The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-07-05
Bill APPS Philosophy.

ging away every day for living don't
have much time to read and reflect and
ruminate. 1t don't matter whether he
Is q merchant or mechanic or farmer
or professional man, If he works hard
all day he wants to rest at night.
Money promotes domestic tranquility
and that is the biggest aud best thing
that know of. But money ought to
be hard to get, so that its real value
may be appreciated-money has to be
earned to be priced. II 1t Is inherited
or drawn in lottery or won at games
of chance or found in the road or
obtained by lucky speculation in stocks
or bonds or cotton futures, It goes ut .
discount 1t is undefvalued and don't
stick to man long. A fortune gained
in year rarely sticks to anybody.
Luck Is right good thing when it fol-,
lows along with labor and honesty,
but luck by itself is a deceiver. Trust
to luck" is the devils mavim. knew
hard working man who was SO
anxious to get ahead that he stinted
his family and invested part of his
earnings in the Louisiana Lottery for
five years and never drew but ten
dollars. He told me he had lost five
hundred dollars that way, and every time
hesaw the list published of the lucky
numbers and read about the lucky men
who drew the prizes, it fired him up
and he tried it again. Sometimes /
wish Uncle Jubal and General Reaure-
gard would tote fair and publish list
of them fellowsl who didn't draw any
thing. But reckon that would be SO
long and occupy SO many columns in
the newspapers they couldn't afford 1t.
1t Is Just human know to want more
money than we have got, especially II
we are hard run aud living on strain.
want more myself, and IL I was to
find hundred dollars in the road l
couldn't help hoping that the owner
would never miss 1t, Ind never call for
it. just like boy who finds pocket
knife and feels like 1t is his, but that
sort OF money is not rs solid and salts
factory as money we work for. ] know
an old preacher who had ten dollars
and his son had ten dollars and the
took all the money to buy some things,
and he came across wheel of fortune
and saw fellow win ten dollars just
as easy. and SO he was persuaded to
try his luck, and sure enough he won
ten dollars, and it hope him up might
lily and he tried it again and won some
more, and he kept on until he had won
fifty dollars and become fool, for
right then his luck changed and he lost
it all and his ten dollars and his daddy's
ten besides. and had to borrow a dol
lar and half TO get home on, and
liked to have persisted to death in the
bargain. Well. he belonged to the
church and they had him up AID tried
him, and he made clean breast and
told how he was overtaken and tempted
and how he went on and on until he
had made fifty dollars clean. "And
right there said the old man, ''is
whar Johns sin begun. If he had
stopped right there it would have been
all right, but, like fool, he went on
and on to destruction" Well, John
wasn't such sinner after all, for he
wanted the money to buy something to
please the old folks. But money dom t
come that easy very often. know a
man who has been kept on strain for
five years working out of his losses on
cotton futures. Sometimes luck runs
along with a man for ten, years and
more, and that makes him vain and he
thinks his Judgment is infallible, and
suddenly he collapses, like Seney and
Emo and Keene. No money is safe ex-
cept that made by honest men.
The rewards of labor are mighty good
and sure. Here set in my piazza and
look over my farm and see the wheat
and the oats all in a strut and waving
so beautiful in the breeze, and feel
proud and serene, for / sowed that
wheat myself and helped to prepare the
land, and it is my wheat and my oats
and come honestly, and wasn't made out
Of somebody else, and it does me good
to cut a few choice heads and bunch 'em
and take EN- to town and show the
folks what can do. It beats money
made by luck all to pieces, and SO does
walking in my garden and digging the
potatoes l planted and working them
over SO nice and bringing them in the
house to show to my wife and hear her
say, ''they are very fine She never
SAYS much on that line, she don t, but a
little goes great ways with me. She
never INDUCES in rapture. she never
lovely, exquisite, splendid and the like,
but I know what she thinks about any
thing just as well as if she did. I'm
going to get her mess of raspberries
to-day, the first OF the season, and
I'll surprise her with 'em at dinner
time. She likes that. Women like these
little thoughtful attentions. They are
like oil on the axletree, and makes the
machinery run smooth. But then there
ought to be little money to mix up with
such things. Money is good domestic
lubricator itself. A man feels more like
q gentleman with some change in his
pocket, and he ought to always have 9
dollar or so just to feel Of. 1t stiffen
him up and keeps him from feeling like
q vagabond. And woman wants some
too, when peddler comes along with
tin ware or wagon load OF jugs or the
Gypsies come along with lace or the
book agent comes along with pictures
and besides it is such dignitied corn
fort to have little hid away for the
children when they are Just obliged t.
have something to wear and don't wan
to ask papa for the money, for he is *
hard run and talks so poor all the time
This is the kind Of money that goes fol
all it is worth. Money.h It comes hard
money that is earned. Even woman
does not prize money when she ha!
coolies Of it and has every wantsupplicd
Folks must be cramped to be happy
They must have something to stimulat'
them. Something to provoke economy
and industry, and I'm thankful view
always had these stimulants in m,
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