The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-11-28
WHAT Is MONEY!
An Interesting Conundrum Propounded
and Answered.


universal passport to everywhere ex.
cept heaven, and as a universal pro
wider of everything except happiness
The following is a selection OF
some of the best definitions submit.
ted:
The reward that sweetens labor
The balance that adjusts the scales
in well nigh every transaction of hui
man life.
The recognized measure of value
and medium of exchange.
Money is an idol, worshiped in ev-
cry cline without single temple.
The sugar that sweetens life.
The best microscope for finding re-
lationship with
IT'S a bee that stores honey if you know
how to use it,
But it stings, and then wings, if you on
ly abuse it.
The only commodity that remains
in fashion from generation to gener-
alton.
The fathers independence, the
mothers satisfaction, the sons snare
and the daughters blessing.
The god of the miser, the play
thing of the rich, the joy Of the mid
die classes and the envy of the poor.
The bulls eye of ambition.
Hard to get, easy to spend, awk-
ward to borrow and unpleasant to
lend
What father wishes for, what mother
spends;
What old aunts leave us, what uncle
lends:
Boys cannot keep it, and girls soon dis
perse;
Used right tbs blessing, used wrong
It's a curse.
When we pos sess love and health,
money is the one thing wanted to
make life worth living.
The travellers best pocket compan-
ion.
One Of the nmpires in the game of
life, played between Happiness YER
sus Misery.
The best friend of the masses, the
mainstay of the classes, the grand
aim of the lasses and the ruin of the
asses.
Honest Iago calls it trs sh, but with
many it is next to their religion !;
with some it is religion, and fools
throw up their interest in both worlds
for its sake.
The steam in the great engine of
life.
That which a man struggles for in
life, and after life leaves for others
TO struggle over.
The guerdon of industry, the will
o'-the-wisp of Incidence, the servitor
of love, the sinews of war, the good
mans portion, and the bad man s
idol.
Money is next to religious faith,
the mightiest comforter in life, whose
value, however, can only be fully ap-
preciated by those who have both
possessed it and have felt its wants.
Ammunition for the battle Of life.
Mrs. Grundy's standard of respec-
liability.
That which everyone desires to
obtain in order to have the pleasure
of parting with it,
Palm oil.
A most useful commodity, capable
of transmitting to it's fortunate pos
SCISSOR everything but health end
happiness.
That which it is mans mission to
get and woman's mission to spend.
The dust that blinds all eyes.
Money is like a monster eel, which
everyone is anxious to catch, but,
being very slippery, it is hard to hold
but easy to lose
The shot required in life to hit the
target of success.
Money to a man is like water to a
plant, only useful as long as it pro-
notes and facilitates growth; like
water in the fountain or water in the
tank, keep it flowing and ii blesses,
keep it stagnant and it Injuries.
Money is that which has eagles
wings, and yet cannot mount so high
as mans desire
A commodity invented for the pur-
pose of enabling the clever portion of
the community to gain greater ad-
vantage over the fools than was hith-
erto possible.
A Course which everybody is
most happy to be blessed with.
A commodity, the value of which
is best appreciated by those who
haven't got any.
A tangible expression of tickle
Fortunes smile.
The honey pot that has all the
world for flies.
The motor of life, without it all
its pleasures and enjoyments would
come to dead stop.
That which, having not, we want;
having, we want more; having more
want more still; and the more we Sc
cure the less happy and contented
we become.
The most uparopl,, ii. ,.;I,,,taI
commodity on the face Of the earth.
A remedy which cures more com
plants than all other remedies pat
A great evil that does lot of
good.
That for which we spend the best
years of our lives in accommodating
and the remainder of our lives in
finding a means of spending
a taskmaster to whom every body
is a willing slave
A capital material for lining pock-
cts with.
A power which the wise use, the
foolish abuse, and neither refuse.
That by which people lose health
and happiness in getting and some
get health and happiness by losing.
The blood that flows through the
veins of commerce.
Money is that which nearly every
one wants TO borrow and forgets to
pay back.
DEVILS dust.