Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Comfort for the Unsuccessful. [ARTICLE]

Comfort for the Unsuccessful.

If we are money-makers, it is to the exclusion of something else; if wo bawe gentleness and refinement, these qualities unfit us for becoming money-makers, 'tbe lute Daniel Dougherty met at Narragnnsutt Pier a very charming young mam one evening, and afterwards asked me if he was poor, or if he had inherited a fortune. “Why do you not ask me if hebae made one?” I rejoined. “Beoansc I know he hasn’t,” replied Mr. Dougherty, who, as everyone knows, was a very keen observer of human nature. “He ia poor, or, if be in not, bin money was inherited,” insisted Mr. Dougherty, and when I pressed him fur a reason for his assertion be said : “He in too refined, too cultured, too altogether charming ever to hare made by bm own. exertions a fortune, or even a competency, beyond a mere living," which* was a perfeot diagnosis of the, yqupg man’s position in life.— [Boston HomeJournal.