The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-01-12
MONEY MAD.

Every foreigner who visits America tells
) that we are money mai. Even almond
ged Ii Hung says we live too strenuous
YES, that we are killing ourselves in the
rush for money.
lin Boston a business man walks to his
lice at the rate of six miles per hour. The
|ew York business man goes at the rate OF
ye!miles per hour. The Washingtonian
be-. at four miles per hour. The South
steps it a three mile clip. The
hban saulters along at two miles per
bpr. The Mexican makes it at about one
lie perhour, and the Central American
an Office at all.
Climate has much to do with the siren
bpalife. The negro is the only man in
bis country who is taking life easy. There
asreason for this. The negro came from
|tepical country. Acountry where there
no difference between December and
kiy. Why should he bank potatoes there
hen the yam grows all the year through:
fhyshosIa he.store up corn there when
u succulent juicy roasting ear grows
kelye months In the year? Here it takes
year to make an ear, there n can raise
Tree crops Of corn in twelve months,
Thy should he pile up money there to
|ywhathe already possesses?
FQr him the banana fruits the whole
bar through, for him the cocoanut buds,
|ooms and fruits for three hundred and
zty-aye consecutive days, for him the
s.aRasa works always. Winter biting
Inter, never comes to him of the tropics,
ksrythilg is always lazy, glorious and
cen for him.
tEromSuch a. Land came the negro. The
kgro banks his potatoes, tbs true, now
dcthen. Now and then he cribs his
i'm. Now and then he looks out for win
!, but oftener he is as he was in his jun
ksshaRpy, glorious care free, looking
{ the flap jack tree and the molasses
ring.
The white man Of the United State came
8bm a country where the man lwho failed
bank his vans and store his corn was
sched. For thousands Of years he did
Is until now it is a part Of him to bank
Inns and store corn. He is not satisfied
less he Is banking something all the
1e. unless he is storing something for a
~ day.
The Good Book speaks OF the examples
the ant and the spider. Man might
krgffem the bee, 1t is told Of a man
omoved to Florida that on seeing the
Illusion OF flowers he conceived the idea
enriching himself on honey. He i'm
ted bees from the north for this pur-
With-true Yankee instincts the bees
t to work and promptly filled the
with honey and prepared for the
hing of 'winter. Winter did not come
b the bees are yet idly waiting while
\ cells are empty Of honey. There is no
ktelayupthe sweets and the bees have
baFered the fact.
be difference. between the man iand the
Wis satisfied when he gets what he
dis, while man does not know what his
Bds are and is at work all the time for
+ he will not.get what he needs.
o we splutter and squirt and scramble
skurry for the gold.
Is a bad disease, this gold lust. 1t is
tagiaus and infectious and Epidemic
sVirplent. 1t kills. 1t criples. 1t
Rafyzes.
Ye are all and ,seyerally touched" by
gold-lurst bug. He has US going yet
I'm In the throes we remember that this
hot the ideal life and between mad
hes wewhisper to u inner concious-
BIS in the words Of the Sweet singer Of
al," "Oh that I had the wings of a dove
ii might fly away and be at rest"