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Rh a store room, and stow away into it, ten thousand overcoats, and as many boots and shoes, and keep them there for years, while thousands of men and women around him, were suffering and perishing with cold and hunger?

1 don't know any one who does exactly this. But 1 do know those who arc doing things equally absurd, and which will be no more satisfactory for them to look back to, in the far after-time. They are hoarding up millions of dollars, which they do not, and cannot use, any more than they could the ten thousand overcoats.

I once knew an old gentlemen, who would attend nearly every furniture auction he could hear of, and buy up old bedsteads, chairs, &c., until they so accumulated on his hands, that he rented a ware-house in which to store them. On being asked what he expected to do with so much old furniture and traps of all kinds, he replied he "did'nt know exactly, but he thought they might come handy sometime." Was he any more of a lunatic, than those wolfish monopolists, of whom Lorenzo Dow once said, that "if one of them owned the whole world, he would want a couple of acres more, outside, for a potato patch."

Jay, in his address to youth, says: "In reference to happiness, a man only has what he can use. If he possess a thousand pounds which he cannot use, it matters not as to the benefit he derives from it, whether it be in his coffer, or in the bowels of the earth. When his wants are supplied, all that remains, is his, only to keep or to give away, but not to enjoy. What is more than