The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-12
Some Things Money Can't Buy.

BIZ ReU Il. W. LOlorie.
Some boys and girls have an idea that
money can do almost anything, but this is
mistake Money, it is true, can do
great deal, but it cannot do everything I
could name you a thousand things it can
not buy. 1t was meant for good, and it is
good thing to have, but all this depends
on how it is used. If used wrongly it is
an injury rather than benefit. Beyond
all doubt, however, there are many things
better than it is, and which it cannot pur-
chase, no matter how much we may have
of it.
If 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 l
have heard of men saying: II would give
all [ have if l had only had good educa-
ton and well trained mind;" but he will
say it in vain. His money alone can't OBJ
tain it.
Neither will wealth itself give man or
woman good manners. Nothing, next to
good morals and good health, is of more i'm
portance than easy, graceful, self-possessed
manners. But they can't be had for mere
money.
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. They are not to be had in
the market They are nowhere for sale.
You might as well try to buy sky or cloud
or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase a good conscience.
If poor man or boy or girl-any one
has clear conscience, that gives off q tone
like a sound bell when touched by the
hammer, why, bless you, he is vastly richer
than the millionaire who does aot possess
such a conscience. Good principles are
better than gold. All the gold of Golcon-
da couldnt buy them for man who hasn t
them already.
Money is very much sought after, and
it can command great deal of comfort.
But it is very wrong and very incorrect to
speak of money as the Almighty dollar
that is if, we do so in a really serious way.
| The dollar is not omnipotent, 1t is nigh
ty, but not almighty. There are thousands
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of things which it cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war British
officer offered large bribe to an Ameri-
can general The general looked him in
the face and told him that his royal master
in England had not enough money in all
his kingdom to pay him to do the mean
thing he was wanted to do.
And there have been, and are thousands
of such men-men whom no amount of
money could buy. Money is not almighty.
1t may fill our houses with fine pictures,
but it cannot alone give us a true appreci-
alton of them. 1t may take us abroad to
see foreign sights, but it cannot give us
true taste about them. 1t may buy us an
entrance into better society than we are
used to, but can never, of itself, purchase
ease of manner and fine power of conversa
ton, and all those better things that come
from other and higher sources than pock
et-book
Thousands and thousands of glorious
things are beyond the reach of the hand Of
gold. And the beauty of it. is that i
riches should take to themselves wings and
fly away, why all these better things, al
they do not come from wealth, do not dis
appear with it. There is, then, a market
aud a wide one, in which money has nj
recognized value-the market of intellectu
al, spiritual and other high and hol,
things.