The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-11-17
Miscellaneous.
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DEBT.

From John Ploughman's Talk; or Plain Ad-
vice to Plain People, by c. H spurgeon.
Living beyond their incomes is
the ruin of many of my neighbors;
they can hardly afford to keep
rabbit, and must needs drive a
pony and chaise. I am afraid ex-
travagance is the common dis
ease of the times, and many pro-
Tossing christians have caught it,
to their shame and sorrow. Good
cotton or stuff gowns are not
good enough nowadays, girls
must have silks and satins, and
then there is a bill at the dress
makers as long as winters night
and quite as dismal. Show and
style and smartness run away
with a mans means, keep the
family poor, and the fathers nose
on a grindstone. frogs try to look
as big as bulls, and burst them
selves. A pound week apes
five hundred a year, and comes
to the county court. Men burn
the candle at both ends, and thon
say they are unfortunate-why
don't they put the saddle on the
right horse, and say they are ex-
travagant? Economy is half the
battle in life it is not so hard to
earn money as to spend it we'll.
Hundreds would have never
known want if they had not first
known waste. If all poor mems
wives knew how to cook, how far
o little might gol Our minister
says:
"The French and Germans beat
US all hollow in nice cheap cook
cry; l wish they would send mis-
sionaries over to convert our gos-
siping women into good managers;
this is French fashion which
would be a deal more useful than
those fine pictures in Mrs. Ftp
pery's window, with ladies rugged
out in a new style every month.
Dear me! some people are much
too fine nowadays to eat what
their fathers were thankful to see
on the table, and so they please
the palates with costly feeding,
come to the work. house, and ex-
pectevery body TO pity them. They
turned up their noses at bread
and butter, and came to eat raw
turnips stolen out Of fields. They
who live like fghting-cocks at
other mems cost will get their
combs cut, or perhaps get roast
ed for it one of these days. II
you have a great store of peas you
may put the more in the soup
but everybody should fare accord
ing to his earnings. He is both a
fool and knave who has a shilling g
coming in, and on the strength
of it spends a pound which does
not belong to him. Cut your
coat according to your cloth is
sound advice; but cutting other
peoples cloth by running into
debt is as like thieving as four
four-pence is like a goat.
IF l meant to be a rogue
would deal in marine stores, or be
pettifogging lawyer, or a priest
or open a loan-ofice, or 60 out
picking pockets; but I would
scorn the dirty art of getting
into debt without prospect o.
beng able to pay.
You have debts, and make debts still,
Ifyou've not lied, lie you will.
Debtors can hardly help being
liars, for they promise to pay
when they know they cannot
and when they have made up
lot of false excuses they promise
again, and 80 they lie as fast as 6
horss can trot.
Now, if owing leads to lying
who shall say that it is.not mos
evil thing. Of course, there are
exceptions, and l do not want tf
bear bard upon an honest mar
who is brought down by sickness
or losses; bat take the rule as 6
rule, and you will find debt to b.
a great dismal swamp, a huge
mud-hole, a dirty ditch happy II
the man who gets out of it atte'
once tumbling in, but the happies
of all is he who has been by God'
goodness kept out Of the mire al
together. lfyou once ask the devl