Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-10-02
Some Things Money Can't Buy.

Some boys and girls have an idea that
money can do almost anything, but this
is mistake. Money, 1t Is true, can do
a great deal, but 1t cannot do every
thing. I could name you thousand
things it will not buy. 1t was meant
for good. and it is a good thing to have,
but all this depends on how it is used.
If used wrongly it is an injury rather
than a benefit. Beyond oil doubt, how
ever, there are many things better than
1t is, and which it cannot purchase, 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 have heard Of men saying: 81
would give all have if l had only had
a good education and well trained
Minds" but he will say it in vain. His
money alone can't obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give man
or a woman good manners. Nothing,
next, to good morals and good health.
is of more Importance than easy, grace
full. self-possessed manners. But they
can't be had for mere money.
A man who is what is called 'shoddy,'
who has not taste ard correct manners,
will never buy them-though he woulc,
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
skv or cloud or sunbeams.
Money can't purchase good con-
science. If n poor man or boy or girl
any onc-has clear conscience, that
gives off a tone like a sound bell when
touched by the hammer, why, bless you,
he is vastly richer than the millionaire
who does not possess such conscience.
Good principles are better than gold.
All the gold of Golconda couldn't buy
them for man who hasn't them al
ready.
Money is very much sought after,
and il 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 mighty, but
not almighty. There are thousands of
things which it cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war Brit
ish officer offered large bride to an
American general. The general looked
him i'm 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 thou
sands of such men-rren whom no
amount of money could buy. Money
is not almighty.
1t may fill our houses with fine pic
lures, but it cannot alone give us true
appreciation of them. 1t may take us
abroad to see foreign sights, but it can
not give us true taste about them. 1t
NAV buy us an entrance into better So
ciety than we are used to, but can never,
of itself, purchase ease Of 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 II
riches should take to themselves wings
and fly away, why all these bitter
things, as they 10 not come from wealth,
do not disappear with it. There is,
then, a market, and wide one, in
which money has no recognized value
the market of Intellectual, spiritual and
other high and holy things.