The Dawson journal., 1884-06-12
THE LOVE OF MONEY
Discussed by the Georgia Phin tina

no sensible man will turn uIad via
nose at it. Money brings com the
and leisure and Solomon saystlzens
leisure there ia v;sdom A ,eting
who has to be digging away en,a 3Jl,
day for living don't have n, a on
time to read and reflect and RUTH
nate. 1t don't matter whether rking
merchant or mechanic or :arme9u IL
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~ ao-I.l " " "0i No Ter in
all day he wants to rest at night. that
Money promotes domestic tlroad
guilty and that is the biggestaided
best thing l know of. But mtnd to
ought to be hard to get, so tina neh''
real value may be Appreciated
ey has to be earned to be prized.S.
1t is inherited or drawn in a lot
or won at games of chance or fee the
IN the road or obtained by lpbeen
speculation in stocks or bondsfe 10
cotton futures, it goes at disco VIII
1t is undervalued and don't site, viii
a man long. A fortune gainedal of
year rarely sticks to anybody. led to
is right good thing when it tole. in
along with labor o,a bo,astv that
luck by itself is a deceiver. 81 M NJ
20 lu'k Is the devils maXlmcked
knew hard working man who and
so anxious to get ahead that he at and
ed his family and invested naronal
his earnings in the louisiana VI tne
terry for five years and never dh;oh
but ten dollars. He told me he This
lost five hundred dollars that wing
and every time lie cav the list pseen
lished of the Lucky numbers aloh'
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o''' ANU 'ne i0cNY men VINO o'dict
The prizes it fired him up and he Not
ed 1t again. Sometimes l w,een
Uncle Jubal and General Braurtes- I
gard would tote fair and publish
list of them fellows who didn't draw
anything But 1 reckon that would
be SO long and occupy so many
columns in the newspapers they
couldn't afford it.
It's just human l know to want
more mo hey than we have got, es-
pecially if we are hard run and liv.
ing III strain. [ want more N.Y.
self, and if | was to find a hundred
dollars i'll the road I couldn't help
hoping that the owner would never
miss it, and never call for it. Just
like a boy who finds a pocket knife
and feels like it is his, hut that sort
OF money is not as solid and satisfac
tory as money we work for. know
an old preacher who had ten dollars
and his son had ten dollars and the
Young man went down 10 Atlanta |
and took all the money to buy some
things and he came across a wheel Of
fortune and saw fellow win ten
dollars just as easy, and SO he was
persuaded to try his luck, and shore
enough he won ten dollars, and it
hope him up nightly and he tried |
1t again and won some more, and he |
kept on until he had won tif,y dol
lars and become a fool, for right
then his luck changed and he lost
it all AID his ten dollars and his dad. !
dy's ten besides and had 10 borrow
dollar and half to get home on,
and like to have persisted to death in
the bargain. Well, he belonged to |
the church and they had him up and
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 Fl ty dollars
clean. "Aud right there said the
old man, sis whar Johns sin begun.
If he hal stopped right there it
would have been all right but like a
fool be went on aud on to destruc.
ton. Well, John wasn't such
| dreadful sinner after all fer he want
ed the money to buy something to
please the oil folks. But money
don't come that easy very often.
inow n lnan who has been kept on a
strain for five years working out Of
his losses on cotton futures. Some
times luck runs along with man for
ten years aud more and that makes
hun vain and he thinks his judgment
is lnfaliible and Suddenly he colapsrS
like Seney and Emo and KeeHs. Nd
money is safe except that made by
honest men.
The reward of labor are mighty
good and sure. Here I set in NV
piazza and look ever my farm and
see the wheat and the oats all in
strut and waving 40 beautiful in the
breeze and I feel proud and serene