Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-12-16
Worth Of Money.

property. A house is worth ten Thousand
dollars; that lot is worth fifty thousand dol
lars; farm is wouh eight thousand:
horse three hundred; Il carriage five hund
red; and So OF endessly. This is all very
Well ~ It's way. But ought not the ques-
ton sometimes to he put the other way
How much Is a mans money worth?
There is wider range in the vaIu. of mon
ey than most persons think. And. upon Il
little inquiry, suspect it will be found that
All men who possess money, or who long
/ to possess it, have way Of measuring il,
not by dollars, but by It's value in some sort
Of pleasure or article. One man earns a
thousand dollars, and says to himself,
"There, that puts me one step out OF debt"
Money to him is q means OF personal lib
erty. A man in debt is not a freeman.
"The borrower is servant to the lender"
Another man sees IN thousand dollars
IA snug little homestead, home for his cEil-
dren, shelter to his old age. a plac to live
in aud good place to die in. But his
liel4hbor Only sees one more link in the
golden chain Of wealth. 1t was thirty-nine
thousand last month; it is forty this. And
his joy Is in the growing numerals. He
Iinagines how it will sound, full, round and
hearty, when men say che is worth a humid
red thousand dollars" Nay. when it comes
q that, he thinks five better sound than
/ one, an3 FIVE ua4red thous md dollars is a
sound more musical to bis ear-thouoh he
loves even better Yet to call it million !
The word million cuts great swath in
mems imaginaions. All this estimate OF
money is sheer ambition. This man is
vain. He thinks much of himself on ac-
count Of money, not of character. A man
who is openly proud of money is secretly
contemptuous of those who have none.
Another man wished to See the world.
Every dollar meaas travel A thousand
dollars means Europe. Two thousand dol
lars means Egypt, Palestine and Greece.
Boys dealing in smaller sums reckon in
the same way. A penny means a stick OF
candy, sixpense is tut another term for q
ball; shilling means kite; and fifty cents
a jack knife.
The young crack sees in his money a
skeleton wagon ana fast nag, rousing
trot, a jolly drink, and a smashing party.
But many and many weary soul sees in
every shilling. bread, rent, fuel, clothes
There be thousands who hold on to virtue
by hands Of dollars a few more save them !
a few less, and they are lost. Their gayer
sisters see featherod hats and royal silks in
their money, or rather in THEN fathers and
their husbands.
The poor scholar passes daily by the stall
where books tempt his poverty. Poor
clothes he is content to wear; plain and
even meagre dit he is willing to subsist
upon; and. as for all the gay dissipaiion<
aud extravaaant wastes Of fashionable life,
he looks upon them without even under
standing what they mean, rs Il chill looks
upon the milky way, in the heavens,
glowing band Of far away and UNEMPLOYED
wonders. But O, those books He looks
ougingly at morning; he peers at them
With gentle co,etousness at night. He
inaaines new devices for earning few dol
lars He ponders whether there is not
some new economy which can save a few
rshilings.
And when good luck at last brings a
score OF dollars to him, with what fever Of
haste does he get rid Of them, fairy run
ming to the stall and fearing, at every step,
lest some fortunate man should have seized
the priz.. Wastelul man. that tight saw
too much oil burnt out in pouring over the
iotful treasures Books are what his mon.
! Pit al .4r, =
ions. Money means flowers TO them. New
or roses. the latest iahlia. the new camelia,
or Others of the great borrihand of flowers
that fill the florists paradise-The Garden.
Some men see engraving in money.
some, pictures; some, rare copies Of old
books; some curious missiles. Others, when
you say money, think of fruit-trees. Of
shrubbery, arboretums pnetums and fru-
ticetums. And we have reason to believe
that there are some poor wret:hes who.
not content with any one insanity, see
pretty much all these things 10y turns.
But there are nobler sights than these to
be seen through the golden hens Of wealth:
father and mother placed in comfort in
their oil age; a young man helped through
COLLEGE. or established IN business; friend
pxtricated from ruin; suppllant befor
God for mercies on your be d, every day
that she lives; the sick and unfortunate
succored, the orphan educated, the school
founded, the village hqei with shade-trees,
free library established, and thousand
other such like things. A man is not u
be known by how7nuch money he has, but
by what that mouyy IS worth to him. II
il is worth only selfishaess, meanness, stin-
ginesS, vanity, and naughty state, a man is
not rich ii he owe million collars. It j
mean generosity, public spirit, social COM
fort, and refinement, hen he is rich on
few hundred. You must put your hand
into a mans heart to find out how much
he is worth, moi into bis pocket.
gsg- he Newbern Progress says Tat
the rebels raised only about 10000 by
the last CONSUMPTION. and that more than
three fourths Of that number were declared
| by the surgeons to be unfit forduty. So the
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