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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1034, 18 May 1894, Page 3

' Pride sleeps in a gilded crown, contentment in a cotton night-cap,' aaya an old Chinese proverb ; and there is a volume of truth in the sentiment. We are not among those who believe that the possessor of riches must necessarily be the \ictim of carking care and harassing unrest unceasingly. It is not the mere possession of wealth which produces misery, but the use to which wealth is put by its possessor. The man of generous and noble impulses who by a long course of untiring industry, backed up by fair and honest dealing, has amassed wealth may of course purchase the purest happiness which mankind can know }>y acts of charity and benevolence. So long as man makes money his slave, he is safe enough ; but, when he allows money to make a slave of him, then at once happiness departs. So that, after all,, it is not wealth but contentment that produces true happiness, and the poorest man may be as rich, figuratively speaking, with a clear conscience and a dry crust as the possessor of millions,