Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-06

THoUGHrs ABOUT MONEY From Henry Taylor's
"Notes from Life, " we take the following extracts:
BLENDING AND BORROWING. Never lend money to
friend unless you satisfied that he does wisely
and well in borrowing it. Borrowing is of the
most ordinary ways in which weak men sacrifice the
future to the present. and thence is that the graft
tude for loan is prOverbally evanescent, for the
future becoming present in its turn, will be well
pleased with those who have assisted in doing it
injury By conspiring with your friend to defraud
his future SELF you naturally incur his future diSpleas
ure: Take to heart therefore, the admontion of the
ancient courtier.-
Neither a borrower a lender be;
For loan oft Ioseth both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.'
ITO withstand solicitations for loans is often a
great trial of firmness; the more especially the
pleas and pretexts alleged generally made plaus
bic at the expense of truth nothing breaks down
a mans truthfulness surely than pecuniary en-
barrassment-
Ar unthrift q liar from all time;
Never debtor that was not decever.
The refusal which is at once the most safe from va
Citation as little apt to give offence any, is the
point blank REFUSAL without reasons assigned. Ac-
quiesence is more easily given in the decisions of
strong will, than in reasons, which weak men under
the bias of self love- will imagine themselves compe
tent to controvert
'Some men will lend money to friend in order
it were, to purchase right of remonstrance; but
the right so purchased is worth nothing You may
buy the mans years. but not his heart or his under
standing.
al have never known debtor or a prodigal who
was not, in his estimation, injured man; and
Ihave generally found that those who had not suffer
ed by them disposed to coincide with them; for
it is the weak who make outcry that the world is
wont to judge. They who lend money to spendthrits
should be prepared, therefore, to suffer in their
putation well in their purse Let us learn from
the Son of Sirach. Many, when thing lent
them, reckoned it to be found and put them to trou
BILE that helped them. Till he hath received he will
kiss mans hand for his neighbours money he will
speak SubmisSiVelY; but when he should repay, he
will prolong the time and return words of grief and
complain of the time. If he prevail he shall hardly
receive the half and he will count if he had found
1t if not, he hath deprived him of his money as he
hath gotten him enemy without cause; he payeth
him with cursing and ratings, and for honor he will
pay him with disgrace. Z"
SPENDING MONEY The art of living easily as to
money, is to pitch your scale of living degree be-
low your means. Comfort and enjoyment more
dependant upon easiness in the detail of expendi-
ture than upon degrees difference in the scale.
Guard against false associations of pleasure with
expenditure notion that because pleasure be
purchased with money, therefore money cannot be
spent without enjoyment. What thing costs man
is true measure of what it is worth to him; and
yet how often is his appreciation governed by 9TH
standard, as if there pleasure in expendi-
ture per &C.
"Let yourself feel a want before you provide a.
gainst it. You assured that it is real want; and
it is worth while to feel it little in order to feel that
relief from it.
When you are undecided as to which of two
courses you should like best, choose the cheapest.
This rule viii not only save money, but save also
deal of trihing indecision
- Too much leisure leads to expense; because when
man is in want of Objects it occurs to him that they
are to be had for money; and he invents expendi-
lures in order to pass the time. =
There viii be an eclipse Of the planet Mars by the
moon on the LIST of next month. The eclipse viii
commence at three minutes past q, a. M and con-
unne until fifteen minutes after three.