MONEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 932, 23 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

MONEY.

A SHORT TREATISE, Money is said to be the devil; and if it by it is decidedly a very pleasant devil, and one which men so ardently love that they oven worship it as if it were a god, Its distribution and accumulation in reality constitute the principnl portion of men's lives. Some despise it for a limo; but never for long; they aiiffer for indulging in tlmt passion. Others will do anything however dishonourable to obtain it. If a man lia-fmmonety t lie is all right; if he has none he is all wrong. It mutters not what hermits and monks may say, if an honest man be poor his fellow men despise him, while a wealthy vil! an in this world's estimation is a "highly respectable member of society; hence the penalty on poverty is greater than that Attached to any absolute crime And again it is really astonishing the spirit of indepemlanco the possession of money inspires, and equally astonishing are the dejection and humility which the non-possession of it induces, If a man lias no money ho is ill at ease ho cannot feel at all comfortable: it amounts to tin absoluto physical impossibility for him to hold his head up like a man who has lot l '. He can't do it, it is useless to physic him with philosophy. All the philosophy in the world is insufficient to cure his disease of irapecuniosity. He cannot, and will not then underBtand vour philosophy. He knows better. He knows that he has got no money !—a species of knowledge that affects alike body and soul,' -And yet although money is so precious that its absence teems with misery and humiliation, notwithstanding it is so dear, so highly prized when it is wanted, that we will risk even our lives to obtain it, how thoughtlessly we waste it! How freely we squander it away, when it is gained, as if its possession inspired the belief that we should never want another five pound note so long as we had the ability to breathe! Beyond all dispute —for two opinions cannot exist on this subject—in this matter a man is a veritable ass. 1 am (fee, A Medical Man. Ladies should never indulge in anticipation, for we all know how objectionable a woman is who looks forward. The Dey of Algiers talks of visiting the United States but as yet no man knowoth when tliat Dey will come, Bees are a stingy set. Wild oats can be sown at any season in the year. The oldest lunatic on record—Time out of mind. Bakers are a crusty set of fellows and great loaf-ers. _ Said old Dean Holdern, "I don't like a, man who is intimate on short acquaintance because he is almost sure to be 'short'on intimate acquaintance," " When is a man a coward 1" asked a teacher of mental philosophy. " When ho runs away from a cow," answered a pupil, side yourself," as a wag said to a fellow who stood beside a donkey, No younglawyer everreared abrownstone front unless he first dug into Blackstone. It is suppose ! that ths man who left the house ww not able to take it with w#