Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — Economy. [ARTICLE]

Economy.

Money is a question of industry, and as long as we have health there is money stored up in our brains and in our sinews, of which we are the lawful bankers and which is subject to our draft; but when we contemplate the economy of something that once lost is lost forever the question assumes a new importance. For instance, our vitality is part of our stock in trade. We start out in life usually with a portion sufficient to our needs. To illustrate, we will suppose when upon the eve of a journey a man was given a sum of money sufficient to carry him to his destination in comfort and safety, but assured that this would be the extent of the supply and that if he grew careless or wasteful he would be set upon by robbers or perish by the wayside, would we feel called upon to pity him if he should wantonly waste this-preeious capital? Yet this is but a true picture of our extravagance in the matter of vitality; we fling it away upon our amusements, our appetites and our avarice; and before the shadows of middle life fall athwart our paths we are set upon by robbers in the shape of ■disease, or sink down upon the threshold of usefulness utterly drained of strength and vigor. Nature intended that we .should live temperately, and her penalties are severe and certain in the end. We are always ready enough with promises of reform, biit somehow that artful villain selfindulgence always has a key that will fit the Jocks of our resolutions, apdlie just

glides in and takes us by surprise, and, once face to face with him, we are cowards in our own cause.— Phrenological Journal.