Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-12

az do not deliberately run in debt,
Goodwin, but still I owe considerable
money-how much can't tell. My ex-
penditures have within a few years grown
rapidly, and now I am almost afraid to
look at them."
"Some years ago you were, if 1 remem-
Der, very careful TO regulate your expenses.
Why have you become careless of them?"
81 haven't. think of them much,
Goodwin; but they've got beyond me
somehow. -Four years since was induced
to take turn in stocks, out of which /
made 5000 in two days. My good luck
hurt me. l imagined that could repeat
the operation at any time."
"And you have, ! suppose:''
eyes, though not with the came result.
I've speculated again and again. Some
times I've made, sometimes I've lost; but,
in the end, I've gained nothing. If had
lost in the first place it would, unquestion.
ably, have been better for me. But it will
be all the same in the long run. I'm in
good company. Nearly all my acquaint-
ances, except yourself, are in debt. It's
the fashion in New York. 1t costs man
more than he can make to live here. A
man without wealth who would keep with
in his means must go elsewhere"
"No need of it, doctor. You say that
it will be all the same in the long run. Ii
it be SO with you, how will it be with your
creditors, the small ones, who can't afford
to go without their money!"
"I have no small creditors; take care
of that. make it rule to pay the little
amounts. The persons l owe are more or
less prosperous they wouldn't suffer if /
should never pay them. =
"But does that change the character of
your obligation, Archer?"
"Net whit. I am less uncomfortable,
however, when reflect on the matter. l
would rather owe million to few rich
fellows than thousand to a lot of poor
devils dependent on their daily labor.
But you needn't lecture me, Goodwin. It's
very bad to be in debt, under any circum-
stances. I'll try to retrench; I'll give up
my hopes of Wall street. I've had expecta-
tions, too, from an old lawsuit, begun by
my grandfather, for some timber lands in
Maine. My poor dead father has often
told me it might make me rich some day,
and I've allowed myself to build on the
memory of his words, l suppose, in spite
of reason"
"Don't you think, Archer, you should
depend on yourself, on your own will and
exertions, to get even with the world ?
You're an able physician, and might have
lucrative practice, if you would"
"Youre lawyer of talents, my boy +;
yet you employ them to small purpose.
But as you keep out of debt, nobody has
a right to rebuke you for wasted opportu.
mites. But what's the use of discussing a
question which, whatever our practice, we
fully agree about Have another glass of
champa gne-this Pommery is very good.
Let us drink to the strength of our good
resolutions, and go into the smoking
room"
When they had entered they encountered
Yardley, Philip Royden, Northrup and sew.
eral of his guests of the previous evening.
They were talking together, and the new
corners joined their circle. Northrup was
expressing his confidence in the People in
the manner of man who was addressing
mixed assembly. Popular sovereignty,
he added, "is our noblest boast. The
People may go astray at first but their
final Judgment is always right.
"How is it when they have no judg-
rnent ?" inquired Archer.
"But they have judgment, doctor. /
have intimate associations with the People;
1 love and trust them. l have learned to
do so. They may lack the graces and the
gift of speech but behind their rudeness
is mine of wisdom. y
"That mine, said Yardley, "must re-
semble some of the mines dealt in on the
Mining Stock Exchange-when you come
to work it, there's nothing in it,"
"Ah, gentlemen, the crowning virtue of
4 republic is unwavering faith in the peo-
pie. We should all cultivate it. On il
hangs the future OF the country"
"Do you think" asked Archer, that
we ought to repose entire confidence in the
ignorant, irresponsible, lawless voters in
this city,"
"By all means. They are not all
that they should be; but the more they
are trusted, the better they become. You
should know them as I know them, doctor,
to appreciate them. 1 am answering in
my loyalty to the People But have an
engagement. Good evening, gentlemen"
and with graceful bow, Northrup with
drew.
"Northrup is gentleman through and
through, remarked young hoyden,
few moments after. 81 can't see why
the devil he's forever espousing the cause
of the mob. How can he sympathize with
a mass of dirty.shirted fellows who drink
bad whisky, and dine in the middle of the
day."
"They would, doubtlessly, wear clean
linen and drink good whisky, if they
could get them," interposed Goodwin.
"The poverty of the People should not be
charged upon them as sin. They have
faults, though they are, on the whole,
more to be pitied than blamed"
so, confound the People!" retorted Roy.
den. "They're at once miserable and con-
temptible. Demagogues hatter them to
use them, and then despise them for being
used. Northrup does rot, am sure, be.
Eeve word he says. There's an irrecon-
cilable antipathy between every gentleman
and the People. A genuine gentleman
never breathes congenial atmosphere in
the United States. II born here, he has
to 90 abroad to feel at home, I've often