Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1885-11-27
Some Things Money Cannot Buy.

II . . .
Some boys and girls have an ideathat
money can do almost anything, but this
lisa mistake. Money, it is true, can do
great deal, but it cannot do everything,
| could name you Thousand things It
cannot buy, II was meant for good. and
i is good thing to have, but all this
depends on how it is used. II used
wrongly it is an injury rather than a
benefit. Beyond ALI doubt, however,
there are many things better than it Is,
and which it cannot purchase, no matter
how much we may have Of 1t.
If o man has not a good education.
all his money will never buy It for him.
He can scarcely ever make up for his
early waste of opportunities. He may
say, as | have heard men say II would
give all have il I had only . good ed
ucation and well-traiucd mind y but
he will say tin vain. His money alone
can't obtain IL. raa X 'ai'aleF
Neither will wealth itself give d man
or woman good manners. Nothing,
next to good morals and good health, Is
Of more Importance than easy, graceful.
self-possessed manners. But they can't
DO had for mere money. f
A man who Is what Is called ''shoddy, y
who has not taste and correct manners,
will never buy them--though he would.
no doubt, like to. Thoy are not to be
had in the market. They arc nowhere
for sale. You might as we'll try to buy
sky or cloud or sunbeam. $50
Money can't purchase good con-
science. IL poor man or boy or girl,
any one, has q clear conscience, that
gives of q tone like sound bell when
touched by the hammer, why, bless you,
he Is vastly richer than the millionaire
who does not possess such coincidence.
Good principles are better than gold.--
All the gold Of Golconda couldn't buy
them for man who hasn't them already.
Money is very much sought after, and
it can command q great deal OF comfort.
But it is very wrong and very incorrect
to speak Of money as the Almighty dol
lar-that is, il we do SO in really SER
ious way. The dollar is not omnipotent.
1t is mighty, but not almighty Thore
are thousands of things which II cannot
accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war Brit
ish officer offered largo bribe to an
American general. The general looked
him in the face and told him that his
royal master in England had not enough
money in oil his kingdom to pay him TO
do tho mean thing he was wanted TO do.
And there have been and are thous-
ands Of such men-men whom no amount
of money could buy. Money is not al
mighty.
II may gil our houses with fine pic
lures but it cannot alone give us n good
appreciation of them. Il may take US
abroad to see foreign sights, but IL can
not give US true taste about them. u
may buy US an entrance into better So
ciety than we are used to, but can never,
of itself, purchase the ease Of manner
and those better things that come from
other and higher sources than pocket
book.
Thousands and thousands Of glorious
things are beyond the reach OF the hand
of gold. And tho beauty Of il Is that
il riches should take to themselves wings
and fly away, why all these better things.
as they do not come from wealth, do not
disappear with it. There is, then,
market. and wide one, in which money
has no recognized value--the market Of
intellectual, spiritual and other high and
holy things.