Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-07
SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY.

Some boys and girls have an idea
that money car do almost anything,
but this is a mistake. Money, il is
true, can do a great deal, but it can
not do everything. Icould name you
a thousand things it cannot buy.
1t was meant for good, and it is a
good thing to have, but all this de-
ponds on how it is used. If used
wrongly it is an injury rather than a
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 1T.
If a man has not a good education,
all his money will never buy it for
him. He a scarcely ever make up
for his waste of opportunities. He
may say, as l have heard of men say
ing: II would give all / have if l had
only had a good education and a
well trained mindp but he will say
it in vain. His money alone can't
obtain it.
Neither will wealth itself give a
man or a 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's
called "shoddy," 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 sunbea ms.
Money can't purchase a good con-
science. fla poor man or boy or
girl-any one-has a clear consci-
ence, that gives off a tone like a
sound bell when touched by the
hammer, way bless you, he is vastly
richer than the millionaire who does
not possess such a conscience.
Good principles are better than gold.
All the gold Of Golconda couldn't
buy them for imam who hasn't them
already.
Money is very much sought after,
and it 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 i'll really serious way. The dollar
is not omnipotent. 1t is mighty, but
not almighty. There are thousands
ofthings which it cannot accomplish.
During the Revolutionary war a
British officer offered a large bride
to an American general. The gen
eral 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 vas 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.
IL may fill our houses with fine
pictures, but it cannot give us a true
appreciation of them. 1t may take
us abroad to see foreign sighst, but
it cannot give us true taste about
them. 1t may buy is an entrance
into better society than we used to
but can never, of itself, purchase ease
of manners and those better things
that come from other and higher
sources than a pocket-book.
Thousands and thousands of glori.
GUS 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 a wide one, in which money has
no recognized value-the market of
intellectual, spiritual and other high
and holy things.