Better Than Money

" Ybu'll never get your moncy back,' croaked old farmer Thriftless as he lookcd on thi; tinu new -barn liis neighbor had just finished. " TLis and your ncw house has eat up a pilo of money you'll ucver ■ee again." " ft ever want to soe my money back, Kcighbor," sakl the yoang man chcerily, if 1 get for ït something botter than monoy." " I should liko to know what that may bo ? Money is a mighty convenient thing to havo in this world, you'll i'uul fcofore you get through it," ü&w wliat is it good for, I should really liku to knowr" said tlio other looking oxti'cmcly innocent. The old man looked up in surprise, doubtful whothor Lawson wus quizzing hini or whothor he was "clean gone daft." Goed fbr millions ! why to buy tliings with ; anything you want can be had for money." " Just what I've done with mine ; built % house and bani I wanted bad onough. TTou can't oat your cake and havo it too. Yun-jan'ii spend your money and hoard it up in bank vaults at the samo time. But, Únele Jacob, I've got soinething better than money in return for all I have laid out. I have a ounurt'al uiag home for my fmily. This is better than gold 3 thoïsnwï times. What ia nioney to a Dim that is not happy 't Oh, my friend, you may prize this best blessing of liio too lightly. AVifc and children are happior and better than in the old house which had so few comforts. Besides, with ïneieased conveniences we eau ill aceom}lish far more, and so ín a mannor wo shall get our money back. If we never saw a penny of it, howovcr, I should still cali it a good investment The barn wili be a help in a hundred ways, and will, 1 don't doubt, savo its cost in a few yin': time, ín the better wihtering of stock, better storing of food for them, and in many ways econoinizing time and labor, which aio both money to the farmer. Wifo and I can both do our Work with balf tho laboiv with theso modern convdtiences." "Ah, yes, that's the point with you young fellows. Everything to savo your backgv Too inuch afraid of hard work ! All sorts of new fangled notions, just to Bavc hard work.1 "Exnetly so, Únele Jacob. "When we can get a machino to do our work for us, we can well save ourselves for some&iag the machine can't do. Old fasbiooed sicklos might do to roap around the rocks and stono Iteaps of New England, but they would niako littlc impresatoa upon a prairie wheat field. But about this saving of our strengtli : I only wish young farmers would hoed it more. lf you had, Únele Jacob, you oeed not bc so bent and wrecked with rheumatism at sixty. - There's no comfort in that, I am sure you will own. W'ouldn't you gladly give a good sum for the vigor and i'reedom from pain of your earlier days p If you had taken care of your health is you niiht, you eould havo saved mach, if not all this sufferiug. Ilealth is better tlnm money, and it is oue thing uiuuuy cau't buy." William Lawson was right if he did fail to conviuce Uncle Jatob, and it would be a Messing if otlior farmers would hecd his suggestioos befoie i( is too lato to profit by thnin. There are many things besides weftlth and comfort that are worth more than money, while an oxcessivo derwtion to nioney-goiting robs both lnfurt and soul.