Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-12-29


Samuel j. Lamison was young man of
twenty when his paernal progenitor was pro-
NOTED to be an angl and assumed wings.-
Samuel did not weep at his fathor's demise, for
the old gentleman had accumulated hts ducats
with great labor, and, consequently was very,
very close with them. He was singular old
mal. He never knew the taste of champagne,
and always smoked pipe.
But he left young Samuel fortune of an
even hundred Thousand dollars, which the young
! man lost no time in transferring to his own
keeping.
Immediately Sanuels relatives gathered
about him to advise him as TO what to do with
IT.
! One said, go into grocery business aud be-
| home a merchant prince? Another strongly
! insisted that his best hold was to 90 into rail
roads with his capital and be Vanderbill.-
| Another advised, with tears in his eyes, that lie
| go into dry goods and be Stewart or a CIaffin.
| Another was divided in opinion as to whether
| he ought to start a daily paper or run the atre;
bat Samuel dismissed him with a frown. He
/ hates me, and would ruin me quickly quoth
| the sagacious young man.
i shall do nothing Of the sort, said he. Il
shall adopt none Of your SUGGESTIONS
You will be ruined if you do not!' shouted
they all in a chorus.
'As not one of you has succeeded In max in 2
q cent retorted Samuel ut strikes me that
you are fearfully compstent to advise me. But
have marked out my path In life.
What is itp'
Il shall, firstly get rid of all my poor relations
Then 1 shall invest what the old In---- that is
my poor father left me, in safe security bearing
10 per cent. -
True, but 1 shall not live on $4,000 pei
year. / shall live on about $4,000 year.
shall have horses, an interest In a yacht, shal
Sl,all nat, t,,h.
wine is attainabe-in short, shall go for pleas
urs in every possible way that pleasure is " b'
had
!, .But you will run through your fortuna
n while you are still young"
CHATS the lime TO run II through, while
i am young enough TO enjoy it. What, oh, idiots
| Is the good Of fine dinner to a man who's
stomach Is worn out, and who Is too iDucl
used up TO eat IL? Wherefore wine to hin
whose stomach can't abide wine? Wherefor
:, ANYTHING to a man who can't take anything p
IL would prefer il, had income enough, 10 liy
lust as desire without infringing on my cap
mn ial, but as cannot, l propose TO live my Iii
~ anybow. Fate has been cruel to me in not gi,
be | ing me 100000. l shall never feel pleasar
m toward my deceased father that he did not labt
In harder and live more saving He has used N
To- badly. But l am philosopher. Samuel .
70 70 Iamison proposes now to drain the cup of pie
n sue to its dregs.
~ Samuel went Ill ia INT language Vi u
tel nrize ring, in a very spirited style. He kel
es, a. a fast horse, he drank wine, he gambled
, : little. and, if his feminine friends had bee
.ns srs yirtuous in proportion to the amount
money he spent on them, Csesar's wife wou
the the have been drab in comparison with theI
the But they were not On the contrary, qui
ssr, the reverse.
'"' ed it little; but he managed, by hard wor
ce. to get through with the most Of it in abo
: ten years.
Your money must be nearly gone, sa
3. his friends to him one day.
Il have about a thousand dollars left
'nS 'mS said he.
Horrible I said they.
IN Beautiful + said he. My stomach is a
hey almost gone. How lovely it is to have yo
, in money hold out as long as your stomach
Had one given out before the other-l shu
der at the thought, To have an appetite a