The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1853-02-25

more when you were net quite dead but al
most speechlcss, and look into the flicker
ings Of dying fire and watch its ftful
shadows come and go. and fall to musing
just because you couldn't help yourself. and
had not the spiritlett to rouse yourself and SO
let your thoughts and imaginings run way /
off with you, till you found yourself pond
ering on forbidden subjects, and your fancy
weaving all kinds Of quaint yagarics that
You we're almost ashamed to untangle by
the graish light Of next morning? We say.
did you ever have chills till nearly all of
earth was shaken out Of you. and yet not
quite enough SO as to let Heaven fully in
and 50 did you go on questioning and won
dering till you found yourself hopelessly
Host in worse than Cretan labyrinth, with
no kind Ariadne to leave you the end of the
skein to guide you. And have you asked
the old pertinent question that the patient
man Of Uz asked thousands of years ago
and got no answer; and which quiyerings
long suffering human hearts have asked
ever since, and got no answer "WHAr IS
MANI" A sentimentalist lately propounded
the same grave question ina London paper,
9 and the Quarterly Review thusanswers him:
Chemically speaking, man. is 45 pounds
. of carbon diffused through FIVE and half
pals full of water" Here we paused The
river of our thoughts struck against the
4 hard substance of materialism and all SEN.
timentality evaporated and left us to glide
onover hard realities and matter of fact con-
T. clusions. For. awhile we forgot to murmur
with King David, that the wicked flourish
e like green bay tree, while the righteous
go mourning all their days-and from the
E. Scriptures our mind somehow naturally
N' glided to Shakespeare, and we fell to ponder
y ing on the thrifty and clear sighted advice
xt of the crafty Iago, aPut money in thy parse. !"
Well, what of it? Enough dear reader
!. quite enough-and though we do not wish
:, to be held responsible by any future writ
3 ers on Ethics, for what may seem heresy,
we ask candidly if the following of the
Venetian's advice, is not the open sesame O
u, advancement and happiness in this world:
n What is the lever that moves society, thai
S. conquers nations, that makes or breaks 9
nation in day-gO1d-gold-gold! In the
le olden time as now, it controlled the destinies
&c of life-it sustained the very vitals of ex
y istence. Then, why despise, O, ye Diego
y neses, the mammonic counsel, t'Put money
ie in thy purse ''Get money" said dy
10 ing old man to his sons. who had lived ant
Us looked about him a long life and not in vain
. "get money, boys. honestly if you can-bu
= get it."
: When Jupiter paid his addresses to tn
70 nymph Danea, how. did he win her? b,
ig showers of gold in her lap. Hypomene
on throws the golden apple and the fair Atlant
runs after it and him. The silver veil
=. thrown over the hideous features of Nor
:. kama and he becomes the renowned Pro
phet of Korassan The Saviour of man
kind was sold for money. The children {
Israel, the chosen people of God, who wer
81 - led away from bondage by miricles at whic
10 the astonished world has ever since marye
sss led, and guided through the desert protec
r ed by cloud BY day and pillar of fire b
'u' night, what did they do?-whysas soon as
"'- Golden Calf was set up, they all incont
nently fell down and worshpped it! De;
readers, how many of you this day al
,er worshpping golden ealoes2 pause. and col
ac- slider. Philip Of Macedon, who had fir
W quently tested the matter, declared that /
md could enter anykcity. however fortified.
ent The could once introduce mule laden VII
- qold within its walls. The first act of Juli'
ant Cesar. after he had crossed the Rubico
ity, and determined upon the overthrow OF b
D. country,,s freedom, was to seize upon y
public treasury; and at a later period u
empire itself was set up atauction and so
zoo BY the Prgtorian guards to the highest bi
De- der There is not now an European pow
TN that could 90 to war If the Rotchilds shou
ulu tie up their purse strings. Look about y
III and see the influence money has upon eve
one about you. "Is he respectable-is
ng- rich-has she money. these are the que
the tons first asked when you mees a strange
nge Is he an honest man and a gentleman, be
nth seldoml Butthcn money will make &c
'rO- gOn comely and a full purse stamps any 9
ted happy enough to possess It with all the !
en-. tributes of genius and mental and mol
s,a polish. We ask again, can genius or Writ
';sa - orstalents compare with money! From T