The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-12-15
The Thibodaux SsntiMsl,
SATURDAY, E Is, 1888
is MONEY WORTH THE
PRICE

Money IA a good thing to Nave in the
house. 1t would be waste Of time to
preach any other doctrine t" the An'-ri
can people, who run such u frvril>h
race with fortune. but the current neSs
of the day yields IN abundance Of incl
dents from the lives of great men in
our money world that preach the hol-
l0wnes< Of mere riches. One greit
Wall Street mtsathesanrns has $"
strained his nervous system in the mil
night cOntriving> of snares for his f.l
lows on tho street that h. ut last targets
the secret of the Old fashioned honest
sleep that used t. come un>ousht t"
his eyelids. H must build him IA gal
ley of more than Asiatic sr!endor and
sail away in search of the fountain that
no one has ever found when once lost.
The railway world is strewn with
the wrecks of human life. The col
lapse Of Ton Scott, who believed him
self as inviucible in physique as in rail
way combinations. is only IN extreme
Instance Of what is happening all
around us. When the greatest of our
railway kings died, the list OF diseases,
as given 10y Lis doctors in the trial If
the case to break his will. was about as
long As the schedule If his property.
The railroad king who can take Il mil
lion dollars to Europe for spending
money did not dare, for fear of being
Kidnapped. to take the Western trip
which he HAD planned over the noun
tain<. His hundred millions hardly
saved him from IL <hudd-r when lie
read in his morning paper that the
freight handlers. during their strike
last year, said in one of their desperate
moments LET us go and look at Van
derbiit's house on the Avenue =
1t was Il wonderful stroke Of good
fortune for the delivers in the Com>tock
lode t. get their picks into the bonanza.
But what Happiness does this bOnai,z a
appear to have brought it's discoveries
or any one else ? The speculation that
followed left San Francisco scared and
scorched as if by a hottie, fife than that
which swept over Chicago. The Colo
RADIO and the Nevada bnnanzas have
each contributed IA sad scandal t" the
divorce courts. One OF the great honan
"a kings has the remote satisfaction of
knowing that IL part Of his family IS
cutting IL great swell in the gayest CAPT
tai of the world. while he is living with
out his family in the drea,iest region
out doors. aud another Was described
the other day as wandering through
the lonesome magniticence Of u man
sion which he had filled with books he
did not have the taste to read. and sta
tues celebrating people he could not pro
nounce the names of. and musical ms
truments not one of which he could
play.
All this is common enough. hnt there
is one failure in life which the very
rich make SD regularly that it almost
rises to the rank of Il social law. They
SO concentrate their minds on money
making that they entirely neglect the
making Of the habits ami character Of
those to whom they expect to intrust
the spending gift. They cannot spend
it. The habit of mind which made it
possible to accumulate makes it impos
sible to scatter. But they are too busy
to teach their boys and girls how I"
nse this enormous power of money. 1t
is easier to give the child, who has just
awakened to the pleasures that he can
buy, ten dollars, than it is to teach him
how to spend ten cents wisely or to
make it by his own labor. The WON
der is that it never occurs to these arch
itects of fortune to doubt their own
shrewdness in piIing up millions which
they intend t." COMMIT to unframed
hands.-Chicago Tribune.