Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-10-02
His First Thousand Dollars.

While Luther Latin Mills was goind.
through some old papers the other day'
he found very interesting documents
from the pen of the lamcnted Emory A..
Storrs which is reproduced below
Il do not know exactly what called
forth these utterances from Mr.. Storrs, z
said Mr.. Mills, "butI apprehend that
they were in reply to some young man
who wrote the brilliant lawyer for adj
vice as to the best way Of investing :
sum of money which he had in his pos
session"
The manuscript is as follows:
There are several answers to your
question:
"One boy takes his 81 900, spends il
either in foreign travel or in the cultiva.
ton and improvement of his mind and
manners at home. At the age Of 81, if
he is consistent in this course, he has
laid the foundation for long career Of
usefulness and honor, and, whatever at
his death his bank account may be, he
has achieved something for the good of
mankind for which the world will al
ways gratefully remember him. The
high spirit, the clear head, the sharp
intellectual discrimination between right
and wrong which his travel, culture and
education have given him is capital as
much better than bank stock as gold is
better than brass. No reverscs of for
tune can take it from him. No financial
panics can rob him of it. 1t is his and
his children's forever.
The other boy lays up his 81 900; he
doubles it; he trebles it. What of it !!
What kind Of man is he at the age Of
81? The mere money -getter is the sor-
riest spectacle on Gods green earth.
Leisure is dreadful to him He leaves
nothing behind him but money, and that
his children waste. The glory of this
world is not in corner lots nor bank
stocks. No great man whom the world
to-day reyerences is remembered because
he was rich. The saddest spectacle on
this earth is that of man dying on his
pile of greenbacks, which he cannot
carry with him, while his legatees are
counting his coin even as the breath es-
capes from his body,
but suppose that your saving boy
loses his stock; suppose, a. often hap
pens, through no fault of his, values are
melted away. Where is he then2 A
bankrupt, hopelessly and irretrievablv
ruined.
(Which shall tho rich mans daughter
marrys ! answer that the man 81 Gull
tured mind and that broad and liberal
spirit which travel and education give
cares but little about it, If the father
desires to sell his daughter, that is his
business and his daughters. She may
start by marrying the compound interest
chap in palace, but statistics show that
IN ninety nine cases out of one bundled
she will wind up in hovel. The fatheAs
OF this daughter can take his choice. s,<'
Finally, no men recognize the worth,
value and splendor of strong native busi-
ness genius half so much as educated
men. Don't despise nor under-rato IL.
It will always help you. It viii never
hurt you Stocks and cash and corner
lots are we'll, but they are not all that
there is of this world, nor nearly all. Our
great men have lived without them and
died without them, but the world loves
them still. Crnsus was very rich, but
the generations of 5000 years have de.
splsed him. Socrates was wrctchedly
poor, but for 1000 years the world has
loved him. You buy and sell cattle ana
are at liberty to do so because Of what
ne taught 1000 years ago. ChicseS
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