The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-03-31
The Character of Cash.

The following may be laid down As
few of the general rules by which
character may De judged by the way
In winch maa carries his snoney about
his person
The man who carries his money in
his pantaloons pocket may be set down
as generally careless about money, aud
loose in all his financial dealings; IL
he gives or spends, BE- gives generously,
unfortunately. AID spends recklessly
aud without system. A maa who bor-
rows money Is very apt to .atry it in
his breeches pocket--especially if be
does not intend 70 repay it very soou.
A man who gets his money easily will
be likely to put it in his pantaloons
pocket. In a word. your unsy s.ematic
man carries his money in his breeches
pocket, and never knows how much he
has, how much he owes, or how much
he earns.
Your man Of system who has money
carries very little of it around with
him he prefers to pay for what he
buys by q check. aud pays promptly;
he spends little money. rarely takes a
drink away from home, and, il hs
smokes, invariably supplies himself
with his days stock of cigars before
leaving home in the morning Your
man of system carries . cigar Case the
unmethodical man never does
The man who keeps his money in
his vest pocket occupies middle ground.
He is usually liberal. but not prodigsl !;
he is, as rule, an easy man to borrow
from. in small suns. and believes the
shortest way to relieve himself from
importantly from the needy is to be
stow q sum sufficient To get rid of the
importuner.
| The man who puts the stamps he re-
ceives in change back into his pocket
book, and arranges them in order. in an
apartment divided from his bills. will
never let many stamps go astray; he is
/ just, rather than generous, and occu-
pies the middle ground between stIngi-
ness and liberality; such man usually
pays his share of reckoning, aud
never any more.
The man who carries = pOckett pok
to be exclusively used for stamps. will
be found to bs bad man from W nom
to borrow quarter; he grutfiy dis
misses All applicant for charity, aud he
should never be asked to take drink
under the wild delasion that he will
ask you to take a cigar in return.
The man who keeps memorandum
, Of the money h. spends in small sums
( from his pocket is q man who is not tn
( be trusted IN any relation Of life. and
who is, happily. sufficiently punished
/ by the ridiculous labor he prefurms in
order to hsrass liis miserly soul
THE NEW SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED.
These rules are not formulated AS full
ly or as accurately rs they might be.
but in their general application will be
found KEY to the character OF num-
ber Of representative men living and
dead, and whose habits in this respect
happen to be. or have been. known TO
the writer ofthis article;
PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
President Lincoln never knew where
he had his money. and bad tn search all
his pockets commonly before he found
where he had put his money; he car.
/ ried no pocke;beok. and was as likely
to find his money in the pockets of bis
oyercoas as anywhere else.
pANiEI. WEBSTER
Daniel Webster carried his money in
his breeches pockets. and never cared TO
I ascertain how much be had until he
( found he had not any. his friends knew
+ of his needs about a. soon as he did
himself. and "the solid men Of Boston"
never failed to make them good.
BEN BUTLER.
Ben Butler carries his money in his
vest pocket, and his worst enemies new
! er accused him Of being liberal in the
/ use OF il: this WAS true oi Butler before
J he WAS ever accused of being the posses
sor of money which he did not honestly
earn. Ben drinks bat very moderate
ly. In the House of Representatives he
is seldom without cigar in his mouth,
which he chews. but seldom lights.