The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-01-26
Some Things Money Can't Bay.

Some boys and girls have an
idea that money can do almost any
thing, but this is mistake. Money,
it is true can do a great deal, but 1t
cannot do everything. | could
name a thousand things that it can
not buy. 1t was meant for good
and it is a good thing 10 have, but
all depends on how it used. If us
ed wrongly, it is an injury rather
than benefit. Beyond all doubt,
however, there are many things bet
ter than it is, and which it can pur-
chase, no matter how much we may
have of it.
If a man has not a good educa-
ton, all his money will never buy
it for him. He can scarcely ever
make up for his early waste and op-
portunities. He may say, as have
heard ofmen saving, Il would give
all | have if had only had a good
education, and well trained mind ;"
but he will say it in vain. His
money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give a
man or a woman good manners.
Nothing, next to good morals and
good health, is of more importance
than easy, graceful, self-possessed
manners. But they can't be had
for mere money.
A man who is what is called
"shoddy," who has not taste and
correct manners, will never buy
them-though he would no doubt
like to. They are not to be had in
the market. They are nowhere for
sale. You might as well try to buy
sky, or cloud, or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase good con-
science. If poor man, or girl-any
one-has a clear conscience, that
gives off a tone like a sound bell,
when touched with a hammer, why
bless you he is richer than the mil
lionaire who does not possess such
a conscience. Good principles are
better than gold. All the gold of
Golconda couldn't buy them for a
man who hasn't them already.
Money is very much sought after,
and it can command great deal of
comfort. But it is very wrong and
very incorrect to speak of money as
the Almighty Dollar-that Is, five do
SO in a real serious way. The dol
lar is not omnipotent. 1t is mighty,
but not almighty. There are thous-
ands of things which it cannot ac-
complish.
| During the revolutionary war, a
British officer offered large bribe
to an American general. The gen
eral looked him in the face and told
him that his royal master in Eng
f land had not money enough in all
his kingdom to pay him to do the
mean thing he was wanted to do.
And there have been, and are,
. thousands of such men-men whom
no amount of money could buy.
Money is not almighty.
= 1t may tl our houses Win me
pictures, but it cannot alone give us
a true appreciation of them, II
may take US abroad 10 ses foreign
sights, but it cannot give US q true
taste of them. 1t may buy us an
entrance into better society than we
we are used to, but can never, of it
self, purchase of easy manner and
fine power of conversation, and all
those better things that come from
other and higher sources than q
, pocket book.
Thousa1ls. and thousands of glo-
rious thingsre beyond the reach
of the hand gold. And the beau
ty of is, thatNriches should take to
: themselves wings, why all these bet
ter things, as they do not come
from wealth, do not disappear with
1T. There is, then, a market, and q
wide one, in which money has no
recognized value-the market of in
tellectual, spiritual, and other high
and holy things.