The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
iae CAP IN ! degree to which NO one

ing cap In degree to which NO one
else can pretend, and it is difficult to
wish for anything that nobody with .
smaller cap can get. He can travel
about If he likes, travel very pleasantly;
but SO can the ordinarily wealthy man,
money beyond certain amount adding
little either to the enjoyment or the
conveniences Of travel. The present
writer was travelling once on the track
of an Empress, and was SO inconven-
fenced by her wealth that he watched
to see what it gave her. 1t was very
little, indeed, nothing compared with
what she obtained from her European
rank. When crossing the Alps she
swept up for two days in advance every
available horse, engaging at one point
no less than eighty; but she could only
sit in one place in one barouche, and
moved, on the whole, no quicker than
other people. The huge suit seemed to
be merely a burden, choking up the
roads, calling forth tiresome crowds,
and sometimes creating wearisome de-
lays. There was physician, for in
stance, who actually fell i'll, to the loss
of eleven hours. The Empress upset
the travelling arrangements of great
line for three days by her requirements
in the way of special train and extra
precautions; but any one rich enough
to hire saloon-carriage for himself,
and pay for pilot engine in front would
have travelled with just as much per-
sonal enjoyment The Empress rank,
no doubt, helped her greatly in opening
inaccessible castles, attracting experts
as ciceroni, and securing her near
Naples paradise to live in which no
money would have purchased; but the
command of millions of itself produced
no more than thousands would have
DONE,
As to creating a grand place-the
idea which Edgar Poe puts into the head
of his imaginary millionaire-itis to be
done, no doubt, with skill and judg-
ment; but when the colossal once enters
into an enterprise of the kind it becomes
unenjoyable. No private man would
be happier even in his own thoughts for
creating Versailles, and short Of YER
sailles, half millions well laid out will
do all that is required, To ''found a
family" in the English sense, is in
America or Australia impossible; and a
great estate gives comparative little in
fluence, and beyond certain limit
quite attainable by any rich man, no
particular pleasure. What is the use
Of owning square miles when nobody
will 'cap" to you, or vote for you, or
recognize your greatness in any way
that is not half hostile? OF course, If tie
mammoth millionaire is collector, he
can make mammoth collection, but
when once you have acquired all the
snuf-boxes, or jade bowls, or fine eat s
eyes to be procured, a, thousand more
specimens add very little to your graft
fication. A collection loses its charms
when once it is magnified into a
museum. Besides, all these things cost
comparatively little. They. can, any
one of them, be done to any reasonable
extent by a man with q hundred thou
sand year; and we are talking of the
millionaires, to whom that income seems
respectable poverty. The true mann
moth Cr9sus is forced to accumulate
by the difficulty Of getting rid of his
money, and soon finds that really to
use 1T with visible result. adequate to
the power expended, there is no way
except to increase his business opera
tions. That is the reason why, in
America, he continues his trade; and
why his son, with still greater wealth,
will be tempted to continue after him,
and to keep on rolling up the SNOWFALL
till smaller men declare as they are de-
claring now about the railway kings,
that its bulk is becoming dangerous
London Spectator.