The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-13

dollar bills, more ten-doar bills, and many hundred
and thousand-dollar bills. He always carried them
in suit case with an ordinary lock and key, and he
told me that he was happy just because he had the
actual money.
His brother hardly ever handled money at all
lie was millionaire, too, but he did all his business
with checks and seldom had more than twenty dol
lars on his person, and he was miserable and dys-
poetic.
l understood the feeling of the moneyed million.
aire better than that of the checked one The first
not miser; he was simply grownup
child, with childs delight in actually seeing the
money that he had earned by the sweat of his brow
most of it at a dollar day. Don't stop to figure
out how many days he had worked, or won't wait.
Now, of course there persons of imagination
who can 60 through life using checks and feeling
rich, but it takes good deal of imagination to do
So and for me the pretty green tendolar bill means
ten times as much as the check for ten dollars
Of course, checks have their uses, and use them
myself. When bill for some prosaic thing like
repairs to the coal chute, comes in | send out IA
check in payment, but if | am buying u book that
l have long coveted, you may be sure that | hand
out real money for it. The book represents some
thing tangible, and l will not insult the book dealer
by sending him cold, unfeeling check.
If | wanted to bring happiness to widow whose
husband had died leaving her destitute, do you think
that would send her check for thousand dol
larsY If you do you don't know me.
If l were going to do the thing at all ! would
90 to her house with thousand crisp dollar bills
and | would receive her thanks for each But
it is queer thing about gratitude, Her thanks for
the first bill would be heartfelt, but by the time |
had reached the first hundred she would have grown
tired of thanking me- and | verify believe that be-
fore l had handed in the last bill she would have
asked me if l couldn't be little more expeditions.
Thus usage dulls the
On the other hand, do you suppose that if | were
sued for thousand dollars | would pay the com
planant in good green money! No. thousand
times no. would purposely buy the smallest blank
check that could find and in my most minute Chi
Biography, and with an autograph that barely
good, would sign it, and thus would feel that |
was getting off cheap.
In things most of us are intensely mean,
and among the expenditures that offend mems souls
are those paid into railroad company's graspng
maw l hold myself no better than the rest, and, if
possible, l always travel in company with another,
and before we start out | give him money to cover
the expenses and then he buys the tickets and feel
that have not spent so much.
But in buying stationery, and books and pic
lures, never think of nrustng the business to an
other. Let me pick out my own paper, find my own
book, be my own Judge of the picture, and, when
they ready to deliver, let me pay the bill myself
in coin of the realm.
Your plumber should always receive check, but
the who entertains you should get good gold,
even if it is only fifty cents worth.
One objection l have to royalties is that they
always come in the form of a check-when they come
at all. One time, though, my publisher varied it;
instead of sending a check he sent bill. You see
had given at least ten copies of the book at Christmas
time and, of course, the balance was in his favor
do you know, really enjoyed the thing for change
By the way, that receiving of royalties, even II
they paid in check FORM is a very good game
You sell your stories for much, and then, when
they are all printed you are induced to make book
of them. Well you have already been paid for them,
so that you stand to gain, whatever happens 1t may