The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-05
Bill Apps Philosophy.

solomon says in leisure there is
wisdom. A man who has 10 be dig
glng away every day for living don't
have much time to read and reflect and
Illuminate. 1t don't matter whether he
IS 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 and 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. If it is inherited
or drawn in a 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 at
discount 1t is undervalued 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 deceiver. Trust
to luck" is the devils maxim. 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
I'VE years and never drew but ten
dollars. He told me he had lost five
hpndred dollars that way, and every time
hs saw the list published of the lucky
numbers and read about the lucky men
who REV the prizes, it fired him up
and h tried it again. Sometimes [
wish Ulcle Jubal and General Beaure-
gard would tote fair and publish list
OF themiellows who didn't draw any
thing. BIT lreckon that would be 50
long and Occupy SO many columns in
the newspapers they couldn't afford it.
1t is justhuman know to want more
money thanwe have got, especially if
we are hardrun and living on strain.
want more myself, and if | was to
find bundled dollars in the road |
couldn't helE hoping that the owner
would never Miss it, and never call for
it. just like 4 boy who finds pocket
knife and feels like it is his, but that
sort of moneyis not as solid and salts
factory is money we work for. | know
an old preacher who had ten dollars
and his son ha( ten dollars and the
young man welt down to 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 sure enough he won
ten dollars, ard it hope him up might
lily and he triel 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. We'll. he belonged to the
church and they had him up and tried
him, and he made q 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, sis
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
ssasn'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 q
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 be
thinks his Judgment is infallible, and
suddenly he collapSes, like Seney and
Emo and Keene. No money is safe eX-
cepU 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 fee
proud and serene, for | sowed thai
wheat myself and helped to prepare the
land, .and it is my wheat and my oat.
and come honestly, and WASH made out
of somebody else, and it does me GOOD
to cut afew choice heads and bunch EN-
and take 'em to town and show the
folks what [ can do 1t beats money
made by luck all to pieces, and so does
walking in my garden and digging the
potatoes | planted and working then
over so nice and bringing them in the
house to show to my wife and hear hen
say, ''they are very fine" She never
saws much on that line, she don't, but s
little goes a great ways with me. She
never INDUCES in rapture, she never
uses adjectives to any excess, such a,
lovely, exquisite, splendid and the like
but know what she thinks about any
thing just as well as if she did. I'm
going to get her mess of raspberrie;
to-day, the first OF the season, an,
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 a good domestic
lubricator itself. A man feels more like
a gentleman with some change in hi
pocket, and he ought to always have 5
dollar or so just to feel of. 1t stiffen.
him up and keeps him from feeling like
a vagabond. And a woman wants some
too, when a peddler comes along witt
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 digniiied com
fort to have little hid away for the
children when they are just obliged tC
have something to wear and don't wan
to ask papa for the money, for he is sc
hard run and talks so poor all the time