| Show WEALTH versus HAPPINESS many ina lna mar mat I 1 suppose that wealth and happi happl happiness dess desi are inseparable compani companions cna but a glance at the inner life of men exulting in boundless wealth soon dissipates this delusion there was great significance in the Savi savl saviors orys remark A man mansifee consi not in the abundance of the things which he posses seth the die following sketch of 0 the enish english rothschild is 13 in point ex the iD insufficiency sufficiency of mere wealth alone to 0 o confer happiness is strikingly illustrated in the life of nathan myers rothschild the jew who died in london some years ago one of the most devoted worshippers wor Avor shippers that ever overlaid laid a withered soul on the altar of mammon 11 ammon 2 for year years he Avi wielded elded the purse pu arse of the world opening in and closing it to kings and emperors as he listed and upon certain occasions was supposed up to have more influence in great britain than the proudest and wealthiest of its nobles perhaps er aps more influence than the houses of parliament lament taken together ile he once purchased bills of the goven Qi it in a single day to the amount of twenty millions and also the gold which he knew he government must have to pay them and wi h the profits on a single loan purchased an estate which cost him im seven hundred and afify thousand 0 but with avith the clearest and widest com compre hf sion in money matters with the most pier piercing cing insight into all possible affecting causes in til tir he i e money market and with ingenuity to effect khe the h profoundest most subtle and nd most ed combination an ingenuity before which all the other prodigies of calculation that havo hav from time to time appeared sink into bothin notha lie he was Nv withal ithal ithai a little soa sou boal s he ire exercised his talents and cal cai calculate culat g powers not only for the accumulation of atu lions and the management of national creditors but also for the determination of the smallest possible pittance on which a clerks soul could be retained in connection with ats body to part with a shilling 1 in the w way a 3 qi 0 charity eu cut him to the heart one of his grand rules In ne verto everto have hare anything to do with an unlucky man or placer which was also one of ol john jacob actors principles however shrewd in a worldly point of view was the very quintessence of selfishness and he ire was in short a thorough going mammon worshipper wor shipper his whole soul converted into a machine or engine for coining coming guineas and every noble emotion im immortal ion lon longing in 1 dead within him guineas we he did id coin to a slim sum that seeing almost fabulous but with avith all his hig coll yealth wealth he was profoundly unhappy unhappy and with s sorrowful 0 rr awful earnist earnestness nem once elc exclaimed afian to one congratulating him on the gorgeous magn t fi cence of his hig palatial mansion and thence thena e inferring Q that he was happy cli happy appy vs zif happel hap 11 |
