Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-10-03
Sons Things Money Can't Bay.

SOms Things Money Can't Bay.
Some boys and girls have an idea
that money can do almost anything,
but this is mistake. Money, tits
true, can do a great deal, but it
cannot do everything. | could
name you q thousand things 1t 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 rath
er than u benefit. Beyond all
doubt, however, there are many
things better than it is, and which
it cannot purchase, no matter how
much we may have of it,.
II a man has not good educa-
ton, all his money will never buy
it for him. He can scarcely ever
make up for his early waste Of OPP
portunities. He may say, as have
heard OF men saying: III would
give all 1 have if 1 had only had a
good education and a we'll trained
mind" but he will say it in vaiu.-
His money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give a
man or Il 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 be had
for mere money.
A man who is what is called
sshoddy," who has not taste and
correct manners, will never buy
them-though be would, no doubt,
like to. They are not to be had in
the market. They are nowhere for
sale. You mightas we'll try to buy
sky or cloud or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase good con.
science. fla poor man or: boy or
girl-any one-has clear con-
science, that gives off a tone like a
sound bell when touched by the
hammer, why, bless you, he is vast
" richer than the millionaire who
does not possess such conscience.
Good principles are better than
gold. All the gold of Galcouda
couldn't buy them for a man who
hasen't them already.
Money is very much sought after,
and iJ can command a 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. tt is
mighty, but not almighty. There
are thousands Of things which it
cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war a
British officer offered large bribe
to an American general. The gen.
eral looked him in the face and told
him that his royal master in Eng
land had not enough money in all
his kingdom TO pay him to do the
mean thing he was wanted 30 do.
Ard there have been, and are
thousands ofsucL 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 true appreciation 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 oil manner
and fine power of conversation, and
all 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
the beauty of it is that if 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, a market, and wide
one, in Which money has no recog.
nized value-the market of intel
lectual, spiritual and other high
and holy things.