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Cpa and Dowui.In no other section of the country, perhaps, will a person have the opportunity to , witness the rapid changes which take place j in the affairs of individual members of society as in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Here are men who a few years back wore tasting the bitter draught of poverty now j rolling in wealth in luxury, and on the other hand men who were a short time since in comfortable circumstances, if not actually wealthy, surrounded by all the comforts of home, now bravely breasting the waves ot adversity, or as is too often the case going down beneath its surging billows, taking to • strong drink and other bad habits to drown j foitow. It is a pity that fur the sake of j such men the story ot the stream of Lethe is a myth and a fable, for may bap if they could bathe in its waters and forget the past, they would take courage and in the , future do their duty to God, themselves and their fellow-men. But the affairs of men are controlled by an Infinite Wisdom and it is useless and perhaps wicked for mortals to sigh for a change in the plans of the Divine Architect of the universe. We may as well console ourselves with the thought that whatever may happen rtow we shall all be as well ofT in a hundred years from this. But why are we moralizing? We commenced writing this for the purpose of relating • little incident connected with an old acquaintance whom we met a tew weeks since running an engine on a well down on the banks of the Allegheny. We Imd known him years ago—remember him when he left his home to commence bis collegiate course in old Dartmouth, and supposed that by this time, owing to his own ability and the 1 influence of hfs relatives, some of whom j have occupied high official positions in his I native State, and one ef whom is at this | time a member of Congress, that so me w hero in the world ho had made iiis mark, when wo met. him as above related. He had come to the ol 1 Oeld with some capital and a good deal of energy and gone into business with , a will that should have insured him success, j but it didn’t. Fortune, the fickle jade. | jilted him, his luck was bad, lose followed upon loss, his investments proved to bo far from remunerative, and he is now at work as he expresses it, »‘to get money enough to buy a decent suit of clothes and pay his fare home,” being too proud to let his family know of his situation.
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Pithole City Daily Record
Pithole City, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jun 12, 1866
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Alex H.
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