The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-07-27
WEAKNESS OF MONEY.
REV. THOMAS Dixos on THs Pow
ERTY or SOME aOsEYeo MEN.


-clf Is nh omulPotent Isower-that nor
~ in itself Is the power that rules III
world. There never was a greater blum
/. der There never was "a sadder mistake
: As matter Of fact. money III itself !
% the weakest thing on this earth.
First-It cannot even make gentle
man We see strutting down the street
of great western city u man who sud
denly became possessed OF fortune C
81 600. 600 He purchased his paper from
, the newsboy on the corner, and III HI
graudiloqucnt way. when the little fe!
low handed him back his change, Re
tdrnei il To the boy. saying, Keep YOU
money. soI.ny: keep the change; take l
and buy a &c of soap To wash YOU
face" The little fellow drew himself
up. and halding back the money indig
nantly replied, Take your pennies and
90 and buya book on etiquette and learn
how to he gentleman. The possession
of money does not even imply that man
Is a gentleman.
MONEY AND THE HOME.
Second-It cannot make a home. A
man may own houses by the possession
| of money, but money i'll itself cannot
| build a home. | know men who own
miles of houses who do not have home.
! To possess a house is one thing, home
another thing. The poor man who be-
lieves he can buy it with money makes
as grave a mistake as the millionaire who
tries TO construct his ideal in the palace
on the browning hill. 1t is said that an
lrlshman, who was so ugly that he could
find nobody who would marry him in
the old world, came to America to try
his fortune. As he walked the streets he
saw sign which read, Families sup
piled" He went in at the side door and
asked the clerk if families were supplied.
The gentleman behind the counter re-
piled that they We're. He ran his hand
i'll his pocket, drew out his greasy wallet
and began to unroll his money. He said
to the clerk, Il will take wife and two
children" This impossible story but
states in the concrete truth so simple
and yet so hard for man to learn that the
brightest dream of the soul of man can
not be had in life for money-silver, gold
or bank notes.
Equally impossible is it for the man of
millions to build a home out of his
money. On Knob hill, in San Francisco,
there are magnificent palaces that cost
millions whose broad sweeping lawns
are overgrown with tangled grass, whose |
doors are locked and bolted and barred. |
One Of them was owned by great mil
lionaire senator. Why this desolation |
now! He built it for a home. 1t cost |
millions. Simply because he walked over
the threshold of that house one day be-
hind the coffin of the only child he had
N the world. AS he crossed the door of
MS palace home he declared, II will
never cross the threshold of this house
again if live to be 100 years oldr' He
sent carpenters, bolted and barred and
lalie! the palace up, and he has never
crossed the doOrsill since
Money Is mighty power, and yet it
s the weakest thing in the world. tt
'annot make a man a gentleman. 1t
annOt give man a home. And If a
nan has no home and is not a gentle
ran, what Is lie:
Ihlrd-So weak is money in itself that
cannot give a man lif. A policeman
N the force Of New York who has been |
brave and faithful officer, who broke up
eVeral gangs OF roughs in several quar-
ers or the CITY, who tramped his beat |
WITH "a sense of duty and of the highest
ervlce to the state, was recently left a
ortGne. and few weeks after he re- {
elFed MS fOrtune-mOney sufficient to |
1t hlln from poverty to wealth and lux
ry and the things Of this world-his s
ody was found dead in his room with q {
lstoi bullet in his brain. Why should !
e Stay himself when he had been given /
alease from his hard task. when he (
'ould be required no longer to tramp t
le streets and brave the dangers of the
.orlns of winter and the sweltering SIMS
summer, to go on his dark errand of /
rrest IN the dangerous quarters of the g
ty, when he might have lived his life
ease and luxury? Simply because il
lere was a little country girl whom he
al learned to love who died three weeks q
7tore, and he declared that life was not
oi'h liVlnS because she had been taken q
on him. He had money and all its t.
over, and life was not worth living. t.
MONEY VERSUS WEALTH b
fourth--doney is so weak that it cam IL
~ even give man wealth We are q
u 10 confuse wealth with money. A G.
an may nave money, but not be rich L
eal riches are one thing, money an a
her. | heard of a grocer who woo Il
OWING rich. They said, by wav of ft
renthesls' that he was so stingy and Ct
can that he would chase a fy all Z
ound the room for grain of sugar d.
ches are impossible under such condi- st
'Hs' ouch a man may accumulate
ohty-he may possess it-but he is not al
III. - A1o' 81
me Duke Of Brunswick had accump- III
ga his treasures. He had his wealth a
diamonds and gold. He had a room, tt
III whose windows We're Of iron bars. IN
iose ooof7 we're of iron, double riveted re
ERE was an opening in the solid stone A
III OF the room in which there was an
III SAFE Ills treasures were thara Cd
.ced. dc slept in an iron beastaad W
ied a,2!nst this iron door. There was n
y single window through whose dim be
nj thes sun greeted him. He silent With tn
o enormous pistols by his bedside and II
Tn night always in the room. Was tb;s co
"a rlchf Did he possess his wealth ~ en-
MS wealth possess him? Asam.t+or ov
,act' ne was miserable dog chained WI
MS treasures. had rather be a com
N cur dog and wander through the II
ee'.5 ana highways than to he snob . fri
III SMUT up In dog kennel forever tn
- THE RUSSIAN BED. ru
W as the Russian nCbIeman rich 1rbo sn
- ,I rrn nrs rast acres and his millions, ar
~ proudly displayed his treasures TO thu
to- IL the possession of them? IN
=, 80 me stranger through every room dle
LIS mousse showed him each art treas En-
! vsIna n 8 wonaered at their beauty ms
4 Saloe. lie took him into his bed ru'
' 'an4 showed him the magnificent hu
r:,.c,D "onderful eastern rugs, the raj
- Us psdS'ead' withits quaint carv an
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