Well, he
asked US about business,--told him it was
good. Unsuspicious loo! Would we had
met our dearest enemy at the hotl de
.SAakes, and - lickcred." ere we had said
that word BE was "glad." he said and
we believe he was. Couli..he speak to Us
IN private He could. We conducted
him to the sanctum sanctorum. He then
related to US that he was out out of lum
Der and was trying to do little in the sill
ver-plating line. He had started out on a
drumming excursion of week, and be-
ing little 4 short" (that was the remark
he was about to return to the city and re
cuperate, when he received a letter from
his partner" (oh, dear J telling him t.
20 on to Fort Wayne and see if he could
mt do little something. Presuming oil
our former acquaintance, he had cone to
ask of US the loan of $50 until the mex
Monday, when he would remit. Coul'
We accommodate him? He smiled on us
and, beholding the gold filling in hi
teeth. and remembering his efforts to zen
tertain" us in former times, we wen
through ourselves to the necessary amount
To use an elegant expression, it would b
"painting the lily " to say that our frien'
has forgotten to remit. A private lette
informs Us that sc he is irresponsible an
not to be trusted" We trusted him.
Let US sing:
II once had money and fiend;
On both set great store:
lent my money to my friend.
And took his word therefor.
Iasxed my money of my friend,
And naught but words got;