Tennyson can take a worthless sheet paper, and by writing a poem on it, make it worth §5,000. That's genius. Mr Vanderbilt can write fewer words on a similar sheet and make it worth $50,000,000. capital. And the United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an " Eagle-bird" and "Twenty Dollars" That's money. The mechanic can take the material worth fifty dollars and *? ake 'U. 040 a watoh w^rtn $KX>-r That's skill. The merchant can take an artiole §100. Thats business. A lad? can purchase a comfortable bonnet fasten, dollars, but prefers to pay $100 for one, because it is more stylish. That*" foolishness. The ditch- digger irotkt tea hour* a day, and shovels out three^r four tons of earth for one dollar. That'a labour, ♦«•*.*
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3869, 24 May 1881, Page 2
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132Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3869, 24 May 1881, Page 2
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