Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — Going Down Hill. [ARTICLE]

Going Down Hill.

Did you ever observe how much easier it is to go down hill than it is to come up ? To rise requires constant effort; but to go down is as easy as falling asleep after a vigil, and it is astonishing how many you can find who are both ready and willingto help you go down. When a man makes a disastrous failure, socially, pecuniarily or otherwise, everybody is down on him. He is going down hill, and each one of his former triends is anxious to give him a kick as he goes. . They want to help him along! Yes, indeed, by all means! Don’t let him stop on the way! When he gets to the bottom he will begin to understand what has happened to him. He will learn a lesson by it. He had no business to be so unlucky! Why didn’t he keep a better lookout? What did he lose money for? He ought to have been more careful to whom helent his substance. Men who mismanage things, and fail, must not expect to ’be pitied. Why wasn’t he sharper? There was Robinson, now, he failed, and cleared $50,000 by it! Thkt was something like! Robinson is a smart fellow I Gotnis eye-teeth cut! The man that gets the inside track of Robinson must rise early. Yes, sir!” But Jones was always soft-hearted. No wonder he lost everything. He never pressed his creditors for compound interest, and his rents were never half collected. When his tenants came up with the old story of “sickness and so many children,” Jones let them off—the milk-and-water fool! Children, indeed! as if poor folks bad any right to raise children! and as for sickness, that is a luxury which none but the wealthy should indulge in. And, now, Jones is going down hill! Well, he deserves it! Help him along! He ought to have foreseen that the Jimcrack mine would have burst up, and that the Moravian would have been lost at sea, and that the half-dozen friends whose notes he had indorsed would have gone under before the year was over. Pure mismanagement! ' It was mismanagement. Yes, sir! Help him? Of course npt! A person must be crazy to insinuate anything of the kind. Guess you ain’t quite so green as that I no, not quite! Times are hard, and you’ve got all you cando to help yourself. Look out for No. lis your motto! Let No. 2 do the same. Men who neglect things, and let themselves be fooled by poor people who have the audacity to give birth to children as often as rich folks do, ought to go down hill 1 And you’ll help them on their way, and think you are doing a righteous thing.—Kate Thorn, in If. x. IFroHy. —————• Ik the porgie oil factories in Maine, last year, 518,000 barrels of fish produced 1,618,000 gallons of oil and 16,000 tons of scrap, valued at $716,800.