The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-14
FEAR OF POVERTY.
A Poor Unfortunate Who is Always
Uneasy.

We know man who deserves a
great deal of pity.
He is possessed of houses and
lands and stocks and bonds and
horses aud cattle, and the world
calls him rich.
Almost everybody envies him.
He wears his broa drloth and
diamonds every day, and drinks
good wine, if somebody else will
Jay for il.
But this rich man feels very
poor. HIS VIII ie life . IA round of
direst appl ehensiou. He is afraid
the banks will break. He studies
the fiuancial record as if his life
depended on what he read. He
cannot sleep if he hears that any
one of the raj roads whose bonds
ue holds is not paying expenses.
He lies awake nights and wor-
ries about fire, and il he hears the
alarm he is out Of bed aud dress
ing with lightning speed. He is
afraid it may be some of his build.
lngs.
Ii anyb dy talks about murrain
lie g'0ws pale; he has thousands Of
dollars invested in cattle.
He is always talking about hard
lines. 1t is difficult, he says, for
him to make accounts balance at
the end Of the year. He is at such
an expense and 80 little coming in.
Taxes are enormous, outrageous, in
fact, and how he is going to pay
them is more than he knows.
There ought to be something dons.
to lower this tax rate; it is eating
every body out OF house aud home.
His family are under the cloud
Of his poverty con inualIy, He
buys the cheapest steak and the
strongest butter, sud suggests to
his wife that they sllonid use mr.
lasses instead of sugar, times are
SO hard. He woadeIs where on
eaIt th that barre of flour has gone
t., He never saw any body use 81
much fur as they do. If they art
not careful tiey'll have to go tc
The almshouse set.
He j. always cutting down his
wit'e's supply of pocket money. He
knows she is not 50 car, full alb n
her xt,el dituIes as sac mig,t be
II d he say $ he wishes be ,uId bs
Il woman for a spell. He'd see tc
tho G swindiing dreksmakers an,
millners in a way they would nol
re ish.
If any of his workmen are tw,
min es behinl time III the morn
! my he gfoans and feels b tIerlN
dggrieved, aud vows ho will cut
them down 10 per cent if such Z
thing occurs gain. He | let then
know ILaf he is moi goi e to pay
them for loafing up and down th'
streets. No, sir.
lie beats everybody down.
o, ly few cents can be siyed, h.
says, il is worth while. He want
t., try AID get enough together tt
take him through. Bat times ar,
so hard and investments. so tick
lIsh.
Ask him for charity, and he will
look at you as ii he deemed yol
mad. Want him To give some
thing for Smiths family Of children
ten Of 'enl Why, good heaven
whatever could Smith be a think
ing of to raise so many children
Didn't he know he was poor
Didn't he know it costs money 4
feed so many mouthsf
For his part lie has ways enough
: FIR what little spare cash he get
TO go wit out feeding those teI
children that hid no basiness Il
be born. What if Smith did gei
killed by filling from the roef o
one OF his buil.lings tn It he wa
repairingf That wasn't his lookout
! il was Smth's. He hadn't an.
: business 10 fall; he was paid fo
! staying up there and laying shin
sleS, not filling q I'D gettini