Year: 1874

classes of people an axiom that the
rich of one age are the poor mems
s0ns.of the preceding age, and that
the sons of the rich generally die poor.
This, however, is not the case with
lsraelites in any portion of the world.
Wealth with them is never squander-
ed. but is always multipl ,ing and in
creasing. The wealth Of the Roths-
childs has grown through several gen.
crations, and will 60 ON in the same
ratio in all coming time. We seldom
hear Of Jew investing money in any
OF the bubbles that tickle the cupidi-
ty of the less wary investor. He likes
good percentage, but he must also
be sure that he is not risking the prin-
cipal to secure good rate of interest.
In short, neither father nor son ever
lives beyond his income, and never
wastes money in endeavoring to make
show or to rival his neighbor in
equipage or dress until he IS amply
able to do so without fear of having
to ever make "a step backward" It
would be we'll for all the world to inn
itate the Israelite in this particular.


And while it is true that there can
be no rules of infexible operation
laid down to govern the ordinary
transactions of life, it is equally true
that the man who determines to live
within his income, let it be ever so
small, is certain of avoiding the NOR
tikcation and annoyance of debt, and
OF security for himself and immunity
from the vexatiOns and troubles that
attend those who live, not upon the
present, but upon the future.


This advice is especially applicable
to many of the readers of the Chron.
icle, residents of Washington and in
the employ of the Government. Their
salary is fixed, its payment is certain,
and however annoying it may be, it is
universally better to rigidly see that
their expenses come within the limits
of even a meager salary than to suffer
the trouble Of having presented bills
they are bound to liquidate and the
modification of finding themselves at
the end of the year hopelessly in debt.
A man cannot live upon 81, 200 per
year in the same style of luxury with
the man securing 5000, and any at
| tempt in this direction can only prove
disastrous. If men only had the
courage to manfully meet the situa-
ton, and to determine to live within
their income, we should hear of less
defalcations, less commission of crime,
and less unhappiness in ruin. Wheth-
er society will ever reach that condi-
ton in this country or not that man
can, with a moderate income, live in
accordance with it, and not subject
himself or family to the personal NOR
tification of avoiding the performance
Of certain sacred duties. is yet to be
determined. H


The attractions, the requirements,
and within certain limit, the necess-
tiles of polite and fashionable society.
are the fruitful sources of many of
these official defalcati0ns, corruption
and fraud. The man who enters the
charmed circle under the vain delu-
sion that he can regulate his conduct
and control his action is subjectine
himself and family to imminent peril.
If man has not the income to sup
port himself and family in accordance
with the demand of fashionable socie-
ty he is criminally responsible for at
tempting it, for his expenses must be
paid by disappointed and suffering
tradespeople. When a man lives
within his income he is secure, and
we know of no advice the observance
of which would be more potent for
good in its effects upon society than
the sentence, Live within your in
come. u Washington Chronicle.