Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-16

mans store and home with the mien
and the heavy step OF a tyrant and a
master.
Then I see Debt call out to yelled
figure who is standing In the doorway.
He says: Come I'm. mother, come In.
You net< not he afraid; come in"
Then the female figure throws back the
veil fism of her head, and I see that
She Is the old bag Pride, with a paint
ed. withered. sneering, scornful face.
Then Debt takes Mother Pride through
the aisles of the store and through the
rooms of the young mans home as he
says: Mother. these goods-they will
soon all be mine. Those pictures upon
the walls. and those carpets upon the
floor, those dishes in the closets-they
shall soon all be mine, and will make
the young man drop his life insurance
policy when he dies. l will literally
strip his widow of everything. Aha,
that young man did not realize what
keen, shrewd. farseeing, Satanic plan
ner | could be when / told him to in
crease his outgo over his financial in
come. | am well worthy to be called
thy child, mother. / carry misery and
woe wherever | 60" Such is nearly
always the outcome of every mans
life when Pride and Debt go hand in
hand and are allowed to sit down by
the domestic fireside.
The Tyranny of Debt.
This tyranny OF debt which is the
offspring of false pride, makes its con.
quests over those who have large in
comes as well as those with small.
Only the other day there was buried
in one of Chicago's cemeteries a man
who for ten years had a salary of over
$4,000 per year. Yet that man was al
ways in debt. While he had an in
come of $500 he was trying to live on
the scale of those who had a $1,000 in
come When he was appointed gen
eral superintendent of large corpora
ton, at $3.50 per month salary, he i'm
mediately moved his family into q
new neighborhood and tried to associ-
ate with Chicago's millionaires That
man. when he died, did not own the
| home he lived in. He did not even own
| the bed on which he died. Every parti-
Gle of real estate held in his name was
| plastered over with mortgages. Last
| fall he even allowed his life insurance
policy to lapse because he could not af-
ford to pay the few hundred dollars
| necessary to keep it up, though he had
salary of $4,000 per year. So we find
today that many a man who lives in
fine mansion is in the merciless clutcl.
| OF debt The financial curse of this
age is that multitudes of people, on
account of false pride and pernicious
| extravaganza, are elling out misera
bic existence. These people may move
in the best society, so called. yet they
| are far poorer than the humble clerk
with a paltry salary of $40 week
who saves at least one-t tenth of his in
come.
| Debt is not only the offspring of
pride, but is often the parent of a
large family of criminal children. The
study of genealogical tables is among
the most interesting Of studies. Ger
tain families nearly always have good
children; you can trace them down
from generation to generation. Other
families nearly always have bad chill
dren; there is apparently something in
their blood that is diseased and con
| taminated., As the waters falling down
the cascades near Duluth show the dis
colOrations contracted in passing
through forests of cedar and tamarack
miles away. so the blood of some chill
dren is tainted with criminal tenden
cies Inherited even before they are
born. They are born with q propensity
for lying. for stealing, for inebriety
which they are seldom able to eradi
cate. But. though those children may
not be able to overcome their evil tend
encies in their own strength, they cal
overcome them by the help of q super
natural power. which is offered to oil
who are tempted.
WiIIguiIy Running INTO De5t.
! Willful debt is that kind of debt int
which many allow themselves to rul
through useless and sinful eXtrava
gances. While the young man is bein:
financially ground to pieces by the UP
per and neither miIlstones of this kin,
of debt what is often the most natura
lhlts lOT LIN 10 GO! ASK Illdl NOull:
collector who is taking some Of hi
employers money to win, as he fool
n ishly thinks, n fortune at the gambler
wheel. He is not at heart a bad youn;
man. He intends to pay that none.
back. He expects to use il only for
little while and then return it with in
terest after he has escaped from tn
clutches of merciless debt Ask tina
young embezzler who has just felt tn
heavy hand of the law placed upon hi
: shoulder. Did he. ever expect that tn
late suppers, the theater tickets an
the attendance at the races would We
: end in aiprison cell? No. no! He wa
led as lamb to the slaughter by th
| evil WORKINGS of debt, accumulatin
r debt Ask that wildcat Spectator i
? Wall street. Did he ever think for on
) moment that he would lose the estat