Ho grew rich, and longed to again
visit tho homo of his youth and hap
piness. Ho had got off tho cars at
Pittsburgh and taken tho stage to
Bowling Green—had hired a buggy
there and was driving to his old
home, when he overtook tho funeral
—a strange impulse induced him to
follow—tho widow’s person seemed
strange!}’ familiar, and when she
drew aside her veil ho recognized
her as tho wifb he had bidden adieu
to fifteen years before, and whom he
had thought to bo dead. They are
now living happily together.
The Aristocracy of Rascaldom.
Now what is ono of the most
frightful characteristics of our pres
ent mode of doing business'.' Is it
not the building up of great fortunes
out of colossal robberies? Ami the
thing is done by a scries of sensa
tional addresses to the cupidity of
the cheated. High interest notori
ously goes with low- security ; but
wc have, sir, in this country, a class
of rogues who may bo called the
aristocracy of rascaldom, and who
got rich by dazzling and astonishing
others into tho hope of getting rich.
They are the contrivers of enterpris
es which propose to develop the
wealth of tbo country, but which
commonly turn out to be little more
than schemes to transfer wealth al
ready realized from the pockets ol
the honest to tho pockets of tho
knavish. They are the financial
footpads who luro simple people in
to stock “corners,” and then proceed
to plunder them. They make money
so rapidly, so easily, and in such u
splendid sensational way, that they
corrupt more persons by their exam
ple than they ruin by their knavery.
As compared with common rogues,
they appear like Alexander or Cu-s..
